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Nick Sayers is a geometric artist who uses everyday objects to create unusual models. His latest creation is the Hyperbolic Coffee Cactus, a sculpture whose design is both awe-inspiring and humbling. The Coffee Cactus uses 630 coffee stirrers with four equally spaced holes hand-drilled by Sayers. These coffee sticks are bent gently to form the…
FlickKey, a note taking app for the iPhone, has the world’s smallest virtual keyboard on the iPhone. The keyboard is no bigger than an inch in either direction and predictably, completely nutty to type on. The way the keyboard works is that there’s 9 letters on each mini-tile and tapping or swiping the tile in…
If you earn more than $75,000 a year, you probably have a smartphone. That’s not too surprising, but a lot of other information in this new Pew study of smartphone adoption is. More than one-third of Americans now have smartphones. If you live somewhere like San Francisco or Atlanta that may seem slightly low, and…
Hey, sex sells. It’s the sad-ish truth, and Cosmopolitan revels in it being fun to wonder at what constitutes love, making love, and just a good fuck for either sex. Not that you should take it seriously. But this app leaves me a little creeped out. Cosmo for Guys (or CFG for those pretending they…
Some people are averse to Google Maps because of privacy. Usually, those fears are a little overblown. But New Jersey resident Laurie Gneiding has reason to fret—Google Maps sent hordes of outdoor enthusiasts to her door. Gneiding lives right on the border of Round Valley State Park, which contains Round Valley Reservoir in the middle.…
Chopstick newbies in training need to toss thier trainer sticks and pick up a Panda Darake practice kit instead. Besides improving your finger dexterity, it’s about the most adorable gadget I have ever seen. The kit includes chopsticks, a balancing tire and 12 tiny pandas in a variety of cute poses that just scream “pick…
Hidden Tracks | No one’s Spotify playlist is safe from persecution—not even Nick Denton’s. https://kotaku.com/the-terrible-secret-of-nick-dentons-playlist-5819588 Olympus PEN EP-3: Micro Four-Thirds Is Starting to Get Good. Real Good. Micro Four-Thirds cameras have long promised to bridge the quality of DSLRs with the size of point and shoots. The Olympus PEN EP-3 is the fullest realization of…
The cat‘s about out of the bag: Apple’s calling for developers to submit their Mac OS X Lion apps for review “so they can be on the Mac App Store when Lion ships this month.” [TechCrunch] https://gizmodo.com/mac-os-x-lion-review-this-is-not-the-future-we-were-ho-5819418
Some may see despair when they look upon a double amputee in a wheelchair, but Spanish surgeon Pedro Cavadas saw an opportunity. Cavadas and a team of doctors at La Fe hospital in Valencia performed the world’s first double leg transplant on this unidentified amputee. Cavadas has an excellent track record. He’s known world-wide for…
Polaroid cameras have found a second life as ironic/vintage hipster iconography, but the tech behind them hasn’t changed much in 50 years. Here’s how the “film sandwiches” (how delicious does that sound!?) are made at The Impossible Project‘s factory in the Netherlands. [PetaPixel]
Former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein, the guy who resurrected Palm, is leaving HP’s Palm unit (no longer called Palm, to boot). Taking over is Stephen DeWitt, HP’s U.S. computer overlord. This isn’t good for webOS. In fact, It’s terrible. When webOS was formally unveiled at CES in 2009, Rubinstein, along with Ed Colligan, Matias Duarte,…
When Apple pimps the iPhone as this magical tool, my cynical self can’t help but laugh. Not anymore. With GIF Shop, you can make GIFs with an iPhone app. You can make GIFs with an iPhone app. You can make GIFS with an iPhone app. Whoa. (That’s like a GIF with words right there) What’s…
This special effects bonanza from Shay Carl isn’t notable because of its technical proficiency, although there’s plenty of it. No, what’s going to stay with you after watching the epic throwdown that is Epic War’s 2:17 is toy soldiers, blasting away, shooting off mortars, and seeing everything that went on in your head when you…
if you have an iPhone, you probably carry it around with you everywhere. But what about holding life’s other tools? Like a blunt, one-hitter, or pen? This iHit iPhone case protects your iPhone and has a secret compartment for them. It doesn’t matter if you’re a nature loving hippie or a suit wearing yuppie, your…
I’m not going to spend $6,000 on a fixie. Heck, I wouldn’t spend $6,000 on two wheels unless it were a robohooker on wheels. But that doesn’t mean I don’t love this walnut bike by Lagomorph Design. The build quality—custom made in American Black Walnut with aluminum and titanium metal parts—seems exquisite. So simple and…
Rumors of a MacBook Air update this week have reached such a froth that it’d be more of a surprise if they didn’t show up. More unexpected? Speculation from 9to5Mac that a Mac Pro bump is in the hopper too. https://gizmodo.com/are-macbook-airs-getting-updated-this-july-5816851 According to the generally reliable site’s source, new Mac Pros have been spotted in…
Apple has seeded iOS 5 beta 3 to its devs. The third iOS 5 beta should mean that a final release is nearing: iOS 3 saw five betas before going final, and iOS 4 had four. What’s New Early reports indicate that overall speed is much improved, the experience is less buggy, and you can…
Spotted: An app that lets you stream full episodes of CW shows (think Gossip Girl, 90210, Vampire Diaries, etc.) to your iPhone. Reality: Just like Gossip Girl itself, it’s more flair, hot girls and drama than it’s really worth. I’ll be honest here, I’ve watched my share of Gossip Girl episodes (all of them if…
When I was a punk teenager hanging out at the mall like punk teenagers tend to do, I always wondered if someone gave me a hundred bucks what would I spend it on. Would I buy like 8 CDs? A pair of shoes? A million sour belts at Sweet Factory? Would I go big on…
This cake is Angry Birds taken too far. It’s like, what compels someone to want to make a photo-realistic interpretation of bird-on-pig violence anyway? And in cake form?? See, Jamie Masterson and his wife are Angry Birds addicts. And who could really blame them? But come on. This is so gruesome. They looks like dragons…
