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How To Bulletproof Yourself on a WWI Battlefield

Body armor fell sharply out of favor in Europe during the 18th Century but made a strong resurgence in WWI after folks realized how much getting shot hurt. These are some of the more…eccentric…examples of rudimentary blast shields and flak vests as compiled by our friends at Oobject.com. If you need to deck out your…

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Screw Apple’s Kool-Aid, I Want to Drink Google’s Beer

Beer nerds! Our time has come! Dogfish Head brews some of the most interesting beers in the world (some people who are wrong say too interesting). Google makes search engines and browsers and stuff. Now they’re the same! Meet URKontinent. URKontinent is a collaboration between the Delaware brewer and the global information organizing megalopoly. As…

Tech News Mat Honan

Before the Cheap Digital Camera, There Was the Kodak FunSaver

Despite teetering on the verge of bankruptcy, Kodak will forever be legend. Slides! Kodachrome! Advantix! In the 2000s, they morphed into a maker of easy-to-use digital cameras and pocket camcorders. But looking back, there’s one product more indelible than the others: the FunSaver. https://gizmodo.com/kodak-is-on-the-verge-of-being-worth-zero-dollars-5845533 A disposable camera? Admittedly, the FunSaver was no technological achievement. It…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Watch Five Breathtaking Underwater Videos Made by Robots

Every year, the government gives scientists money that they use for amazingly cool things, like building robots that dive to extreme underwater depth and record video like this. Thanks to funding from taxpayers and philanthropists (and, of course the Internets, which come to think of it also launched as a government program), you can sit…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Verizon Appeals FCC Net Neutrality Ruling

Verizon filed an appeal in federal court today protesting the FCC net neutrality ruling. It claims the rules are unnecessary and will create confusion. Left unsaid is that it thinks the ruling could cut into profit. Verizon issued the following statement: Verizon is fully committed to an open Internet. We are deeply concerned by the…

Tech News Mat Honan

The New Essential Apps September 2011

iPhones. iPads. Android. Windows Phone 7. We’ve updated all of our essential apps lists to include a few forgotten favorites, some long awaited arrivals and, as always, even more amazing apps. Check them out! If you want to jump to see the best apps in a specific platform, click here: iPhone | Android | iPad…

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Google Maps Helicopter View Is Like a Sweet Magic Carpet Ride (in a Chopper)

Google has already given us Satellite View, Street View, and Earth View, but today they said, “Wanna see what your route would look like if you were flying in a chopper?” Uh, yes. Yes, we do. All you gotta do is go to Google Maps, type in a route you want to see, and then…

Tech News Brent Rose

Kraft Recalls 137,000 Velveeta Products With Dangerous Metal Wires In Them

Do you have any Velveeta Shells and Cheese single-serve microwaveable cups in your fridge? Shame on you. Now here’s another reason not to eat these gross things: they may have thin wire bristle pieces inside. No injuries have been reported yet, but Kraft has voluntarily recalled 137,000 units of three product varieties. The original Shells…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Fake Girlfriend Texting Service Is Actually Pretty Brilliant

The notion of signing up for automated calls and texts from a machine pretending to be your girlfriend sounds pathetic—and I don’t blame you for assuming it is. But here’s why it’s genius. https://gizmodo.com/sad-website-will-create-sad-virtual-girlfriend-for-your-5785898 Life is filled with horrible social obligations: forced conversations, stilted smalltalk, uncomfortable appearances. A girlfriend is the ultimate excuse. “I’m sorry,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

1TB Samsung Spinpoint Is Your Data Hoarding Deal of the Day

Back in the late 1990s and the early 2000s, Homo sapiens used a crude form of the computer known as the Desktop PC, in which the monitor and computer were separated into discrete components. The computer, housed in what would come to be known as a “mini-tower,” contained the guts, such as the processor, RAM,…

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Kodak Is on the Verge of Being Worth Zero Dollars

Have you taken a look at Kodak’s stock today? Get a good look while you can, because it’s shitting the bed worse than a disemboweled E. coli patient-already down 60%, to less than a dollar. This is how it ends. We’ve known the company’s in dire financial shape, but this looks like the beginning of…

Tech News Sam Biddle

How Not to Lie On Twitter

Yesterday, The Onion began tweeting gunfire in the Capitol. The premise was that Congress took America’s children hostage. Oh, cruel satire, you are hilarious! Except not everyone knew it was a joke. And now the Capitol police are investigating. Uh-oh. Look, I’m a big fan of The Onion. And I’m an even bigger fan of…

Tech News Mat Honan

Full-Size Lego Gears of Wars Assault Rifle Fires Stinging Rubberbands

Without a doubt, this is the nerdiest, coolest Lego weapons ever created: a fully functional replica of the Lancer Assault Rifle from Gears of Wars. One that fires rubberbands. For real. The video shows how it works. It’s not only perfectly designed but so ingenious that watching how he did it all made me giggle…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Original Kindle Was So Fugly Because of the BlackBerry

