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FireFly Running & Biking Light Spurs
The Gadget Flow - 4 Sep 2015 08:00
The FireFly Safety Running and Biking Light Spurs provide super bright high intensity light that easily clip on to your shoe heel and allow you to be seen in the dark and stay safe. The FireFly light spurs help keep you ...
JetComfy - Best Travel Pillow Ever, with 16 Features
The Gadget Flow - 4 Sep 2015 08:00
It’s the evolution of the travel pillow – REAL support for your head and neck with 16 built-in, high-tech features. We studied every so called "comfort pillow" on the market, and what they are all missing is the abil...
Vicious drone attack by sneaky chimp no accident say researchers
Slash Gear - 4 Sep 2015 18:59
A chimp by the name of Tushi took down a drone in a report released this week by the journal Primates. This event took place this April but footage was just released today, complete with drone movement, pre-emptive chimp...
How to Make Your iPad Kid-Friendly
Gizmodo - 4 Sep 2015 15:35
If you spend any time around young children you'll know what a soothing and calming influence a tablet can be, but it's potentially a pretty dangerous one too--there's plenty of unwholesome content out there on the inter...
New Pavement Made From Tires Will Save Old Faithful's Groundwater
Gizmodo - 4 Sep 2015 15:20
Labor Day Weekend is one of the busiest times at Yellowstone National Park, and its famous geyser, Old Faithful, reels in 90% of the park's 3.6 million annual visitors. To keep that geyser reliably spewing steam and wate...
The FBI Now Needs a Warrant To Use Its Phone-Sniffing Stingray Boxes
Gizmodo - 4 Sep 2015 01:35
Privacy took a blow last week when the NSA got permission to keep operating a massive dragnet . Here's some better news: As of today, federal agents should have a harder time using Stingrays to spy on cell phones.
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Gizmodo - 4 Sep 2015 00:05
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A Beginner's Guide to Small Batch American Gin
Gizmodo - 4 Sep 2015 22:20
Gin is a divisive drink. It has been for centuries. Responsible for an early booze-fueled crisis in England, the botanical-infused distilled spirit was once seen as scourge on society. Three hundred years later, it's bec...
What's New With Parrot's Zik 3 Wireless Headphones?
Gizmodo - 4 Sep 2015 21:45
Parrot just revealed the third generation Zik headphones. The Zik 3.0 will look very familiar if you've ever seen the Zik 2.0 , since the design remains largely unchanged, it's just available in some gaudy new styles. Bu...
Mozilla is ready to test Firefox on iOS, but only in New Zealand
Engadget - 4 Sep 2015 02:07
iPhone and iPads owners looking for a browser alternative are one step closer to seeing Mozilla's option on their devices, but right now a "preview" of the app is only available in New Zealand. In a blog post it says thi...
IFA Day 2: Samsung's product showcase
Engadget - 4 Sep 2015 14:15
IFA 2015 is turning out to be a trade show where the only company announcing anything of interest is Samsung. That's why our wrap-up of day two covers the company's new SmartThings Home Hub, its SleepSense monitor and th...
Booy: The Tablet Computer Holder That Conforms To Any Surface
The Gadget Flow - 4 Sep 2015 08:00
A luxurious leather iPad / tablet support that eliminates the hand, arm and neck strain of prolonged tablet use. But ever since the iPad’s first release it was clear that the tablet computer would need ergonomic help t...
Bicycle Shoe and Pedal Combo - Safe and Easy
The Gadget Flow - 4 Sep 2015 08:00
I’ve been working on this project for well over a year. I used to race motocross and 2 years ago I moved to California. I started mountain biking as an alternative and just couldn’t feel comfortable in clips. I immed...
C-3PO's red arm explained in a new Marvel Comic
Slash Gear - 4 Sep 2015 23:46
This December (before Star Wars: The Force Awakens, we must assume), C-3PO's red arm will be explained in a comic book. Made by Marvel Comics and coming with a bonus digital edition with purchase, this comic will be a on...
Playdate: Trying out 'Super Time Force Ultra' and 'Grow Home'
Engadget - 4 Sep 2015 23:30
Here's a tough choice: would you rather play a game about a gardening robot that experiments with new methods of character animation, or a ridiculous time-travel action game that throws paradoxical caution to the wind? L...
NASA's bouncing 'Hedgehog' robot is designed to explore comets
Engadget - 4 Sep 2015 23:10
The last time humanity tried to explore a comet, things didn't go so well -- the ESA comet lander Philae bounced during touchdown and wound up under a cliff, unable to right itself. Eventually its batteries ran down we l...
Toshiba unveils 16GB SDHC TransferJet media card
Slash Gear - 4 Sep 2015 23:09
Toshiba has introduced its new 16GB SDHC card at IFA in Berlin, and with it comes both Class 10 memory and support for the maker's TransferJet close proximity technology. Using this wireless technology, users are able to...
How Could Google's New Logo Be Only 305 Bytes When Its Old Logo Was 14,000 Bytes?
Gizmodo - 4 Sep 2015 23:00
The old logo uses a complicated serif font which can only be created using bezier curves. All together, it has 100 anchor points, resulting in a 6 KB (6,380 bytes) file. When compressed, the size comes down to 2 KB (2,14...
We Tried LG's Roll-Up Tablet Keyboard
Gizmodo - 4 Sep 2015 22:40
In the middle of the throng at LG's IFA 2015 booth, one little gadget got a surprisingly large amount of tech geek attention. The compact, portable and aptly named LG Rolly Keyboard is a super-convenient contrivance for ...
'Bedtime Stories for Awful Children,' a free ebook from 'Year Walk' devs
Engadget - 4 Sep 2015 22:40
The dark, freezing woods of Sweden are the perfect breeding ground for terrifying tales of naughty children who get what they deserve. This week, Simogo -- the developer of beautifully macabre game Year Walk, and mysteri...
Toyota partners with MIT, Stanford in 'intelligent' cars project
Slash Gear - 4 Sep 2015 22:32
Toyota has announced that it is collaborating with Stanford University and MIT to develop so-called intelligent cars instead of autonomous vehicles. This is said to be a $50 million research project, and it will be direc...
The FOBO - smart tire pressure monitoring system
Coolest Gadgets - 4 Sep 2015 22:30
Sometimes we neglect the smallest things that can create huge problems for us down the road, quite literally. If we’re honest, most of us don’t know a single thing about cars aside from how to put gas in the tank and...