Gadget News
Piggyback Rider Standing Child Carrier - $85
The Gadget Flow - 3 Feb 2014 08:00
The Standing Child Carrier from Piggyback Rider is a safe and convenient way to let your kids piggyback while you're out walking or in transit. The thing about tiny tots is that the minute you're out of the house they'll...
Bunjo Bungee Chair - $60
The Gadget Flow - 3 Feb 2014 08:00
The Bunjo Bungee Chair adds a dash of color and pizzazz to any space you put it in. It's an otherwise ordinary chair with a black steel tube structure and a polyester rim, but the seating surface is a teal...
SF to Google: Get Your Dang Mystery Barge Off Our Lawn
Gizmodo - 3 Feb 2014 23:58
Google's mystery barge that's been floating in San Francisco Bay since last fall? Yeah, it's gotta go because Google never secured any permits for it to be there in the first place.
Paper Review: This Could Be Your Only Facebook App... Someday
Gizmodo - 3 Feb 2014 21:54
Paper may not be a total Facebook replacement yet. But it does have the potential to change the way you interact with Facebook as a whole. In other words, it's everything that Facebook Home wasn't. And that's a great thi...
Samsung air conditioner design takes the triangular route
Coolest Gadgets - 3 Feb 2014 21:53
You know what they say – don't reinvent the wheel. How then, do you improve on something that is already more or less perfect? The air conditioner design that just about all of us are used to happens to be rectangular ...
Can Sochi Get Its Shit Together?
Gizmodo - 3 Feb 2014 21:40
By all accounts--except maybe Vladimir Putin's--the small Russian resort town of Sochi isn't ready for the Olympics. In fact, coverage of the preparations has taken on a downright panic-stricken tone. Can Sochi pull it o...
The Best New Domains Going Up For Grabs Soon (UPDATED)
Gizmodo - 3 Feb 2014 23:45
The internet as you know it might seem infinite, but according to ICANN, it's still not quite infinite enough. Soon, a whole new world of internet real estate is coming your way in the form of 122 brand new domain names....
Joel Huerta, wearing his brother's NYPD Auxiliary vest, heads back to his own apartment after cleari
Gizmodo - 3 Feb 2014 23:41
Joel Huerta, wearing his brother's NYPD Auxiliary vest, heads back to his own apartment after clearing the local florist's walk; there, he will continue to clear a path in what has become one of New York City's more snow...
Nintendo iPhone and Android games: maybe, maybe not
Slash Gear - 3 Feb 2014 23:35
If there's a way to clearly understand how Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata feels on expanding their business into the mobile smartphone universe through Android and the iPhone, the tech publishing …
This Ridiculous Victorian-Era Rocking Bath Wasn't Just For Fun
Gizmodo - 3 Feb 2014 23:30
Hydrotherapy was all the rage in the 19th century. Inventors devised countless contraptions to immerse people in water, hoping to restore them to health using nature's favorite liquid. But none were quite as awkward as t...
Pebble appstore for smartwatch goes live for iPhone users
Slash Gear - 3 Feb 2014 23:24
Pebble's appstore for its smartwatches has gone live, arriving in an update for the iOS Pebble app and with an Android version due "very, very soon" the company says. Currently …
Facebook Paper review: Zuckerberg finally "gets" mobile
Slash Gear - 3 Feb 2014 23:08
Facebook and mobile haven't had an easy run of it. Facebook Home, an attempt to capitalize on mobile with a near-walled-garden met with derision and faded with barely a whimper; …
A LED Robot That Makes Long Exposure Light Painting Easy
Gizmodo - 3 Feb 2014 23:00
Making those ethereal long exposure photos where you 'paint' an image with an LED light requires a combination of artistic talent, skill, and patience. But if you're lacking all three, just order one of these $100 Thymio...
Adobe's Photoshop guru John Nack is heading to Google's photography team
Engadget - 3 Feb 2014 22:44
If you needed further proof that Google was serious about its photography efforts, one of Adobe's main Photoshop folks is heading for Mountain View to pitch in. John Nack, former Senior Product Manager for Photoshop, has...
Gargoyles YouTube streaming tips Disney loosening reigns on media
Slash Gear - 3 Feb 2014 22:30
Supposing you weren't part of the Disney YouTube channel subscriber list and given backstage passes to the uploading of the entire three-season run of the cartoon Gargoyles last year, you …
Amazing video puts actor into six iconic scenes in one brilliant shot
Gizmodo - 3 Feb 2014 22:30
Movie magic makes fantasy worlds feel real everyday, but this short film called "Icons" takes it to a whole other level by transforming one actor over and over again, putting him in multiple iconic scenes and works of ar...
The government wants our cars to 'talk' to each other
Engadget - 3 Feb 2014 22:11
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is throwing its weight behind vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication systems. After years of experimentation and a real-world trial in Ann Arbor, MI the government is (almost) re...
Will Smallpox Reemerge in Siberia as Corpses Thaw from Climate Change?
Gizmodo - 3 Feb 2014 22:10
In an article primarily about the potential folly of holding onto stockpiles of smallpox virus for research purposes--a now-eradicated plague that humans no longer have natural immunity to and that would very likely caus...
Google Calendar now helps you remember holidays in 30 more countries
Engadget - 3 Feb 2014 21:59
If you've ever made the faux pas of contacting foreign coworkers while they're out celebrating national holidays, you'll appreciate the latest update to Google Calendar. The service now accounts for special occasions in ...
PlayStation 4 software update arrives tonight: here's how your headphones start working
Slash Gear - 3 Feb 2014 21:34
Tonight Sony is issuing PlayStation 4 software update tonight which will bring the operating system up to version 1.60 automatically. This update will be bringing on PlayStation 4 compatibility with …
Pebble Steel blends classic and modern in one beautiful smartwatch
Coolest Gadgets - 3 Feb 2014 21:30
You would think that there are enough smartwatches on the market now. There seems to be a new one cropping up every other day, touting that it is somehow better than the countless others that can also let you see alerts ...
Facebook, Google and Yahoo now say when the US government requests user content (update: Microsoft too)
Engadget - 3 Feb 2014 21:23
Last week, the US government finally relented on letting technology companies publish more detail about national security requests; today, some bigger firms are taking advantage of the looser rules. Facebook, Google, Lin...