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The Heart Healthy iPhone

iPhones are being used in all sorts of interesting ways to track our health, but this is one of the more interesting ones we’ve seen. It’s a small piece of hardware that turns your phone into an ECG. Just millimeters thick, the iCard ECG sticks on the back of an iOS device with velcro and…

Tech News Mat Honan

Teen Builds Nuke Detecting Device, Saves Us All From Horrible Death

Taylor Wilson built a functioning device that can detect nuclear weapons smuggled in cargo containers. He’s 17. It works via a nuclear fusion reactor that he also built. When he was 14. Taylor Wilson was just honored at the Intel International Science Fair for his project, which he’s dubbed “Countering Nuclear Terrorism.” It’s a scanner…

Tech News Mat Honan

Craigslist Tricksters Offer Stranger’s Boat and Car for Free

Waking up to a crowd of people outside your house attempting to make off with your vehicles is a bad way to wake up. Ask Debbie Brown, a Wisconsin woman whose property was falsely listed as free on Craigslist. Debbie only caught the accidental thieves because of her dog’s barking, and found her front yard…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Only You Can Help Combat America’s Sexting Epidemic

What is it with America’s powerful men? In addition to Anthony Weiner, at least three other official-type dudes have become embroiled in sexting scandals in the last week alone! All powerful men should watch Gawker’s NSFW anti-sexting PSA [Gawker] https://gizmodo.com/preview/only-you-can-help-combat-americas-sexting-epidemic-5813084

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Gordon Murray’s F1-style, hydrogen-powered Batmobile

For its “Batman Live” stage show in Europe, DC Comics commissioned former Formula 1 designer and McLaren maestro Gordon Murray to fashion a new set of wheels for the caped crusader. Formula Hydrogen Fuel Cell with lasers, anyone? Given the dozens of vehicles designed for the Dark Knight over the past several decades, Murray and…

Tech News Justin Hyde

iOS 5 Homescreen Web Apps Will Get a Boost from Mobile Safari’s Nitro Engine

iOS allows web apps to look and behave like normal apps if bookmarked on the homescreen. And now with iOS 5, those web apps will be allowed to use Mobile Safari’s Nitro JavaScript engine, promising faster, more powerful performance. [Ars Technica]

Tech News Adrian Covert

The Week’s Best iPad Apps

Yummrs: Yummrs connects to your favorite cooking blogs, and manages them by presenting the delicious foods you’ll want to make front and center. You can organize the recipes you like into an infinite number of recipe books that you can access with just a tap. After all that, you can then share those recipes with…

Tech News Casey Chan

This Week’s Best Apps

In this week’s app roundup: Instagram and iCloud, replicated on Android; movies, recommended; cookbooks, shared; pictures, mysteriously pixelated; apps, found with Yahoo; karaoke, added to Shazam; ringer, smartly silenced; Swype, honeycombed; and much, much more. The week’s best iPhone apps Roger Ebert’s Great Movies: The apps comes loaded with more than 300 movie reviews, and…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert and Casey Chan

The Week’s Best Android Apps

Lightbox: Lightbox is a stylish camera app that’s good enough to replace the stock camera app. Though it doesn’t have basic features like zoom or autofocus, it does give you the ability to add 10 trendy filters after your shot. Your artsy photos can be shared via Twitter and Facebook and is automagically beamed down…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Week’s Best iPhone Apps

Roger Ebert’s Great Movies: The apps comes loaded with more than 300 movie reviews, and it allows you to queue the flicks to your Netflix account or buy them on Amazon. It also lets you keep lists of what you’ve seen and what you want to see in the future. Check it out for $0.99…

Tech News Casey Chan

This Gaming Rig Fights for the User

The Acer Predator G5910 is not a desktop for posers, pansies, pedestrian players. It’s a serious desktop for serious gamers, with serious guts to match. Oh, and hey jeez it looks like Tron, everybody! Specs? Specs! You’re looking at up to quad-core Core i7 guts Tron, 16GB memory Tron, 8TB of storage Tron, a 12-in-one…

Tech News Brian Barrett

$60 Knockoff Watch Spies in the Dark at 1080p

The fact that this looks like a Diesel is only a red herring. In truth, it’s a submersible, Infrared spy watch from your Ethan Hunt fantasies. The IR Night Vision Waterproof DVR Spy Watch does just what it says, recording 30FPS, 1080p video with audio to its 4GB internal memory for playback on HD TV’s…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Uni-ball Kuru Toga Gallery

It’s a pretty attractive pencil. That metal tip never retracts. Which leaves stabbing potential off the charts. The clear plastic “grip” is just made to show off the twist and turn mechanism. The eraser is forgettable. Nice and consistent lead. Pure writing purposes, there’s no better lead pencil out there.

