Saturday, February 13, 2010 - Page 2
Cars

What The Hell Is Going On Here?

Someone in our virtual bullpen said: “It’s a cockpit erection.” The truth is harder than that.


Software

The Week’s Best iPhone Apps

In this week’s romantical app roundup: The Olympics, demystified! Doom II, taken down a notch! Your person, flailed around! Your visage, cartoonified! Sesame Street, Picasso’d! And more…


Gadgets

The Steam-Powered Vibrator And Other Early Sex Machines

As long as humans have had genitals, we’ve found artificial ways to stimulate them. But it took the repressed Victorian era to create the vibrator, a device aimed at curing a disease that doesn’t exist.


Crowbot Puts An Army Of Crows At Your Command

If this Crowbot, which can attract and repel crows with the playback of different recordings, isn’t quite weird enough for you, wait until you hear about Crowbot Jenny, the elusive superhero babe who uses it to command her crow army.


Online

Google Might Pull Buzz Out Of Gmail

Given the populist sentiment that it’s completed obliterated privacy by merging Buzz into Gmail without people being super aware of what was happening, Google’s thinking about going beyond the tweaks it made the other day by cutting the cord between Buzz and Gmail entirely.


Online

F*ck You, Google

I use my private Gmail account to email my boyfriend and my mother. There’s a BIG drop-off between them and my other “most frequent” contacts. You know who my third most frequent contact is. My abusive ex-husband.


Science

Bill Gates’s New Mission: Zero CO2 Emissions

At the TED Conference last year Bill Gates unleashed a swarm of mosquitoes to demonstrate a point about malaria. This year, he’s taking on CO2 in a big way. And he brought fireflies.


TRAKR RC Car Lets You Spy With The Power Of Apps

Apps are here to to stay, so we might as well get our kids on board early. That’s the thinking behind Wild Planet’s Spy Video TRAKR, a video-enabled RC car that can be loaded up with freely downloadable programs.


XP1-Power USB iPhone Charger Packs A Back-Up Battery

The XP1-Power is a little bulkier than your average USB cable, but it has good reason: it packs a back-up battery in-line. XMultiple have improved on their older version, now boasting 20 hours of extra juice and surge protection.


Radeon HD 5870 Gloriously Abused By Asus

The Radeon HD 5870, as shipped, is a very powerful graphics card – more than most people need, even, and at the very least, enough for anyone. Except, apparently, Asus.