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Every Hard Drive Should Be As Minimal As LaCie’s Porsche Drives

A weird quirk of LaCie drives: The desktop models feel like cheap crap, from the materials to the electronics (I’m particularly thinking of Neil Poulton’s drive), but their portable drives are solid. This Porsche-designed drive feels like it just might stop bullets. The edges are are as sharp as they look, though. It’s a USB…

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A Tablet for Kids Isn’t a Bad Idea

Have you seen kids play with iPads before? They’re enchanted by them, mesmerized by the interaction. For some reason, they just speak them. LeapFrog thinks so too, that’s why they’re making a tablet for kids. Sure the LeapPad won’t be as good as an iPad, but it’s only a hundred bucks, clad in tough plastic…

Tech News Casey Chan

Development of a Great App: Instagram

How often do you find yourself cruising through the apps on your smartphone and wondering: How did they do that? Welcome back to the Great Apps series, inspired by the Intel AppUpSM developer program. Today we give you, Instagram, the photo-sharing tool that in under a year has caught the eye of 5 million users,…

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Be One of 12 People to Own These $40,000 Speakers

What goes good with a pair of $1000 earbuds? A pair of $40,000 speakers that only 12 other people will own, of course. Though the Mark Neumann Coliseum XLS speakers look like they were designed by a bunch of middle-aged dads, for a bunch of middle-aged dads, each of these behemoth speakers weighs 290 pounds,…

Tech News Adrian Covert

This Surreal Lake Full of Frozen Bubbles Is Actually On Planet Earth

It’s hard to believe that such an alien sight exists on our Pale Blue Dot. Photographed by Emmanuel Coupe, this photo shows frozen gas bubbles in a Canadian lake. In his own words: https://gizmodo.com/the-world-would-be-better-if-everyone-watched-this-vide-5513783 This image was taken in winter time in a arid area of the Canadian Rockies. Temperatures where below -30 degrees Celsius…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Working in a Spam Factory Is Brutal

Most of us know that Spam is made from the most unsavory parts of a pig. And most of us know that factory workers are treated horribly by their overlords. But that doesn’t make Ted Genoways’ feature in Mother Jones, which investigates the health hazards of working in a Spam factory, any less unsettling. For…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Watch 11,000 Flying Lights Taking Over a Midsummer Night

Every summer solstice, all those European pagans celebrate their Midsummer Festivals. They are often beautiful celebrations. From Austria to Russia, it’s an occasion for joy and celebration. In Sweden, beautiful girls dance and sing dressed in fairy clothes, their blonde hair braided in beautiful patterns. In Spain, people burn old stuff in beaches and fields,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

$107,000 Worth of Cocaine Found Hidden Inside Shoe Soles

When airport officials were examining leftover abandoned luggage (not really sure why they do this), they found suspicious looking sneakers that were heavier than normal. Turns out the shoe soles were hiding 5 pounds of cocaine. Them drug mules are really resourceful when it comes to hiding their goods. I guess I would too with…

Tech News Casey Chan

Ruin Phones and Your Eyesight With a 3D-Converting Black Box

Given the HTC Evo 3D actually hurt our poor reviewer Sam’s eyes, do you really want to put your own eyeballs through similar pain? Would you actually pay for that privilege? If so, the TOYin3D should be added to your sadist-wishlist. https://gizmodo.com/htc-evo-3d-oh-my-god-make-it-stop-hurting-5812185 It sounds simple enough to use, just by slipping your non-3D phone into…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

PC Mag Says Verizon 4G Punches Other Carriers in Collective Stomach

After a nationwide mobile bandwidth test, PC Mag has some pretty plain results: Verizon’s LTE network socks the cud out of other carriers, often beating them by double across the board. Unless you live in a rural area. Stacking Verizon up against AT&T, Cricket, MetroPCS, T-Mobile, and Sprint’s 3G/4G networks, the former came out strongly…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Fukushima Plant Leaks 15 Tons of Radioactive Water

TEPCO’s been struggling to keep Fukushima’s scorching reactors cool. They’ve also been struggling to deal with the massive volume of (now radioactive) coolant water. It’s not going so well—tons of it are spilling into the ground, Reuters reports. The leak’s a consequence of TEPCO’s botched attempts to purify contaminated water held in giant storage containers—an…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Over 500,000 Android Devices Activated Every Day

Straight from the horse’s mouth, if you can pardon the expression Mr Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google, Andy Rubin. Tweeting “there are now over 500,000 Android devices activated every day, and it’s growing at 4.4% w/w,” Rubin’s team must be happy with that rising figure. [@arubin]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Malls Should Place Wedding Vending Machines Next to the Divorce Machines Just to be Safe