Tech News Casey Chan

Congress Is Trying to Plug Juicy Streaming Piracy Hole

Sharing copyrighted music and movies is illegal. Even simple dumb idiots know that! But streaming? That’s a bit more muddled—not addressed in existing copyright law. Not for long! The Senate Judiciary Committee just voted yes on throwin’ felonies. Under the proposed legislation, streaming copyrighted media valued over $2,500 more than 10 times in half a…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Get Down and Dirty with Vegas’ Newest Theme Park

Whether rolling like a modern-day Caligula in Caesar’s Palace or wearing a saddle at the Mustang Ranch, Las Vegas has your fantasy for sale. And if heavy machinery gets you hot, Vegas’ newest attraction has you covered. Dig This provides the opportunity drive one of five heavy duty earth-movers, including a pair of Caterpillar D5…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

12 Mail-Order Disappointments from the Comic Books of Our Youth

Kids are suckers; they’ll believe pretty much anything you say. That’s why they’re so easy to lie to and that’s why these fantastically too-good-to-be-true comic book adverts were so damn effective. Oobject.com brings us twelve of the best. Looking for more stuff to buy? Take a look at these ad for computers,cigarettes, and sexism!

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Oobject Comic Book Ads

What I particularly like about this ad its its minimalist simplicity and lack of any real attempt to enhance what’s promised with a decent drawing that looks like it might be more than a pile of toilet rolls and some tissue paper. …favorite pets, along with rats, cockroaches, termites. Who on earth would buy their…

Tech News Oobject.com

China Is Cloning This Entire European City

Not happy with cloning watches, iPods, trains and even combat airplanes, the Chinese are now cloning an entire European city. And not any city, but the mountain town of Hallstatt, Austria, a UNESCO World Heritage site. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-chinas-secret-stealth-strike-fighter-5719180 The Chinese will replicate absolutely everything, not only the buildings. Every detail, statue and doorknob will be replicated.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

This Used to Be a Swamp

The intersection of Highway 6 and Highway 90 in Sugar Land, Texas used to be a lush and watery swamp. This is what it looked like yesterday when photographer Barry Sigman found it. [Houston Press Blogs — Thanks, Matt!]

Tech News Davey Alba

Acer Aspire Ethos: A Detachable Trackpad Is a Pretty Good Idea

Acer’s new Ethos Laptop isn’t the world’s craziest lappy when it comes to guts—Core i5/i7 processor and an NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M graphics—but it has one interesting feature: a detachable trackpad. that not only detaches from from the laptop, but also functions as a media remote. The card-sized trackpad functions exactly the same while detached,…

Tech News Adrian Covert

The Heart Healthy iPhone

Teen Builds Nuke Detecting Device, Saves Us All From Horrible Death

Craigslist Tricksters Offer Stranger’s Boat and Car for Free

Only You Can Help Combat America’s Sexting Epidemic

Gordon Murray’s F1-style, hydrogen-powered Batmobile

iOS 5 Homescreen Web Apps Will Get a Boost from Mobile Safari’s Nitro Engine

The Week’s Best iPad Apps

This Week’s Best Apps

The Week’s Best Android Apps

The Week’s Best iPhone Apps

This Gaming Rig Fights for the User

$60 Knockoff Watch Spies in the Dark at 1080p

Uni-ball Kuru Toga Gallery

Congress Is Trying to Plug Juicy Streaming Piracy Hole

Get Down and Dirty with Vegas’ Newest Theme Park

12 Mail-Order Disappointments from the Comic Books of Our Youth

Oobject Comic Book Ads

China Is Cloning This Entire European City

This Used to Be a Swamp

Acer Aspire Ethos: A Detachable Trackpad Is a Pretty Good Idea

SpaceX Starlink Satellite Malfunctions, Breaks Apart in Orbit

‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Stinks

‘Scream 4’ Is Back, and on Tape

Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1

Amazon Clears Out Netflix-Licensed Nebula Capsule 3 Mini Projector at 32% Off, Dolby Audio Home Theater for Less

Anker 160W Laptop Charger Briefly Returns to Black Friday Pricing in a Last-Minute Amazon Spring Sale Deal

The New ‘Backrooms’ Trailer Is Packed Full of Endless Dread

Logitech Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo Falls Under $25, a Budget Bundle Deal in the Final Hours of Spring Sale

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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