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Visidon AppLock for Android: Pretend You Work for the CIA and Unlock Apps with Your Face

I’ve always wanted a job that gave me a super high security clearance that required facial scans to make sure it’s me. Sadly, I’ll probably never be that important. INSTEAD, I’ll make myself feel important by programming my phone to unlock by scanning my freaking face. What’s it do? It’s a security app meant to…

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Be the Belle of the Bondage Ball with Knot Guide HD

Knot-tying, like calculus and corpse-disposal, is a skill you really only need when you really need it. And when you really need to know how to get out of a San Diego Jam, Knot Guide HD will show you how. Knot Guide, a longtime staple of the App Store, has received an HD upgrade and…

Tiny Robots Helping Tiny Robots Is an Adorable Thing

I’m so sick of this “robots are evil” trope—we created them. They live to serve. They love us. And they also love each other! Like these swarm bots who scurry around following their quadrocopter pal. Awwww. The Khepera robots, out of Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems, don’t talk to each other. Instead, they’re guided by…

Let’s See If This Is Really the iPhone 5

Team, we’re getting very close to iPhone 5 time. You can smell it by the rumors. In fact! Just now 9to5Mac posted a picture of what they say might be the next iPhone. Only one way to be sure: ENHANCE! According to the Apple rumor site, a tipster sent them a few choice shots of…

Idiot Fugitive Taunts Police Over Facebook to Catch Him if They Can. Guess What Happens?

Wanted by police in upstate New York, Victor Burgos was hiding out in Brooklyn. Starting to feel untouchable, he taunted the police with a Facebook message: ‘Catch me if you can. I’m in Brooklyn’. Well, they caught him. Burgos, a 29-year-old rap music promoter, had floating arrest warrants in Utica, New York dealing with domestic…

6 Tools to Cure Tomorrow Morning’s Hangover

You you’re going out tonight, and you might—just might—have a few too many. It happens! But rather than feeling like a worthless hungover husk all day, try these six tools to fix those nasty post-bender pains. Portable Sauna Some believe that a steam bath is a good way to flush the alcohol toxins out of…

Rebecca Black and Nyan Cat Played Together Actually Sound Awesome

This is Lara playing piano. Not only she’s bee-ooh-tee-ful, but she’s so amazingly talented that she manages to make that dreadful Internet phenomenon called Rebecca Black sound awesome. How in hell, do you ask? By adding the Nyan Cat tune! Well, maybe it’s not exactly awesome, but certainly sounds very good. Totally worth of being…

How to Properly Throw Trout From an Airplane

The Rainbow Trout is one of the most popular (and widespread) game fish in North America. An Entirely Synthetic Fish illustrates how a once minor Northern California species took over the continent. In the years that followed World War II, America experienced a period of economic growth and prosperity unlike any that had occurred before.…

Butt Kits, Drone Planes and Sneaky Light Switches Are All It Takes To Be a Secret Agent

Being a highly trained, super-secret secret agent is a super-hard secret to keep. Best-case scenario: no one ever finds out how awesome you really are because you’re so concerned with maintaining a Joe Normal public persona. Worst-case scenario: you blow your cover and are forced to spend the rest of your days as a lowly…

This $180 Wondermachine Makes Donuts Automagically

This side of installing a Krispy Kreme shop in my apartment, I can’t think of a better way to kill myself than this Automatic Mini Donut Factory. “It mixes, shapes and cooks batches of mini donuts in minutes”. I really really hate every kind of cooking machine in the kitchen—except hand blenders—but why install it…

A Canoe That Can Fit Inside a Backpack

Ori Levin designed a full sized canoe that’s completely collapsable and can be stored in a bag that’s only 5 x 9 x 28 inches big. Basically, you can have a boat in your backpack. Called the Adhoc Canoe, it only weighs 9 pounds and takes 5 minutes to assemble. The frame of the canoe…

The Best Deal of the Day

This summer has sucked. There aren’t any good songs out, it’s hot as balls all the time, people are getting murdered, nobody can fix the debt ceiling, my back hurts, and everyone has a pretty new MacBook Air except me. I’m sick of it all. You know what would be nice? To be a kid…

Stop Whining: Ads in Twitter Are Awesome

Twitter, at long last, put ads in its stream today. Predictably, people are angry! But that’s just dumb. It’s good for Twitter, and it’s good for you. The basic idea is that short form ads, which it calls Promoted Tweets, will now appear in your timeline. They’ll only appear from companies you follow. So, for…

The Government Will Pay Doctors $44,000 to Use an iPad

The Obama administration strongly desires that all medical records be electronic. There’s a much-lauded app called drchrono for the iPad which can make that transition happen. Logically, the government will toss up to $44,000 to any doctor willing to use it. TheNextWeb says that doctors who use the drchrono app, which has been certified for…

Amazon Prime Streaming Now Has 2,000 New Movies and TV Shows from NBC Universal

Amazon has announced a deal with NBCUniversal Domestic TV Distribution to bring over 2,000 new movies and TV shows to its Prime instant streaming video service. Some highlights include “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “Being John Malkovich”. [Engadget]

Total Amateur Says He Cracked Zodiac Killer’s Impossible Code

The only thing creepier than the Zodiac killer calling himself the “Zodiac killer” and murdering a lot of people in the 60s was his trademark codes. And 40 years later, most of them remain unsolved. Unless you ask this guy. Corey Starliper, a Californian amateur codebreaker and devout Zodiac historian, says he’s busted the murderer’s…

The Polaroid Z340 Looks Like the Lovechild of the Polaroid One and a Point and Shoot

Polaroid might’ve ditched the instant film business but it doesn’t mean they can’t make digital equivalents. The Polaroid Z340 looks like a great digital compromise: classic body, digicam innards like 14 megapixels, flip-up LCD, etc. and ink-free prints. https://gizmodo.com/polaroid-instant-film-killed-by-the-21st-century-354567 The Polaroid Z340’s built-in printer uses the Zink (Zero Ink) technology so there’s no need for…

Electronic Tongue That Distinguishes Different Wines Puts Me to Shame

Let’s face it—most of us will drink anything put in front of us, but an electronic tongue developed at a Barcelona university is capable of telling the difference between not just any old wine, but sparkling cava. This is done by sensors, as you probably guessed, but also by throwing in a bit of math…

How To Maximize Your (Beverage’s) Life Expectancy

Hot coffee is supposed to be the kind of tongue-burning liquid that will slap you awake, while iced tea was never designed to be a lukewarm soupy mess. Yet it seems as if most beverage containing devices have overlooked these simple aphorisms, because how many times have you reached for a nice cool/warm swig of…