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Do you make new year’s resolutions? If so, you should avoid the following products. Your chance for success in 2010 would be over before it began. Losing Weight: Sorry, but your diet is blown sky high when you carry around a briefcase full of sausage—as is your resolution about not having heart attacks in 2010.…
My chess strategy doesn’t extend too far beyond pulling my knights out first, because that’s what the computer games always do against me. But with this cube-based set, I’d probably need a strategy just to remember which piece is which. Chess has been reimagined more times than anyone cares to count. But Scott Cruz‘s chess…
You can keep your neck snuggie and baby snuggie and space snuggie. Real ballers know that the Snuggle Suit is the be all and end all. https://gizmodo.com/necky-the-snuggie-for-your-neck-5426336 Not only is this actual product currently for sale, it’s also 66% off at JC Penny. If you don’t wish you had one of these to lounge away…
10 years ago, you could buy the HP Jornada 548 with a color screen, which let you listen to MP3s, surf the web, check your email, and keep a calendar. It had a touchscreen. It ran Windows. It was awesome. Today, you can buy a smartphone with a color screen, which lets you listen to…
I spent this decade hunting for the perfect gadget. I never thought I would end up with tech as good as this. But it’s not the tech that interests me the most anymore. In 2000, I was just another kid out of college in Boston escaping to the Golden State’s climate and opportunity. The perfect…
When thinking about the cost of a cellphone, we consider the phone itself and any service plans, but what about the price of misuse? How often are we finding ourselves paying an unsubsidized price to replace phones under contract? It’s just so easy to damage a phone. It slips out of your hand and crashes…
A wannabe Wolverine is crying somewhere in the UK, because these homemade claws of his were seized by border agents as part of a crackdown on illegal goods shipping into the country. Guess he’ll just hope for a mutation now. Look at how sharp these seem. A pair of them and some of those nanopaticles…
No, this isn’t an instructional guide on how to build a TwitterPeek. This device is even more useless. Impossible? Hardly. Check out the video. Then hit the following link for the complete set of build instructions. [Instructables via Neatorama]
Visentin’s LED shower heads are pretty stunning, that is, until you realize that, not only are you completely naked in front of your guests, but you’re also splashing water all over the living room. [Visentin via Trendir]
When your stuff gets stolen, FILL OUT A POLICE REPORT. Consumerist reader Alisa is figuring this out the hard way after Apple received her stolen phone for repair. Even though it’s clearly hers, they refuse to return it. UPDATED: I got robbed on the subway in Brooklyn about 2 weeks ago, my iPhone (and some…
After the iPhone 3.0 firmware update, we wondered whether the the next gen iPhone would bring a new chip with support for 802.11n. Now a job posting on Apple’s website is feeding that theory. https://gizmodo.com/unconfirmed-next-gen-iphone-includes-support-for-802-1-5199267 We’ve already seen that the newest iPod Touch has a Broadcom BCM4329 chip with support for 802.11n and FM transmission—something…
Get it? Get it?? Yeah, I bet you got it. [tumblr via tumblr via Super Punch]
Maybe it’s a little scary to have all your passwords on a mobile device, but 1Password is the best password manager around. It keeps track of all of your complicated “G2zs01Tt”-type passwords in a simple program, using a single master password as the key. You have to manually import your passwords onto your phone from…
Use your Android to remotely control your Mac or PC, anytime, anywhere. Control your desktop, run any application and edit any file as if you’re sitting right in front of your computer. One touch, and you’re in. $29.99 From The App Developers: LogMeIn Ignition for Android lets you access your work and home computers, easily.…
Impulse shopping, made all too easy on your phone-it remember products you scan (either a photo or barcode) so you can buy them later, too. FREE From The App Developers: The Amazon App for Android presents a shopping experience customized specifically for your mobile device running the Android operating system. The App allows you to…
If you suck at remembering things, Astrid is a simple task manager and to-do list. Killer feature? It syncs with the Remember the Milk. FREE From The App Developers: Astrid is a to-do list/task tracking system for Google’s Android platform built with your productivity in mind. Astrid’s goal is to be simple to use with…
An Android task manager to kill useless background processes is mandatory, at least if you want your phone running at top speed. Oh, and Astro happens to be a pretty damn good file manager, too. FREE From The App Developers: The Astro File Manager helps you get the most out of your Android smart phone.…
Dear 2009, thank you for all the stories, the good and the bad ones. Here are the top 10 most popular articles. Now we have to say good bye forever, because 2010 and the new decade are here. So long!
Powered by Kobo (which has its own Android app) but with Borders gloss. It looks and works decently enough, but is mostly nice for big Borders shoppers, since it links up to Borders Rewards program. The app also supports automatic bookmarking and customized font and type sizes. Free. Android 2.0+ FREE From The App Developer:…
If you need to edit Office documents on your phone, you pretty much gotta go through DataViz’s Documents To Go. Save us, oh native Google Docs app. FREE From The App Developers: Now you can get your work done no matter where you are by using Documents To Go to view, edit and create Microsoft…
