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Time-Warping LEGO Adventure for $30 Is the Deal of the Day

When I was in about 4th grade, I used to go to my friend Max’s house pretty frequently to play Prince of Persia. We’d sit by his old Mac, watching each other run through stone passageways—slicing, leaping, adventuring. We were young and eager to simulate Medieval violence. Youth has since left us—divorce, substance abuse, visions…

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Pioneer’s SC-57 AV Receiver Wirelessly Blasts Your iTunes With AirPlay Using the Most Powerful Amp Around

Pioneer has announced their newest flagship digital AV receiver, the 9.1 channel, 140-watt Elite SC-57. It uses the most powerful amplifier of any multi-channel A/V receiver on the market. And yes, it runs Airplay. The SC-57 uses proprietary D3 digital amplifier technology to drive nine channels at 140 watts each, simultaneously. The amount of powered…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Local News Catches (And Ruins) Proposal on Live TV

You’ve got the ring. You’ve got the nerve. You’ve got, most importantly, the girl you want to marry. Alright, let’s do this! Oh wait, you’re popping the question in the background of a Kansas City news broadcast. Here comes trouble! Perhaps it was this hapless dude’s fault for picking the outside of an airport terminal…

Tech News Sam Biddle

How Does a Floating Island Go Missing?

Answer: When that floating island is a gigantic polyurethane balloon filled with helium. It’s an art project called Is Land and has trees and foliage decorating it to make it seem like a floating island. But it’s gone! The 23-foot scuplture cost around $15,000 and took six months to build. Sarah Cockings and Laurence Symonds,…

Tech News Casey Chan

FBI’s First Ever App Could Be a Lifesaver

If your child gets snatched, it might take some time to come up with a recent, accurate photo to provide the police. Unless you have it on your iPhone—along with all their personal information. FBI to the rescue. The Child ID app not only stores all the data on your kid you’ll want to provide…

Tech News Sam Biddle

9 Laboratories That Created the Modern World

Sure Frankenstein’s lab had that green guy and Dr. Weird’s housed a gigantic mecha-bunny—but these labs! Oobject brings us the lairs of science’s greatest minds—the researchers who have given the world electricity, television, the Internet, and LSD! Albert Hoffmann’s LSD Lab The Swiss didn’t invent the cuckoo clock (the Germans did) but they did invent…

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Are Chinese Companies Selling Pills Made of Dead Babies?

I really hope this South Korean report is false: Chinese pharmaceutical companies are buying baby corpses from hospitals, grinding them into pills, and then selling them as stamina boosters. Feel free to gag uncontrollably now and then keep reading. According to the documentary created by South Korean SBS TV, the baby material comes from stillborn…

Tech News Sam Biddle

600mm Canon Lens + 2X Converter + 4K Video Shot by Red Epic = Stunning Moving Pictures

Photographer Vincent Laforet has been having some fun this week, testing out a new 2X Canon lens converter for the Red Epic camera, choosing a 600mm Canon lens to effectively double focal length to 1200mm at a 4K resolution. While the Red/Canon mount hasn’t been released just yet, Laforet got his hands on it early…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

When Chat Attacks: How To Instant Message Without Wasting Your Day or Being a Jerk

You’re working. A chat window pops open. It’s your mom. “How are you today?” Another window fires; your roommate. “Bro, check this video!” Oh, here’s one from your boss, he wants to know if you’ve seen his pen. Goodbye, productivity. For many of us, chat is an essential evil. You have to be on there…

Tech News Mat Honan

Ford Is Purging CD Players from Their Cars

In a surprising yet also unsurprising move, Ford is killing off the CD player in the Ford Focus in Europe. Soon, they’ll be purging CD players from the rest of their line too. Are we ready for this in America? In the CD players place will be a USB and iPod port, auxiliary input and…

Tech News Casey Chan

Samsung Conquer Is a 4G Phone for Cheapskates

Sprint and Samsung think that access to a 4G network shouldn’t be limited to handsets that will require you to take out a small loan in order to purchase. Enter the Conquer, a $100 Android handset with WiMax power. Though it runs Android 2.3, the Conquer’s guts are purely pedestrian (3.5-inch screen, 1GHz processor, 3.2-megapixel…

Tech News Adrian Covert

The Air300 Runner Trains LaDainian Tomlinson to Explode Off the Line Like LaDainian Tomlinson

The Jets’ star running back is an animal in the training room—renowned for workouts that terrify even the most hardened masochist. Among his favored devices of self-inflicted agony? The Air300 Runner. The Air300 Runner looks like a cross between an elliptical machine and a calf-raise sled. It’s designed specifically to train the lower body for…

