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Please Make These: Pole-Reversing Magnetic Scissors

Okay, people who make scissors. We can do this. We can take these concept scissors, that use magnets to provide 90% of the cutting force and lock shut when you reverse their polarity, and make them a reality. Right? Please? From designers Sang-in Lee & Yun-je Sung, these 90% Magnetic Scissors would make all that…

Tech News Brian Barrett

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

Doomsday arks on the moon, switching your house to all-electric, best apps for the oil spill, a microhouse you can build yourself, solar airplane setting a 2-week flight record, and disgusting light switch designs. Ask Pablo: Why Should I Switch My House Over To All-Electric? While the payback will not be quick and cost savings…

Tech News Jaymi Heimbuch

Lenovo Commits to LePad Android Tablet By End of LeYear

Lenovo’s finally made a definitive statement on what they’re doing in the mobile computing space, and they’re going to finish the year differently than they started it: the Android-powered LePad is coming in the next few months. In January Lenovo showed impressive ambition in mobile, promising both the Skylight smartbook and the U1 hybrid tablet/computer…

Tech News Brian Barrett

MOG Mobile For iPhone and Android Streams 8 Million Songs and Lets You Download ‘Em All

MOG, the latest entrant into the increasingly competitive world of cloud-based mobile music services, has a combination of features, including unlimited, high-quality downloads from its impressively stocked 8 million song library, that make its $10/mo. subscription a compelling option. There’s a certain comfort to all-you-can-eat situations—knowing that if you decide to binge, you can do…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Asus Wants Android For EeePad

After confusing the world by saying it would use Windows EC7 as the OS for its upcoming 10.1″ EP101TC EeePad, Asus has now seen sense—and stuck Android in the thing instead. Goodbye, familiar bland Microsoft leafy background image. https://gizmodo.com/asus-eee-pad-is-a-windows-7-running-tablet-5551594 Nothing has been said about which version of Android the EeePad will ship with, although with…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

MacPaint Now A Museum Piece

The Computer History Museum is hosting the original source code of Apple’s ground-breaking visual drawing tool, which arrived alongside the Apple Macintosh in 1984. You can have it for free, if you’re non-commercial. The site also features a nice accompanying story of the history of MacPaint’s development from Apple Lisa tool SketchPad, along with a…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

Tiger Woods Game Sales Fall By A Third

According to the most recent NPD sales data, numbers for this year’s annual Tiger Woods golf game franchise update were down by 32%, as gamers seemingly washed their hands of the dirty dawg golfer and his waitress-hassling ways. But there are “a lot of factors” for the disastrous collapse of sales for this year’s Tiger…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

Feed This Machine Rice And It’ll Spit Out A Fresh Loaf Of Bread

If you want to make delicious bread out of rice, you normally have to get rice flour and work from there. But with the Sanyo Gopan rice bread machine, all you have to do is pour in handfuls of rice. Of course you need to pour in the other bread ingredients too, but the point…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

The Ribbons Of Life Lamp Draws Inspiration From The Source

The DNA inspired double helical design would look especially great in any mad scientist’s lair, or geneticist’s dining room. Tough to believe this popped out of a 3D printer. I am thoroughly impressed with the intricate and unique stylings of The Ribbons of Life lamp, created by Paul Charlwood and Luca Abate of Melbourne based…

Tech News Christina Bonnington

How To Hide a Cell Tower

While older cell towers were topped with those those unsightly satellite-looking antenna fixtures, newer ones can be contained entirely in sleek, featureless polls and thus disguised as trees. Nice for us, not so much for woodpeckers. [YouTube Thanks Manny] https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-how-cell-towers-work-5177322

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

iPad Projector Renders 3D Objects for the Naked Eye

Experimental design team Aircord Labs has released a proof of concept video demonstrating an iPad with 3D capabilities visible to the naked eye. The effect is achieved with a specially designed projector that beams images into a pyramid shaped screen. Once projected, viewers can move around the floating imagery, almost as if they were real…

