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Intoxicating Gifts for the Elegant Imbiber

Shopping for the highest of high-functioning alcoholics can be a tricky proposition. Novelty bottle openers and 12-packs of Pabst don’t cut it. For the the guy (or gal) with a sophisticated drinking problem, these gifts are guaranteed to please. 1. Brandy Smuggler Walking Cane, $69 Stumbling home after a night of debauchery is for amateurs.…

Tech News Bryan Gardiner

Shoot DSLRs From a Distance Over Bluetooth, Using an iOS App

With the power of Bluetooth…comes BlueSLR! A magical Bluetooth dongle which hooks up to Nikon DSLRs for controlling from iOS devices up to 300 feet away. Unfortunately only Nikon cams are supported at the mo, but Canon’s aren’t far behind. While it’d be great if the photos could be sent wirelessly to the iOS device…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Running Out of Shit to Say During an Awkward Conversation? Let This Device Feed You Lines

Forced, boring conversations are a painful necessity. You might even be having one on the phone right now! But some designers fear the awkward conversation is a dying art—so they made a digital aid to feed you material. Called the “Personal Adviser For Reintegration,” (re-integrated, perhaps, after so many years of coasting by with discomfort-free…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Best Apps for Business Humans

More and more businesses and businesspeople are switching from BlackBerry to iPhone or Android. Why? Because of apps like these. iOS Documents to Go Is there any single task more central to the experience of being a business human that opening, editing and saving office documents? Well, that’s what Documents to Go does. It goes…

Tech News John Herrman and Casey Chan

STOP PANICKING! GOOGLE ISN’T TAKING AWAY YOUR CAPS LOCK KEY!

WHILE PRIOR REPORTS SUGGESTED THAT GOOGLE WILL COMPLETELY ELIMINATE THE CAPS LOCK KEY FROM ALL CHROME-BASED NETBOOKS, IT TURNS OUT THAT YOU’LL STILL HAVE THE OPTION OF TOGGLING A “SEARCH” BUTTON’S FUNCTIONALITY TO MIMIC THE BELOVED KEY. https://gizmodo.com/google-wants-to-take-your-caps-lock-away-5708638 THIS IS HOW GOOGLE EXPLAINED THE SIMPLE PROCESS OF TOGGLING THE KEY’S FUNCTIONALITY IN YOUR KEYBOARD SETTINGS:…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Figure Out Google’s Puzzle and Win a Nexus S (Or a Chrome Netbook?)

The Google Nexus Twitter account will post a puzzle in just a few minutes, at 12EST. If you’re the first to person to figure out and Tweet the answer back at them, they’ll give you a free Nexus S. And at their event yesterday there was some talk of giving away Chrome netbooks to puzzle…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Shooting Challenge: Pixelmutation

A majority of us experience photography digitally—from taking the shot on a dSLR to viewing it through fiber optics, LCDs and social networking sites. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’re going to celebrate the digital through pixelmutations*. * Pixelmutation isn’t a real term; I just made it up. So you might not want to use…

Tech News Mark Wilson

The Reaction of Governments to Wikileaks Should Scare the Hell Out of You

Wikileaks is a flawed endeavor represented publicly by a smug egotist. But it deserves the respect and support of anyone who prioritizes the privacy of individuals over that of governments. You don’t have to like it or Assange in order to value the counterpoint they represent to the modern high-technology security state. Instead, it is…

Privacy & Security Roberto Arguedas

Lock Your Tablet to the Table and Poo With Peace of Mind

You wouldn’t just leave your bike unattended in the middle of Starbucks if you had to take a bathroom break, would you? OK maybe you would. But an iPad is much easier to steal! The solution: lock. it. up. Is it socially acceptable to take your iPad with you into a coffeeshop bathroom? I don’t…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Yahoo! Can’t Tell the Difference Between Yoko Ono and World of Warcraft Monster

“John Lennon’s family and friends today”: What do they look like? According to Yahoo! (taking a page from the Washington Post) they look like a World of Warcraft orc or monster or something. No wonder the Beatles broke up! http://gawker.com/5525783/the-washington-post-cannot-tell-obama-from-malcolm-x

Tech News Max Read

The Sculptor, In the Conservatory, With the Baseball Bat

Some consider art to be the breathing of new life into ordinary materials. Sculptor Laurent Craste would beg to differ, turning each of these works into scenes of violent ceramic murder. The following is not for faint-of-heart urn lovers. Craste is from Montreal, and the artist describes the work as follows: In terms of narrative…

Tech News Brian Barrett

These Hornets Have Solar Powered Bodies

Solar power is always pretty exciting as it reaches more and more places in our lives—a future without fossil fuels! But what if solar power also means getting stung more? Take oriental hornets—buzzing around with built-in solar panels. German researchers have discovered that a yellow portion of oriental hornets’ bodies isn’t just decorative, but rather…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Netflix Will Soon Stream ABC TV and Movies: Lost! Scrubs! High School Musical!

