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Motorola Olympus Found at Flea Market Poses For Hi-Res Photoshoot

Of course, we’re never too sure that what our tipsters have told us is the truth, but this one claims he bought Motorola’s unannounced new flagship at a market. The very same Android that’s leaked all over the place recently. https://gizmodo.com/is-this-motorolas-dual-core-olympus-phone-5696975 So far we know the Olympus (model number MB860) is running Android 2.2; has…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Rumor: Google Editions, Another Ebook Store, Will Launch This Month

Delayed from 2009 to 2010, Google’s ebook store Editions is rumored to launch this month in the US, and next year for the rest of the world. Taking on Amazon’s Kindle platform, it’ll launch with 400,00-600,000 ebooks. [Bloomberg] https://gizmodo.com/massive-google-editions-ebook-store-pushed-back-until-n-5382439

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Mercedes-Benz Thinks Cars Like This Could Be Grown In Labs

The Los Angeles Design Challenge always brings some crazy idea, but this year one in particular caught our attention: The Mercedes-Benz BIOME concept car. It’s an eco-friendly, biodegradable, ultra-light hybrid vehicle—which would be custom grown in a lab. The folks behind the concept explain that the various parts of the vehicle would be grown separately:…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Baby’s First Social Media Network

Apparently it’s never too early to teach your kids about gadgets, technology, and social media. Or at least that’s the impression I get from this toy block-powered social media network concept. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-properly-raise-an-apple-fanboy-or-girl-5701816 The idea is dubbed IOBR and basically consists of a bunch of toy blocks and a box for each child: The actual status…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Police Radar Guns Could Help Identify Suicide Bombers

The radar guns police use to spot speeding motorists have inspired a version that aims to identify a would-be suicide bomber in a crowd. Here’s how it works. A radar gun fires microwave pulses at a car and measures the Doppler shift of the reflected signal to calculate its velocity. However, the strength and polarisation…

Tech News Paul Marks - New Scientist

Your Cellphone Can Know Exactly Why You Love Your Fishing Pole

Waving your cell phone over any old RFID tagged item could automatically bring up photos, videos, and other memories on your mobile device. It’s called “The Internet of Experiences,” and it’s the result of newly patented technology from XtremeSignPost. The technology, described as a “method to promote and distribute multimedia content using radio frequency identification…

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Reflect Upon Your Childhood and the Ravages of War With a Melted Toy Soldier Bowl

It the melted plastic army men bowl a statement about the futility of violence, and the transience of our own lives? Probably not, but it looks neat, and is a clever way to recycle old toys. Each bowl is custom made with a random assortment of soldiers, meaning each fused basket is uniquely melted together.…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Co-Pilot Nearly Crashes Plane By Adjusting Seat While Pilot Is In Bathroom

While a pilot took a mid-flight bathroom break, his co-pilot decided to adjust his seat. In the process of that, he managed to hit the control column and send the plane into a terrifying plunge. Things almost didn’t end well. Apparently the 25-year-old co-pilot panicked and failed “to execute the proper procedures as the jetliner…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Meet the People Who Doodle Your Google

If I had known growing up that there was such a job title as Chief Doodler, all my aspirations would have pointed that direction. Michael Lopez is the man in charge of Google’s logo doodles. And this is his team. The doodle tradition has been around since the very earliest days of the company, according…

Tech News Brian Barrett

How You Can Make Time Lapse Videos With Your DSLR

Philip Bloom is a time lapse photography wizard. Here he shows you how to make a simple, zoomy time lapse video with photos from your DSLR. Now you just need a plane ticket to Dubai or Prague or something. [Photoxels] https://gizmodo.com/dubai-like-you-have-never-seen-it-before-5470483

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Tech Cynicism Has Never Been So Hilarious (Or Sadly True)

Tech is great! Tech makes everything better! Except when it doesn’t, as depicted by the extremely funny, brilliantly sick comics of Andy Rementer. His comic, Techno Tuesdays, paints technology (and those who use it) rather morbidly. But he’s sorta right? This, for instance, is a not-so-inaccurate rendering of many parties I’ve attended over the past…

Tech News Sam Biddle

I Hope This Gets To You: A Viral Love Letter

Stop whatever you’re doing right now, watch this video, and send it to your friends. Actually, you don’t even have to watch the video—though it’s amazing—you just need to pass it on. Here’s why. The video was put together by a guy named Walter C. May and his roommates—who just happen to be in a…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

