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These Bluetooth Speakers Last Up To 20 Hours, and Only Cost $30
Gizmodo - 13 Mar 2015 15:28
Bluetooth speakers are obviously great for listening to music around the house and outdoors, but once you own one, you start to find a ton of other uses for it. I pull mine out almost every night to boost my iPad's volum...
ScreenGuardz Pure + The Crown
The Gadget Flow - 13 Mar 2015 06:59
ScreenGuardz Pure® + The Crown™ is a patent-pending BodyGuardz solution designed to provide edge-to-edge impact and scratch protection for the curved screens of today's hottest mobile devices. The Crown is a custom-mo...
The UK Is Hosting Cyber War Games In A Decommissioned Warship
Gizmodo - 13 Mar 2015 05:00
Wargames used to -- and still often does -- mean legions of tanks roaming across battlefields, and a bunch of soldiers playing make-believe with really big guns. These days, it's all about corralling a bunch of nerds int...
How Scientists Will Find Your Next Antibiotic in this Pile of Dirt
Gizmodo - 13 Mar 2015 17:00
Nearly a century after scientists dug up penicillin, researchers are turning once more to the soil for new pharmaceuticals. But this time, they have tiny, powerful technologies on their side. Here's how scientists are un...
A Red Hot Nickel Ball Proves Gak Is Basically Invincible
Gizmodo - 13 Mar 2015 16:35
Remember Gak? The impossibly amazing substance invented by Nickelodeon's mad scientists in the 1990s is still on the market, and it's still incredible. And, as this new video of a red hot nickel ball waging war against t...
This Virtual Reality Snorkel Sounds Like A Great Way To Drown
Gizmodo - 13 Mar 2015 05:55
I've used a lot of VR headsets , but the tagline of Nautilus VR's new Kickstarter project scares the hell out of me: "Virtual Reality Underwater." Call me crazy, but that sounds dangerous. And yes, also a little awesome....
23andMe plans to make drugs based on customer data
Slash Gear - 13 Mar 2015 03:29
23andMe has had a somewhat rocky existence, first offering data on one's own ancestry and genetic data, then stripping that down to only ancestry information coupled with raw data that coupld be parsed for medical reason...
PancakeBot prints flapjacks in any shape you can trace
Engadget - 13 Mar 2015 01:34
We've all been there. Awake at some ludicrously early hour -- on a Saturday morning no less -- slaving away over a hot griddle only to have your pancakes snubbed because they're too circular. Next time, impress your broo...
U.S. Post Offices Have Installed Hidden Spy Cameras to Film Customers
Gizmodo - 13 Mar 2015 01:00
Did you know that the United States Postal Service has its own police force? It's true. While the U.S. Postal Inspection Service is typically tasked with looking into mailbox vandalism and mail fraud, an investigation in...
To Join the Military Police, You Must Get Pepper Sprayed in the Face
Gizmodo - 13 Mar 2015 23:45
So you want to join the military police? Well then, get ready to get blasted with a a level-one contamination of oleoresin capsicum. In plain English: You'll be pepper sprayed in a very painful way. And then you'll have ...
'Seinfeld' will start streaming soon, but probably not on Netflix
Engadget - 13 Mar 2015 23:38
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Sony Pictures has opened the bidding for streaming rights to Seinfeld. One party apparently not taking part is Netflix, leaving the show about nothing to Amazon, Hulu o...
Gawker Good News: Dick Transplants Now Possible | Jalopnik This Supercut Of South Carolina's Stupide
Gizmodo - 13 Mar 2015 23:28
Gawker Good News: Dick Transplants Now Possible | Jalopnik This Supercut Of South Carolina's Stupidest, Angriest Drivers Is Amazing | Jezebel OK Hates Gay Marriage So Much It Wants to Get Rid of Straight Marriage | Kotak...
theScore eSports aims for total coverage on iOS and Android
Slash Gear - 13 Mar 2015 23:20
The fastest growing sporting environment today is - unequivocally - video games. It's a segment called "eSports", and the folks at theScore are aiming to bring a one-stop-shop for following the biggest and the best games...
State Dept. Just Shut Off Part of Its Email System Due to Hackers
Gizmodo - 13 Mar 2015 23:15
The fallout from Hillary Clinton's homebrew email dust up is getting weird. The Department of State just shut down part of its unclassified email system in an attempt to eradicate malware they just found from Russian hac...
Just Turn Off Your Notifications Already
Gizmodo - 13 Mar 2015 23:00
I see you, internet-connected person, complaining that you're a slave to your phone and to the notifications that won't stop coming. It seems like every day, an app finds a new reason it needs to disturb the few moments ...
'Mortal Kombat X' ups the fright factor with Jason Voorhees
Engadget - 13 Mar 2015 22:57
Round 1, FRIGHT! Jason Voorhees, the hockey-masked murderer from the classic Friday the 13th horror films, will be a playable character in Mortal Kombat X. Jason joins the fight as part of the Kombat Pack DLC pass, which...
This Waterproof Drone Floats And That's Awesome
Gizmodo - 13 Mar 2015 22:30
Drones and water don't get along. This tends to be a problem when you're trying to film aerial footage of, say, some rad surfers or when your battery dies above a pond. But the Splash Drone is designed specifically to so...
These Scientific Names Were Chosen Purely To Insult Certain People
Gizmodo - 13 Mar 2015 22:30
What is the best way to make sure your insult lasts a really, really long time? Well, if you're a scientist who has the pleasure of naming a newly described genus or species, you might be able to get away with inserting ...
Links of the Week!
Think Geek - 13 Mar 2015 22:26
Need to kill some time? Have we got the thing for you! Here are the latest links of awesome stuff from the Internetz. Our favorite links from the Twitter, Google+, Facebook, and Pinterest 'verse:
NYPD edited Wikipedia pages on police brutality, stop-and-frisk
Engadget - 13 Mar 2015 22:22
Apparently it's not just politicians that are concerned about their reputation on Wikipedia -- a report by Capital found evidence of the New York Police Department digging into the crowd-sourced encyclopedia. IP addresse...
My First Time On The Slopes In 16 Years, I Skied The Backcountry
Gizmodo - 13 Mar 2015 22:21
I haven't been skiing since the late '90s. So, for my first time back, a trip out of bounds though the backcountry outside Jackson Hole Mountain Resort was a safe, practical thing to do, right?
Introducing STORMBREW, an NSA-Inspired Beer for the Masses
Gizmodo - 13 Mar 2015 22:20
When the National Security Agency says they need three hops, it leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. They mean that they're sweeping up hundreds of millions of ordinary Americans' phone records in order to create detailed ...