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Therma Spring Solar Mats provides pool heating for free!
Coolest Gadgets - 14 Jul 2014 23:07
When you wake up in the morning and walk to the patio outside of your bedroom that is located on the third floor of your palatial bungalow, you take a whiff of the fresh air around you, swinging your arms as part of your...
Mercedes-Benz's S 65 AMG Coupe ladles excess for a quarter-million
Slash Gear - 14 Jul 2014 23:38
Mercedes-Benz loves its V12 engines, and the potent powerplant has found itself another suitable home under the lengthy hood of the S 65 AMG Coupé, a monstrous 6-liter biturbo beast pushing out 630 HP. Limited to 155 mp...
Microsoft's AI Is On Its Way to Identifying the Whole World
Gizmodo - 14 Jul 2014 22:45
This morning at the annual Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft showed off a pretty impressive advancement in its AI tech. An app, entitled Project Adam, is poised to identify all of its surroundings just like a Fire Phone...
CST-01: The World's Thinnest Watch
The Gadget Flow - 14 Jul 2014 07:00
It's undoubtedly an incredible piece of watchmaking technology you can't ignore wearing on the wrists as the CST-01: The World’s Thinnest Watch. The concept lies in enhancing the use of E-ink displays with an added tou...
Amazing hail storm on a beach looks like the beginning of the Apocalypse
Gizmodo - 14 Jul 2014 06:44
This video captured on a beach in Novosibirsk, Siberia, looks like a scene from a movie about the end of the world. People were enjoying a perfect sunny day--with temperatures of 99F (37C)--when bullet-sized hail started...
Shazam streams full tracks from Rdio without leaving the app
Engadget - 14 Jul 2014 23:23
Shazam has linked out to Rdio for a while now, but the tune-identification app would boot you out to access a full track. With a recent update though, the software now streams songs it identifies from Rdio's library from...
Android L's app design--early looks at YouTube, Gmail, Maps, and more
Ars Technica - 14 Jul 2014 22:33
Gallery: We round up all the Material Design screenshots Google has been showing off.
US claims Chinese exec used hackers to steal warplane data
Engadget - 14 Jul 2014 06:12
The US isn't done throwing the book at alleged Chinese industrial spies. The Department of Justice has charged a Chinese executive living in Canada, Su Bin, with stealing sensitive info for Boeing and Lockheed Martin war...
Apple advertisements may soon look like Beats
Slash Gear - 14 Jul 2014 23:56
While Apple has worked with creative agency TBWA Media Labs for decades, this week it's suggested that they may be ready to move on. With Beats under their wing, Apple is said to be pushing for a new direction in the aud...
Watch Footage of an Armed Palestinian Drone Flying Over Gaza
Gizmodo - 14 Jul 2014 23:39
The military wing of Hamas just posted a five-minute-long video of an apparently fully armed drone flying over the Gaza Strip. It's impossible to know if the four, real-looking missiles attached to the drone's wings are ...
This Movie About Hackers Is Free for 24 Hours Before It Disappears
Gizmodo - 14 Jul 2014 23:26
The new film Algorithm tracks the travails of Will, a freelance computer hacker who "breaks into a top-secret government contractor and downloads all their recently developed programs." Like the subjects it tackles, the ...
Windows is rising to the Chromebook price war
Slash Gear - 14 Jul 2014 23:17
HP is readying a $199 Windows notebook for the holidays, as Microsoft pushes Windows 8.1 against Google Chromebooks, one of a number of more affordable PC options. The HP Stream laptop, confirmed during the Microsoft Wor...
Practice Putting At 3,000 Feet With This Mountaintop Mini-Golf Course
Gizmodo - 14 Jul 2014 23:16
If you make it to the top of La Rhune, a 3,000-foot-tall mountain in the Pyrenees between France and Spain, you can look up and out to the natural panorama: peaks and valleys stretching unobstructed into the distance. Or...
The Coolest Cooler is REALLY Cool!
Coolest Gadgets - 14 Jul 2014 23:01
If you look around a bit, you can find a great cooler that can keep your summer libations frosty cold. Look some more, and you can find some great bluetooth speakers to pound the tunes during your weekend soirees. An eve...
There's a Fully Accessorized Picnic Blanket Hiding Inside This Bag
Gizmodo - 14 Jul 2014 23:00
How many times have your plans for a relaxing Sunday afternoon picnic been foiled when you forgot something as simple as cutlery, or wine glasses? It's an unfortunate first-world problem that Build NY is trying to solve ...
Sotheby's teams up with eBay to stream luxury auctions worldwide
Engadget - 14 Jul 2014 22:56
Sotheby's auctions can be prohibitively expensive, but part of the problem is getting there in the first place; not everyone can send people to bid on their behalf. Distance shouldn't be an issue in the near future, thou...
Secret widens its anonymous network to include your Facebook friends too
Engadget - 14 Jul 2014 22:27
When Secret first launched earlier this year, the only subscribers who could see your anonymous missives on the app were folks who were somehow connected to your phone's address book -- they were either your friends, fri...
Wiper may be the first true private messaging app
Slash Gear - 14 Jul 2014 22:23
Is messaging truly private, or even secure? Snapchat showed us that even when we think that our conversations are secure, they may not be. A new app, Wiper, aims to deliver on that promise, though; keeping things secure,...
Bloomberg Terminals Have a Secret Craigslist for Crazy Rich People
Gizmodo - 14 Jul 2014 22:21
For about $2,000 a month, Bloomberg Terminals seem like a tremendous waste of money for anyone but the avid trader. But! Did you know that insane price comes with access to a special classifieds section, populated exclus...
Your Entire Family Can Waste Away the Summer On This Mega Hammock
Gizmodo - 14 Jul 2014 22:09
There'll never be another fight over who gets to lay in the hammock with this monstrosity strung up in your backyard. The Mega Hammock requires you to find at least four nearby trees (or cranes) for hanging, but when it'...
Comcast buys 'smart internet' startup to build better routers
Engadget - 14 Jul 2014 22:04
Last year, Skydog was an interesting Kickstarter project promising a cloud-based router built to give better individual control over your connected devices through its mobile app. Now, TechCrunch reveals its parent compa...
TMNT trailer teases origin story, offers glimpse of tiny turtles
Slash Gear - 14 Jul 2014 21:51
Before transforming into mutant ninjas, the TMNT foursome were simple tiny turtles. How that transformation will take place in the upcoming film has been a big question mark, with speculation (and worries) aplenty over w...