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Transfer Open Apps Between a Computer and a Smartphone By Taking a Picture

This happens to me a lot: I’m doing something on my computer but want it on my phone too. It’s such a hassle re-typing it! This new method of transferring info is as easy as taking a picture. Here’s how it works: You take a picture of the computer screen with your smartphone and the…

Tech News Casey Chan

Text Your Way To a Short Emergency Room Wait

Here’s one reason to continue paying $10 a month for your texting plan. ER Texting, Inc has a service that sends you a text message with a list of your local hospitals and their emergency room wait times. The service was originally a marketing gimmick used to drive people to a specific ER, but surprise,…

Tech News Kelly

SeamlessWeb Creates Nuclear Food Option for Laziest People on the Planet

Here is a sad fact about my life: I order a disgusting, vile, shocking amount of internet delivery food. Like even if I were trapped in a block of concrete, it’d still be excessive. Which is why I need this. SeamlessWeb’s I’m-so-pathetic-and-hungry-and-lazy-that-I-can’t-open-my-browser USB button would be one of the greatest tech blessings I’ve ever received.…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Facebook Finally Gets Their iPad App Ready

The New York Times is reporting that insiders briefed on Facebook’s plans have revealed that the company intends to introduce a free iPad application optimized for the tablet—and it will be out in the next few weeks. What does it do differently from the Facebook Web site? Well, for one thing, you’ll be able to…

Tech News Davey Alba

Mattel’s Fijit Will Either Terrify or Delight the Child in Your Life

When last we saw Fijit, it was part of a giant swarm of its cutesy-robo prototype sisters, unsettlingly singing along with a shockingly-enthusiastic booth attendant. It was… a sight! Now the Fijit’s in its completed retail form. And still bizarre. As you can see, the Fijit is an exuberant little specimen. It’s soft, loves to…

Tech News Sam Biddle

This Smell-O-Vision Flip Phone Stinks Something Awful

You know phones? Those functional communication and content-deliver devices that we carry around in our wallets and purses and use our mouths to speak into and fingers to poke at? You know what they need? A fragrance chip. To smell pretty. Apparently. The Fujitsu F-022 nightmare you see before you is a shiny, sparkly, stinky…

Tech News Brian Barrett

We’d Like One Bodega To Go Please

What’s the best way to help out a struggling Mom & Pop convenience store in the Walmart age? Buy every last item in it. That’s exactly what a team from art collective The Art of Convenience did on May 20th for the Hercules Fancy Grocery in West Village, NYC. Employing the least impressive suitcase of…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The Best Way to Not Get Mugged Is Owning an Old-Ass Nokia

Everyone knows that owning an iPhone is a giant liability. Walk around with your shiny design piece and you’re definitely going to get stabbed and have it taken from you. So why not use an embarrassingly-old and busted Nokia instead? This sketch by BBC Comedy isn’t so much of a bad idea! I mean, you’ll…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Stuxnet Deconstructed Shows One Scary Virus

Ready to shake in your shoes? This video breaking down how Stuxnet works and where it could go next is flat out frightening. (And if this wasn’t a government program, I’ll eat a centrifuge.)

Tech News Mat Honan

Life Underground Can Be Quite Normal

The Atlantic’s In Focus has a great set of photos of underground life. From subways to caves, temples to lakes, hospitals to bike paths, dig sites to mines and more, there’s a whole living, breathing and moving current underneath the surface. I think I’m more impressed of what we’ve done under the Earth than on…

Tech News Casey Chan

Lightbox for Android: Android’s Answer to Instagram, iCloud and More

Not only does Lightbox for Android fill in the Instagram-sized hole in the Android Market with slick sharing of filterized pictures, it also does what iCloud does: beam the photos you take on your phone to your tablet and web browser instantly. What’s it do? Lightbox is a stylish camera app that’s good enough to…

Tech News Casey Chan

Griffin’s DJ Cable Makes iPad DJing Significantly Easier

DJing on an iPad is an interesting, if gimmicky, concept. But unless you’re just using an iPad as a MIDI controller, simultaneously outputting sound while cueing up the next track isn’t possible. Except now it is. The Griffin DJ Cable is simple. It splits the audio signal of your iPad (or iPhone, or iPod touch)…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Your Minecraft Obsession, Now IRL

