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$4000 Crane Lamp Is a 1:50 Scale Model of the Real Thing

Standing nearly seven feet tall, the Crane Lamp by former Lego designer Charlie Davidson is supposedly a scale model of the largest crawler crane in the world. The huge crane portion of the lamp sits by the wall and hoists up a glass-tube light sculpture over the center of the room. No word on how…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Find the Best iOS Text Editor For You With This Insanely Detailed Chart

Not all iOS text editors are created equal, but this maddeningly comprehensive chart comparing just about every feature of more than 30 of the top apps will help you find the right one for you. Compiled by Brett Terpstra, the chart is so huge that it won’t fit on a 15-inch laptop screen. Features compared…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

The iPhone 5 Is Coming Out in June, Says Parking Lot Attendant

When will the iPhone 5 come out? We’re not sure. But the answer is June, according to this Chinese lady in a remote booth. A Tokyo TV crew accosted the woman, stationed outside Foxconn’s hermetic overtime centrifuge, regarding any new iPhone rumors. She stated, from inside her small parking lot chamber, that the iPhone 5…

Tech News Sam Biddle

How to Install Wood Flooring for Cheap

You. You have a dream of turning a basement, garage, or some other unloved room into a decent place to hang out. That wasted space could be a study, or a spare bedroom or a sweet home theater! The first step is fixing up the floor—that raw concrete slab, those panels of bare plywood, or…

Tech News Brent Rose

A Worldwide Vanilla Shortage Is Making Ice Cream a Luxury

At our current rate of consumption, we’re driving vanilla prices sky-high. The price for a kilo of the brown stuff has jumped from $25 to $40 in a single day, which means your summer ice creams might be an even more expensive treat than usual. Virtually all of the world’s vanilla supplies are grown in…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

How the iPhone Saved a Child From the Bottom of a Well

Here’s a new spin on one of Apple’s old marketing campaigns: if you don’t have an iPhone, you can’t rescue a baby from the bottom of a well. A savvy team of emergency workers in Mengzi City, China retrieved a child from the depths of a 40-foot well by lowering an iPhone rigged to the…

Tech News Leslie Horn

If Angry Birds Were Invented In the 80s, It Would Have Worked Like This

Someone called Squirrel Monkey—I like him/her already—is posting these awesome videos showing how the most popular technology would have looked in the 80s and 90s—from this PC-based Angry Birds to an amazing recreation of Google and Twitter in BBS mode. And DrawSomething and the obligatory Facebook too. Angry Birds looks perfectly fine like this. I…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

If DrawSomething Were Invented In the 90s, It Would Have Worked Like This

Someone called Squirrel Monkey—I like him/her already—is posting these awesome videos showing how the most popular technology would have looked in the 80s and 90s—from this DrawSomething to an amazing recreation of Google and Twitter in BBS mode. And Angry Birds and the obligatory Facebook too. I have the feeling that DrawSomething would have been…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

If Facebook Were Invented In the 90s, It Would Have Worked Like This

Someone called Squirrel Monkey—I like him/her already—is posting these awesome videos showing how the most popular technology would have looked in the 80s and 90s—from this Facebook instructional video to an amazing recreation of Google and Twitter in BBS mode. And Angry Birds and DrawSomething too. Watch them all: Google in the 80s. Oh boy,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Entirety of Rear Window‘s Rear Window in One Glorious Time-Lapse Panorama

A lot happens in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, all of it dutifully overseen by a wheelchair-bound photographer from a single spot. But to take in absolutely everything that Jimmy Stewart’s character does in the course of the film, you need to see this time lapse, which stitches together an entire panorama from that single vantage…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Can An ARM-Based Supercomputer Become the World’s Fastest?

The Barcelona Supercomputer Center is building one of the greenest high-performance computers on the planet, but if Alex Ramirez gets his way, it could also be the most powerful. Ramirez, a manager with the center, is in the midst of building a new supercomputer, called Mont-Blanc, that will use the same kind of low-power chips…

Tech News Robert McMillan - Wired

To Ace an Interview, Forget Being Liked: You Just Need to Love Yourself

While self-confidence is definitely a route to job interview success, it’s often suggested that outright arrogance and narcissism is a real turn-off for employers. But a new study suggests that’s not the case: interview performance doesn’t depend on how much the interviewer likes you in the slightest, but just how much you like yourself. The…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

IBM’s Failed Operating System OS/2 Is 25 Years Old—But It Still Powers ATMs and Checkouts

