Tech News

For Those Who Fear Needles, an Air-Jet Alternative

Needle-less technology for injecting medicine is nothing new. But, until now, it’s relied on compressed air or gas cartridges to breach the skin and deliver the dosage. A team of medical and mechanical engineering researchers from MIT has developed a new technology for needle-less injection that relies on not compressed molecules but magnetic energy. The…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Michael Jackson Does Munich, Old White Guys on Drugs, and Will Ferrell’s Best Bloopers

Michael Jackson – HIstory World Tour (Munich, Germany 1997) Yup, he’s still got it even after all these years. Wait, whaddya mean it’s already 2012? This isn’t a live feed? Oh. Oh! Ohhhhhhh. Piotr Kamler – Une Mission Ephémère (1993) Ephemeral Mission is right. I’ve smoked three bong rips and still can’t understand what this…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Hack Politician and Son Arrested for Political Hack

55-year-old Mayor of West New York, NJ, Felix Roque and his son Joseph, 22, were arrested today for allegedly hacking the website www.recallroque.com that was set up to rally support to recall the politician. Mayor Roque, a Cuban-American doctor and Army colonel, and a Democrat who has a close relationship to the large-gutted Republican Governor…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

What Is Growing from this Working Computer?

Turning an old iMac into an aquarium is easy; the monitor is already hollow and lifeless, so there’s really no risk of ruining it. Mike Schropp over at TotalGeekdom has taken the flora/fauna desktop mod a step further, actually modifying his own working PC to grow wheatgrass from atop its tower. Stuck on the idea…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

By-the-Hour Lodging Service Offers Discreet Deals at Upscale Hotels

Hotel rooms with an hourly rate—the kind where you go to cheat on your boyfriend or girlfriend or to meet for a session with your dom—are typically grungy no-tell motels of last resort. A sad fact, but a true one nonetheless. Fortunately, the people behind Dayuse.com have realized that this doesn’t necessarily have to always…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Everything You Need to Look Like a Fool Protecting Yourself From the Sun

Here comes Memorial Day, the unofficial kickoff of summer. Woohoo! Before you go and do something silly like spend money on fancy sunglasses that will make you look cool (who wants to do that?!?) here are some goods that will help protect you from the sun’s harmful rays while also making you look like a…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

8-Bit Games Videomapped Over Classic Consoles Is the 3D We Really Want

It would be even cooler if the games were playable, but Tonner Vi’s retro gaming-themed videomapping installation called Visuatari is still pretty fantastic to just sit back and enjoy. Particularly since it features Mario wandering into other classic titles like Pac-Man and Duck Hunt. Forget the Virtual Boy and the 3DS, this is the only…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Best Way to Recycle a Propane Tank Is to Make It a Lamp

Step outside—the most gorgeous overhead lamp you have ever seen might be sitting in your very own backyard. Felix Guyon of La Firme sure has an eye for re-purposing objects into eye-catching design, because his propane tank lamp entitled L’Tease just oozes industrial goodness. No word on availability, but why not try your hand at…

Tech News Michael Hession

Google Purges 1.2 Million Links a Month from Its Searches

Google just released a report today showing just how many links the search giant rips down from its searches a month because of copyright complaints and it’s a doozy: 1.2 million a month. That comes from over a 1,000 copyright owners who’ve targeted 25,000 web sites. What’s especially interesting is that, according to Google, “these…

Tech News Casey Chan

Apple Arbitrarily Removes Airfoil’s Streaming Audio App From iOS App Store

Apple just removed Airfoil Speakers Touch 3 from the iOS app store, despite claims from developer Rogue Amoeba that the app complies with all of Apple’s rules and developer agreements. What gives, Apple? Airfoil Speakers Touch is rad, which is why this bothers us. Since 2009 the app has allowed you to stream audio from…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Sidecar.me: Seamlessly Share Photos and Videos While Talking on the Phone

Multitasking while talking on a smartphone is clunky, if not limited. But Sidecar.me comes in to supplement a regular phone call with pictures, videos, and other data so the person on the other end can see what you’re up to. What does it do? Sidecar is a calling app that lets you pass along things…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Man Stranded In Airport For Four Months Disappears Mysteriously

This man is not Tom Hanks. Or Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the Iranian who lived in Charles de Gaulle’s Terminal One from 26 August 1988 to July 2006. This guy’s name is Parameswaran. He’s from Sri Lanka and he was stranded in Caracas’ international airport, Venezuela for four months. Now, he has disappeared mysteriously. Before his…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

