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How iPad Demand Led to Last Year’s Deadly Foxconn Explosion

You probably remember the Foxconn explosion from last May that killed four people and left 18 others seriously injured. Charles Duhigg and David Barboza of The New York Times have a massive profile on the human side of a totally avoidable dust explosion in a plant frantically rushing to keep up with demand for iPads,…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

This Simple Wood Contraption Lets the iPhone 4 Film Both Sides of a Story

Billed as the “lowest-tech accessory” for the iPhone 4, the limited edition Love Box lets you record both sides of a conversation through the use of a simple sliding mirror. Without the need for a special app or any post-production. The Love Box was originally conceived in Paris when its creators needed a way to…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Siri Can Translate Languages for You with a Tweak

Siri is more powerful than Apple lets on so it’s up to the tweaking, hacking, tinkerish souls of the jailbreak community to unleash her full potential. Like this latest Siri hack, Lingual. It’s a jailbreak-only tweak that turns Siri into a translation device. Just say what you want to Siri, name the language you want…

Tech News Casey Chan

HTC to Stop Making So Many Goddamn Phones

HTC has a problem. It realizes it’s addicted to new phones. And if HTC’s execs make good on recent words, we may no longer be drowning in a torrent of the company’s new models every other week. Effing finally. HTC easily makes some of the strongest and most interesting hardware out there—its Titan Windows Phone…

Tech News Sam Biddle

AT&T Sold 9.4 Million Smartphones—7.6 Million of Them Were iPhones

In a holy crap stat o’ the week, AT&T sold a record setting 9.4 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2011. 7.6 million of that 9.4 million were iPhones. 7.6 MILLION. That’s a ridiculous 81 percent of all AT&T smartphones sold! That’s only 1.8 million phones left to split between Android, Windows Phone and…

Tech News Casey Chan

How Your Friends’ Locations Give Yours Away Online

You might have the privacy settings locked down on all your social networks, but it’s the weak links in the system that make the difference. A team at the University of Rochester in New York, for instance, say they can predict where you are to within 100 meters, just by analyzing the location of your…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe

Microsoft Gave Nokia $250m in The Fourth Quarter of 2011 For Adopting Windows Phone

According to Nokia’s financial results, released today, Microsoft paid the Finnish company a cool $250m in the final quarter of 2011 for adopting Windows Phone. That’s just the first payment: in total these “platform support payments” will likely add up to billions. No wonder Nokia’s keen. [Slash Gear]

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The View Inside The Costa Concordia Makes My Head Spin

Since the Costa Concordia ran aground in Italy, it’s been listing at an incredible angle, almost sitting on its side. It looks weird enough from the outside, but images taken by the Italian Navy make my head hurt. In this picture, navy divers are attempting to make their way to an unchecked cabin. It looks…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

MIT’s Folding City Car Is Finally a Reality

MIT’s city car concept has been in the pipeline for a long time, but until now there’s been nothing other than illustrations and half-size models. Now, however, the real thing is here, and it’s about to go into testing in Europe. Called Hiriko, which means “from the city” in Basque, MIT’s folding electric car was…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

How To Charge All 16 of Your USB Devices Simultaneously

If you have 16 devices that you need to charge simultaneously va USB, I’m going to stick my neck out and say you have a problem. But at least it’s a problem with a solution: this 16-port USB charger is just what you’re after. This is the Datamotion Systems PowerPad Charging Hub, and yes, it’s…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Just a Guy Documenting His Year, One Backflip at a Time

There are plenty of thoughtful ways in which people can document their year. But when Sam Morrison’s father bet him $100 that he couldn’t do a backflip every day of 2011, another approach was born. Yes: Sam Morrison recorded himself doing a backflip every single day of 2011. This video is actually a compliation of…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Wilco: Dawned On Me

The video for Wilco’s new track Dawned On Me is the result of a collaboration with King Features: it’s the first hand-drawn Popeye cartoon in more than 30 years. Directed by Darren Romanelli, the animation is faithful to the ones you remember watching as child, and it’s a great song to boot. If you’re not…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

