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The Most Adorable Star Wars Pic Of The Day

If these kids trick-or-treated at my house, they would get every ounce of candy I had. [Buzz Feed]

First Impressions of Panasonic’s $1,400 3D Camcorder

The folks of Camcorder Info have gotten their hands onto Panasonic’s HDC-SDT750—one of the first 3D camcorders designed with consumers in mind—and reviewed it. Here’s what they concluded: https://gizmodo.com/panasonics-hdc-sdt750-3d-camcorder-will-cost-you-1400-5598163 In our time checking out the HDC-SDT750, it was clear that the camcorder was capable of capturing excellent 3D images. The recording process for capturing these…

An iPhone App To Schedule and Graph Sex With All Your Girlfriends

I once knew a guy who kept an actual database of all the women he dated so that he could always remember the relevant details about them and prevent awkward mixups. The DateMate iPhone app would’ve been ideal for him. The basic idea of DateMate is that it allows you to enter details about your…

Use a Bluetooth Headset for Improved Reception in Spotty Locations

If sitting stone still in the one corner of your apartment that actually gets decent reception sounds like a terrible way to conduct a phone call, a Bluetooth headset can act as an extender for your cellphone’s terrible reception Photo by Creative Tools. Lifehacker reader John Olinda gets really lousy reception in his home. Rather…

‘Anti-Laser’ Traps All Incoming Light

Call it the anti-laser. Instead of amplifying light, it would soak it up completely, leaving utter darkness. A laser shines by producing a cascade of photons that bounce around inside a light-amplifying material before exiting from one end. A team at Yale University wondered what would happen if they could reverse the process, making the…

The Japanese Certainly Know How To Sell Slow-Motion Cameras

I have to congratulate whoever is behind these videos advertising slow-motion cameras, because I’m convinced that I need one. The bikini-clad girls and the pudding-covered men are enough to make me want to create an epic slow-mo film. All the naughty jokes that can be made about them aside, it really is clips like this…

Samsung Files a Patent For a Front And Rear Touchscreen Tablet

Samsung’s filed a patent for a tablet incorporating front and back multi-touch screens. [Unwired View via Electronista]

Secret-Knock-Detecting Door is Straight Out of a Fantasy Movie

Want to get into David Glicksman’s workshop? You don’t need a key, you just need to know the right knock. So awesome. [David Glicksman via Make]

Venn Diagram Tables Show Off Overlap Between Good Taste and Living Room

From the portfolio pages of Swedish design firm Outofstock comes the gorgeously clever Hues set of nesting, venn diagram-inspired tables. Each is crafted from colored waterjet-cut glass and iron legs. One more splendid looking set of furniture confined to a lucky designer’s studio. The tables would be a refreshing change from the furniture in my…

Verizon Introduces “Unlimited Any Mobile” Plan To Texas And Louisiana Markets

The plans allow customers to call or send text, picture, or video messages to anyone of any service provider in the US. Pricing ranges from $59.99 for a 450 minute Single Line Plan to $129.99 for a 2000 minute Family Share Plan, but unfortunately, are only available if you have one of the following area…

Modded Nintendo Lets You Play Mario With Your Eyes, Poorly

This is both completely cool and totally useless: a group of engineers going by Waterloo Labs in Austin, Texas created a way of controlling an original NES by simply moving your eyes. By using electrodes placed around the eyes to track the movement of a players eyeballs, they were able to jury rig a Nintendo…

The Mosspuppet App That Could Have Been

Is Mossboard, the official Mosspuppet iPhone app, scarily accurate or accurately scary? You be the judge. Warning: reference to Steve Jobs nipples ahead. Mossboard’s pretty great, but unfortunately you won’t be able to carry Mosspuppet around in your pocket any time soon—the app hasn’t been able to get past the App Store approval process. Can’t…

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Motorola and Verizon Working on Android-Based, FiOS-Enabled, Dual-Camera, Ten-Inch TV Tablet?

We’ve heard rumors of Motorola and Verizon partnering up for an Android tablet before, but this one’s rather interesting. According to FT, the two companies are putting together some sort of TV tablet: Motorola is developing a digital tablet device that will allow users to watch television on it, as the US mobile phone group…

Underwhelming BlackBerry Spells Doom For RIM

Research In Motion needed a miracle. It needed a fresh-faced BlackBerry and an operating system that made people say “whoa.” Yet when it took the stage to unveil the BlackBerry Torch and the BlackBerry 6 operating system, one thing became clear: These were not heaven sent. This could very well mean the end for the…

Orchestra Generates Music Based On Its Own Heartbeats

The Heart Chamber Orchestra is a stirring audiovisual project, involving an orchestra that generates its own musical score (and accompanying visuals) in realtime. The catch? The source of the music is the heartbeats of the orchestra’s own members. Each musician is hooked up to an electrocardiogram sensor, which sends their heart rate to a computer…

AT&T Monolith Display Contents Finally Revealed

It was a fun guessing game while it lasted, but those mysterious AT&T displays turned out to be housing the BlackBerry Torch after all. Phew! We can all finally stop losing sleep over a marketing obelisk. [Thanks, Bryan!] https://gizmodo.com/whats-inside-at-ts-mysterious-monolith-display-5598966

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

This week on TreeHugger, Ford Explorer gets delivered via 9000 horsepower chopper, bike rides for blind people, robot powered by sewage, caterpillars inspiring softbots, and win a powermeter in our sweepstakes. 2011 Ford Explorer Promoted By 9000 Horsepower Heliocopter Air-Show Delivery This says a lot about how far the “green” movement is from where the…

nPower PEG Kinetic Charger Juices Your Devices While You Move

The nPower PEG charger “harvests” your kinetic energy as a source of renewable power, allowing you to keep your phone or other small device running while away from outlets. Running, biking, or even just walking will keep the electricity flowing. By placing the nine inch tall nPower PEG in your bag vertically, it will begin…

iOS 4.1 Beta 3 Now Available to iPhone Developers

Looks like iOS 4.1 Beta 3 is now available for download in the iPhone Developer Center. We’ll be taking a look and letting you know what’s new since the last beta shortly. [Apple—Thanks, TJ!]