How Earth Got Its Oxygen

If you’re currently living on our pale blue dot, you should thank it for becoming inhabitable for us human folk. Specifically, you should look down and thank its mantle because scientists are saying that Earth’s cooler mantle allowed it to develop oxygen. You know, that thing we breathe to live. Researchers from Princeton University published…

Tech News Casey Chan

LED Broom Lamp Sweeps Away the Darkness of Your Home

If you’re into unusual accent lighting, you’re not going to find anything more unique than Pēteris Zilbers and Mārtiņš Straupe’s Mood Broom which illuminates a room with a strip of color-changing LEDs running down the handle. It’s designed to be leaned against a wall like it was abandoned by a janitor who went off to…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Facebook Camera vs. Instagram: Ultimate Mobile Photo Sharing Smackdown

A new challenger appears! Facebook is now beginning to eat up its children, releasing a Camera app that competes directly with its recently purchased Instagram. Is it any good? Should you use both? Which one is better? Let’s dig in. https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-new-camera-app-is-pretty-much-instagram-5913053 Instagram and Facebook Camera have the exact same promise: the easiest (and most fun!)…

Social Media Sam Biddle

Slicing, Serving Kitchen Knife Is an Excalibur For Dinner Hosts

It’s hard to choose one item as the perfect kitchen accessory, but the Slice n’ Serve makes a strong case for the crown by incorporating a pizza slicer into a knife that’s wide enough to be used for serving food. There’s enough synergy here to make even Victorinox throw in the towel on its multi-function…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Jay Leno Stole a Guy’s YouTube Video and Then Got It Banned

A few years ago, Jay Leno played a YouTube clip made by Brian Kamerer and his friends on his show. He didn’t credit the Kamerer, but whatever, he was on NBC! Awesome! Except that some time since then, he says in an open letter on Splitsider, YouTube took the down the video because it was…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Developer Explains Why Android Sucks for Some Audio Apps

Oh, how we wish we could divulge the source of this information, because A) It comes from the developer of a pretty nice app; B) It’s fairly juicy information, if music apps are your thing; and C) We hate quoting anonymous sources. Nonetheless, we’re going to publish this anyway, because it’s so interesting, and the…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm

The Mixtape Will Live Forever Through This Retro-riffic Coffee Table

Even though the cassette tape is long gone from music store shelves, there’s still enough nostalgia for the old medium that it may never die. From mixtape websites that let you share a handful of songs, to this utterly fantastic giant wooden cassette coffee table. Hand crafted by Jeff Skierka, the Mixtape table is a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Kid Spent Two Months Secretly Living in AOL’s Offices

It turns out there is at least one person who likes AOL—enough to even eat, sleep, shower, and live out of their Palo Alto HQ like some sort of Silicon Valley hobo for months. Meet Eric Simons. Eric was a crappy high school student with bad grades. Eric turned this failure into an idea for…

Tech News Sam Biddle

For Those Who Fear Needles, an Air-Jet Alternative

Michael Jackson Does Munich, Old White Guys on Drugs, and Will Ferrell’s Best Bloopers

Hack Politician and Son Arrested for Political Hack

What Is Growing from this Working Computer?

By-the-Hour Lodging Service Offers Discreet Deals at Upscale Hotels

Everything You Need to Look Like a Fool Protecting Yourself From the Sun

8-Bit Games Videomapped Over Classic Consoles Is the 3D We Really Want

The Best Way to Recycle a Propane Tank Is to Make It a Lamp

Google Purges 1.2 Million Links a Month from Its Searches

Apple Arbitrarily Removes Airfoil’s Streaming Audio App From iOS App Store

Sidecar.me: Seamlessly Share Photos and Videos While Talking on the Phone

Man Stranded In Airport For Four Months Disappears Mysteriously

How Earth Got Its Oxygen

LED Broom Lamp Sweeps Away the Darkness of Your Home

Facebook Camera vs. Instagram: Ultimate Mobile Photo Sharing Smackdown

Slicing, Serving Kitchen Knife Is an Excalibur For Dinner Hosts

Jay Leno Stole a Guy’s YouTube Video and Then Got It Banned

Developer Explains Why Android Sucks for Some Audio Apps

The Mixtape Will Live Forever Through This Retro-riffic Coffee Table

This Kid Spent Two Months Secretly Living in AOL’s Offices

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

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

Let us help find what you are looking for...