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Would You Put Your Life in the Hands of This Giant Pastel Magic 8-Ball?

Short of a subterranean mountain fortress, there’s nothing that will absolutely guarantee your safety in the event of a natural disaster. Everything else is a game of chance, which is maybe why the creators of the Life Armor designed this floating emergency life pod to look like a giant Magic 8 Ball. “Will this giant…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How To Burn Off a Pound of Candy

If there is anything we learn in childhood, it’s that Halloween is when you get to cram your gaping maw with absurd amounts of candy. And, because we haven’t quite grown up, we still plan to do that tonight. We’re going to eat a pound of candy. With age, though, comes some awareness that a…

Tech News Brent Rose

The Only Place in this NYC Neighborhood with Cell Reception

As we’re slowly getting back to normal in New York, cell service is still spotty (though better than feared) in a lot of areas. And apparently the only place in Alphabet City (the east side in southern Manhattan) to get service is this ONE corner. It’s like a wireless internet watering hole, just without the…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Welcome to the Bizarro NMA World In Which Star Wars and Disney Fight to the Death

Any NMA take on Disney’s acquisition of LucasFilm is bound to be very strange, but the finished product is even stranger than you could imagine. Backroom deals made in a strip club. Yoda strong arming George Lucas. Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the Avengers brawling with Yoda, Darth Vader and Han Solo. And Ronald McDonald? Just…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Everything You Need For the Best Trick-Or-Treating House In the Neighborhood

You can pretend it’s all in good fun, and just an excuse for a middle-aged homeowner to act like a kid again. But that’s not the real reason you decorate your house for Halloween. In reality it’s a competition against your neighbors to see who can have the most kids timidly creeping up to ring…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Presented Without* Comment

THIS IS A SCANDAL!Apparently the Kindle Fire HD versus iPad Mini comparative ad in Amazon’s front page has “FLUNKED THE REALITY TEST”! Stop the fucking presses! As some astute [journalists/fanboys/amateur PR people] have discovered, everything is correct except for the fact that the iPad has stereo speakers, not mono! Goddamn cheaters! I’m glad someone called…

Commerce Jesus Diaz

More Realistic Evil Dead Costumes Aren’t Possible Short of Cutting Off Your Arm

Holy smokes, these Evil Dead 2 costumes are off the chainsaw. On the left, we’ve got Kiersten Essenpreis wearing her DIY hat featuring a detailed replica of the forsaken cabin from the film. On the right, her friend Marc is dressed up as the haunted Necronomicon that causes the film’s characters so much trouble. And…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Paper for iPad Now Lets You Sketch With a Pressure Sensitive Bluetooth Stylus

Paper is one of the iPad’s best proof of concepts when it comes to apps taking advantage of what the hardware can do. Now, it just got a little better. Not only does the app have a new color mixer tool, allowing you to create custom colors to your heart’s content, but it also works…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Sandy’s attack and disintegration

The latest video from NASA/NOAA GOES-13 satellite shows Sandy from Monday, October 29 at 9:55am EDT-as it was ramping up to attack New Jersey and New York-to October 31, 10:02am EDT, just a few minutes ago. You can clearly see all its fury and how it’s been disintegrating during the past hours. Check out the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Study: Tone Deaf People Can’t Hear Emotion In Speech Either

A study by researchers at Macquarie University has found that people with congential amusia-tone deafness-also have a harder time deciphering emotional cues in speech. That’s right; if you don’t get Bach, you probably don’t get your barista. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, took 12 subjects with congential amusia…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Navigate the Flood in a Beautiful Handmade Kayak

Look, the flooding from Sandy is tragic. It ruined people’s homes and claimed lives. But it did teach us that some houses, in the blink of an eye, can become waterfront property. What better way to be ready for disaster than with this gorgeous 19-foot cedar kayak? It’s certainly safer (and more stylish) than wading…

Tech News Micah Fitzerman-Blue, Bureau of Trade

This Is Sandy Destroying the Internet

Danger to actual people, not servers, is more important than anything else, it should go without saying. But how do you warn people about that danger, or find out if they’re OK? Internet, probably! So it was a little worrisome when Sandy started to rip apart the web. It was bad. Bad and fast. RIPE…

