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I know we should do everything we can to encourage healthy eating, but spending money on a unitasking kitchen tool designed to prep a banana is just completely unnecessary. Mother Nature’s most perfect food doesn’t need our help. What’s that you say? It makes peeling a banana easier for little kids? I’m pretty sure anyone…
In about a week, there’s gonna be a firehose of gadgets coming at you, and let’s hope they’re all as easy on the eyes as these early arrivers from Samsung, especially the monstrously expensive but apparently very good Series 9 Monitor. The Series 9 monitor is a 27″ QHD (quad hi-def) monitor with a 2560…
Stoolies, rats, and snitches might one day have Bahram Azizollah Ganji to thank for not getting killed. Because he just created the world’s smallest capacitor microphone, measuring in at just half a millimeter on each side. Working at the Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Bahram’s mic is almost invisible to the naked eye and uses…
The last few years have been something of a golden era for portable speakers, able to find a sweet spot in sound quality, size, battery life and price. But know what those noisemakers lack? BASS. Enter the foxLO. Soundmatters, realizing that their foxLv2 speaker will never likely produce awe-inspiring low end went and did the…
Magazine-quality studio macro shots are gorgeous. Small objects with exquisite detail and perfect lighting. Well, what’s so insane about those photos is that they can be duplicated at high noon with nothing more than the sun and a foil reflector. The Challenge Duplicate the tutorial’s methodology to create a glowing, studio-quality macro shot with little…
You probably put on a few pounds this holiday season. Hey, it’s not your fault, because Egg nog and cookies are scrumptious. But today is the day you start getting rid of the holiday lump that rests above your hips. With Ease into 5K, you’ll be running off those pounds before the Valentine’s Day chocolates…
I’m finally jealous of the French. To promote the re-release of The Phantom Menace in THREE DEE, French fast food chain Quick is making a Darth Vader Burger complete with a black bun. A BLACK BUN. On a burger! There’s also a Jedi Burger, but whoever wants the snoozefest of a regular bun when the…
Envious of all your smartphone toting friends and their Instagram galleries full of tired retro photos? Fuuvi’s Bee was inspired by 8mm cameras and lets you shoot aged videos and stills without having to sign a cellular contract. Without all the motors and mechanisms needed to drive a roll of film, the Bee is actually…
Once the darling of the photography world, long-time film maker Kodak is close to filing for bankruptcy, according to the WSJ. The company is currently shedding $70 million a month as it tries to shift its business model from film to printers. The entire situation is quite sad when you realize how intertwined Kodak is…
So you switched over to Facebook’s new Timeline design and you don’t like it, huh? That’s too bad because you’ve entered into a covenant from which there is no escape. But for the less tech savvy, scammers have people believing there’s a way back to what you once knew. According to Inside Facebook’s Brittany Darwell,…
Giant mashable buttons are pretty great. A giant mashable button that I can kick to charge my devices? Well, sign me up for 10. I wanna be the Rockette of power management. Charging your gadgets is a tricky proposition. You want them chock full of juice when you’re ready to use them, but you don’t…
Razer has posted a teaser video of a upcoming release known as “Project Fiona.” The trailer points to a new form factor for PC gaming. Could this be the Razer Switchblade that was at CES last year but never released? The all-in-one portable gaming system is a cross between a Nintendo DS and the Optimus…
Significant others. Parents. Siblings. Pets. Roommates. Friends. Bosses. These are all potential things distracting you from fragging your opponent into last week. If only they’d stop yammering about whatever frivolous needs they have and would just let you blow shit up. Slap the Turtle Beach X12 headset over your ears, and not only will it…
I drink my whiskey on the rocks. Big Boss Joe Brown calls me a little girl when I say that (like, with ringlets and bows). But at least I can make my cold/ruined whiskey a little more aromatic with this big rolling ball of ice in a glass. Cold whiskey subverts the taste, and ice…
A couple of summers ago I came to a country house after dinner. It was a beautiful warm night and all the lights were off. We saw a weird glow behind the trees, from the distance. We knew there was an endless prairie. When we reached the edge of the forest, we saw what the…
Your typical ratcheting screwdriver lets you twist the handle in both directions, but only drive a screw when turning clockwise. With the Kobalt Double Drive, holding the ratcheted collar lets you drive a screw no matter how you twist the handle. A gearing mechanism hidden beneath the collar is where all of the magic happens,…
In the lead-up to CES my inbox is flooded with literally hundreds of pitches every day. I swear, one out of five has been for an iSomething. None of them were from Apple. iNeed you to friggin’ stop it. Look, Apple didn’t invent the iName. If you wanna credit (blame) someone, start with Isaac Asimov…
There’s a bug in Apple’s iOS 5 that would allow anyone to look into your photos without using a password—users would only have to click on the camera button on your iPhone to access all the images. Consultant Ade Barkah has discovered that Apple sets the security of the images stored in your phone based…
Buying and selling stuff online can be stressful, since you’re always guarding against getting ripped off. Luckily, intermediaries like PayPal are in place to mediate disputes. Which apparently means having your antique violin smashed open to see if it’s fake, then not compensating you in any way. A reader named Erica wrote in to Regretsy…
Rejoice, brothers! File sharing is now an official religion in Sweden. For real. It took two years, but it’s done: it’s called the Missionary Church of Kopimism and has Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V as its sacred symbols. Founded in 2010 by philosophy student Isak Gerson, the 3,000-member Missionary Church of Kopimism was created to avoid legal…
