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Whoa: Amazon’s $79 Kindle Costs $84 to Make

That jaw-dropping $79 price point on Amazon’s new Kindle just got a little nuttier: It turns out the thing costs a $84.25 to manufacture, according to an exclusive report to Mainstreet by serial gear teardowner iSuppli. The $79 Kindle is the “special offers” version of Amazon’s ereader, which means it features localized advertisements on its…

Commerce Kyle Wagner

French Built “Replica Paris” to Foil German Bombers in WWI

French newspaper Le Figaro has unearthed an incredible development from the first world war, revealing that French authorities built a life-size replica of Paris to the north of the city to trick German bombers. According to Le Figaro, this pretend Paris featured streets with electric lighting and dummy buildings, a recreation of the famous Gare…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

ARM Planning OCTO-CORE Mobile Graphics Processor for 2013

Chip company ARM has announced its latest processor evolution, in the form of its Mali-T658 GPU. ARM says this’ll provide “desktop-class performance” with “ten times” the power of the 400 series found in the Galaxy S II. The Mali-T658 offers PC and console gaming image enhancement features like 4x Full Scene Anti-Aliasing, plus it can…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The (British) Voice of Siri Asked to Keep Quiet by Apple

The British voiceover artist who provided the male voice for Siri only discovered he had been included in the iPhone 4S after seeing it demonstrated on TV — and was then asked not to talk about it by Apple’s PR people. Jon Briggs is the man in question. He was completely unaware of his involvement…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Philips Beehive Concept Has Urban Farmers Abuzz

Urban beekeeping is reemerging as a popular pastime for city-dwellers but a stack of conventional hive boxes won’t generally fit in a third-story apartment. Philips’ new urban beehive concept, however, aims to bring a colony to every balcony in your town. The hive consists of a smart-looking central chamber pre-loaded with honeycomb frames. Bees enter…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

XXIT Is 11 Minutes of Awesome from Stargate Studios

I was never much of a Stargate SG-1 fan—just wasn’t the same without Kurt Russell—but if the TV series is as good as this short film (by a completely unrelated, yet similarly-named company), I’m going to need to clear some space on my Instant Queue. XXIT is the story of a time-travelling replicant who travels…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Can 3D Printers Make Libraries Useful Again?

As the printed word gives way to digital distribution, libraries must change in both form and function in order to remain relevant in the Internet age. One New York book repository has taken the lead in this effort by installing the country’s first “maker’s space” within a public library. The effort is being spearheaded by…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

How To Enable iOS 5’s Hidden Auto-Correct Feature

Turns out iOS 5 is hiding Easter Eggs aplenty. Besides the camera’s secret panorama mode, an Android-style auto-correct bar has been uncovered as well. https://gizmodo.com/there-is-a-secret-panorama-mode-hidden-in-the-iphones-c-5857318 Here’s how to enable the feature in just six steps per 9 to 5 Mac: 1. Download iBackupBot 2. Backup your iPhone/iPod in iTunes 3. Open iBackupBot and find the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

World’s Priciest Picture Is as Bland as It Is Expensive

Andreas Gursky is well-known for his stunning full-color landscapes, though this one seems to only include green and grey. And yet it just became the world’s most expensive photograph, fetching a whopping $4.3 million. This is Andreas Gursky’s Rhein II, an 81- x 140-inch print of the famous German river. It went on sale at…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Daily Desired: A Recreated Eames Fiberglass Chair

Originally designed as inexpensive furniture after WWII, Eames Pressed Fiberglass Chairs are still made today—only now they’re made of eco-friendly polypropylene. Boo. Then the original was recreated from scratch. Think of it as the impossible project for classic furniture. You could buy an “Eames Molded Plastic Chair” from Herman Miller for $250 a pop, or…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Suck on These Single-Serving Coffee Sacks

I’ve never been one much for chewing tobacco—couldn’t ever quite get the hang of spitting without drooling all over myself. These coffee sacks provide a similar kick without water or, you know, the whole mouth-cancer issue. The Grinds Coffee Pouch works just like bagged chaw does, just cram a pack into your lip and leave…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

If You’re Buying a New Camera, You Must Use This Website

Buying a new gadget is hard. We try to help as much as we can! But there are little things you need to know, like the exact size of a camera compared to another camera, before you buy. CameraSize does exactly that. It’s so smart I wish I invented it. You can see the size…

Tech News Casey Chan

Can You Imagine This 10-Story-High Lightning Machine That Covers An Entire Football Field?