Tech News Sam Biddle

At Least This QR Code Clock Appreciates How Useless It Is

For all intents and purposes QR codes are a dead technology only being kept alive by marketing machine life support. For some reason advertising types think it’s easier for consumers to snap a photo of a pixelated square than remember a URL, but as Michael Ciuffo points out with his obfuscated QR code clock, it’s…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Latest Sandy Updates

The bad news is that fires are still happening in NYC and the subway is flooded (there are some terrible pictures from yesterday) and down for the time being. The good news is that f*cking storm is dying, according to NOAA. Check the latest updates here.

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Curiosity’s First X-Ray Analysis Reveals the Origins of Martian Soil

The Curiosity rover has undertaken its first detailed X-ray analysis of martian sand, in order to work out what kinds of minerals it contains and how its soils first came into being. On the run-up to Curiosity’s launch, scientists shrank down the X-ray equipment needed to analyze soil samples – which normally takes up the…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Live Tiles Gets a Lawsuit: This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Microsoft just launched Windows 8 last week and it’s already getting sued over Live Tiles by an OS development company called Surfcast. Surfcast claims that it already owns the rights to technology that does the same thing, naming in a lawsuit a patent for “presenting information from variety of sources on a display device” and…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Oakland Police Chief Admits to Filtering All His Occupy Email to Spam

Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan has admitted to a court that he never saw emails from city officials about police brutality by his force during Occupy Oakland – because they were being redirected to his spam folder. The police chief explained how he used a spam-filter to automatically relegate mail containing phrases like “occupy,” “police…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Apple Wins Google-Worrying Patent for Touch Screen Mobile Maps Interface

A patent originally filed by Apple back in 2008 has just been granted by the US Patent Office, with the tech giant somehow managing to convince the authorities it should own a patent for a method of displaying maps on a touchscreen device. It’s not the hugely apocalyptic attack on Google Maps you might expect,…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

Ethiopian Kids Hack Their OLPC Tablets in 5 Months, With No Help

Give a thousand Ethiopian kids – who have never seen a printed word let alone played around with expensive consumer technology – a tablet, and what happens? They hack it. Obviously. The amazing One Laptop Per Child scheme has been offering up Motorola Xoom tablets to kids in developing countries for a while. OLPC founder…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Asus Reveals Google Is Selling 1 Million Nexus 7s a Month

The Chief Financial Officer at Asus, David Chang, has told the Wall Street Journal that Google is selling nearly one million Nexus 7 tablets every month – and that figure looks set to rise, too. In an interview with the Journal, Chang explained: “At the beginning, it was, for instance, 500K units a month, then…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Would You Put Your Life in the Hands of This Giant Pastel Magic 8-Ball?

How To Burn Off a Pound of Candy

The Only Place in this NYC Neighborhood with Cell Reception

Welcome to the Bizarro NMA World In Which Star Wars and Disney Fight to the Death

Everything You Need For the Best Trick-Or-Treating House In the Neighborhood

Presented Without* Comment

More Realistic Evil Dead Costumes Aren’t Possible Short of Cutting Off Your Arm

Paper for iPad Now Lets You Sketch With a Pressure Sensitive Bluetooth Stylus

Sandy’s attack and disintegration

Study: Tone Deaf People Can’t Hear Emotion In Speech Either

Navigate the Flood in a Beautiful Handmade Kayak

This Is Sandy Destroying the Internet

At Least This QR Code Clock Appreciates How Useless It Is

Latest Sandy Updates

Curiosity’s First X-Ray Analysis Reveals the Origins of Martian Soil

Live Tiles Gets a Lawsuit: This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Oakland Police Chief Admits to Filtering All His Occupy Email to Spam

Apple Wins Google-Worrying Patent for Touch Screen Mobile Maps Interface

Ethiopian Kids Hack Their OLPC Tablets in 5 Months, With No Help

Asus Reveals Google Is Selling 1 Million Nexus 7s a Month

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

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