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Liquid Wallet - $41
The Gadget Flow - 20 Feb 2014 08:00
The Liquid Wallet is the first of its kind to seamlessly integrate your essential keys into a minimalist wallet. Liquid is designed to be a wallet that can not only efficiently store your cards and cash, but also unlock ...
Gawker Frat Houses Are Death Traps | Jalopnik Draco Malfoy Took A Lamborghini Through An In-N-Out Dr
Gizmodo - 20 Feb 2014 23:59
Gawker Frat Houses Are Death Traps | Jalopnik Draco Malfoy Took A Lamborghini Through An In-N-Out Drive-Thru | Jezebel Eight Reasons Why the Mangagement Ring Should Totally Be a Thing | Lifehacker Wall Street Survivor Te...
Apple brings two-step verification for Apple ID to more countries
Engadget - 20 Feb 2014 23:13
After discovering a huge security hole last year, Apple added an extra layer of protection for Apple ID and iCloud users in the form of two-step verification. Today it's making the important security feature available in...
Nokia Lumia Icon Review
Slash Gear - 20 Feb 2014 22:59
Verizon has needed a new Windows Phone 8 flagship, and Nokia was the obvious choice to deliver it. Don't mistake the Lumia Icon for a side-thought in Nokia's smartphone schemes, …
Nokia dives into game development with Modern Mayor for Windows Phone
Engadget - 20 Feb 2014 22:44
It looks like Nokia has added game development to its repertoire as the handset maker released free-to-play Modern Mayor for WP8 Lumia devices today. The title tasks players with the mission of saving a dying town from c...
Scientists Turn Off Pain Using Nothing But Light
Gizmodo - 20 Feb 2014 22:40
Pain is a hard problem. Sure, we can throw a little morphine at pain in the short term, but researchers continue to struggle with solutions for chronic pain. New research from Stanford's futuristic Bio-X lab looks like a...
The case for (and against) a mini-er Mac Mini
Ars Technica - 20 Feb 2014 22:00
The recent wave of mini-desktops leads us to reconsider one of our favorites.
Leaning Tower of Pasta - $50
The Gadget Flow - 20 Feb 2014 08:00
The Leaning Tower of Pasta is a spaghetti storage container that is intentionally designed to lean precariously without falling over. It's already tilted at a 3.99° angle, but won't be tilting any more than that unless ...
Okay, So Vertical Videos Are Now Art?
Gizmodo - 20 Feb 2014 23:40
Unperturbed by the scourge of vertical video shot on mobile phones, a bunch of Serious Artists have banded together for a film festival devoted exclusively to incorrectly oriented videos. Why subject our eyeballs to such...
Twitter lie detector is in development
Slash Gear - 20 Feb 2014 03:26
Have you ever told a fable on Twitter, perhaps for humor's sake or as an accidental faux pas? Ever retweeted something, only to later discover it was false? Soon such …
7 Other Things Facebook Could Have Bought for $16 Billion
Gizmodo - 20 Feb 2014 02:40
Facebook announced today that it's buying messaging app WhatsApp for the completely astounding sum of $16 billion dollars. That's a whole lot of money. What else could they have done with such a gargantuan stack of cash?...
HTC's new flagship gets approved by the FCC
Engadget - 20 Feb 2014 23:28
At this point, the followup to HTC's One flagship is a lock for late March, and we've even been blessed with leaks that show off what the phone, codenamed M8, looks like. Now the device has made its way through the oblig...
A4WP Dell wireless charging for laptops incoming
Slash Gear - 20 Feb 2014 23:23
Shortly after the folks at A4WP announced they'd be teaming up with another one of the major wireless standards (A4DP + PMA)> this month, they've pulled Dell aboard. Dell's acceptance …
The Wolfram Locker - In Case the End is Near
Coolest Gadgets - 20 Feb 2014 22:59
Wow, I can’t say I’m sure about global warming, in fact, I’m fairly certain the buzzword has now become “climate change”. There’s something I can get behind. The weather has been unyielding lately, storms of ...
Google Project Tango will 3D map the whole world with hiDOF
Slash Gear - 20 Feb 2014 22:28
Today Google announced Project Tango, delivered first as a smartphone that's able to scan the world around it in real time. This phone knows its position in space in real …
Google's "Project Tango" is a smartphone with Kinect-style computer vision
Ars Technica - 20 Feb 2014 22:27
Signups for Google's 3D mapping and augmented reality development platform start today.
Here's Why Ikea Is Discontinuing Everyone's Favorite Shelf
Gizmodo - 20 Feb 2014 22:25
Expedit, we hardly knew ye. Ikea recently announced that the popular shelving system is not long for this world, and the internet responded with rage. But there's a really good reason for Ikea to get rid of Expedit. And ...
Former HTC execs equip latest Kazam budget phone with LTE
Engadget - 20 Feb 2014 22:21
Say hi to the Kazam Thunder² 4.5L Android smartphone. It's an LTE-enabled follow-up to the original low-cost Thunder (without the "squared" sign) that launched in Europe last year. The brainchild of two HTC execs who de...
The Worst Blunders People Make in Inventing Fictional Alien Worlds
Gizmodo - 20 Feb 2014 22:20
We love stories that take us to alien planets and let us explore whole new environments. But not every alien planet is totally realistic, especially given how much we've learned about exoplanets lately. So we asked six e...
Dell could incorporate wireless charging in future devices
Engadget - 20 Feb 2014 21:54
The Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) has just added a major player to its membership roster: Dell. This marks the first time a big PC maker has come forward to support a wireless charging standard, which A4WP has brand...
Google Project Tango: 200 phones with 3D sensors for room-scanning
Slash Gear - 20 Feb 2014 21:44
This week the experimental developer-aimed group known as Google ATAP - aka Advanced Technology and Projects (skunkworks) have announced Project Tango. They've suggested Project Tango will appear first as a …
Samsung and their Fragile Relationship with Google
TechPinions - 20 Feb 2014 21:41
For Insiders I wrote a while back about Samsung’s precarious position in the market place. Samsung finds themselves between a rock and a hard place. It is not surprising that a bit of news surfaced stating that the nex...