On April 2 1987, IBM launched its plan to revolutionize the PC industry: a next-generation operating system called OS/2. Co-developed by IBM and Microsoft, it was designed to replace DOS and change the way we used computers. Sadly, it didn’t. But it still crops up in some of the weirdest places. You see, it was…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Explaining What the Hell F-Stop Is, and How It Can Change Your Photography

F-stop is to photography beginners what inorganic chemistry is to an MFA graduate: some kind of black magic that only makes sense to experts. That said, I’m sure plenty of seasoned photographers use f-stop numbers without knowing what they really mean, too. But no more, because this video explains the concept in a way that…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

How To Make an External Mac Book Battery Pack for $60

If you use a Mac Book and are out on the road a lot, chances are the battery doesn’t last quite as long as you’d like. One solution is a commercially available battery pack, but they’re not cheap. So how about making your own for $60? Over at the Verge, there’s a post that explains…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Intel: Your Next Laptop Will Be a Touchscreen Clamshell

Things are certainly changing in personal computing: laptops are getting smaller and slimmer; tablets are becoming more useful productivity tools; and the whole sector can’t quite reach a consensus over what the future holds. But then, Intel drops into conversation that it firmly believes in the one technology most people have dismissed: Clamshell touchscreens. Speaking…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Trolling Could Get You 25 Years in Jail in Arizona

One of the Internet’s basic tenets—the right to be as much of a myopic, infantile asshat as humanly possible—is currently under attack in Arizona. A sweeping update to the state’s telecommunications harrasment bill could make naughty, angry words a Class 1 misdemeanor. Or worse. It’s a dangerous precedent, yet another bill written and supported by…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

MPAA Fears MegaUpload Will Take Its Servers and Run

The MegaUpload legal circus is beginning to reach WikiLeaks proportions of spectacle. The MPAA petitioned the court yesterday to block MegaUpload’s efforts to purchase its servers back from the cash-strapped hosting company, Carpathia on fears that the file sharing service would restart off-shore. As we reported two weeks ago, server host Carpathia is losing about…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Plantronics BackBeat Go: The Tiny, Cheap Bluetooth Headset-Buds You’ve Been Waiting For

For $100, the new Plantronics BackBeat Go Bluetooth headset isn’t just super-cheap—it’s probably the best-designed, most-convenient set we’ve ever seen. This is a headset that thinks it’s a set of earbuds. The Plantronics BackBeat Go consists of two buds connected by a short cable with an inline mic and volume control. It would be easy,…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Moroccan Hash, Car Rolling, and That Time the CIA Gave People LSD (NSFW)

Roll that spliff phatly, pack some fresh ice into the binger, and set the Volcano to “toastify.” It’s time for tonight’s Stoner Channel. We’ve collected our best high-times material for the discerning pothead so sit back, relax, and pass that shit on the left, yo. Help reader Moosehose name this 70/30 Purple Obama / Lemon…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

$4000 Crane Lamp Is a 1:50 Scale Model of the Real Thing

Find the Best iOS Text Editor For You With This Insanely Detailed Chart

The iPhone 5 Is Coming Out in June, Says Parking Lot Attendant

How to Install Wood Flooring for Cheap

A Worldwide Vanilla Shortage Is Making Ice Cream a Luxury

How the iPhone Saved a Child From the Bottom of a Well

If Angry Birds Were Invented In the 80s, It Would Have Worked Like This

If DrawSomething Were Invented In the 90s, It Would Have Worked Like This

If Facebook Were Invented In the 90s, It Would Have Worked Like This

The Entirety of Rear Window‘s Rear Window in One Glorious Time-Lapse Panorama

Can An ARM-Based Supercomputer Become the World’s Fastest?

To Ace an Interview, Forget Being Liked: You Just Need to Love Yourself

IBM’s Failed Operating System OS/2 Is 25 Years Old—But It Still Powers ATMs and Checkouts

Explaining What the Hell F-Stop Is, and How It Can Change Your Photography

How To Make an External Mac Book Battery Pack for $60

Intel: Your Next Laptop Will Be a Touchscreen Clamshell

Trolling Could Get You 25 Years in Jail in Arizona

MPAA Fears MegaUpload Will Take Its Servers and Run

Plantronics BackBeat Go: The Tiny, Cheap Bluetooth Headset-Buds You’ve Been Waiting For

Moroccan Hash, Car Rolling, and That Time the CIA Gave People LSD (NSFW)

Ahead of the SpaceX IPO, xAI Has Now Shed All 11 of Its Non-Elon Musk Founders

Do ‘Disclosure Day’ Prep With a Spielberg Sci-Fi Marathon

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Ranking 2016’s Superhero Debuts, 10 Years Later

Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Bans Most Social Media for Kids

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‘The Mummy 4’ Is Getting the Family Back Together

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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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

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