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Kinect’s New Trick: Ads That You Can Interact With

Miscrosoft’s Kinect is a powerful little device. The latest trick up its sleeve, though, is something called Nuads: interactive advertisements that will have you waving at your TV to take part in polls and games. The LA Times reports that so far Toyota, Unilever and Samsung Mobile have all signed up to the scheme, which…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

How Scientists Communicate With Coma Victims

For decades people have spoken to people in vegetative states, hoping their voices will be heard. But these days researchers are going much further than that: in controversial experiments, a group of scientists are working out how to communicate with people in comas. Nature has a wonderful feature piece which centers around Adrian Owen, a…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

9-Year-Old School Lunch Blogger Silenced By Politicians (Updated)

For the past two months, one of my favorite reads has been Never Seconds, a blog started by 9-year-old Martha Payne of western Scotland to document the unappealing, non-nutritious lunches she was being served in her public primary school. Payne, whose mother is a doctor and father has a small farming property, started blogging in…

Tech News Maryn McKenna - Wired

How Did Samsung Keep The Galaxy SIII Secret?

Apple can’t seem to keep its new phones under wraps to save its life: there are leaked images, phones left in bars, you name it, and an Apple employee has done it. So how the hell did Samsung keep the SIII a secret? In truth, there were a few leaked photographs just before its launch,…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Best Google+ Feature Yet: Remote YouTube Parties

You might not always enjoy them, but YouTube parties are inevitable, and can actually be great fun. Copying one of the smaller features of Airtime, Google is now offering its users the ability to watch YouTube videos in sync with each other via Google+, so you needn’t leave your desk to obsessively watch cat videos…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Facebook Wants Your Phone Number

As part of a new security initiative, Facebook wants your phone number. It claims that it will help you recover your account in the event of an emergency—but should you hand it over? TechCrunch reports that the request will be rolled out to all desktop users within the next few days. The idea is that,…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe

First-Ever Mixer and Crossfader Dates Back Over a Century

In 1910, the French engineer Leon Gaumant demonstrated his sound-and-film synchronizing Chronophone system at the Gaumant Palace—a 5,500 seat reconstruction of the Hippodrome, which was at the time Europe’s largest movie theatre—in Paris, FR. At the time, moving pictures with synchronized sound were limited in length by the playing time of a gramophone records—the longest…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Microsoft Is Maybe, Possibly Launching Its Own Tablet Device Next Week

Here’s what we know: This Monday, at an as yet unconfirmed location somewhere in Hollywood, Microsoft with be making an important announcement. Now, Mashable is posting about what is being called a credibly rumor of a Microsoft-made tablet, running Windows RT (a version of Windows 8), intended to rival Apple’s iPad. This is a big…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

The Stoner Channel: Chuck Norris—The Movie, Mike Tyson’s (Real Life) Punch Out, and RI Is OK with MJ

Models Fall Down, Go Boom The shame is that this could all have been avoided if they had just turned left.[BoingBoing] Nepal Narcos Nab 2.5 Tons of Sticky Icky Nepalese Police made the largest drug bust in the nation’s history on Monday when officers seized two and a half tons of dank from a major…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Every Position Is Fetal Position, When You Nap in This Womb-Shaped Chair

Contemporary designer Freyja Sewell’s HUSH is a womb-shaped chair designed to offer a little “me time” for those of us easing the burden of a pricey apartment by living with roommates. Made of 100% wool felt, HUSH, says Sewell “is a warm, cosy space, for contemplation and rest.” By creating an enclosed space HUSH provides…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Man Goes on $1.5m Gambling Spree, After ATM Glitch Allows Him Unlimited Withdrawals

Ronald Page, a retired GM worker living in the Detroit area, took advantage of one hell of a computer glitch, after happening upon an ATM that allowed him to make unlimited cash withdrawals. How did he choose to handle the situation? He loaded up his pockets and went on a multi-casino gambling bender. Unfortunately for…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Australian Electronics Retailer Shame-Taxes Customers Who Use Internet Explorer 7 (Updated)

An Australian consumer electronics e-retailer, Kogan.com, has some strong ideas about socially acceptable web browser use. So strong, in fact, that customers who use Internet Explorer 7 to navigate the page are charged a tax of 6.8% of their total order—that’s 0.1% for each month since the browser was first released—because the think it sucks…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

El Bulli: Cooking in Progress: Inside the World’s Greatest Food Lab

One of the great regrets of my life is that I’ll never have the chance to sample a meal at El Bulli, the now-closed Spanish restaurant considered by very many to be the best in the world, where chef Ferran Adrià pushed the frontiers of food. This documentary by Gereon Wetzel will likely be as…