Tech News Sam Biddle

A Detailed State of the Apps Report

There’s a lot written about the Apple App Store and Android Market, but they’re hardly the only games in town. Here’s your comprehensive look at the entire app ecosystem. Spoiler: it’s huge. It’s so oddly reassuring that a fart simulator is in the top 20 all time paid App Store apps, isn’t it? Maybe that’s…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Airbus’ Lightweight Plane of the Future Features Holographic Projections and Invisible Floors

What sorts of airplanes will we be flying in 2030? According to Airbus, this “fantasy plane” concept is a reasonable guess, a lightweight model with curled wings and a U-shaped tail. Oh, and invisible floors. Sure, the design itself isn’t that crazy, but some of the interior features sure are. How about “holographic projections of…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Check Out What Could Become The UK’s Tallest Bridge

Stephen Spence’s innovative design will soon be turned into the UK’s tallest bridge, rivaling some of today’s skyscrapers. View it from multiple angles in this video clip. This new suspension bridge, whose tall, arched white towers look a bit like a boat’s billowing sails, will span the River Wear in Sunderland. When the structure is…

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Nokia Finally Wakes Up and Starts Looking For a New CEO

The WSJ is writing that according to “people familiar with the situation” mobile phone maker Nokia is looking for a new CEO to replace Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. Quite frankly, this isn’t exactly surprising considering that Nokia’s stock has fallen over 40% in the last three months after the company’s profit outlook was lowered repeatedly: “They are…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

What Is This?

What’s this here? A leaked prop from Tron: Legacy? A high-tech bug zapper? It’s something much more basic than those, but still fit for a king. What you’re looking at is a high resolution photograph of the noble gas Argon, taken by Wikipedia user alchemist-hp. It’s one in a series of 36 pictures taken so…

Tech News Brian Barrett

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“Smart” Alloy Will Make Your Air Conditioner 175% More Efficient

Leaving your air conditioner on full blast all day might soon come with a little less guilt, thanks to an alloy developed by the University of Maryland. The “thermally elastic” material could allow air conditioners to run 175% more efficiently. The new metal serves as a solid coolant, as opposed to the traditional (and environmentally…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Holy Giant Steel Balls!

What weighs 4.5 tons, measures 8 feet in diameter, it’s made of pure steel, and can destroy 50 acres of woods per hour? The bowling ball lumbering machine, that’s what. Back in the 50s, it was believed to be the be-all, end-al of all lumbering techniques ever developed. Get the ball, set it in motion…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

A FaceTime Call From the Middle of the Pacific Ocean

On the right: the spot on the globe most isolated from land, separated by over a thousand miles from the nearest landmass in every direction. On the left: an iPhone 4 FaceTime call from that exact location. Whoa. On the wetter side of the line is Philippe Kahn, who is sailing a boat from Santa…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Please Make These: Pole-Reversing Magnetic Scissors

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

Lenovo Commits to LePad Android Tablet By End of LeYear

MOG Mobile For iPhone and Android Streams 8 Million Songs and Lets You Download ‘Em All

Asus Wants Android For EeePad

MacPaint Now A Museum Piece

Tiger Woods Game Sales Fall By A Third

Feed This Machine Rice And It’ll Spit Out A Fresh Loaf Of Bread

The Ribbons Of Life Lamp Draws Inspiration From The Source

How To Hide a Cell Tower

iPad Projector Renders 3D Objects for the Naked Eye

A Detailed State of the Apps Report

Airbus’ Lightweight Plane of the Future Features Holographic Projections and Invisible Floors

Check Out What Could Become The UK’s Tallest Bridge

Nokia Finally Wakes Up and Starts Looking For a New CEO

What Is This?

Elements Gallery

“Smart” Alloy Will Make Your Air Conditioner 175% More Efficient

Holy Giant Steel Balls!

A FaceTime Call From the Middle of the Pacific Ocean

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