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There Is No Such Thing as Normal When You Live at the Bottom of the Sea

The Aquanauts had killed the power and strapped on their emergency air masks. Someone smelled burning. In a rich-oxygen environment like Aquarius, fires can spread with ferocity; any hint of combustion is taken with utter seriousness. The air wasn’t circulating as it was supposed to, and, up above, the life support buoy sounded like it…

Tech News Brian Lam

Shooting Challenge: Dream

What do we see when we dream? Is it one image in one place, or is it a montage of many? Are people one person, or combinations of several? For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’ll show us how you dream. The Challenge Take a photo of a dream. The Technique This may be the hardest…

Tech News Mark Wilson

This Is the Hottest Kiss Ever Photographed, Right?

Photographer Dallas Nagata White and her husband were visiting the Kilauea lava flow in Hawaii when it started to rain. They decided to take some back-lit photos using her DSLR, a tripod, and a wireless flash system, ending with what I think is the hottest kiss ever photographed. Here’s what happened that day, according to…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Windows 8 Will Be Out October 26th

We’ve known that Windows 8 will be out some time in October for a while now, but Steven Sinofsky just announced in a sales meeting that it would be available to customers on October 26th. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-finally-hammers-down-windows-8-release-date-5672038 Upgrading from an older version of Windows will cost $40, while upgrading a brand new computer running Windows 7,…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Gmail SMS Brings Email to Dumbphones In Countries With Crappy Internet

If you live in a country where Internet connections are spotty, slow, or non-existent, Google wants to bring you your Gmail via text message. On the Google Africa Blog, the Product Manager for Emerging Markets announced that Google SMS would launch in three countries today: Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya. If you live in one of…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

How to Listen to Something Besides Local Radio on Your Never-Ending Road Trip

Summertime is the season of cross-country sojourns. Nothing is better than grabbing a gaggle of friends, loading up on individually wrapped snack foods, and hitting the open road. Unfortunately, nothing is worse than being on said open road and being forced to listen to the Bible Belt-musings of Pastor Jim on WKOR. Fortunately, if you…

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You’ll Never Forget How To Build A Bookshelf With Plans Carved Into Its Pieces

Assembling one of Ikea’s flat-pack puzzles is easy as long as you have the instruction manual. But that usually disappears when you’re tossing out all of that shredded cardboard post-build. So designer Gonçalo Campos has come up with a better approach for his XI book shelf. First of all, the myriad screws, fasteners, and other…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Handheld Wet/Dry Vac Is So Convenient, You’ll Spill It Just To Suck It Back Up

It might not be as futuristic looking as Dyson’s space-age vacuums, but this compact handheld wet/dry vac from Brookstone is a far easier way to clean up spills and crumbs than hauling out that mess of hoses and attachments. Brookstone isn’t specific about the rechargeable battery’s life, but for just $30, don’t expect it to…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Illuminated Keyboard Is Your I’d-Buy-That-If-I-Were-Drunk Deal of the Day

Touchscreens are the future. Dictation software will kill the keyboard. Please. Let’s see what the oracles of technology have to say for themselves once they get a load of this sick glowing keyboard from Hammacher Schlemmer. With this tool, you can devour your internet in total darkness. You can spend less time hunting and more…

Tech News J.D. Levite

You’ll Never Have To Worry About Breaking This Pre-Shattered Colander

If you consider yourself a klutz in the kitchen and are prone to dropping and breaking things, you won’t have to worry about damaging this adorable colander which looks like it’s already been smashed and glued back together. The clever design still allows water to easily drain through while trapping washed fruits or boiled pasta.…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

You Want Samsung’s Top TV? It’ll Cost You Ten Grand and an Entire Wall

Samsung’s arguably carried the crown of biggest, most beautiful TV screens for some time now—and if you’ve got $10,000, you can now buy the biggest, most beautiful, super-skinny of them all. This is a giant HDTV slice. The ES9000 features an expansive 75-inch screen with full HD and the obligatory 3D capabilities with just a…

Gadgets Andrew Tarantola

This Data Center Is Protected by a Fortress of Defense

If you want to know how to protect a data center in 2012 you don’t have to look further than the QTS Richmond Data Center. With what seems like a fortress surrounding it, the data center meets all the Department of Defense anti-terrorism force protection physical requirements. That’s serious stuff. Here’s what else the QTS…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan

YouTube’s New Face Blurring Feature Can Save Lives, Embarrassment

Matt at Buzzfeed points out that YouTube’s new face blurring feature could save lives in those parts of the world where people are prosecuted by totalitarian—and not so totalitarian—states. Here’s what YouTube has to say about it: As citizens continue to play a critical role in supplying news and human rights footage from around the…

Privacy & Security Jesus Diaz

Judge Orders Apple to Post a Notice Saying Samsung Didn’t Copy the iPad on Apple’s Own Website

The UK judge that ruled that Samsung didn’t copy the iPad because the Galaxy tab was “not as cool” as the iPad has now ordered Apple to take back its accusations against Samsung by publicly saying Samsung did not copy the iPad’s design on the Apple website and various magazines and newspapers. https://gizmodo.com/judge-rules-galaxy-tab-not-as-cool-as-ipad-legally-s-5924382 That is…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Best Portable Power Pack