SCORP: The Future of Throwable Surveillance

People have been affixing cameras to RC car chases since forever but those primitive spybots always had one fatal flaw when surveiling urban areas—stairs. The SCORP, however, can drag itself up a flight if it needs to or be thrown in directly through a second-story window. The SCORP, built by Swiss manufacturer Novatiq, is classified…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Scientists Completely “Cloak” Three-Dimensional Objects for the First Time

Hiding behind a life-sized negative of yourself won’t actually turn you invisible. But researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have figured out how to use that same idea to make real-world objects vanish when shot with microwave energy. Most attempts at cloaking real-world objects have relied on metamaterials that route incoming light around…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

These Apps Are Helping a New Generation of Audiophiles Discover Vinyl

As someone who spends lots of time thinking about the future of music as an app phenomenon, it might surprise you that I do a lot of my listening on vinyl records. I’m not alone – reports abound of vinyl’s surging sales numbers over the past five or so years. Though they make up a…

Tech News Andy Cush - Evolver.fm

You’re Now More Likely to Find a Computer in Your Pocket Than on Your Lap

It’s official. A study released by Google yesterday shows that mobile devices, and smart phones in particular, are now the dominant means of Internet connectivity in five key global markets. Google conducted the study of smart phone versus feature phone ownership rates throughout last year, pulling data from the USA, the UK, France, Germany, and…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Where to Check In After You’ve Checked Out

The rising death rate in Japan has lengthened the average wait for cremation to roughly four days. That’s a long 96 hours to let you lay there and ripen. So what do you do after shuffling off this mortal coil? You get yourself to a corpse hotel, obviously. The Lastel Hotel can host up to…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Google Maps Now Also Shows Where You Don’t Want to Be

Nothing ruins a road trip like having to ford flooded rivers and dodge oncoming tornadoes. Thankfully, Google Map’s new Public Alerts system should help keep you out of the path of Mother Nature’s rage. The alert system debuted today and pulls disaster warnings from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Weather…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

A 10-Year-Old Kid Got Lost Inside a Computer—For Real

TNW has a great little anecdote today: a 10-year-old kid got lost inside a computer in the 1950s. That was the time when computers less powerful than your current phone were bigger than most homes. This is his story: In 1950, I was 10 years old, visiting the Michigan State University campus. The computer was…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The SlatGrill Is a Rearrangeable Range for Backwoods Gourmets

Since dangling pots and pans over a campfire at arms length is generally inadvisable and supporting your griddle with large rocks is downright barbaric, you’ll need something else to suspend your cookware over the open flames. This ingenious modular grill should do nicely. The SlatGrill is built from anodized aluminum and stainless steel and assembles…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

How iPad Demand Led to Last Year’s Deadly Foxconn Explosion

This Simple Wood Contraption Lets the iPhone 4 Film Both Sides of a Story

Siri Can Translate Languages for You with a Tweak

HTC to Stop Making So Many Goddamn Phones

AT&T Sold 9.4 Million Smartphones—7.6 Million of Them Were iPhones

How Your Friends’ Locations Give Yours Away Online

Microsoft Gave Nokia $250m in The Fourth Quarter of 2011 For Adopting Windows Phone

The View Inside The Costa Concordia Makes My Head Spin

MIT’s Folding City Car Is Finally a Reality

How To Charge All 16 of Your USB Devices Simultaneously

Just a Guy Documenting His Year, One Backflip at a Time

Wilco: Dawned On Me

SCORP: The Future of Throwable Surveillance

Scientists Completely “Cloak” Three-Dimensional Objects for the First Time

These Apps Are Helping a New Generation of Audiophiles Discover Vinyl

You’re Now More Likely to Find a Computer in Your Pocket Than on Your Lap

Where to Check In After You’ve Checked Out

Google Maps Now Also Shows Where You Don’t Want to Be

A 10-Year-Old Kid Got Lost Inside a Computer—For Real

The SlatGrill Is a Rearrangeable Range for Backwoods Gourmets

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

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