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Thermo-Sensitive ‘Love Handles’ Sofa Shows Your Thigh Imprints in Beautiful Oily Colors

Remember those Thermochromatic t-shirts from the early ’90s? Unsurprisingly, American Apparel started selling them last year. Now there’s a sofa version from NunoErin, which is coated in a thermo-sensitive finish that changes color where your body touches it. It’s the “Love Handles” chair, and for obvious reasons—each oversized thigh will be imprinted on the chair…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Google Delaying Launch of Two Android Phones in China Due To Censorship Row

Whoa, the dispute between China and Google just got even more messy, with Google being forced to delay the launch of two Android phones from Motorola and Samsung on the China Unicom carrier. https://gizmodo.com/google-refuses-to-continue-censoring-results-in-china-5446712 The launch was initially slated for tomorrow, but with Google announcing last week they’d no longer be censoring search results in…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Suck Up Your Desk Debris With The Zamboni Vacuum

It’s been so snowy in both the UK and US in recent weeks, making this Zamboni ice resurfacer truck vacuum the perfect desk accompaniment for sucking up all the crisp crumbs. On sale soon. [UrbanTrendHK]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Sony’s VAIO Z Laptops On Sale in March, Will Bring Quad SSDs To The Table

We’ve got some more details on Sony’s beefed-up VAIO Z series of laptops which were announced at CES, namely the addition of Quad SSD drives, Intel Core i7-620M processors and NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M chips. https://gizmodo.com/sonys-f-y-and-z-series-notebooks-boast-multimedia-g-5442082 We already knew the two models would have a 13.1-inch LED backlit screen, an optical Blu-ray drive and HDMI-out,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Lumpy Motorola MOTOROI Will Be Released Worldwide In March

That lumpy Android MOTOROI phone from Motorola that was only supposed to launch in Korea WILL actually be released worldwide, according to executives. And very soon too, we hear, with March being the proposed month. [Korea Herald – Thanks Cliff_Dangers!] https://gizmodo.com/lumpy-motorola-motoroi-gets-official-not-much-use-to-y-5450693

Tech News Kat Hannaford

VIA EPIA-T700 Is Smallest Computer-On-Module Money Can Buy

Measuring 6cm x 6cm, VIA’s EPIA-T700 is the first chip launched in the new Mobile-ITX series which is actually the smallest computer-on-module available, even 50 per cent smaller than VIA’s small-sounding Pico-ITX. That sounds, err, small. https://gizmodo.com/via-mobile-itx-platform-is-half-the-size-of-the-pico-it-5416418 VP of VIA Embedded Platform Division, Daniel Wu, claims: “The VIA EPIA-T700 takes advantage of the modular design…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Brits Show Their Love of Booze With iPint Being Most-Downloaded iPhone App in UK

Over in Europe, the most downloaded iPhone app is the music-detecting Shazam. In the US, it’s the Facebook app. And those soggy Brits…? In the UK, the Carling branded iPint has snagged the crown of most downloaded app, according to ComScore’s Alistair Hill’s presentation at the Mobile Games Forum in London. Hic! [Mobile-Ent] Image Credit:…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Samsung Drops Five New TL, SL and HZ Cameras Gallery

Samsung HZ35W Samsung SL630 Samsung TL105 Samsung TL110

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Samsung HZ35W Slim Camera: 15x Zoom in a Slimmer Cam and GeoTagging

The HZ35W is a rare compact camera with 15x optical zoom. The wide-angle 24mm Schneider lenses are coupled with 12mp sensors, and the HZ35W has a 3-inch AMOLED screen along with GPS for geo-tagging. The HZ30W on the other hand has a 3.0-inch TFT LCD, so won’t offer a battery life quite as long as…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

TIE Fighter Helmet Will Reduce Your Enemies to Smithereens on Mere Sight

I’m about to depart to my wedding in a place far far away, and I’m considering my costume for the occasion. I wonder if my vows would sound to menacing if I’m wearing this. [StarWarsBlog via Great White Snark]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

11-Year-Old’s Science Project Causes Bomb Scare, School Evacuation, Hilarity

Proving once again that there are no qualifications needed to be a middle-school vice-principal besides being kind of a dick, a San Diego veepee called the bomb squad to investigate an 11-year-old’s Gatorade-bottle-based science experiment. Stay classy, San Diego. Apparently the kid, who sounds like a bit of a prodigy, really, brought in a homemade…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

The Best Hamster Wheel Sand Printer I’ve Ever Seen

This is a tough category, but I’m very proud to announce that the award for Best Hamster Wheel Sand Printer goes to…this one! The wheel was created by Barcelona designer Tomás Silva Alonso, for his Zanadesign firm, and going by some of the expression on these kids’ faces, it’s the most fun anyone’s ever had…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

