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All the Disgusting Pictures the FDA Is Going to Put on Cigarette Boxes

In an effort to curb smoking, cigarette boxes will now come with these graphic images of holes in throats, lumpy tumorish lungs and more. They’re supposed to act as a warning label on the dangers of smoking. Some work better than others. Come September 2012, smokers will carry one of these 9 images like a…

Tech News Casey Chan

Apple Now Owns the Patent On Capacitive Touchscreens [Updated]

According to PC Mag, Apple was just awarded a major patent that could affect the entire smartphone market. More than three years after filing for it, Apple now has the patent on capacitive touchscreen technology certain touchscreen behaviors. Good for them. Potentially bad for everybody else. Updated. The patent was worded in this way: [a]…

Tech News Kwame Opam

You Mean to Tell Me Date Staplers Don’t Exist Yet?

What gives, office supplies manufacturers of the world? This will cut back on so much office management that three secretaries could probably be let go for every date-stapler welcomed into the supplies cabinet. [Gonglue Jiang via Yanko Design]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

I Hope the End of the World Looks Like This

If Apocalypse ever comes, I hope the Moon turns red like this and the world goes all purple and lightningstormy and then I make love with some stranger and then the world doesn’t really end and we drink cocktails. That’s what I would have done had I been the photographer of this spectacular total lunar…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Army Gets How-To Guide for Zombie Invasion

One day in the not-too-distant future, a mindless horde of cannibalistic killing machines will come shambling through the streets of America. And when that day comes, the U.S. Army will be on it faster than you can scream “BRAAIIIINNSS!” Lucky for us, the Army Zombie Combat Command has put together a nifty manual on how…

Tech News Lena Groeger - Danger Room

Download OS X Lion for Free at Apple Stores if Your Connection’s Too Crappy

If you’re on dialup (Sorry), a horrible dorm network, or your roommate hogs all the bandwidth with his love of True Blood torrents and pornography, you’ll have trouble getting the download-only OS X Lion. Computerworld”>But Apple’s got you covered. Letting you duck under bandwidth caps and other connection restraints, Apple will let customers download the…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Impious Amish Man Texts Dick Pics to 12-Year-Old

You’d think that sending dong shots to a tween stranger is a phenomenon for the modern world—and you’d be wrong! The tech-shunning Amish get freaky sometimes, TSG shows, like this gent who violated nearly every applicable moral standard. Buggy-driving Indiana Amish pervert Willard Yoder, pictured above, wanted to do a little more than contemplate the…

Tech News Sam Biddle

1Bit Ninja is a Sublime Paper Mario, Super Mario Mash-Up

At first blush 1-bit Ninja looks like another iPhone game knock-off, but spend ten seconds with the game and you’ll dismiss that notion. Spend a minute with it and you’ll be ready to toss your phone at the wall… and… [Kotaku]

Tech News Kotaku

Hitachi G-Connect: A Wireless Hard Drive and Router for Your iPhone and iPad

Like the Seagate GoFlex Satellite hard drive before it, Hitachi’s G-Connect can act as expandable wireless storage for your mobile device. It can store 500 gigs and even has an ethernet port to turn itself into a router. https://gizmodo.com/seagates-new-hard-drive-transfers-media-to-and-from-you-5802169 The ethernet port is especially convenient because it could do Time Capsule-esque duty: give you storage…

Tech News Casey Chan

Best Buy Is Joining the Cloud Music Party

Best Buy has joined Amazon, Apple, and Google in the Great Cloud Race of 2011 by announcing their own Music Cloud. Sign up and you’ll get both a Mac or PC application as well as an app for your iPhone, Android, or Blackberry handset. After that, you can stream your favorite music both online and…

Tech News Kwame Opam

AT&T’s GoPhone Plan Does Unlimited Texting, Talking and Web-ing For $50/Month

This isn’t a contract, folks—you can sign up to the newly-priced GoPhone plan for as long as you want, and also text Mexico, Canada and 100 other countries for free, as well. [BGR]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Will the iPhone 5 Have an A5 Chip and 8MP Camera?