Heaps of ABC TV shows and movies will be coming to Netflix soon, thanks to a new deal with Disney. That includes all of Lost, all of Scrubs, the first two High School Musicals, and whole lot more. In no way does this mean you should go back and rewatch Lost, but more Netflix stuff…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Now Your iPhone Can Be the Universal Remote it Always Wanted to Be Thanks to Peel

Peel is trying to change the way you channel surf, by sidestepping the concept of channels altogether. How are they accomplishing that feat? By releasing an iPhone app/hardware accessory combo that turns the smartphone into a universal remote. The Peel app on the iPhone is designed to help you figure out what’s on TV, not…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Do We Really Need a 10-Inch Tablet With Sliding Keyboard, Samsung?

I’m a great fan of sliding keyboards, refusing all else in my smartphone choices. But a 10-inch tablet? Surely there’s enough touchscreen real estate to type accurately there, already? Nonetheless, this is what Samsung’s proposing, with the Gloria. The image here is by no means what the Gloria device will look like if it launches…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Spotify’s US Launch Has Unsurprisingly Been Delayed Again

The much-loved European music service Spotify won’t be launching in the US this year, as planned. Considering there’s just 23 days until the end of the year (and it was originally meant to launch last year), it’s not surprising. https://gizmodo.com/why-its-worth-getting-excited-for-spotifys-us-launch-5502815 According to reports, Spotify hasn’t actually signed a single licensing agreement with any music publishers.…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Bacteria is Nibbling Away at the Titanic’s Carcass

Always wanted to see the remains of the Titanic, 3.8km below the surface? You better start making travel arrangements, because this never-seen-before bacteria “rusticles” are eating away at the ship. An iceberg may’ve knocked the ship from the surface back in 1912, killing 1,517 people, but it’s now this bacteria which is finishing it off…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

The Second Concept-to-Reality Watch Has Gone at Sale at Tokyo Flash

Another concept watch voted on by fans has been made a reality by Tokyo Flash—the Kisai Satellite. Available in either black or white, people voted in droves for the chance to be able to buy it. https://gizmodo.com/tokyo-flash-is-making-this-watch-a-reality-thanks-to-y-5699090 The readability on this watch design is actually pretty simple. The top circle on the face represents hours,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Hey, Did You Know There’s a Google Latitude iPhone App Now?

Initially, there was fear that a Latitude app would be confusing to people who use Google Maps. Not for the Japanese, however, who had a brief taste of the app before it got pulled. Can we expect one soon? [TechCrunch] https://gizmodo.com/apple-lets-you-get-stalky-with-google-latitude-esque-pa-5438663

Tech News Kat Hannaford

If You Wanna Charge $30,000 For A Chess Set, You’re Damn Right The Thing Better Talk

I love a good chess board. While I’m not entirely sold on its modern art aesthetic, or its $30k price tag, I do love that the pieces start talking shit when you move them. A3 Network says the set was hand-built by artist Barbara Kruger, who used three integrated computers and 96 microprocessor to get…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Intoxicating Gifts for the Elegant Imbiber

Shoot DSLRs From a Distance Over Bluetooth, Using an iOS App

Running Out of Shit to Say During an Awkward Conversation? Let This Device Feed You Lines

Best Apps for Business Humans

STOP PANICKING! GOOGLE ISN’T TAKING AWAY YOUR CAPS LOCK KEY!

Figure Out Google’s Puzzle and Win a Nexus S (Or a Chrome Netbook?)

Shooting Challenge: Pixelmutation

The Reaction of Governments to Wikileaks Should Scare the Hell Out of You

Lock Your Tablet to the Table and Poo With Peace of Mind

Yahoo! Can’t Tell the Difference Between Yoko Ono and World of Warcraft Monster

The Sculptor, In the Conservatory, With the Baseball Bat

These Hornets Have Solar Powered Bodies

Netflix Will Soon Stream ABC TV and Movies: Lost! Scrubs! High School Musical!

Now Your iPhone Can Be the Universal Remote it Always Wanted to Be Thanks to Peel

Do We Really Need a 10-Inch Tablet With Sliding Keyboard, Samsung?

Spotify’s US Launch Has Unsurprisingly Been Delayed Again

Bacteria is Nibbling Away at the Titanic’s Carcass

The Second Concept-to-Reality Watch Has Gone at Sale at Tokyo Flash

Hey, Did You Know There’s a Google Latitude iPhone App Now?

If You Wanna Charge $30,000 For A Chess Set, You’re Damn Right The Thing Better Talk

Roku’s 2025 Streaming Stick HD Is 40% Off to Compete With Amazon Fire TV Stick During Spring Sale

Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information

‘Wicked Spot’ Is a Fun, Sapphic Rom-Com That Yeets a Witch Into the Magical World of Influencer Culture

Anthropic and OpenAI Just Gave Us a Glimpse Into the Future of Model Pricing

Amazon Slashes 63% Off Acer Aspire Desktop for a Limited-Time Spring Sale, With Keyboard and Mouse Included

Smart Glasses Now Have One of the Vision Pro’s Best Features

Marvel Just Put ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 in a Very Weird Place in the MCU Timeline

Trump Drops $1B to Kill 2 Wind Farms, Then Watches a Bigger One Go Online

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

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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