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Kohl’s Rebecca Black Parody Commercial Makes Me Want to Buy Nothing Ever Again Forever

Kohl’s, a store that sells disgusting accouterments for people who hate things that are nice, has a new commercial that parodies Rebecca Black’s Friday. Get it? Rebecca Black’s Friday? Black Friday? BLACK FRIDAY! Kill. Kill. Kill. This commercial makes me never, ever want to shop at Kohl’s. It makes me never, ever want to shop…

Tech News Mat Honan

Maze Solving Robot Mouse Makes Real Lab Mice Look Downright Stupid

Even after spending years solving countless placemat mazes at restaurants around the world, I’m still no match for this robotic micromouse that races through this giant maze in just 3.921 seconds, shaving a full second off the previous record. https://gizmodo.com/watch-this-robot-mouse-blow-through-a-maze-faster-than-5675759 Even without the promise of cheese or a cat in pursuit, the tiny robot looks…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Key Copying Vending Machines: For Burglars or Homeowners?

Maybe I’m just paranoid, but when I see a vending machine designed to easily duplicate keys, my immediate thought isn’t, “Wow, that’s convenient!” It’s: “Wow, what an easy way to secretly duplicate someone’s key without being seen doing it!” I’m not completely against the idea, though. An automated system that removes human error is OK…

Privacy & Security Andrew Liszewski

The Ten Tools You Need To Fix All The Broken Stuff in Your Home

Tools are an essential part of your home. But you don’t need a huge tool box or fancy tool belt to take care of small home projects. A small set of quality tools will serve you quite well. Whether you rent or own your home, you should have a nice set of tools. Just because…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Roqbot Crowdsources In-Store Music for The Gap with Android, iPhone Apps

At one San Francisco store, shoppers decide what music plays using mobile apps for iPhone or Android – or simply by checking in to the store and allowing their musical preferences to color the soundtrack. Roqbot, whose ingenious method for crowdsourced music selection in venues (bars, clubs, bowling alleys, etc.) we first profiled at SXSW,…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm

Cute Code Cards Communicate Christmas Cheers

The holidays are upon us, so check out these adorable, geek-infused greeting cards. They may possibly be the best and bug-free way to tell your loved ones all your base are belong to them. Designed by Matt Raw, the cards come in your choice of Python, Ruby, PHP and Javascript languages and are available in…

Tech News Natt Garun

Enter the Void: A Japanese Drug Odyssey

Tonight’s streaming pick is an HD injection of drugs directly into your brain. If you’re sober you’ll feel… not sober. If you’re not sober, your skull will explode. What’s it about? Enter the Void follows a young listless drug dealer in Tokyo after he’s killed in a police raid. Not a spoiler! It happens very…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Just Let webOS Die Already

HP’s earnings were brutal this past quarter, sure. In response, new CEO Meg Whitman’s clarion call to investors, repeated over and over again? We need to be more clear. We need to let you know what’s going on. https://gizmodo.com/hp-blew-3-3-billion-on-webos-5861611 Just not… right… now. For all of Whitman’s posturing about the need to tell us what’s…

Tech News Brian Barrett

7 Tools to Spy Better Than a CIA Agent

Today was a rough day for the American spy community; spy captures in Lebanon only reinforced the fact that are operators aren’t always all that smooth. In fact, you could probably do better! Here are seven spy tools to get you started. https://gizmodo.com/hezbollah-captured-american-spies-by-tracking-cellphone-5861384 Sony 3D Recording Binoculars You’re a spy. Your job depends on maintaining…

Privacy & Security Adrian Covert

Black FlyDay: Deals for Black Friday and Beyond

It’s not your fault for getting sucked into the Black Friday hoopla. How can you resist all the deals? They’re just so, well, cheap. The Black FlyDay Android app hops on the find-a-deal app bandwagon with a slight difference. The deal finding doesn’t stop on Friday. The app encourages users to keep sharing deals long…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Microsoft Is Trying to Poach Amazon and Google Employees By Giving Out Free Bacon

Microsoft is trying to hire new employees by luring them with god’s greatest creation, the devil’s most delicious treat and man’s greatest love: bacon. They’ve set up a bacon cart (!) outside of Amazon’s offices and will give away free bacon to everyone. EAT BACON, WORK MICROSOFT. This isn’t lame sauce light bacon either, it’s…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Real Facebook Phone Is Finally Coming?

