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Gadgets

Here’s What Happens When A Roomba Mates With An Air Purifier

9:00AM September 23, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

Moneual took a page from the book of iRobot and created an air purifier that motors around your house, doing its dirty work while you are away. More »


Cameras

I Think There’s A Filter On Your Filter On Your Filter On Your…

6:20PM June 16, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Sometimes, you just want a crazy-amount of vignetting. Lensrentals stacked up 50 UV filters, and mounted them to a Canon 5DMkII with 300 f4 lens, then actually took photos with them. Well, tried to. [Lensrentals via Reddit]


Online

Sex Moan-Detecting Software Blocks Porn The Fun Way

3:20AM May 21, 2011 | Sam Biddle

I feel myself in a serious moral bind when it comes to porn-blocking software, but here we go. The “problem” with image-based filters is that they get a lot of false positives. But porn moans? There’s no confusing those. More »


Entertainment

LG’s Has 3D Glasses To Keep Four Eyes Happy

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11:30AM April 18, 2011 | Nick Broughall

One of my wife’s pet peeves with 3D in general is that you have to wear glasses over glasses if you happen to need to wear glasses while watching movies. Which is why I was impressed by LG’s decision to offer clip-on 3D polarised glasses that attach to a pair of specs, allowing the bespectacled to watch 3D movies at home without the discomfort of having to double down on the eyewear. More »


Online

Gmail Smart Labels Are Automatic Inbox Filters For Mass Mail

5:26AM March 10, 2011 | Kevin Purdy

Gmail’s powerful filters have long been one of its strongest features, if you’re willing to create and nurture them. Now a new Gmail Labs feature is giving every user a few pre-set Smart Labels to automatically catch bulk messages, service notifications, and mailing lists. More »


Cameras

Fruit Roll-Ups Make For Great Camera Flash Gels

5:00AM February 27, 2011 | Casey Chan

Photographer John Crane was out ice climbing and stumbled upon a beautiful ice cave that he wanted to shoot perfectly. The problem was that it was hard to capture all the little details without a flash gel. Crane says: More »


Cameras

Picplz Backs Up Your Pre-Filter Photos To Dropbox

6:20AM January 27, 2011 | Kevin Purdy

Filters are sometimes—sometimes—a good idea for certain photos. Nifty filtering and social posting service Picplz offers a convenient Dropbox auto-backup option, so you can retrieve your originals when Russian Toy Camera goes out of style. More »


Online

‘Blacklist’ Christmas Card Is Not Safe For Google

11:20AM December 23, 2010 | Athima Chansanchai - MSNBC

Forced to work during the holidays? Or looking for a time-suck that might also improve your vocabulary? Then allow us to present the (unofficial) Google Blacklist Christmas card. Some NSFW lingo, assuming you know what the words mean. More »


Online

Thailand’s IT Minister Admits Blacklist Filters Don’t Work

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10:00AM November 18, 2010 | Nick Broughall

Although the government’s proposed internet filter has effectively been delayed until 2013 at the earliest, it still hasn’t been scrapped completely. Adding fuel to the fire that would burn the policy to ash is the revelation that Thailand’s IT minister has recently admitted to ZDNet that blacklist filtering doesn’t work, and that he believes Thailand should scrap their own internet filter. More »


Pocket Filters Splash Some Colour Onto Your Photos

9:20AM August 6, 2010 | Sam Biddle

Are your Facebook photos of the same boring friends standing around drinking beer getting a bit drab? Photojojo’s pocket-size lens and flash colour filters should jazz things up, letting you saturate your scenes with one of eight sturdy acrylic chips. More »