Gadgets Andrew Tarantola

The World’s First Flying Sphere Looks Like an Alien Death Bot

Looking more UFO than UAV, the Japanese Defense Ministry has created a spherical surveillance drone which they have deemed the world’s first. Designed for use in urban areas, the menacing, all-black machine can fly up to 37 miles-per-hour. Weighing less than a pound, the AFP says the craft’s 17-inch shell was designed to protect it…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Streamlined BlackBerry App World Hits 3.0 in a Vacuum of Care

Sort of like putting a fancy new hat on a terminally ill patient, RIM’s dropped details on the third version of their app store. It’ll now be much easier to browse their limited catalog on your mediocre handset. The update does little more than add a more prominent search bar, make app details easier to…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Facebook’s Spam King Nabbed by FBI Once and For All

Our friend the Spam King has turned himself into the FBI a couple years after he was ordered to pay $711 million for spamming the shit out of Facebook. Will Facebook finally get some money out of Sanford Wallace now? Unlikely, but he’s expected to head to jail for his deeds, which involved compromising half…

Social Media Kat Hannaford

Vibrating Gloves Make Some Appendages More Sensitive

Vibrators are distracting (at least my interpretation of them). Vibrating gloves? Apparently helpful! Researchers have found that wearing vibrating gloves can improve tactile sensitivity and motor performance in your fingers. How is that possible? It’s an effect called stochastic resonance, which basically means that your sight, hearing, balance, touch, etc can improve when white noise…

Tech News Casey Chan

Cosplay-Playing, Sex-Offending Copper Lands In More Trouble After Battlestar Galactica Facebook Post

You think you’d lay off Facebook for a while if arrested for six sex-related offences, but ex-deputy police officer Nathan James Gastineau of California found his bail rose from $150,000 to $350,000 after quoting Admiral Cain’s speech on Facebook. The Highland, California police-man had been arrested in April for three counts of lewd acts on…

Social Media Kat Hannaford

US Court: Cops Can Constitutionally Seize Your Web Domain

Part of ICE’s super domain snatching spree is a site called Rojadirecta.com, which streamed sports programming. The owners cried foul: there was legal content on the site, and shuttering the whole thing suppressed free speech. A US judge: nope. United States District Court Judge Paul Crotty isn’t buying Rojadirecta’s argument, and says the 1st Amendment…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Carl Sagan’s Cosmos Sequel Coming from Seth MacFarlane

This came out of nowhere: Fox has ordered a 13-episode documentary series that will follow up on Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. The producers will be Dr. Sagan’s wife—the amazing Ann Druyan, who was a Cosmos co-writer—and Seth MacFarlane! Yes, the creator of Family Guy is going to produce the sequel to Cosmos, which will be presented…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

I Love These Giant Moon Lamps

Since I’m never getting there, I would love to install a few of these Luna Globe lights through my house. And then walk on slow motion in my pyjamas, like Buzz Aldrin did 42 years ago. [in-es via Apartment Therapy]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Time-Warping LEGO Adventure for $30 Is the Deal of the Day

Pioneer’s SC-57 AV Receiver Wirelessly Blasts Your iTunes With AirPlay Using the Most Powerful Amp Around

Local News Catches (And Ruins) Proposal on Live TV

How Does a Floating Island Go Missing?

FBI’s First Ever App Could Be a Lifesaver

9 Laboratories That Created the Modern World

Are Chinese Companies Selling Pills Made of Dead Babies?

600mm Canon Lens + 2X Converter + 4K Video Shot by Red Epic = Stunning Moving Pictures

When Chat Attacks: How To Instant Message Without Wasting Your Day or Being a Jerk

Ford Is Purging CD Players from Their Cars

Samsung Conquer Is a 4G Phone for Cheapskates

The Air300 Runner Trains LaDainian Tomlinson to Explode Off the Line Like LaDainian Tomlinson

The World’s First Flying Sphere Looks Like an Alien Death Bot

Streamlined BlackBerry App World Hits 3.0 in a Vacuum of Care

Facebook’s Spam King Nabbed by FBI Once and For All

Vibrating Gloves Make Some Appendages More Sensitive

Cosplay-Playing, Sex-Offending Copper Lands In More Trouble After Battlestar Galactica Facebook Post

US Court: Cops Can Constitutionally Seize Your Web Domain

Carl Sagan’s Cosmos Sequel Coming from Seth MacFarlane

I Love These Giant Moon Lamps

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

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