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Apple Patent Turns Your iPhone Into a Window to a 3D World

Apple’s been looking at Kinect-like 3D gestures for a while now, and now it’s filed for a new 3D GUI patent that would make using an iPhone or iPad a lot like a cross between a stripped-down little Kinect and a window into a parallel world. The patent lays out an interface that would use…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The Best Looking 3D Glasses Are From a Company You’ve Never Heard Of

If you’re lucky enough to get a pair of 3D glasses with your fancy new 3D TV, chances are good that they’re hideous. So this year, I decided to scour CES for 3D specs that weren’t embarrassingly awful. And I found them, in a place I never would have expected. I had one question for…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Google Just Made Bing the Best Search Engine

I just switched the default search engine in my browser from Google to Bing. And if you care about working efficiently, or getting the right results when you search, then maybe you should too. Don’t laugh! Google changed the way search works this week. It deeply integrated Google+ into search results. It’s ostensibly meant to…

Tech News Mat Honan

The Prince Of Persia Sands of Time Trilogy Is Your Drape-Climbing Deal of the Day

How did Jake Gyllenhaal wind up as the Prince of Persia in the film adaptation? He’s not even Persian. He’s Swedish or something. And kinda a wimp. Also, that movie had Ben Kingsley as the bad guy. It’s like he let the whole Gandhi thing go to his head and thinks he can play any…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals

Will Facebook’s New Listen With Friends Feature Kill Turntable.FM?

Tech nerds and music fiends are both familiar with the social listening experience that is Turntable.FM, but the general masses are still relatively unfamiliar. Facebook, pushing along at full force with their new music features and sensing that Turntable.fm hasn’t quite reached its tipping point, rolled out their latest feature: Listen with friends. The premise…

Social Media Adrian Covert

This Guy Is Rethinking His CES Career Choice

It’s tough out there.

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

These Should Be the Real Logos Of Nokia, Starbucks, Playboy, Apple and Dunkin’ Donuts

I love the alternate-reality logo work by svenska designern Viktor Hertz. After his first series, he’s back with a new batch of Honest Logos, even better than the first. My favorites: Nokia, Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts. [Flickr via Bored Panda]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Greatest Toilet Seat I’ve Ever Seen

Hidden away in a remote CES corridor, amidst a sea of gaudy phone cases and chargers, something catches my eye. What’s a toilet doing here? Oh, you know, just revolutionizing how you use the bathroom. No biggie. Behold the Swash 1000, the latest and greatest evolution of Brondell’s line of high-tech toiletry. The Mark Cuban-backed…

Tech News Brent Rose

Kindle Just Turned Into an Instapaper for Your Files

I like using my ereader for things other than books, but aside from Instapaper, converting regular files into ereader format is more hassle than it’s worth. Now Amazon’s making it easier to send non-book files to your Kindle. Send to Kindle is a new plugin that lets you send a file right to your Kindle…

Commerce Kyle Wagner

The Biggest Surprise of CES

Wait, is this right? RIM’s update to its PlayBook OS is actually good? High fives are currently flying in meetings across North America. And it’s not just that PlayBook’s finally going to have native email and calendar support. That’s a great first step, but it’s also just smooth and attractive and usable. There’s a better…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

A Toy That Turns Your Playing Cards Into a TIE Fighter

E&M labs, which raised $96,000 on Kickstarter last year for their Trebuchette, has built a new toy: Skallops. They’re wooden clips that transform a regular deck of cards into a set of building blocks. The idea for Skallops has been lying dormant in Marshall Grinstead‘s brain since he was 8. Now he’s finally gotten his…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Sony’s Music Unlimited Streaming Service Is Headed to iOS

In a shift in philosophy for Sony, VentureBeat is reporting that Sony’s iTunes competitor, Music Unlimited, will finally makes its way to iOS devices. There’ll be a Spotify-esque song caching option for subscribers and should add more choices in an increasingly crowded market. [VentureBeat]