Insane. There’s no other adjective that can describe this mad project. A mad project that is perfectly doable: two 10-story Tesla Coil towers separated by 260 feet. They will be capable of unleashing the energy of natural lightnings. The Lightning Foundry is a project to re-create super-long discharge effects normally found only in lightning. Two…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Ice Snitches and Cocktails Alike with These Frozen Bullets

Long known in assassin circles as a means of offing targets without leaving evidence, ice bullets now serve a less-than-lethal function—cooling your drinks. The Bullet Ice Cube Tray’s banana clip-shape holds ten icy rounds. It supposedly fills like a normal ice cube tray, though looks like it uses a separating two-part design. Be warned though,…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Six Tools to Make Your Home a Wireless Wonderland

Wires are terrible. They do nothing but make your house look chaotic. And though we can’t completely get rid of all wires, we can get rid of some. Here are six gadgets to help tame your wild wires. Sonos Streaming Audio System Sonos is a whole house system which will wirelessly beam music to as…

Tech News Adrian Covert

What Is This?

Just what the hell is going on here? A piece of candy under the microscope? An oil slick? Are we all on drugs right now? No—well, maybe you are—but this picture isn’t the result. It’s from spaaa-aaace. What you’re looking at is a volcano. A Martian volcano, to be exact, named Tharsis Tholus. It looks…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Castro Tweets, X-Ray Scotch, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. Swivl Dock Twists, Doesn’t Shout It’s a Swivl Dock! A dock that swivels! We already covered back…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Midnight Rider Is the Biggest Limo on the Planet

Cramming yourself into a Winnebago for your next road trip to Vegas? Ludicrous. Get there in the back end of a big-rig, a rolling disco, the worlds biggest limo. The 25-ton, 70 foot long Midnight Rider is the world’s heaviest limousine, according the the Guinness Book of World Records. Technically a “Tractor-Trailer Limousine,” it was…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Microplane Easy Prep Tenderizer: Your Taste Buds Will Thank You

The staff over at Food Republic spend their days obsessing about all the delicious things that go into our stomach. So it makes sense they’d know what gadgets are best suited to the creation of good food. Today, they have steak on the brain… Every steak prepared at home isn’t going to be six-ounces of…

Tech News Nicholas Kavalier - FoodRepublic.com

Watch an Exploded Fire Hydrant Hold Up a Car for an Hour

One of my yet to be fulfilled New York dreams is to pop open a fire hydrant and dance naked in the street while the exploded hydrant rains all over me. FUN. I’m second guessing myself now though cause exploded fire hydrants are FREAKING POWERFUL. They can even lift cars. The video shows a hit…

Tech News Casey Chan

Whoa: Amazon’s $79 Kindle Costs $84 to Make

French Built “Replica Paris” to Foil German Bombers in WWI

ARM Planning OCTO-CORE Mobile Graphics Processor for 2013

The (British) Voice of Siri Asked to Keep Quiet by Apple

Philips Beehive Concept Has Urban Farmers Abuzz

XXIT Is 11 Minutes of Awesome from Stargate Studios

Can 3D Printers Make Libraries Useful Again?

How To Enable iOS 5’s Hidden Auto-Correct Feature

World’s Priciest Picture Is as Bland as It Is Expensive

Daily Desired: A Recreated Eames Fiberglass Chair

Suck on These Single-Serving Coffee Sacks

If You’re Buying a New Camera, You Must Use This Website

Can You Imagine This 10-Story-High Lightning Machine That Covers An Entire Football Field?

Ice Snitches and Cocktails Alike with These Frozen Bullets

Six Tools to Make Your Home a Wireless Wonderland

What Is This?

Castro Tweets, X-Ray Scotch, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

Midnight Rider Is the Biggest Limo on the Planet

Microplane Easy Prep Tenderizer: Your Taste Buds Will Thank You

Watch an Exploded Fire Hydrant Hold Up a Car for an Hour

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

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VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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