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A Stylish Camera Bag That Stores Your DSLR and Your iPad

Not only does the $200 Ari Marcapoulos Camera Bag score high on looks, it’s loaded with utility. Notable features include a thick, weather resistant canvas exterior, padded lens and camera compartments, and a faux-fur lined iPad pocket. [Incase via Uncrate]

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Old Oil Rig Converted Into Brand New Vacation Spot For Scuba Divers

Only 120 diving and snorkeling permits are granted near Sipadan island each day and lately some of those have been going to folks using an old oil rig’s elevator to drop right into the perfect waters. Basically, the oil rig has been converted into a hotel called Seaventures and while its 25 tiny guest rooms…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

First Human-Powered, Wing-Flapping Aircraft Successfully Flown

Remember those old timey flying contraptions inventors used to think up? With bulky, mechanical wings that they flapped? Such a device—a human-powered ornithopter—was successfully flown continuously for the first time, marking a bit of aviation history. Granted, the 2010 version of an ornithopter is much sleeker looking than the inventions that spring to mind from…

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Tour Some of Science History’s Most Wonderful Models

LIFE has put together a delightful gallery of classic scientific models—reminding us of how science used to visualize everything between the human body and outer space before the age of computer imagery. The gallery is diverse in its nostalgia, highlighting what was then the cutting edge of medicine, aerospace, and the other myriad efforts to…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Growing Up Nintendo: A Self-Portrait

If you grew up in the 1980s and owned a Nintendo—which might be redundant—this likely captures your childhood than any laser-backdropped middle school photo ever could. From artist Mike Mitchell, who in painting “1985” as a self-portrait ended up painting an entire bleep bloop generation. [Mike Mitchell via The Daily What]

Tech News Brian Barrett

T-Mobile Claims Right to Censor Text Messages

T-Mobile told a federal judge Wednesday it may pick and choose which text messages to deliver on its network in a case weighing whether wireless carriers have the same “must carry” obligations as wire-line telephone providers. The Bellevue, Washington-based wireless service is being sued by a texting service claiming T-Mobile stopped servicing its “short code”…

Tech News David Kravets - Wired

The Simplest Way To Watch Cute YouTube Videos In Sync With Friends

There are a lot of reasons to want to watch a YouTube video simultaneously with someone—such as conversation that doesn’t involve constant mentions of timestamps. The simple way to get in sync like that? YouTubeSocial. YouTubeSocial is a clever little site that allows you to watch any YouTube clip in sync with your friends. All…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

The Most Comfortable iPad Dock Money Can Buy

“HOLLANDIA LAUNCHES WORLD’S FIRST BED DESIGNED TO WORK WITH IPAD” screams the press release. And much like Kanye’s tweets or Mike from the Jersey Shore, I can’t quite figure out if I’m laughing at them or with them. https://gizmodo.com/kanyes-apology-tweets-edited-into-letter-form-5630204 The iCon, the $20,000 iPad dock-bed in question, combines a swanky adjustable mattress from Hollandia and…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Roku Internet Video Streamers Are As Low As $60, and Do 1080p For $100

Roku’s expanding their offerings with three new boxes: HD at $60, XD at $80 and XDS at $100. With just $40 separating the bottom from the top, why would you not go for the 1080p, 802.11n dual band streaming? Both the XD and XDS have 1080p over HDMI as well as 802.11n (HD is only…

Tech News Jason Chen

What It’s Like Inside the Sous Vide King’s Kitchen

Thomas Keller might just be the best chef in America. Not only that, but the man literally wrote the book on sous vide, the preferred geek technique for vacuum-sealed flavor perfection. So what’s it like to work in his kitchen? San Francisco Chronicle writer Sophie Brickman set out to answer that very question by spending…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Mario Protects His iPad With A Case Like This

I was hoping that putting my iPhone into one of these Super Mario cases would make it magically grow and turn into an iPad, but no such luck. These are just regular iPad cases—they just happen to look great. There are Super Mushroom, 1-up Mushroom and Goomba versions available of the cases and they’re $40…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

This Is How Moses Actually Parted the Waters

Did you hear about the one with the long-bearded Charlton Heston-lookalike who chats with flaming bushes and uses his big honking stick to part the waters of entire seas? Well, scientists have found how the water-parting may actually have happened. Using new computer fluid dynamics simulations, scientists at the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

This iPad Kissing Game Lets You Go To It, If You Relax

This iPad game is a wee bit psychic: its headband can sense how hard you’re concentrating, rewarding inner calm with a virtual kiss from a model trapped in the screen. And when purchased, it intuits your crushing loneliness. It’s the kind of game where when you lose, you lose, when you win, you lose, and…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Sharp’s Skinny 3D Blu-ray Player Is What the PS3 Slim Should’ve Looked Like

