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It looks spooky and otherworldly, but designer Kristín Birna Bjarnadóttir created the Illuminant lamp with basic reflective material and an LED light source. The lamp itself is suspended from the ceiling with fishing line and the LED shines up and reflects off the surface and the colored disks placed inside the shade. I have to…
Sixty dollars! For caller ID! Whaaa? Sure, you see people’s numbers, but not their name, when they call you. What if it’s a telemarketer? That’s Privus’s pitch. Also, they claim their app actually delivers the caller name “nearly twice as often” as the lame one you have on your landline. You have to leave it…
Hudson’s Shot Watch app—inspired by the real version—followed 80s videogame microcelebrity Takahashi Meijin, who could hammer a button 16 times a second. Are you that fast? Find out for 99 cents. [iTunes via Kotaku] http://kotaku.com/gaming/bee.s-knees/hudsons-yellow-button-pushing-device-283034.php
On the surface, April 1 came and went without a peep from the dreaded Conficker megaworm. But security experts see a frightening reality, one where Conficker is now more powerful and more dangerous than ever. In the first minute of April 1, Conficker did exactly what everyone knew it was going to do: It successfully…
That AT&T’s new terms of service for wireless frowns on snagging video over P2P isn’t surprising, but the fact that it effectively prohibits Slinging video to phones is mildly shocking and definitely lame. Here’s the dirty clause, uncovered by Public Knowledge: This means, by way of example only, that checking email, surfing the Internet, downloading…
The iPod that Obama gave Queen Elizabeth II loaded with show tunes might have been lame and declasse for another reason: It’s possibly illegal! https://gizmodo.com/president-obama-gives-queen-elizabeth-an-ipod-queen-on-5194233 It’s a sloppy gray area we’ve looked at before: When you buy digital content, do you really own it? With actual CDs or books, the first sale doctrine lets you…
Sensing a cash money opportunity, the folks at ThinkGeek are going to take a shot at actually producing their April Fool’s Star Wars Tauntaun Sleeping bag. Lucasfilm is the only thing standing in their way. ATTN Tauntaun Fanatics! Due to an overwhelming tsunami of requests from YOU THE PEOPLE, we have decided to TRY and…
With all the work that needs to be done, it’s often difficult to get a good night’s sleep. Knowing this, some Russian dudes with a vision have decided to create a working pillow keyboard. You can work, catch a bit of rest at your desk, then wake up and get right back to it. What…
For people suffering from advanced macular degeneration, this lens implant magnifies light at 2.2x to 3x and projects it onto the healthy part of the retina, avoiding the damaged blind spot. It also, one would think, looks pretty awesome to wear. All we have to go on now are these illustrations, but I would love…
The pirates vs. ninjas debate has raged on for years now, but us old timers may be set in our ways—picking one side or another without having all the facts. Buy your child the Pirates vs. Ninjas Mobile and give them the advantage that you didn’t have. A leg up on life…so to speak. Actually,…
What exactly do you make in a crock pot? My grandma made stew in one, and it took a really long time. So this car crock pot is just for road trips. [RoadTrucker via NA]
And we have reached a new level of meta-ness. There are some really great moments in here, as is to be expected. One thing though, Colbert must be friends, secretly, with Matt Buchanan, because he’s pretty good at ignoring all real tangible communications, choosing instead to liveblog the procedings with an iPhone. The Colbert Report…
Wouldn’t it be great if Olympus celebrated the 50th birthday of the diminutive half-frame Pen F SLR by making it into the Micro Four Thirds digital we’ve always wanted? We’ve been pining for a Micro Four Thirds camera that breaks the mold since the system was announced, and this is exactly what we had in…
I want one of these installed at Momofuku Milk Bar, Doughnut Plant and City Bakery: BakerTweet tells all of the baker’s followers on Twitter what hot deliciousness just came out of the oven. BakerTweet is made up of a bunch of Arduino hardware and a Wi-Fi adapter encased in a “bakery-proof” box with a simple…
Showing their propensity for tardiness, the state of Texas is just now getting around to banning Vista from government computers because one state senator has heard “of the many reports of problems with Vista.” https://gizmodo.com/texas-decides-evolution-needs-more-study-i-decide-i-ne-5188521 You know what? We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Vista being a hideous abomination that eats computers…
The Samsung NC20 is not only another 12.1-inch netbook that’s just made its way to the States (more on the NC20 here), it’s the first system with a Via Nano processor. (You know, for if you really hate Intel but found that AMD has abandoned you.) And now it’s on sale at Newegg for $550.…
How could a blind person ever possibly dial on a touchscreen? Really, any ideas? Google engineers T.V. Raman and Charles Chen have developed a system that’s so simple it’s almost embarrassing. Instead of making the user find the right place to press their finger, the engineers made the software find the user’s finger. Wherever the…
A robot named Adam is reported to be the first robot ever to independently uncover scientific knowledge. The robot’s AI made a hypothesis about the genomics of a yeast, planned a test for the hypothesis and carried the test out in its lab. The results were replicated by human scientists later, confirming that, no, the…
Rupert Murdoch, News Corp potentate and noted evil person, yesterday announced his company is “investing in a new device that has a bigger screen [than the Kindle], [and] four colors,” adding, “THE KINDLE MUST PERISH.” The statement, gleaned and confirmed by AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka, is a surprise to everyone, and wasn’t accompanied by many real…
Get it? Shuttering? Developing? Oh, right, hundreds of Ritz employees are losing their livelihoods, and towns across the country are being deprived of their last standalone camera shop. This is actually extremely sad. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy back in February, but these 300 liquidations are the first serious manifestation of its decline.…