Tech News Casey Chan

The Best Booth at CES

Samsung doesn’t build a booth at CES. They build a small town. A small town with knowledgeable citizens and a beautiful Main Street. Really, the kind of place you want to take your family to for the summer. And they do it Every. Single. Year. Samsung might have had the biggest booth. I’m not really…

Gadgets Roberto Baldwin

The Best New Camera

It’s beautiful, simple to use, and elegant. And the Fuji X-Pro1 is rightly going to end up in a lot of camera bags when it hits the streets. What impressed us the most was just how easy the this gorgeous mirrorless camera is to use. Aperture is controlled by a ring around the lens. Shutter…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Poop-Stopping Design: the Disposable Diaper

Babies are incredible waste producing-machines, speeding through approximately 10 diapers every day. If you are in possession of a poop-maker, you’ve got options for dealing with their impressive output: disposables, cloth, something called FuzziBunz. Your cornucopia of diaper options is all thanks to a single design that transformed the industry 70 years ago. Marion Donovan…

Tech News Rachel Swaby

This Cute Sea Snail Can Swallow a Fish Three Times Its Size and Kill Humans

Watch this nice snail. It slowly moves across the ocean floor—lah-di-lah-di-lah!—until it finds a sleeping fish three times its size. Does it say hello, Mr. Fish, sorry to wake you up? No. It just opens its giant mouth and swallows it. The. Horror. Apparently, cone snails are one of the deadliest fish assassins on the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Reddit is Having a Blackout on 18 January in Protest Against SOPA

The web’s been grumbling and muttering about SOPA for a while now, but we’ve not really seen any big gestures made. That’s changing: Reddit admins have announced a blackout to protest against the act. On 18 January, visitors to Reddit’s usual wonderfully chaotic home page will instead be greeted by “a simple message about how…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Marines Just Got The First Two Short Take Off/Vertical Landing F-35 Jets

The US Air Force got their first regular F-35 Lightning II on July 2011. Now it’s the US Marine’s turn: they just got the first two production models of the F-35B, the variant that allows for short takeoff and vertical landing. The two planes—BF-6 and BF-8— have joined the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing’s Marine Fighter/Attack…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Facebook’s News Feed Ads Are Here and They’re ‘Featured’, Not Sponsored

Late last year Facebook announced that it was going to introduce ads into our news feeds. Well, they’re here, but to soften the blow they’re tagged as “featured” rather than “sponsored”. The site is slowly rolling out the ads around the world, and for now is only inserting one paid news story a day in…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe

Some Dude Wants $60m For a Patent Protecting The Distribution of URLs via SMS

There are a lot of sad sites at CES. But Robert Sanchez telling an empty room about his plans to sell a patent, that details delivery of URLs via text message, for $60m has to be one of the most desperate. Technology Review reports that Sanchez, an entrepreneur and CEO of GlabalTel Media explained that…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Apple Patent Turns Your iPhone Into a Window to a 3D World

The Best Looking 3D Glasses Are From a Company You’ve Never Heard Of

Google Just Made Bing the Best Search Engine

The Prince Of Persia Sands of Time Trilogy Is Your Drape-Climbing Deal of the Day

Will Facebook’s New Listen With Friends Feature Kill Turntable.FM?

This Guy Is Rethinking His CES Career Choice

These Should Be the Real Logos Of Nokia, Starbucks, Playboy, Apple and Dunkin’ Donuts

The Greatest Toilet Seat I’ve Ever Seen

Kindle Just Turned Into an Instapaper for Your Files

The Biggest Surprise of CES

A Toy That Turns Your Playing Cards Into a TIE Fighter

Sony’s Music Unlimited Streaming Service Is Headed to iOS

The Best Booth at CES

The Best New Camera

Poop-Stopping Design: the Disposable Diaper

This Cute Sea Snail Can Swallow a Fish Three Times Its Size and Kill Humans

Reddit is Having a Blackout on 18 January in Protest Against SOPA

The Marines Just Got The First Two Short Take Off/Vertical Landing F-35 Jets

Facebook’s News Feed Ads Are Here and They’re ‘Featured’, Not Sponsored

Some Dude Wants $60m For a Patent Protecting The Distribution of URLs via SMS

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