A Little $18,000 Espresso Machine Called Slayer

The hand-built Slayer espresso machine is not brandspankinew, but it is still exceedingly uncommon—fewer than 20 exist in coffee shops—and this one, residing at freshly opened RBC NYC, is the first east of Michigan. It costs $18,000. The reason coffee nerds are hyped about the Slayer isn’t just because it’s obscenely expensive, or because of…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

DIY Lady Gaga Glasses Make You Look as Ridiculous (and Blind) as She

At least with those Kanye West Venetian blind glasses, you could kinda see. These things are just two screens on your face, blocking your entire field of vision. Get ready to run into walls, just like Lady Gaga probably does. DIY Lady GaGa Video Glasses from Angela M. Sheehan on Vimeo. So this hack is…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Super-Budget Lens-Mounted Ring Flash for DSLRs

Lens-mounted LED flash rings are a great resource for properly lit macro shots, but they’re usually pretty expensive (think $150). Enter Brando’s budget version. It’s almost certainly crappier than the full-priced models, as is Brando’s wont, but hey, at $58 I’m perfectly willing to accept a few deficiencies. It can light up in either the…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

AT&T Fixes Mobile Facebook Problems

AT&T has fixed several problems that caused some AT&T customers to log into the wrong Facebook account when using their mobile phones, an AT&T spokesman said on Monday: “In a limited number of instances, a server software connectivity error resulted in some AT&T wireless customers being logged in to the wrong Facebook account when they…

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The Ultimate Cellphone Plans Comparison Chart

Unlimited cellphone plans are trendy now and many are starting to offer them, but how do those plans fare against the old mix of 450 or 900 minutes and your choices of data and texting? Let’s go to the chart. https://gizmodo.com/at-t-matches-verizon-with-unlimited-talky-for-70-a-mon-5449398 Click on the image for a closer look. Geez. Still a bit confusing, isn’t…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Look At This Broken Nexus One

Poor reader Paul ordered a Nexus One and only had it for five days before this happened. No finger pointing—he said he dropped it—so just cry at the sad, broken gadget. Paul does say that the touchscreen still works and there’s no change in the display. It just, well, looks like that. And even worse,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Nokia Files Patent For a Bendy Phone With Many Functions

Images of the Nokia Morph, a flexible concept phone with a transparent screen, cropped up nearly two years ago. The company’s recently-filed patent for a device with a bendy screen suggests that the Gumbyphone may still have legs. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-morph-cellphone-rolls-up-stretches-cleans-itsel-360260 Nokia recently filed a patent for a device with a flexible screen that takes on different…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

One Tree Branch, Dozens of Jars, No Explanations

Sometimes, instead of asking “why,” it’s better just to say “woah.” This piece by New York artist Naoko Ito is one of those times. The project, entitled Ubiquitous, dissects a single six-foot wide tree branch into about two dozen pieces, the meticulously places them in jars to create this optical illusion. A comment on the…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Thermo-Sensitive ‘Love Handles’ Sofa Shows Your Thigh Imprints in Beautiful Oily Colors

Google Delaying Launch of Two Android Phones in China Due To Censorship Row

Suck Up Your Desk Debris With The Zamboni Vacuum

Sony’s VAIO Z Laptops On Sale in March, Will Bring Quad SSDs To The Table

Lumpy Motorola MOTOROI Will Be Released Worldwide In March

VIA EPIA-T700 Is Smallest Computer-On-Module Money Can Buy

Brits Show Their Love of Booze With iPint Being Most-Downloaded iPhone App in UK

Samsung Drops Five New TL, SL and HZ Cameras Gallery

Samsung HZ35W Slim Camera: 15x Zoom in a Slimmer Cam and GeoTagging

TIE Fighter Helmet Will Reduce Your Enemies to Smithereens on Mere Sight

11-Year-Old’s Science Project Causes Bomb Scare, School Evacuation, Hilarity

The Best Hamster Wheel Sand Printer I’ve Ever Seen

A Little $18,000 Espresso Machine Called Slayer

DIY Lady Gaga Glasses Make You Look as Ridiculous (and Blind) as She

Super-Budget Lens-Mounted Ring Flash for DSLRs

AT&T Fixes Mobile Facebook Problems

The Ultimate Cellphone Plans Comparison Chart

Look At This Broken Nexus One

Nokia Files Patent For a Bendy Phone With Many Functions

One Tree Branch, Dozens of Jars, No Explanations

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

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Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

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