A simple, skinny rectangle, Sharp’s 3D Blu-ray players pull in Netflix, Pandora and Vudu and plays back Divx files. There’s no built-in Wi-Fi, but it comes with a dongle. They’re $430 and $500. [Sharp]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Sharp’s Quattron 3DTVs Are the Brightest, Thanks to Yellow Pixels

Sharp’s Quattron four-color pixel tech is now in its 3DTVs, which Sharp says are the brightest 3DTVs around. It’s hard to say without setting them next to another 3DTV, but they are pretty bright. https://gizmodo.com/sharps-fanciest-new-tvs-the-4-color-le920-series-5441497 Sharps says the brightest because they’ve combined their Quattron tech with their X-Gen LCD panel. The other standout feature is…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Is the Era of Cheap Food Ending?

Many would be glad to see the Golden Arches topple for reasons nutritional, but some scientists think that with the human population growing and oil production past its peak, the era of cheap, abundant food is reaching its inevitable end. Reviewing The Coming Famine, a new book by Australian scientist Julian Cribb, in the NYT,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Netflix Duped Journalists With Actors at Canadian Launch

Netflix has issued an apology for hiring pretend Netflix fans for event celebrating their Canadian launch—and letting unwitting journalists interview them. Netflix says the PR stunt was a “corporate documentary,” which is now officially my new favorite euphemism. [Globe and Mail]

Tech News Sam Biddle

Photoshop PhotoBomb Tool, For Hilariously Creepy Memories

Click to viewIn the pitch-perfect style of a real Photoshop tutorial video comes a Photoshop PhotoBomb Tool how-to from College Humor. Ruin photos like never before! https://gizmodo.com/photoshops-upcoming-puppet-warp-feature-has-an-unbeliev-5508440 I mean serious, Adobe: if you can make content-aware fill work, this would be child’s play. [College Humor] https://gizmodo.com/photoshops-upcoming-content-aware-fill-feature-looks-li-5501167

Tech News Brian Barrett

Why iPads Increase Wine Sales at Restaurants?

Some restaurants across the world are now using iPads to show their wine lists. Stupid and overkill, you say? Not if you sell a lot more wine because of it. In just two weeks, Bone’s—which is Atlanta’s most famed steakhouse and has 1,350 labels in their catalog—sold 11 percent more wine than in the three…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

I’m not exactly sure…

A Stylish Camera Bag That Stores Your DSLR and Your iPad

Old Oil Rig Converted Into Brand New Vacation Spot For Scuba Divers

First Human-Powered, Wing-Flapping Aircraft Successfully Flown

Tour Some of Science History’s Most Wonderful Models

Growing Up Nintendo: A Self-Portrait

T-Mobile Claims Right to Censor Text Messages

The Simplest Way To Watch Cute YouTube Videos In Sync With Friends

The Most Comfortable iPad Dock Money Can Buy

Roku Internet Video Streamers Are As Low As $60, and Do 1080p For $100

What It’s Like Inside the Sous Vide King’s Kitchen

Mario Protects His iPad With A Case Like This

This Is How Moses Actually Parted the Waters

This iPad Kissing Game Lets You Go To It, If You Relax

Sharp’s Skinny 3D Blu-ray Player Is What the PS3 Slim Should’ve Looked Like

Sharp’s Quattron 3DTVs Are the Brightest, Thanks to Yellow Pixels

Is the Era of Cheap Food Ending?

Netflix Duped Journalists With Actors at Canadian Launch

Photoshop PhotoBomb Tool, For Hilariously Creepy Memories

Why iPads Increase Wine Sales at Restaurants?

Andy Weir Apologizes After ‘Star Trek’ Comment Backlash

Scientists Discover Hidden Behavior in Water That Helps Explain Why Ice Floats

The ‘Paradise’ Season 2 Finale Paved the Way for a Wildly Sci-Fi Season 3

A $1 Samsung Galaxy Smartphone Lands at Mint Mobile With Unlimited Data at 50% Off in a Clearance Push

Your Wimpy Workouts Aren’t Cutting It, Scientists Say

Anker Prime Power Bank Drops to an All-Time Low (200W, 20,100mAh, 3-Port) as Amazon Clears Out Remaining Spring Sale Stock

Students Are Now Renting Smart Glasses to Cheat on Exams

Roborock F25 GT Cordless Vacuum and Mop Hits Its Lowest Price in Spring Sale, 20,000Pa Cleaning Power Without the Premium Price Tag

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

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

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