Throwing their weight behind yesterday’s tantalising news that the iPhone 5 will feature a completely redesigned look, Bloomberg has reported alleged specs of the iPhone 5, plus spoken of a higher-res iPad 3 and affordable iPhone for developing countries. https://gizmodo.com/next-iphone-getting-a-totally-new-case-design-this-augu-5814006 This is all according to that old chestnut of “people familiar with the plans,” but…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Mystery Photographer of the Nazis Found After Online Hunt

A photo album showing never-seen-before photos of Hitler and the Nazis has surfaced with photos dating back to 70 years ago. Its current owner has no clue who the photographer was, but judging by the level of access he was given, he must have been someone.UPDATED The NY Times’ Lens blog has published some of…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Woman Arrested For Microwaving Her Baby to Death

Kang Ya, a 29-year-old from Sacramento, has been taken into custody for what police are saying were fatal burns administered to her 6-week-old daughter, via microwave. The story is here. Happy nightmaring. [KCBS]

Tech News Seth Abramovitch

Surprise, Surprise, Apple Doesn’t Have to Show Samsung the iPhone 5 and iPad 3

I’m sure the whole tech-world held their breath when Samsung asked Apple to show their unannounced iPad 3 and iPhone 5 devices in the ongoing court-case over each other’s patent infringement. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-demands-to-see-the-iphone-5-and-ipad-3-in-court-5806557 FOSS Patents has looked into the case in detail, and reported that yesterday the court ruled Apple wasn’t obligated to show Samsung its…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Elecom Prefers Showing Off a Computer Mouse’s Cord

Who wants cordless mice, when Elecom makes such a nice feature of the cord? Ok, you might still prefer being cordless and fancy-free, but for those who don’t mind being restrained, they’re on sale in Japan soon, and globally later. [Elecom via Dezeen via OhGizmo]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Leica Will Go to the Micro Four Thirds-Style Party, Too

As if these micro four thirds-style cameras weren’t expensive enough, Leica plans on elbowing its red dotted-elbow in from next year, with a new compact-cam system with an APS-sized sensor at the very least, according to CEO Alfred Schopf. Telling Amateur Photographer that “you will see something at the next Photokina,” the emphasis will be…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Swatch Straps a Third Eye Onto Wrists

For their latest range of cheap plastic watches, Swatch enlisted legendary fashion photographer Rankin to snap high-res photos of variously-colored irises, which look almost like the swirling milky-way close-up. On sale now, they cost $61/£38. [Swatch via Sub-Studio]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Rumor: Amazon Tablet Launching as Early as August

With Amazon’s big man Jeff Bezos himself confirming there’s a tablet in the works, we’ve moved on from hypothesizing over the likelihood of one, and started guessing what’s inside. Digitimes reckons suppliers have told them it’ll run on a TI processor, and use its movie-streaming service to lure people in from August/September when it’s supposedly…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

Lytro Is a Focus-Free Camera That Will Change How You Take Pictures Forever

The digital camera market is about to be turn upside by a young Stanford Ph.D named Ren Ng. Ng is the brainchild behind the Lytro camera which lets you take pictures without focusing. The technology is mind-bending. Mind-blowing. Wow. The Lytro is a light field camera which is much different than your standard digital shooter.…

Tech News Kelly

All the Disgusting Pictures the FDA Is Going to Put on Cigarette Boxes

Apple Now Owns the Patent On Capacitive Touchscreens [Updated]

You Mean to Tell Me Date Staplers Don’t Exist Yet?

I Hope the End of the World Looks Like This

Army Gets How-To Guide for Zombie Invasion

Download OS X Lion for Free at Apple Stores if Your Connection’s Too Crappy

Impious Amish Man Texts Dick Pics to 12-Year-Old

1Bit Ninja is a Sublime Paper Mario, Super Mario Mash-Up

Hitachi G-Connect: A Wireless Hard Drive and Router for Your iPhone and iPad

Best Buy Is Joining the Cloud Music Party

AT&T’s GoPhone Plan Does Unlimited Texting, Talking and Web-ing For $50/Month

Will the iPhone 5 Have an A5 Chip and 8MP Camera?

Mystery Photographer of the Nazis Found After Online Hunt

Woman Arrested For Microwaving Her Baby to Death

Surprise, Surprise, Apple Doesn’t Have to Show Samsung the iPhone 5 and iPad 3

Elecom Prefers Showing Off a Computer Mouse’s Cord

Leica Will Go to the Micro Four Thirds-Style Party, Too

Swatch Straps a Third Eye Onto Wrists

Rumor: Amazon Tablet Launching as Early as August

Lytro Is a Focus-Free Camera That Will Change How You Take Pictures Forever

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

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