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Here’s a comforting truth: the next time your gadgets make you angry enough to pout, stomp, and scream, know that you’re not alone. In fact, you’re in the majority. A recent survey by Harris Interactive showed that 60% of Americans were driven to yell or swear at a gadget out of frustration. Which frankly seems…
Somewhere in heaven, Billy Mays is selling cloud fluffers and wing wax like nobody’s business. Here on earth, the best we can do to pay our respects, vandalize our keyboards, and never forget the loudest man in showbiz. [TNW]
In this week’s totally radical app round up: wasting time on the mobile web, simplified; music videos, enjoyed; battleships, sunk; appointments, maintained minimalistically; monsters, evaded (and blasted); your childhood fear of puppets, worked through, and much, much more! iPhone To view these on one page, click here https://gizmodo.com/iphone-apps-gallery-5618147 Android To view these on one page,…
Denmark! The birthplace of the LDN bike, designed by KiBiSi, which has a unique one-piece shape that’s as stylish as it is weird. Its frame is made from carbon fiber sheets formed and layered to make a stiff and lightweight one-piece monocoque structure. LDN’s form is derived from a wishbone, linking all the necessary components…
Trillian Beta: The decently popular desktop IM client Trillian now has its own Android app. Whitson from Lifehacker says: http://lifehacker.com/5617661/trillian-beta-released-for-android-is-already-the-best-im-client-out-there The first and best thing about Trillian, at least if you’re a desktop user, is that all you need to do is sign in with your Astra account to get all your accounts, custom names,…
For reasons I’ll get into at a later date, Matt, Barrett and I are currently working from a Hooters in midtown Manhattan with free Wi-Fi. Here are 25 sites their content filter will not let us access. maxim.com fleshbot.com collegehumor.com playboy.com thesmokingjacket.com erowid.org fhm.com thebeergoggler.com egotastic.com funnyordie.com thefrisky.com youtube.com nerve.com last.fm 2girls1cup.com vimeo.com urlesque.com myspace.com…
Elements: Dropbox is our favorite way to keep files synced across multiple machines, bar none, but its apps sadly don’t do text editing. The universal app Elements fills that role, letting you cleanly edit text and quietly keep it in sync. There have been a few Dropbox-enabled text editors for the iPad, but none quite…
Monster Dash: A new running game from Halfbrick, the makers of Fruit Ninja—do I even need to keep going?—Monster Dash sends you scurrying as a tiny little cartoon man blasting away at a whole army of vampires, mummies, and other assorted baddies. Simple but highly enjoyable. $1 Nook: Oh Barrett… Barnes and Noble already had…
If you hate your life, pause, and consider that it could be much worse: “I get calls at quarter to 12 on New Year’s Eve,” says Ralph Ammirati, who tends to the maxed out aquariums of New York’s megarich. The NY Times paddles into the at once incredibly cool and incredibly grotesque world of people…
For the second time this month, an app developer has caught an unreleased WebOS 2.0 device with a 640×960 display using their wares. There’s no telling whether it’s a new WebOS phone, or something else entirely. Apple’s darling Retina Display is, of course, not a resolution, but a pixel density, so the same dazzling graphics…
Good cell service is hard to come by, especially in NYC, but five bars won’t do much good when you’re DEAD. Some New Yorkers are convinced that the AT&T and T-Mo antennas on their roof are bringing the building down. The tenants of 165 Pinehurst Avenue in New York City have a dilemma: they have…
A new survey out of Forrester reports 14% of Americans plan on purchasing a tablet device next year—that’s 27 million people. Perhaps more interestingly, many of these millions are looking beyond Apple’s belle of the ball. The study should provide comfort for Apple’s rivals, hoping to throw their own devices into the ring against the…
We all know and love the No. 2 Pencil, but what about Messrs. No. 1 – No. 12? Artist Nathan W. Pyle has dutifully cataloged those lesser-known writing implements, which you can buy as a t-shirt on Woot. [Laughing Squid]
Our very own Matt Buchanan is live on Fox’s Strategy Room RIGHT NOW. Watch! He’s the red head. [Fox]
TGIF, and TGF #Dealzmodo. Start off your weekeend with some amazing deals on a just-replaced favorite, the Canon PowerShot S90, a 1TB WD External HDD, and a free Wireless G Cardbus Adapter. Top Deals: • Canon PowerShot S90 10MP 3.8X Digital Camera (F/2.0 Lens) for $299.99 before tax, plus free shipping (normally $350). • 1TB…
Studies show biking aficionados of a certain age do well in the romance department. If your bike was tricked out with this LiveRider kit that turns your iPhone into a wireless cycling computer, you’d have to use an app to juggle all of your dates. LiveRider is only one of the cool cycling-related items featured…
This cable is “used to detonate the charges in atomic bombs. It’s perfectly legal to own these. They’re relics from the atomic bomb development at Los Alamos National Laboratory.” Only $5 at the Black Hole shop, in Los Alamos, NM. That’s the kind of material you can get at the Black Hole, a military surplus…
As sea levels rise, an extraordinary population shift will place immense stress on cities around the world. Where will global warming refugees go? One design team envisions an “Embassy of the Drowned Nations” to provide asylum, and a fresh start. The concept plan imagines a “a sort of Ellis Island,” a mix “between Atlantis and…
So you went with the new 4GB Xbox 360 S, because who needs more than 4GB? Wait, what’s that? You do? Man. Good thing there’s now a $130 250GB Xbox 360 S hard drive add on at GameStop. It beats any other temporary solution, but it’s a real kick in the wallet given that you’d…
Apple new patent application describes methods that may enable the iPhone and iPad to “sense” the user, detecting voice prints, faces, activity patterns and even heartbeats. If unauthorized use is detected, many security measures could be activated. https://gizmodo.com/apple-wants-your-heartbeat-to-unlock-your-iphone-5532586 If the iOS device detects that the user is not authorized, it can start taking photos and…
