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A Coffee Brewer-Turned-Coffee Pot Is a Tasty, Lovely Way to Caffeinate

The Kone Brewing System is as good excuse as any to ditch your crappy drip coffee maker—it’s quite fetching, and it should give you a cup with a richer, fuller taste. It’s available for $160 on preorder, but word has it that it already started to popping up in specialty shops. Hand brew up to…

What Is This?

The grain gives away that it’s obviously made of wood, but what is this tshirt-shaped slab of lumber supposed to be? The latest in eco-friendly fashion? An alternative to undershirts that’s easy to clean with a sanding block? Not even close. Designed by Benjamin Hubert, this strategically sliced wooden panel is actually the backrest and…

Vapp: Snap Pics With Your Voice

For whatever reason, sometimes you need to be able to take a picture hands-free. In those cases, you can try Vapp. What does it do? Responds to sounds to take pictures automatically, without the press of any buttons. Why do we like it? Because sometimes your hands are shaky. And sometimes you stand close to…

Researchers Discover Bacteria That Produces Pure Gold

The gold you see in the photo above was not found in a river or a mine. It was produced by a bacteria that, according to researchers at Michigan State University, can survive in extreme toxic environments and create 24-karat gold nuggets. Pure gold. Maybe this critter can save us all from the global economic…

Beautiful Map-Etched Glasses Help You Find Your Way Home

After an evening of enjoying libations at your local speakeasy, do you really think you’ll be of sound mind to find your way home using your phone? Probably not, and maybe that’s what inspired this beautiful line of hand-etched tumblers featuring the intricately webbed maps of large metropolitan cities. The first wave of the 10…

New Antibiotics Don’t So Much Kill Germs as They Do Disarm Them

The latest innovation in antibacterial drugs have moved past killing harmful cells. Instead, they just deactivate the parts of the cell that cause problems in the human body. It’s kinda like taking a gun away from someone instead of shooting them first. Developed by researchers at UCLA and the Geffen School of Medicine, the LpxC-1…

LG’s Optimus G Is an Android Spec Monster That’s Coming to AT&T [AT&T]

I Would Resort to a Life of Crime to Pay for Bowers and Wilkins’ Badass New Soundbar

Bowers & Wilkins makes incredible-sounding speakers. Fact. And while its original Panorama soundbar is no exception, the home theater package was missing key connectivity in the way of HDMI inputs. The new Panorama 2 packs three-HDMI inputs, finally, and more importantly, 175 earth-shaking watts, into a gorgeous six-speaker array. The Panorama 2 costs $2200, and…

What If Your Boarding Gate Doubled As a Bomb Detector?

Just when you thought you were free of airport security checkpoints once you reached your gate, Hitachi wants to make that the last line of defence for explosives detection. Working with the Nippon Signal Company and the University of Yamanashi it’s developed a high-speed gate detector that gives one last sniff for trouble as passengers…

Tell Nissan Your Brilliant Idea for a Chance to Win $50,000

The time for keeping your amazing ideas to yourself is over. All you would-be inventors and secret geniuses, step forward and submit your ideas to the Nissan Innovation Garage to win $50,000 in seed money, and turn those dreams into a reality. The Nissan Innovation Garage is inviting Edisons-in-training to share their best “everyday ideas”…

Apple May Be Using Retail Store Employees to Fix Their Crap Maps

Mac Rumors claims that Apple is “turning to select Retail Store employees to help improve Maps for iOS 6.” What a genius idea! The rumor site says that multiple sources “indicated that participating stores will dedicate 40 hours of staff time per week, distributed among a number of employees, to manually examine Apple’s mapping data…

19 Amazing Massive Stereos

Giant stereos are everywhere—on the shoulders of cool 90s teens, in the living rooms of finance fat cats, and on the stages of face-melting electronic shows. Even though we have iPods and discreet speakers now, awesome huge systems haven’t gone anywhere. About 140 years before everyone became a DJ, Thomas Edison accidentally invented the phonograph.…

How to Look Inside Any Building in the World

People take Instagram photos everywhere. Even—especially—in places you can’t easily get into. That’s why it seems like the most natural thing in the world for something like Worldcam to exist. Worldcam’s premise is simple: You can search for the locations of buildings or public addresses in any city, and it will show you a list…

Revisiting Epcot Center on its 30th Birthday

EPCOT Center opened on October 1, 1982 as the single most expensive private construction project the world had ever seen. It was immediately viewed by Disney purists as a shadow of Walt Disney’s utopian dream to build a dynamic city of technology and innovation. EPCOT was originally supposed to be a real city; alive with…

This Tablet Gaming Bundle Is Your Dealzmodo-Exclusive Deal of the Day

While there are some very cool controllers coming out for tablet gaming, it’s going to be frustrating to get them to work with any given game. Why? Because the controls for touch gaming are so new, and the ecosystem for mobile games is so fragmented, that the special bluetooth (or 30-pin) controller you spent a…

Game of Thrones Wall Decal Makes Your Toilet Fit for a King of Westeros

It’s all but guaranteed you’ve got at least one throne in your home that everyone fights to sit on. And thanks to the PeelAndStickDecals Etsy shop, you can make it feel as grand as the throne that serves the ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. And securing it doesn’t even require you to wipe out opposing…

Stuffing Cool Ranch Doritos in a Pepper Grinder Is How You Bottle Genius

Some people douse their meals in salt, pepper, even Tabasco sauce before even having a taste. It’s impossible to know if the food actually needs more seasoning—unless you’ve gone to the trouble of filling a pepper grinder with crushed up Cool Ranch Doritos. Then it’s guaranteed that whatever you’re eating will taste better with a…

Shooting Challenge: Floating Segmentation

Photography used to feel like magic, but then we got Photoshop. For this week’s challenge, combine photos and Photoshop to create something unreal—an object broken up by its segments, floating in midair. The Challenge Take a photo of an object, broken into segments, floating in midair. Wait…what? The Technique This week’s technique was inspired by…

Would You Pay Facebook Money For More People To See Your Status Updates?

Today Facebook began testing Promoted Posts. You’re familiar with these advertisements from brands, but now civilians can get in on the game too. If you want more of your friends to see your funny one-liners or important life announcements, you can pony up a little cash money and Facebook would give these posts more visibility.…

Your iPhone 5 May Not Get Compatible Accessories Until at Least November

Apple’s new dock connector is basically a big old screw job. Sure, it helps make your phone slimmer, and sleeker by saving space. Great, but Apple also wants to charge you $30 for a 30-pin adapter, and it’s installed a special chip to make it hard for unauthorized OEMs to produce accessories. As if that…