How This Mad Scientist Is Using Cadaver Legs To Understand Torn ACLs

Like any ordinary orthopedist, Mark Drakos treats patients, performs surgeries, and prescribes medicines. But if you catch him in his lab, you might be surprised by what you’d find: the doctor twisting dead human legs until they snap. Drakos, who played on the Harvard football team for four years as a wide receiver, has set…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

How a Suspected Terrorist Led to the First Unlocked Phone DMCA Conviction

For the first time ever, someone’s been convicted of violating the DMCA for unlocking cellphones. But don’t freak out! Mohamad Majed was doing two things you aren’t: unlocking thousands at a time, and allegedly funneling the profits to Hezbollah. At first blush, news that someone was convicted of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act sounds…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Basic Secrets Behind Popular Circus Acts

While we don’t recommend running into your backyard and trying to recreate silly circus routines on your own, it’s still fascinating to know the general methods behind the tricks. So here are the basic “secrets” behind some popular circus acts. Now that the animals are gone from most of the traveling circuses, the majority of…

Tech News Jill Harness - Neatorama

Ugly Duckling Lamp Uses Crappy Materials to Look Great

PVC piping and cut up soda bottles don’t exactly connote beauty and grace. But in the hands of a smart designer, they’re turned into striking table lamps—the Ugly Duckling lamp project. Each even has a swanlike form. Clever! Each ugly duckling lamp, made in multiple colors, is an exercise in both recycling and attractive design—and…

Tech News Sam Biddle

App Deals of the Day

Feeling like trying out some new apps today, but don’t want to drop a lot of cash? Then take a look at our Android, iOS, and WP7 app #dealz and download to your heart’s delight. Free Apps: iOS: • Beermat Flip (iPhone) for $0 (normally $0.99) • Doodle Sheep (iPhone) for $0 (normally $0.99) •…

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Sit On the Gas Train and Give Me a Big Toot

Hidepon Works‘ gas turbine train makes other model trains look like pussies. Of course it’s not the first gas-powered train, but it’s certainly one of the finest, modeled after a typical Japanese subway choo-choo. There are a bunch of videos on Hidepon Works’ YouTube account, but check out this one of it steaming ahead: Choo-choo!…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Some People Really Need to Stop Playing Games From Time to Time

We knew that Fleshlights and World of Warcraft go together like strippers and twenty dollar bills. That’s fine. What I can’t understand is this: According to Amazon, customers who buy Adult Reusable Cotton/Poly Snap Diapers are into Call of Duty 4. https://gizmodo.com/customers-who-bought-the-male-masturbator-kit-also-boug-5588083 Or viceversa. After receiving the tip from a reader, I thought it was…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Play a Game of Billiards On This Incredible Kinetic Sculpture

Made from colorful junk, Andrew Smith‘s sculptures all perform amazing kinetic feats. I like how this one in particular resembles a donkey, or some other four-legged creature which has billiard balls running up and down its length. [AndrewSmith via DesignBoom]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Motorola Olympus Found at Flea Market Poses For Hi-Res Photoshoot

Rumor: Google Editions, Another Ebook Store, Will Launch This Month

Mercedes-Benz Thinks Cars Like This Could Be Grown In Labs

Baby’s First Social Media Network

Police Radar Guns Could Help Identify Suicide Bombers

Your Cellphone Can Know Exactly Why You Love Your Fishing Pole

Reflect Upon Your Childhood and the Ravages of War With a Melted Toy Soldier Bowl

Co-Pilot Nearly Crashes Plane By Adjusting Seat While Pilot Is In Bathroom

Meet the People Who Doodle Your Google

How You Can Make Time Lapse Videos With Your DSLR

Tech Cynicism Has Never Been So Hilarious (Or Sadly True)

I Hope This Gets To You: A Viral Love Letter

How This Mad Scientist Is Using Cadaver Legs To Understand Torn ACLs

How a Suspected Terrorist Led to the First Unlocked Phone DMCA Conviction

The Basic Secrets Behind Popular Circus Acts

Ugly Duckling Lamp Uses Crappy Materials to Look Great

App Deals of the Day

Sit On the Gas Train and Give Me a Big Toot

Some People Really Need to Stop Playing Games From Time to Time

Play a Game of Billiards On This Incredible Kinetic Sculpture

Ranking 2016’s Superhero Debuts, 10 Years Later

Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Bans Most Social Media for Kids

How to watch UFC Fight Night Adesanya vs Pyfer live this Saturday

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JD Vance Says UFOs Are Actually Demons

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