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Color Bar Sticky Notes Remind You How Much You Miss TV

You’ll appreciate this rainbow pad of sticky notes if you’ve ever fallen asleep while watching TV and woken up to your local network’s late night station ID. For just $5 you get a small assortment of five different color strips, and a bonus grayscale pluge bar across the bottom for those times when you don’t…

Yes, the iPhone 5’s Brain Is Made by Samsung

It’s not a surprise. The A5 chip—the brain of the iPhone 4S—is also made by Samsung. But in the current polarized climate of the Apple-Samsung Wars, it’s worth remembering that the show goes on and the new iPhone 5’s brain is made by Samsung too. https://gizmodo.com/apples-a5-processors-are-made-on-a-3-6-billion-samsung-5868700 iFixit put the chip under an electron microscope and…

A Sports Gambling Website Refunded Everyone’s Packers Bets Because the NFL’s Replacement Refs Were So Bad

Sports betting website Sportsbook.com has refunded all bets on the Green Bay Packers from last night’s Monday Night Football game, due to the the unbelievably terrible call to end the game. https://deadspin.com/what-in-the-world-just-happened-at-the-end-of-monday-ni-30774407 The bets are being returned as site credit, not actual currency, which is to be expected. The controversy over the call surrounds the…

The Latest Development in Smart TV Means There Is Finally Something Worth Watching

A recent study by Nielsen showed that almost 70% of tablet and smartphone users engage with their devices while watching TV. That means that the majority of hate-tweets you’re reading about Greenpoint-dwelling, funny, wunder-gurls are being posted as the show airs. And while that’s all well and good — and very developed compared to ten…

This Modular Trampoline Looks Like the Most Fun Way to Break Your Neck

As far as dangerous playthings go, trampolines rank right up there with lawn darts and three-wheel ATVs. But for whatever reason they’ve managed to avoid banishment, at least until this questionable modular trampoline system starts spraining ankles and snapping wrists. The Trampolin Modulus system is composed of various standalone trampoline shapes that can be combined…

Wooden Wayfarers: Cool Now Comes With Splinters

The classic Ray-Ban Wayfarers made iconic by everyone from James Dean to Lou Reed? Played out! Everyone has them! You don’t want something you can buy in every Sunglass Hut on every corner of every city. Try this fresher spin on the shades. Shwood Canby sunglasses are made of hardwood—not hard plastic—in your choice of…

12 Deadly Inventions That Killed Their Creators

Technological progress is not the iPhone 5 or the Nexus 7. Technological progress is creating things that nobody has ever seen before, things that push humanity forward. You know, like building a machine heavier than air that freaking flies. Sadly, some times these quests end in disaster. Let’s honor those forgotten geniuses by remembering them…

You Won’t Believe How Amazing This Wildlife Photography Contest Winner Is

Wildlife photography can be grueling, tedious work, but the payoff is sometimes you get something as amazing as this British Wildlife Photography Awards winner. It’s of gannets (birds), diving into the sea off the coast of north Scotland. And it’s breathtaking. The Gannets had been lured to the location by photographer Matt Doggett with dead…

Chest Sensor Produces Instant Floor Plans for Emergency Personnel

Researchers at MIT have found yet another use for Microsoft’s Kinect sensor. They’ve stripped it down, tacked on a sophisticated laser rangefinder, added wireless functionality, and turned it into a wearable sensor that will automatically map the inside of a building as the wearer moves through it. The most obvious use of the technology is…

Every single Criterion Blu-ray and DVD is 50 percent off until noon. Two hours left! [Criterion]

Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 and Premiere Elements 11 are out for Windows and Mac.

How To Build an iPhone 5 Dock for $1.27

Since the iPhone 5 Lightning adapter has a chip that prevents you from using third-party cables, you can forget about using an inexpensive off-brand dock. And since Apple hasn’t yet released its own branded dock, you’re basically stuck, for now, just plugging the phone into a loose cord. https://gizmodo.com/heres-the-chip-apple-is-using-to-stop-you-from-buying-c-5945889 That is, unless you’ve got a…

You Don’t Need To Be a Cryptologist To Read Tokyo Flash’s Latest Watch

With increasingly complex designs, Tokyo Flash continues to cement itself as the go-to watch maker for collectors who don’t need to actually tell the time. But its new Kisai Logo model breaks the mould with an LCD display that’s fairly straightforward to interpret. The minutes are displayed digitally in the center of the screen, surrounded…

Scientists Discover Why You Remember Good News But Ignore the Bad

Humans tend to remember good news and attenuate the bad: our brains filter the two, and make us remember positive things more strongly than negative. It’s a standard human trait—and now scientists understand how it happens. A team of researchers from University College London have been experimenting with magnetic field brain stimulation, and found that…

Nook fans! This fall you can buy videos directly from your Nook, and a CLOUD to put ’em in, just in time for last year.

A Water-Cooled Chip That Concentrates the Sun to Desalinate Water

Anyone who’s dropped a cellphone in the bath knows that water and microelectronics don’t usually mix well. But at IBM’s Swiss lab in Zurich, marrying the two is becoming almost commonplace: microprocessors with water coursing through microchannels carved deep inside them are already crunching data in SuperMUC, an IBM supercomputer – with the heat that…

Bloomberg: iPhone 5 ‘Shortage’ a Result of New Ultra-Thin Display

Despite five million units being sold in three days, Bloomberg is claiming that demand for the iPhone 5 has been outstripping supply because of a shortage of the ultra-thin display units used in the new phone. The new iPhone uses in-cell screen technology, which rolls together the display and touch-sensitive parts of the screen in…

Samsung-Made Galaxy Nexus 2 Currently in Testing?

Photos that appeared online over the weekend appear to have been taken with an as yet unannounced Samsung phone, which seemingly fits in with Samsung’s Nexus device naming system. The data attached to the shots say they were taken with a device Samsung’s labelled the GT-i9260, which you might reasonably expect to be an update…

How Much Do You Care About How Twitter Measures Your Influence?

BuzzFeed is reporting that Twitter cofounder Ev Williams is interested in shaking up the way the company measures “reach”. Instead of caring about follower count, he suggests, maybe Twitter should let you know how many people saw your tweet. Speaking at a roundtable discussion on Monday, Williams explained: “The thing I think would be more…

Google Chrome has been updated for iOS 6 and the iPhone 5’s screen. No letterboxing here. [App Store]