Gadget News
Springerle Rolling Pin
The Gadget Flow - 17 Jun 2014 07:00
Price: $85 Through this spectacular Springerle Rolling Pin, you can now roll out 9 different ½" x 2″ cookie designs at once. This design base includes some authentic and some gorgeous layouts such as that of hearts, f...
Mind-Controlled Helicopter by Puzzlebox Orbit
The Gadget Flow - 17 Jun 2014 07:00
Price: $229 In order to meditate and refresh your mind in a playful mood, the best thing you could have is this Mind-Controlled Helicopter by Puzzlebox Orbit. Just like the name sounds, it is an helicopter you can contro...
Using your phone to wake up rested in the morning
Slash Gear - 17 Jun 2014 23:34
There's an app by the name of "Sleep Cycle" that takes the prospect of waking up every morning completely refreshed and aims to make it a reality. All you need …
A map of Game of Thrones if it was set in the USA
Gizmodo - 17 Jun 2014 04:54
Roadtrippers has a fun little map that translates the setting of the mythical world of Westeros from Game of Thrones to the United States of America. Kings Landing becomes Washington DC, Winterfell becomes Detroit and ot...
Why Hexagons Are The Best Building Block For Bees and Their Hives
Gizmodo - 17 Jun 2014 00:40
Honeycomb is hexagonal. Not circular. Not square. Not triangular. Why did bees settle on that particular shape? It was no accident; like many of their compatriots in the animal kingdom, it turns out the lil' insects are ...
What would it look like if you could peel a city off Earth's crust?
Gizmodo - 17 Jun 2014 23:05
Supparat Thepparat is an illustrator who creates some really cool surreal imagery for advertising agencies. Without their commercial context, his cities peeling from the Earth's crust, the open air mines on fish flesh, o...
Apple Is Happy to Take Your Money if Amazon Won't
Gizmodo - 17 Jun 2014 23:05
Fresh off of settling a lawsuit that accused it of collusion with publishers, Apple is ready to take the money you were planning to give to Amazon but can't. Since Amazon is in a fight with Hachette --the world's largest...
Oxford University's smart glasses help people with partial vision see more detail
Engadget - 17 Jun 2014 22:53
When we hear the term "smart glasses" these days, we tend to focus more on the smart and less on the glasses. Researchers at Oxford University see things the other way around: putting the emphasis on glasses suggests a d...
Breaking Bad Is Now Streaming in 4K on Netflix
Gizmodo - 17 Jun 2014 02:01
What's better than watching Walter White mix meth and scheme his sinister schemes? Watching Walter White mix meth and scheme his sinister schemes in Ultra HD, that's what. And now you can, because Netflix is streaming Br...
Tesla's Model X SUV enters production in early 2015, clever doors intact
Engadget - 17 Jun 2014 01:19
Worried that Tesla's all-electric SUV, the Model X, might face yet another delay? Don't be. Tesla is telling pre-order customers that their vehicles will roll off the line in early 2015, complete with the space-saving "f...
Symbian was once held ransom for several million euros, and Nokia paid it
Engadget - 17 Jun 2014 23:57Google asked to include other app stores in Play: should they?
Slash Gear - 17 Jun 2014 23:44
A recent lawsuit overseas suggests Google is exercising anti-competitive actions. The crux of the complaint has to do with Google strong-arming those app download portals that aren't theirs, effectively placing …
A Guide to the FBI's Guide to Twitter Slang
Gizmodo - 17 Jun 2014 23:40
The FBI cares what you have to say on Twitter. It cares so much that it created an 83-page document about "Twitter Shorthand." The guide includes 2,800 entries that basically amount to every acronym known to man--along w...
The More Walkable a City Is, the More Money It Makes
Gizmodo - 17 Jun 2014 23:20
A focus on dense, walkable development allows cities to pack more economic punch per square foot, according to a new study. In Washington DC, deemed the most walkable U.S. city, the most walkable areas in the city take u...
This is the most disgusting video I have ever seen
Gizmodo - 17 Jun 2014 23:18
I really came close to barfing while watching this video of a mother toad having baby toads off its back. "Her offsprings have developed from egg to toad in her back, and now it's time to move on," says the narrator. No,...
Tech Observations From the Field
TechPinions - 17 Jun 2014 23:14
Over the past few days, I have been taking notes on my observations of tech, primarily mobile usage, of “regular humans” in the wild. And by that, I mean at Disney World where my family and I are vacationing. I have ...
PSA: iOS 8 drops support for second-generation Apple TVs
Ars Technica - 17 Jun 2014 23:05
News should come as no surprise if you know about the hardware that's inside.
Xbox Live is down (sort of), it's not just you
Slash Gear - 17 Jun 2014 23:04
This afternoon you may be having trouble connecting to your best buddies on Xbox Live with your Xbox One or Xbox 360. You are not alone. There's a service disruption …
Start a Rebellion In Your Kitchen With an X-wing Knife Holder
Gizmodo - 17 Jun 2014 23:00
Would the Rebel Alliance have been able to defeat the Death Stars and the Empire flying a bunch of wooden blocks? No. Then why wouldn't you want to store your kitchen knives in this X-wing shaped knife block that is clea...
MakerBot Z18 starts shipping to pre-order customers
Slash Gear - 17 Jun 2014 22:54
MakerBot, the company leading the charge to get 3D printing everywhere, has announced their Replicator Z18 printer is ready to ship. For those who backed the device early on via …
Adventure Tested: Samsung Galaxy S5 Active Review
Gizmodo - 17 Jun 2014 22:44
With additional armor and unique, physical buttons, the waterproof Samsung Galaxy S5 Active targets outdoorsy users. Well, I'm outdoorsy, so I took it outside and beat it up. Does it work?
These Inductive Batteries Keep Your Power Tools Perpetually Charged
Gizmodo - 17 Jun 2014 22:40
It's almost impossible to think of a time when you had to wrangle a long cord while working with power tools. But as convenient as cordless tools are, they're useless if their batteries are dead. So this fall, Bosch will...