Tech News

Love of Pork May Be Genetic, Says Study

A group of researchers from Duke University Medical Center, Monell Chemical Senses Center and three Norwegian institutions have published the results of a study which they believe may shows a genetic predisposition to having a particular fondness for cooked meats. In the experiment they conducted, a group of people with varying levels of a certain…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

How To Recreate Hitchcock’s Famous “Vertigo Effect”

To accurately capture the terror felt by “Scottie” Ferguson in 1958’s Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock pioneered a unique camera technique that still bears his name—the Hitchcock Zoom. Here’s how it works. The technique, also known as a dolly zoom, is actually rather simple in its design. A stationary object is photographed or filmed as the camera…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Breathe Like a Dolphin With This Double-Sided Swimming Snorkel

Constantly turning your head to breath while doing the front crawl slows you down and can strain the muscles in your neck. The Powerbreather takes a design cue from our cetacean cousins by letting you breath out the back of your head. Essentially a fully enclosed snorkle, the Powerbreather wraps securely around the swimmer’s head.…

Gadgets Andrew Tarantola

Human Art Project Questions Whether Technology Is to Blame for Your Failed Relationship

Eric Siu is the Hong Kong-based new-media artist behind “Touchy”, a human art project that aims to questions whether our umbilical relationship to technology will destroy our ability to maintain fulfilling human connections. Siu designed the Touchy camera-helmet to respond to human touch by opening its two shutters, allowing the person wearing it to see…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Everything You Need To Acquire the Most Expensive Works of Art on the Cheap

Yesterday, Edvard Munch’s masterpiece The Scream sold at auction for $119 million, confirming the fact that you’ll never ever own classic works of art. But the gear inspired by, or somehow resembling, the real thing? Hello internet! Total cost of the art: $992.2 million Your price: $186 Mouse Pad If you can’t play with the…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

What’s the Oldest Picture on Your Computer?

Remember when JPGs took multiple seconds to download? When your digital camera served up horrid pixel slop? When you actually scanned things? That was mental millennia ago, but there are probably traces sitting on your hard drive. What’s the oldest? Now it’s possible that you’re a ruthless eraser, importing the minimum from your old system…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Limitless: The Brain-Doping Movie We All Know Was Inspired by Adderall

In Limitless, Bradley Cooper plays Eddie Mora, a down-on-his-luck writer struggling to make progress on the novel he’s promised to his publisher. Just when things seem like they couldn’t get worse for Eddie, he runs into his ex-girlfriend’s brother, a sort-of slimy guy who’s gotten himself involved in the distribution of a not-yet released cognitive…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Lounge Chair Ingeniously Hides a Workspace in Its Arms

Just because a piece of furniture is beautiful doesn’t mean it just has to sit there as a piece of eye candy. Martin Ballendat’s P@d lounge chair would look right at home alongside a modern living room set, while it hides a secret set of fold-out trays strong enough to support a laptop. So if…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

E-Mail Confused Osama, and 5 Other Revelations From the Bin Laden Files

Osama bin Laden may have been the evil mastermind behind the world’s most successful terrorist group. But in his final days, he sounded more and more like your great aunt Henrietta: nagging his subordinates for not hating America enough – the terrorist equivalent of telling the kids to get off his lawn – and getting…

Privacy & Security Spencer Ackerman - Wired

The Daily: Rupert Murdoch’s Tablet Experiment Heads to the iPhone

News Corp’s tablet-only publication The Daily isn’t exclusive to tablets anymore. The app, which first debuted on the iPad last February, is now available for download on the iPhone What does it do? Scroll through the day’s headlines, and absorb current events in this digital newspaper. You can access some content for free, but to…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Heat-Conducting Spoons Make Ice Cream Scooping Hassle-Free

There’s nothing like a heaping serving of perfect, barely melted ice cream. But when you take the tub out of the freezer, it’s so hard and cold, you have to use some serious elbow grease to force out a proper scoop . You just can’t wait, either. The good news is now, you don’t have…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Please Let This Bluetooth Gamepad for Smartphones Be Real

The iPhone might be nibbling away at Nintendo’s market share, but there are still plenty of games that are damn near unplayable with a touchscreen. Physical buttons are the way to go, and if Levelup’s Bluetooth ROAM controller is legit, they won’t be able to take our money fast enough. The ROAM might look like…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Viewtron Was AT&T’s 1983 Solution For ‘Information Overload’