You might remember the AT&T Status, the “Facebook phone” that didn’t quite live up to its name. Now, AllThingsD claims, the rumors will finally bear fruit: a Facebook Phone made by Facebook. The real deal. And it sounds pointless. https://gizmodo.com/the-facebook-phone-review-lets-just-pretend-this-isnt-5821278 ATD says “the phone is planned to run on a modified version of Android that…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Air Jordans Made Out of a Pizza Box Are Cooler Than Whatever Shoes You’re Wearing

Pizza boxes themselves have a pretty impressive history of design. So when you cross them with something iconic like Jordans? It’s cool enough to make me stop thinking about why in the world anyone would want me to associate pizza with feet. https://gizmodo.com/the-long-and-glorious-history-of-the-pizza-box-5821050 So teeeechnically what they’re selling here is a t-shirt that’s got the…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

HP Blew $3.3 Billion on WebOS

HP will tell the investors just how rocky its waters are later tonight, but for now, enjoy this gem: the company lost $3.3 billion solely through buying and squandering WebOS. HP describes this staggering money-flushing as “the wind down of HP’s webOS device business, impairment of goodwill and purchased intangible assets, amortization of purchased intangible…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Infrared Film Can Make Even a Warzone Look Beautiful

What you’re looking at isn’t a landscape shot photoshopped to resemble Willy Wonka’s realm—it’s the real world. A battlefield. Photographer Richard Mosse traveled the wartorn Congo with infrared film made for camouflage detection. The results are gorgeous. The now discontinued Kodak Aerochrome film used to be mounted in airplanes for landscape analysis, whether geological or…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Hooray! Facebook Ads Are Heading to Your News Ticker

If there’s one thing that sucks about Facebook, it’s the paucity of advertisements. We need more! And we need them in real time. Luckily, TechCrunch reports, we’re in luck—more live Facebook ads are headed our way today. The ads will appear in the controversial Facebook “ticker,” where you see constant details of who’s tagging whom,…

Social Media Sam Biddle

The NYPD’s Panoramic Crime Scene Photos Are Straight Out of CSI

I’ve often rolled my eyes at the ridiculous technology used by CSI agents on TV, but the NY Times has revealed that as of 2009 the NYPD has started capturing 360 degree panoramic photos of crime scenes, for future analysis. While closeup photos are still an important tool for documenting evidence and clues, the use…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Walking Dead Nerds Will Actually Want to Buy This Official Apocalypse Kit

The zombie apocalypse is coming, and you can’t take your katana everywhere. Well, you can, but that’s a pain. Much better is Gerber’s new Apocalypse Kit, which has all the cutty slashy stuff you’ll need to make it through the zombie plague. The kit’s based on the cache of Gerber weapons Rick and company came…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

The Perfect Computer for People Who Fear Computers

The holidays are breathing down our necks like a creepy subway pervert, lumbering by with a yuletide erection. iPads will be massive hits. But for the tech-challenged person in your life? Save some dough and buy a Chromebook. Google announced a price drop and feature bump on Chromebooks today. They start at $300 now, which…

Tech News Mat Honan

Here’s What Leonardo da Vinci’s To-Do List Looked Like in 1490

Even the brilliant mind of Leonardo da Vinci needed to jot things down in a notebook so he could remember what he needed to do. The only difference, of course, is that da Vinci’s to-do list was much more complex than ours. I mean, who needs to calculate the measurement of Milan and its suburbs…

Tech News Casey Chan

Kohl’s Rebecca Black Parody Commercial Makes Me Want to Buy Nothing Ever Again Forever

Maze Solving Robot Mouse Makes Real Lab Mice Look Downright Stupid

Key Copying Vending Machines: For Burglars or Homeowners?

The Ten Tools You Need To Fix All The Broken Stuff in Your Home

Roqbot Crowdsources In-Store Music for The Gap with Android, iPhone Apps

Cute Code Cards Communicate Christmas Cheers

Enter the Void: A Japanese Drug Odyssey

Just Let webOS Die Already

7 Tools to Spy Better Than a CIA Agent

Black FlyDay: Deals for Black Friday and Beyond

Microsoft Is Trying to Poach Amazon and Google Employees By Giving Out Free Bacon

The Real Facebook Phone Is Finally Coming?

Air Jordans Made Out of a Pizza Box Are Cooler Than Whatever Shoes You’re Wearing

HP Blew $3.3 Billion on WebOS

Infrared Film Can Make Even a Warzone Look Beautiful

Hooray! Facebook Ads Are Heading to Your News Ticker

The NYPD’s Panoramic Crime Scene Photos Are Straight Out of CSI

Walking Dead Nerds Will Actually Want to Buy This Official Apocalypse Kit

The Perfect Computer for People Who Fear Computers

Here’s What Leonardo da Vinci’s To-Do List Looked Like in 1490

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