Phones

Land Rover S1 Phone Tested By Elephants: It Really Is The Strongest

8:00AM Jason Chen | This is why the Sonim/Land Rover S1 phone is the toughest phone yet: it can stand an elephant stomp, being run over an actual Land Rover and being tossed out of a second floor window. Plus… More »

Vehicles

Magnetic Big Wheel Or Ring Of Death?

7:30AM Mark Wilson | Car designer Harsha Vardhan has a different vision of tomorrow. While his vehicle calls for an electric engine, just like we see in cars now like the Prius or Volt, that engine drives magnetic fields, not wheels. More »

Entertainment

Robo-Geisha Invade Theaters With Chainsaws, Butt Blades, Shrimp

7:00AM Mark Wilson | If fembots were viciously cultured Japanese escorts instead of just ditsy blondes, Austin Powers would not have lived to make The Love Guru. (Tagged NSFW for crude violence and PG13 T&A) More »

Software

Windows 7 Home Premium Will Have A Family Pack

6:30AM Jason Chen | Ed Bott of ZDNet finds this M&M buried inside the horrible trail mix that is the Windows 7 Home Premium End User licence Agreement: there’s going to be a Family Pack. More »

Random Stuff

Urination Is Where We Draw The Line On Home Beauty Products

6:00AM Mark Wilson | You know what they say: Nothing takes the callouses off like fastening plastic bags filled with urine around your feet. More »

Gadgets

Heinz Beanzawave USB Desktop Microwave In Action

5:30AM Jason Chen | We already knew Heinz was developing a USB-powered and possibly portable mini microwave, but now we actually get to see how it works. You guessed it, just like a microwave. More »

Design

Altrove Lighting: How Spiderwebs Might Look In 2020

4:30AM Mark Wilson | Altrove is a new lighting product that uses “transparent wires” (which we think means fishing line, not fibre optics) to create a geometric yet ethereal mesh of light on your wall or ceiling. [Artemide via MocoLoco] More »

Science

Sixty Videos To Explain Sixty Symbols Of Physics And Astronomy

4:00AM Jesus Diaz | Do you know what the hell is the Schwarzschild radius? I didn’t have a clue, but now I know that if you compress Earth to an 8mm radius ball, you will get a black hole. My fascination didn’t stop there. More »

Phones

Apple Warns Of IPhone 3G And 3GS Overheating

3:31AM Mark Wilson | Here is the screen that you might see on your iPhone 3G or 3GS, as Apple has released an official document on “Keeping iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS within acceptable operating temperatures.” More »

Software

Apple Pulls IPhone App That Allowed For Child Pornography Uploads

3:30AM Jesus Diaz | Apple has pulled BeautyMeter—the iPhone/iPod touch app that allowed users to upload naked pictures of themselves for others to rate—after a 15-yo girl published this picture showing her bare breasts and pubic hair. Charlie Sorrel at Wired argues correctly that Apple will be damned with 17+ apps no matter what: More »