Information overload is not what it used to be. In 1983, magazines, television, and radio were apparently enough to make people lose their bearings. Well it’s a good thing AT&T was there with a cure—The Viewtron! The Viewtron connected to your TV and phone line to serve you on-demand news, weather, sports, and shopping. As…

Tech News Michael Hession

Bowers and Wilkins P3 Headphones: Beautiful Design and Beautiful Sound Now Cost Less

Something of a follow-up to the P5 headphones, the $200 P3 headphones are Bowers and Wilkins’s first on-ear headphones designed for a mainstream, smartphone-toting crowd. The P3s take the excellent design of P5s and reworks it with a foldable design and aluminum and rubber construction—making them ideal for stuffing in your bag. The headphones also…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Faceoff: Samsung Galaxy S III v. iPhone 4S

Today Samsung took the veil off the Galaxy S III, the newest smartphone in the line. The debut of the new device puts more fuel on the fire in the war between Samsung and Apple, but how do these phones stack up against one another? Voice Recognition: Each device has fully-integrated voice controls. Apple has…

Tech News Leslie Horn

The Dutch Have the Weirdest Google Maps Censorship

The Netherlands have given the world so much: pizza, sex tourism, The Hague, Rembrandt, Vermeer—and let’s not Aelbert Cuyp. In the tradition of the last three, the Dutch now serve up the most artistically bizarre Google blurring ever. Architizer brings us artist Mishka Henner’s “Dutch Landscapes” project: (click through for more) As Henner notes, the…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Mark Zuckerberg Will Cash In for a Billion Dollars When Facebook Goes Public

Zuck! You ol’ devil. As part of Facebook’s upcoming IPO you’re going to sell 30.2 million shares at a price somewhere between $28 and $35 per share, which we’ll just call a billion dollars because it’s a nice big round impressive number. Congrats! At least someone’s going to be getting rich off of this thing.…

Social Media Brian Barrett

Olympic-Sized Pool Boat Is an Instant Tourist Attraction—Just Add Water

The city of Antwerp is currently in the process of converting an old ferry boat into its newest tourist attraction—an almost 400-foot long swimming pool that will double as a skating rink in the cold winter months. It’s an idea that’s so simply genius we think every city should build one. The Badboot, which roughly…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Outdoor Heater Is Your Bring-The-Pub-Patio-Home Deal of the Day

There are two things that just make me impatient. One is streaming video times. The other is summer patio weather. A few weeks ago, it seemed like we were all good for an early summer. BBQ out and fuelled: check. Lawn furniture washed and ready to go: check. Grass cut to optimal length for lounging:…

Tech News Andrew James

Samsung’s Awkward Galaxy SIII Seduction

There were some very awkward quotables during Samsung’s Galaxy SIII launch event, but none more awkward than this doozy, which was huskily whispered during the camera section: Don’t worry, take it. Don’t worry, take it. Don’t worry… just take it. Wow, Samsung. At least buy us a drink first.

Tech News Brent Rose

Love of Pork May Be Genetic, Says Study

How To Recreate Hitchcock’s Famous “Vertigo Effect”

Breathe Like a Dolphin With This Double-Sided Swimming Snorkel

Human Art Project Questions Whether Technology Is to Blame for Your Failed Relationship

Everything You Need To Acquire the Most Expensive Works of Art on the Cheap

What’s the Oldest Picture on Your Computer?

Limitless: The Brain-Doping Movie We All Know Was Inspired by Adderall

Lounge Chair Ingeniously Hides a Workspace in Its Arms

E-Mail Confused Osama, and 5 Other Revelations From the Bin Laden Files

The Daily: Rupert Murdoch’s Tablet Experiment Heads to the iPhone

Heat-Conducting Spoons Make Ice Cream Scooping Hassle-Free

Please Let This Bluetooth Gamepad for Smartphones Be Real

The Viewtron Was AT&T’s 1983 Solution For ‘Information Overload’

Bowers and Wilkins P3 Headphones: Beautiful Design and Beautiful Sound Now Cost Less

Faceoff: Samsung Galaxy S III v. iPhone 4S

The Dutch Have the Weirdest Google Maps Censorship

Mark Zuckerberg Will Cash In for a Billion Dollars When Facebook Goes Public

Olympic-Sized Pool Boat Is an Instant Tourist Attraction—Just Add Water

This Outdoor Heater Is Your Bring-The-Pub-Patio-Home Deal of the Day

Samsung’s Awkward Galaxy SIII Seduction

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...