Tech News Mat Honan

RNC Unapologetically Lifts Code From Year-Old DNC Attack Site

The web designer behind this attack microsite from the Republic National Committee probably thinks him or herself pretty clever; a blank page with a blinking cursor, below a headline that reads “Obama’s New Ideas To Fix The Economy.” (A jab implying that Obama has no such ideas.) Ironically, it’s the RNC that has no new…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Why You’ll Never Hear the Weirdest Instruments Ever Made

A lot of great music is composed using weird or short-lived instruments, and increasingly, these are instruments packed with electronic components—if the “instrument” itself isn’t just a computer. What happens when technology moves on and leaves us without the tools used to make great works? Writing in the New York Times, Allan Kozinn suggests we…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Hamburgers Were Better When People Ground Their Own Meat

There’s a scene in The Adventures of Augie March where Augie is sitting on the side of the road (or is it a railroad track?) with a group of hobos eating hamburgers. Saul Bellow describes the burgers as burnt on the outside and so rare as to be ice-cold in the middle. It’s probably because…

Tech News Joe Brown

Is This Facial Recognition Tech Designed for Makeup Counters the Most Accurate Ever?

Sometimes you turn on the news and see a clip of an unknown perp robbing a convenience store. Problem is, police can’t tell who the thief is because the video is so bad. But that might not be a problem anymore thanks to a French company called Vesalis and its bang-on facial recognition software. Originally…

Tech News Leslie Horn

This Lamp Is So Cute It Should Be Pixar’s New Logo

Luxo Jr aka that lamp in Pixar’s logo is very probably the most adorable lamp there is. But I think this Lightworks Disc Lamp might be even cuter. It’s got so much personality! The disc makes the lamp plump and round and when you tilt it, it just looks so expressive. Designed by Jonas Wagell,…

Tech News Casey Chan

Vizio’s Beautiful Sci-Fi Computer Fleet Lands Now for Cheapish (Updated: Hands On)

It takes a lot to make us genuinely excited about a laptop, or even worse, another desktop PC. But cheap TV king Vizio’s done just that. We loved them at CES, and now the all-in-one and superskinny laptop line’s official. The 24 and 27 inch all-in-one PCs, which borrow enough of Apple’s picture frame design…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Condition One: Explore Videos From Every Perspective

When you want to look closer at a photo on your iPad, you zoom in with your finger. It’s a pretty simple for stills, but there isn’t a comparable feature for videos. That’s where Condition One comes in. It’s a new iPad app that lets you view footage in an immersive format. What does it…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Kinect’s New Trick: Ads That You Can Interact With

How Scientists Communicate With Coma Victims

9-Year-Old School Lunch Blogger Silenced By Politicians (Updated)

How Did Samsung Keep The Galaxy SIII Secret?

The Best Google+ Feature Yet: Remote YouTube Parties

Facebook Wants Your Phone Number

First-Ever Mixer and Crossfader Dates Back Over a Century

Microsoft Is Maybe, Possibly Launching Its Own Tablet Device Next Week

The Stoner Channel: Chuck Norris—The Movie, Mike Tyson’s (Real Life) Punch Out, and RI Is OK with MJ

Every Position Is Fetal Position, When You Nap in This Womb-Shaped Chair

Man Goes on $1.5m Gambling Spree, After ATM Glitch Allows Him Unlimited Withdrawals

Australian Electronics Retailer Shame-Taxes Customers Who Use Internet Explorer 7 (Updated)

El Bulli: Cooking in Progress: Inside the World’s Greatest Food Lab

RNC Unapologetically Lifts Code From Year-Old DNC Attack Site

Why You’ll Never Hear the Weirdest Instruments Ever Made

Hamburgers Were Better When People Ground Their Own Meat

Is This Facial Recognition Tech Designed for Makeup Counters the Most Accurate Ever?

This Lamp Is So Cute It Should Be Pixar’s New Logo

Vizio’s Beautiful Sci-Fi Computer Fleet Lands Now for Cheapish (Updated: Hands On)

Condition One: Explore Videos From Every Perspective

Should We Be Hyped—or Freaked Out—About Nuclear Microreactors?

Roku’s 2025 Streaming Stick HD Is 40% Off to Compete With Amazon Fire TV Stick During Spring Sale

Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information

‘Wicked Spot’ Is a Fun, Sapphic Rom-Com That Yeets a Witch Into the Magical World of Influencer Culture

Anthropic and OpenAI Just Gave Us a Glimpse Into the Future of Model Pricing

Amazon Slashes 63% Off Acer Aspire Desktop for a Limited-Time Spring Sale, With Keyboard and Mouse Included

Smart Glasses Now Have One of the Vision Pro’s Best Features

Marvel Just Put ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 in a Very Weird Place in the MCU Timeline

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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