Looking back at the Kindle’s history, that original Kindle was pretty rip your eyes out ugly, huh? An odd shape with quirky buttons and even stranger scroll wheel…God who thought of that? Apparently, RIM. Jeff Bezos loved his Blackberry so much he based the Kindle’s design off of his favorite gadget. https://gizmodo.com/the-history-of-amazons-kindle-so-far-5844662 A hardware designer…

Commerce Casey Chan

How I Was Nearly Seduced by Grouper, the Biggest Sham in Online Dating (Updated)

A month ago, I was approached by Jerry Guo, ostensible Silicon Alley wunderkind who’d turned $400 in transit money into Grouper, a profitable dating startup. He guaranteed me a great time with “3 real girls.” Update: Guo apologizes (sorta) http://gawker.com/5844406/let-an-infamous-media-liar-set-you-up-on-a-group-blind-date The whole site’s a lie. I was interested in the idea of a group date,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Leaked Nokia Windows Phone Sounds As Awesome As We Hoped with Curved AMOLED Display and 3D Navigation

T-Mobile Germany briefly displayed a poster of an unannounced Nokia Windows Phone. From it we’ve learned that in addition to having Nokia’s Drive navigation system, the phone will also feature a 3.7-inch curved AMOLED display. WinRumors was sent photos of the poster before it was pulled by T-Mobile Germany. The unannounced phone will ship with…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Chicago’s Stickney Wastewater Treatment Plant Is the Crappiest Place on Earth

Chicago and its outlying suburbs create 1.5 billion gallons of wastewater every day. Since this isn’t the 1880s anymore and you can’t just let the effluence run back into Lake Michigan, you’ve got to clean it. Here. At the biggest wastewater treatment plant on Earth. The Stickney Water Reclamation Plant is located on 570 acres…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The Secret Tobacco Companies Don’t Want You to Know: There’s Radiation Inside Cigarettes

Rat poison. Lighter fluid. Battery acid. Pesticides. And now…radiation. What do they all have in common? They’re all rolled into one cancer causing cigarette. What’s worse, tobacco companies have known that radiation was inside cigarettes but hid evidence of it for 4 decades. The radioactive substance found in cigarettes is polonium-210, a radioactive material that…

Tech News Casey Chan

How Microsoft and Kaspersky Labs Neutralized a Spam Botnet

Botnets are feared not only for what they can do, but also for their resiliant nature (they’re virtually impossible to completely disband). Still, Microsoft and Kaspersky Labs teamed up recently to foil a particularly malevolent botnet called Kelihos. Here’s how. https://gizmodo.com/theres-a-botnet-called-tdl-4-thats-virtually-indestruct-5817261 Kelihos is a botnet that, at its peak, was sending 4 billion spam messages…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 Plus Is Amazing…ly Similar to All of Samsung’s Other Tabs

Two things to be gleaned here. 1) Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab 7 Plus is almost exactly like the 10.1, 8.9 and 7.7 tabs. 2) If you bought a first generation Galaxy Tab 7 and hoped for Honeycomb, you’re probably screwed. Basically, here are the differences between this and the Galaxy 10.1 or the Galaxy 8.9.…

Tech News Brent Rose

How To Bulletproof Yourself on a WWI Battlefield

Screw Apple’s Kool-Aid, I Want to Drink Google’s Beer

Before the Cheap Digital Camera, There Was the Kodak FunSaver

Watch Five Breathtaking Underwater Videos Made by Robots

Verizon Appeals FCC Net Neutrality Ruling

The New Essential Apps September 2011

Google Maps Helicopter View Is Like a Sweet Magic Carpet Ride (in a Chopper)

Kraft Recalls 137,000 Velveeta Products With Dangerous Metal Wires In Them

Fake Girlfriend Texting Service Is Actually Pretty Brilliant

1TB Samsung Spinpoint Is Your Data Hoarding Deal of the Day

Kodak Is on the Verge of Being Worth Zero Dollars

How Not to Lie On Twitter

Full-Size Lego Gears of Wars Assault Rifle Fires Stinging Rubberbands

The Original Kindle Was So Fugly Because of the BlackBerry

How I Was Nearly Seduced by Grouper, the Biggest Sham in Online Dating (Updated)

Leaked Nokia Windows Phone Sounds As Awesome As We Hoped with Curved AMOLED Display and 3D Navigation

Chicago’s Stickney Wastewater Treatment Plant Is the Crappiest Place on Earth

The Secret Tobacco Companies Don’t Want You to Know: There’s Radiation Inside Cigarettes

How Microsoft and Kaspersky Labs Neutralized a Spam Botnet

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 Plus Is Amazing…ly Similar to All of Samsung’s Other Tabs

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