There’s the moment when your phone goes below 20 percent power and you get that foreboding notification—if you don’t plug in soon, you’re going to die. In some situations, even careful planning can’t guarantee a recharge. That’s why there are portable power packs—when the power is out, or your travels take you far from an…

Gadgets Leslie Horn

Bing’s Animated Homepage Is What the Face of the Internet Should Look Like

Bing’s homepage is wonderful today. Right now, it livens up your basic search page with an animated timelapse of concentric startrails at Monument Valley in Utah. It’s gorgeous. But more importantly, it’s the kind of tasteful-but-futuristic design we want to see more of. Today, the undisputed face of the web is Google’s homepage. It was…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Astronomers Finally Find the Answer to Earth’s Water Mystery

Looking at her picture, you may think that Earth is a water world. But the fact is that she is 99-percent dry rock. According to our current solar system formation model, this is impossible—a mystery that has puzzled scientists until now. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-why-that-amazing-nasa-earth-image-looked-so-fam-5486448 Rebecca Martin and Mario Livio—of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland—may…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Monster-Hating Nuns and Arrowheads in LA: How Mike Novacek Became a World-Famous Dinosaur Hunter

You probably don’t know Mike Novacek by name, but he’s one of the most important paleontologists in the world. If you ever yearned to go off into the wilderness and hunt down dinosaur fossils as a kid, Mike Novacek is living your dream. Dr. Novacek has worked at the American Museum of Natural History since…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

9 Ways to Cut Your Smartphone Data Bill

As the average webpage/image/file on the internet has grown, most folks’ monthly allowance for mobile bandwidth has gotten smaller. (Exceptions: Sprint users and those grandfathered into an unlimited plan.) Today, it’s extremely easy to use a gigabyte of data in a month. The quantity will just keep rising—and with it, the potential for massive monthly…

Tech News Adrian Covert

This Was One of the Original iPad Prototypes

If you know your bit of technology history, you’d know that Apple was actually working on an iPad before it developed the iPhone. What did those iPad prototypes look like? Well, according to these earliest known photos of an iPad prototype from the early 2000’s, it looked really, really fat. There’s definitely hints of the…

Tech News Casey Chan

There Is No Such Thing as Normal When You Live at the Bottom of the Sea

Shooting Challenge: Dream

This Is the Hottest Kiss Ever Photographed, Right?

Windows 8 Will Be Out October 26th

Gmail SMS Brings Email to Dumbphones In Countries With Crappy Internet

How to Listen to Something Besides Local Radio on Your Never-Ending Road Trip

You’ll Never Forget How To Build A Bookshelf With Plans Carved Into Its Pieces

This Handheld Wet/Dry Vac Is So Convenient, You’ll Spill It Just To Suck It Back Up

The Illuminated Keyboard Is Your I’d-Buy-That-If-I-Were-Drunk Deal of the Day

You’ll Never Have To Worry About Breaking This Pre-Shattered Colander

You Want Samsung’s Top TV? It’ll Cost You Ten Grand and an Entire Wall

This Data Center Is Protected by a Fortress of Defense

YouTube’s New Face Blurring Feature Can Save Lives, Embarrassment

Judge Orders Apple to Post a Notice Saying Samsung Didn’t Copy the iPad on Apple’s Own Website

The Best Portable Power Pack

Bing’s Animated Homepage Is What the Face of the Internet Should Look Like

Astronomers Finally Find the Answer to Earth’s Water Mystery

Monster-Hating Nuns and Arrowheads in LA: How Mike Novacek Became a World-Famous Dinosaur Hunter

9 Ways to Cut Your Smartphone Data Bill

This Was One of the Original iPad Prototypes

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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There Is No Such Thing as Normal When You Live at the Bottom of the Sea

Shooting Challenge: Dream

This Is the Hottest Kiss Ever Photographed, Right?

Windows 8 Will Be Out October 26th

Gmail SMS Brings Email to Dumbphones In Countries With Crappy Internet

How to Listen to Something Besides Local Radio on Your Never-Ending Road Trip

You’ll Never Forget How To Build A Bookshelf With Plans Carved Into Its Pieces

This Handheld Wet/Dry Vac Is So Convenient, You’ll Spill It Just To Suck It Back Up

The Illuminated Keyboard Is Your I’d-Buy-That-If-I-Were-Drunk Deal of the Day

You’ll Never Have To Worry About Breaking This Pre-Shattered Colander

You Want Samsung’s Top TV? It’ll Cost You Ten Grand and an Entire Wall

This Data Center Is Protected by a Fortress of Defense

YouTube’s New Face Blurring Feature Can Save Lives, Embarrassment

Judge Orders Apple to Post a Notice Saying Samsung Didn’t Copy the iPad on Apple’s Own Website

The Best Portable Power Pack

Bing’s Animated Homepage Is What the Face of the Internet Should Look Like

Astronomers Finally Find the Answer to Earth’s Water Mystery

Monster-Hating Nuns and Arrowheads in LA: How Mike Novacek Became a World-Famous Dinosaur Hunter

9 Ways to Cut Your Smartphone Data Bill

This Was One of the Original iPad Prototypes

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor *And* an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!