If you happen to walk past the AutoWed and alert the motion sensors, be warned—once your partner hears the twinkling bells of the wedding vending machine, she might just insist on getting married on the spot. Thankfully it’s just a concept—for now!—from the British designers at Concept Shed. They propose that the 8ft-tall pink machine…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

R2-D2 Whistles the Saddest Song When You Operate On Him

You can just imagine the whistles and bleeps R2-D2 would make as you accidentally touch the sides of his Hasbro Operation game body. Or if you cough up $27 from September, you don’t even have to imagine. [Toywiz via ChipChick via OhGizmo]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Sony’s Vaio Z Laptop Connects a Dock Accessory By Thunderbolt

This slim, MacBook Air-like laptop may only be destined for Europe, but it has a clever trick up its sleeve. Cramming its Blu-ray drive inside the power media dock, the two devices are linked to one another by high-speed Thunderbolt. Sony isn’t calling it Thunderbolt though, choosing to call it Intel’s “Light Peak” codename instead.…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Rare Snap of a 19th Century Killer Becomes Fourth Priciest Photo Ever

Of course, it’s not just any old 19th century killer, pictured in this ferrotype—it’s the one and only Billy the Kid, the wild west outlaw who killed between four and 21 men. Selling for $2.3 million in an auction on the weekend, it became the fourth most expensive photo to ever be sold. Billy the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Rumor: WP7 Mango Phones Don’t Need No Stoopid Hardware Buttons

So Nokia’s first WP7 phone won’t have any hard buttons under the screen. Fair enough; we knew Microsoft was granting Nokia a few special powers on the design front. But what if buttons aren’t needed…on any WP7 Mango phones? https://gizmodo.com/this-is-nokias-first-windows-phone-5814774 Perpetually in-the-know Russian blogger Eldar Murtazin tweeted that “according to design guideline there no need…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Google Wants to Know What You Love

Google quietly launched a new search tool that lets you find information about the stuff you desire. The website, called What Do You Love (www.wdyl.com), is a single search page that pulls up information from a variety of Google’s online tools including trends, product search, Picassa and more. The information is presented magazine style and…

Tech News Kelly

Everything You Need to Know About Coffee in Less Than Five Minutes

We already know what happens to your brain when you drink coffee. https://lifehacker.com/what-caffeine-actually-does-to-your-brain-5585217 Now, a short and sweet video from C.G.P. Grey fills in the gaps with bunch of trivia and anecdotal stories about our favorite beverage, coffee. It’s pure awesome. [Grey’s Blog via LikeCool] You can keep up with Kelly Hodgkins, the author of…

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Is LSD a Treatment For Suicide Headaches?

Who knew hallucinogens were actually good for you? In a recent study, two psychiatrists discovered that patients suffering from agonizing cluster headaches found relief while taking LSD or other hallucinogenic drugs. The psychiatrists noticed reports of people using hallucinogens to self-treat their headaches and decided to do a follow-up study. Cluster headaches, also known as…

Tech News Kelly

Every Hard Drive Should Be As Minimal As LaCie’s Porsche Drives

A Tablet for Kids Isn’t a Bad Idea

Development of a Great App: Instagram

Be One of 12 People to Own These $40,000 Speakers

This Surreal Lake Full of Frozen Bubbles Is Actually On Planet Earth

Working in a Spam Factory Is Brutal

Watch 11,000 Flying Lights Taking Over a Midsummer Night

$107,000 Worth of Cocaine Found Hidden Inside Shoe Soles

Ruin Phones and Your Eyesight With a 3D-Converting Black Box

PC Mag Says Verizon 4G Punches Other Carriers in Collective Stomach

Fukushima Plant Leaks 15 Tons of Radioactive Water

Over 500,000 Android Devices Activated Every Day

Malls Should Place Wedding Vending Machines Next to the Divorce Machines Just to be Safe

R2-D2 Whistles the Saddest Song When You Operate On Him

Sony’s Vaio Z Laptop Connects a Dock Accessory By Thunderbolt

Rare Snap of a 19th Century Killer Becomes Fourth Priciest Photo Ever

Rumor: WP7 Mango Phones Don’t Need No Stoopid Hardware Buttons

Google Wants to Know What You Love

Everything You Need to Know About Coffee in Less Than Five Minutes

Is LSD a Treatment For Suicide Headaches?

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