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Crazy guys sky walked across a rope connected by two hot air balloons
Gizmodo - 8 Feb 2014 03:36
Sometimes simple thrills and basic fears just aren't enough for crazies so they combine adventures and challenges into a sort of super extreme Frankensteinian dance with danger. That's how we end up with guys trying to w...
Manhattan Subway Pocket Cloth - $13
The Gadget Flow - 8 Feb 2014 08:00
The Manhattan Subway Cloth is a premium cleaning pocket cloth that allows for quick and easy cleaning of your eyewear, camera lenses and device display screens. It doesn't need any water to clean touch-screens or sunglas...
Little Feet Coffee Mug - $16
The Gadget Flow - 8 Feb 2014 08:00
This Little Feet Mug is a simple ceramic coffee mug, until you take a second look and find out it has its own feet. Created by Dylan Kendall, each mug is handmade, which gives the mug its own unique personality...
Snapchat vulnerability opens iPhone users to disabling attack, says researchers
Slash Gear - 8 Feb 2014 06:24
Snapchat has had a rough few months, what with the massive scraping of its users' information and such. The latest headache for the company comes in the form of a …
HBO "Silicon Valley" trailer makes Internet debut
Slash Gear - 8 Feb 2014 05:37
HBO has released the trailer for its upcoming serial jab at the tech world: Silicon Valley. The series is a half-hour show currently pegged for an eight-episode season, coming from …
Bitcoin money laundering case may threaten future of anonymous purchases
Slash Gear - 8 Feb 2014 03:45
Bitcoin's popularity has come with ups and downs, the most recent of which being criminal charges against three vendors for money laundering, something believed to be the first case of …
2014 Lexus IS F Review
Slash Gear - 8 Feb 2014 22:50
The 2014 Lexus IS F is an anachronism. Latest - and potentially last - in a line of performance sedans, its 460 HP, 5.0-liter V8 engine and Fuji racetrack tuned …
Flappy Bird creator threatens to kill game over controversy
Slash Gear - 8 Feb 2014 21:58
The creator of controversial and addictive mobile game Flappy Bird has said he plans to yank it from the App Store and Google Play within a day, claiming he "cannot …
Wait, What? Flappy Bird's Creator Says He's Removing The Game
Gizmodo - 8 Feb 2014 21:33
A tweet from Dong Nguyen, creator of the maddening and virally popular game Flappy Bird, says the game will disappear from the Android and iOS app stores at noon tomorrow. And here I'd just gotten past the first three pi...
T-Mobile wins fight for magenta against AT&T's Aio Wireless
Slash Gear - 8 Feb 2014 21:39
T-Mobile has won its battle over the color magenta, with a federal court ruling AT&T's subsidiary brand Aio Wireless must cease using the distinctive hue. The case, filed back in …
Lead a Better Life by Obsessively Tracking Every Aspect of It
Gizmodo - 8 Feb 2014 19:00
Blame the RPG's. After a generation of character building and class development in video games, quantifying our own personal stats has become as second nature as Second Life. And with these handy apps and gadgets at your...
500px will sell your photos if it can keep most of the cash
Engadget - 8 Feb 2014 18:56
Serious photographers who host their pictures at 500px will soon get to profit from their skills -- if not quite in they way they'd expect. The company has just unveiled Prime, a licensing store that's theoretically more...
This Is The Awesome Way Railroads Keep Tracks Warm In Winter
Gizmodo - 8 Feb 2014 17:05
Keeping your commute functioning in winter often means keeping the tracks unfrozen. That's why when temperatures dropped to well below freezing last week, the Long Island Rail Road needed to do something to keep all the ...
Bobino Foldable Phone Holder makes life more convenient when charging your phone
Coolest Gadgets - 8 Feb 2014 22:15
It goes without saying that most of us own a smartphone or at the very least, a mobile phone these days. Hence, those of us with smartphones and use them to the fullest will know that one of the “habits” which have b...
Bose SoundLink Bluetooth speaker III is the latest member of the acclaimed family
Coolest Gadgets - 8 Feb 2014 21:15
Bose has just announced their latest SoundLink product, which so happens to be the Bose SoundLink Bluetooth speaker III. Touted to be the best-performing Bluetooth speaker from Bose to date, it is said to deliver a brand...
Real Sochi, Fake Viral Sochi, Streetlights Changing Cinema, And More
Gizmodo - 8 Feb 2014 21:00
This week, in the run up to the now-underway Winter Olympics, we've been talking a lot about Sochi: can it be built in time? Are those bathroom pictures real? We also got a cool glimpse at how new streetlights will chang...
b"m wireless speaker band frees you from the snags of cables
Coolest Gadgets - 8 Feb 2014 20:15
b"m wireless has a brand new Bluetooth speaker which is small enough for you to wear on your wrist, allowing you to access your smartphone and favorite music in a jiffy regardless of where you are. This speaker band will...
How the Drought Is Devastating California's #1 Food Export: Almonds
Gizmodo - 8 Feb 2014 20:00
California grows a mind-boggling amount of the nation's produce: 99 percent of artichokes, 97 percent of kiwis, 97 percent of plums, 95 percent of celery, and on and on. That's why the record-breaking drought (yes, it's ...
This incredibly touching ad about whisky is better than most movies
Gizmodo - 8 Feb 2014 19:21
This moving commercial about Bell's whisky does more in two minutes than most movies do in two hours. Give it a try. I went in expecting nothing--I mean, it's a commercial!--and walked away gently holding my heart. It's ...
Beyond Glass: Inside Epson's scheme to make the de-facto smart glasses
Slash Gear - 8 Feb 2014 18:45
Epson can forgive you if your first thought when you hear augmented reality is Google Glass, even though you're wrong. Google may never had actually described its wearable as an …
Great, Hackers Can Use Snapchat to DoS Attack Your Phone
Gizmodo - 8 Feb 2014 18:00
When it comes to security, this hasn't been Snapchat's year. First hackers leaked a massive amount of private user data ; then we discovered how dumb easy it is to circumvent Snapchat's anti-robot feature . Now, cyber se...
Feedback Loop: Strange games, desktop recommendations, iTunes alternatives and more!
Engadget - 8 Feb 2014 17:00
Welcome to Feedback Loop, a weekly roundup of the most interesting discussions happening within the Engadget community. There's so much technology to talk about and so little time to enjoy it, but you have a lot of great...