If you spend your days doing whatever it is you do in the pixelated world of Minecraft (mining, perhaps?), you might as well bring your obsession into the physical realm with these Minecraft accessories. Offered up by Think Geek, wielding the foam pickaxe screams I HAVE NO FRIENDS AND I DON’T REALLY CARE TO MAKE…

Tech News Adrian Covert

The Greatestest Mouse Ever, Reincarnated

Logitech’s MX500/MX518 is the best mouse ever. Ever. Logitech knows this too! Which is why the G400 is simply the MX518, rebuilt with a more modern 3600dpi optical tracking engine, 1ms polling rate and smoother polytetrafluoroethylene feet. Rated for 10 million clicks, it should last until Logitech brings it back for another spin. And it’ll…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Don’t Try to Get Someone to Kill Your Ex via Facebook

There are plenty of great ways to murder someone. Poison in the champagne, ninja star, running them over with a tractor—but whatever you do, don’t try to solicit a hitman with your Facebook status. This is exactly what one Philly imbecile tried to do, proclaiming to Facebook “I will pay somebody a stack to kill…

Social Media Sam Biddle

Firefighter, Tornado Survivor, or Big Rig Driver?

We sorted through all of the entries in our Energizer Inductive Phone Charged Contest, and the voting has commenced. We need your votes to determine which of the three heroic individuals who used their charged smartphone to thwart catastrophe will win an Energizer Inductive Charger, built with Qi technology, the universal wireless charging standard. Click…

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Evernote Is Available for Windows Phone 7 Now

Evernote, the do everything and anything note-taking app, is now available for Windows Phone 7. It syncs with all your other Evernote apps and works just as you’d expect: write notes, keep notebooks, search notes, map notes, share notes, etc. [Evernote]

Tech News Casey Chan

A More Magical Metal Kone for Brewing Coffee

The coffee produced by Coava’s Kone is different: a crazy hybrid that “gives you the control of a Chemex and the tannic cup you get from a French press,” says the NYT’s Oliver Strand. Now there’s a newer, better Kone. The Kone’s original pattern was keyed to a particular super pro grinder, so paired with…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Best Deal of the Day

If you’re a gamer like me, you’ve got way more computer games than you know what to do with. Sometimes I just sit at my computer, scrolling through what seems to be a never-ending list of games. I end up getting so overwhelmed that, rather than play one, I just give up and watch last…

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Transfer Open Apps Between a Computer and a Smartphone By Taking a Picture

Text Your Way To a Short Emergency Room Wait

SeamlessWeb Creates Nuclear Food Option for Laziest People on the Planet

Facebook Finally Gets Their iPad App Ready

Mattel’s Fijit Will Either Terrify or Delight the Child in Your Life

This Smell-O-Vision Flip Phone Stinks Something Awful

Top Stories: Thursday June 16, 2011

We’d Like One Bodega To Go Please

The Best Way to Not Get Mugged Is Owning an Old-Ass Nokia

Stuxnet Deconstructed Shows One Scary Virus

Life Underground Can Be Quite Normal

Lightbox for Android: Android’s Answer to Instagram, iCloud and More

Griffin’s DJ Cable Makes iPad DJing Significantly Easier

Your Minecraft Obsession, Now IRL

The Greatestest Mouse Ever, Reincarnated

Don’t Try to Get Someone to Kill Your Ex via Facebook

Firefighter, Tornado Survivor, or Big Rig Driver?

Evernote Is Available for Windows Phone 7 Now

A More Magical Metal Kone for Brewing Coffee

The Best Deal of the Day

UGREEN Bluetooth Tracker 4-Pack Now Just $7 Each With iOS and Android Support, While AirTag Stays at Full Price

Trump Posts Concept Art of His Presidential Library, and It’s AI Slop

Forget Tower Desktop, GMKtec Mini PC Drops to a Record Low as Amazon Clears Out Final Spring Sale Stock

‘Fallout’ Season 2 Was a Hit Despite That Unsatisfying Release Strategy Change

JBL Authentics 500 Retro-Style Home Speaker Hits 40% Off, Now at Its Lowest Price as Amazon’s Spring Sale Clearance Begins

ExpressVPN Spring Sale Special: Up to 73% Off + Free eSIM and Password Manager

You Too Will Learn to Fear the XenoFrog

Amazon Echo Dot Sees Its Last Price Drop in the Spring Sale, Final Hours Tick Down Ahead of an Uncertain Prime Day

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

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

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