Online 11 years ago GIZMODO At 2011 Smart Home – This Is It! Andrew Tarantola As you may have heard, Gizmodo and the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago have partnered to curate the technology…
Online 11 years ago Kids Hijack An Excavator, Cause Massive Damage At Mining Site Casey Chan Boys will be boys? A 12-year-old and nine-year-old hopped into an excavator, drove it around a strip mining site and…
Science & Health 11 years ago US Government Powers Down SETI Sam Biddle SETI, the massive, international scientific effort to listen for life outside of earth, won’t be finding that life anytime soon,…
Gaming 11 years ago Is WINtA Worth Warming Up To? Brian Ashcraft The father of music games, PaRappa the Rapper creator Masaya Matsuura, is bringing his innovative rhythm game sense to the…
Online 11 years ago The Friendster Apocalypse Is Upon Us Adrian Chen The thrice-obsolete social networking service Friendster is deleting all user content next month. Woe is us! Er… woe is us…
Mobile 11 years ago Google Might Bring Video-Calling To The Gmail Android App Kat Hannaford Google’s said to be working on video-calling for the Gmail app, says a tweeter who claims to “work with Samsung”….
Mobile 11 years ago This May Be The iPhone 6 Screen: Sharp’s Ultra-Thin p-Si LCD Kat Hannaford Oh, you think rumourmongering about the iPhone 5 is hot? Just you wait until you hear what’s said to be…
Computing 11 years ago iPhone Tweetdeck 2.0 Released, Completely Rebuilt Matthew Rogers iOS: Popular Twitter app TweetDeck for iPhone has released a new version, completely rebuilt from the ground up to be…
Online 11 years ago Are Drones More Ethical Killing Machines? Matt Buchanan While the typical narrative of how unmanned drones have affected warfare typically runs somewhere along the lines of “they’re soulless…
Online 11 years ago Origami Animals’ Skeletons Revealed For The First Time Kat Hannaford Thanks to Takayuki Hori’s X-ray origami paper, we’ve had the first look at origami animals’ skeletons since the first crane…
Computing 11 years ago Sony’s Android Tablets Are Game, Music, Video Titans Kat Hannaford Focusing on the things that matter most to Sony – style and media – their first two tablets are running…
Cameras 11 years ago Turn All Of Those Leftover Easter Eggs Into Pinhole Egg Cameras Husain Sumra Did you know that yesterday was both Easter and World Pinhole Photography Day? Is there a better way to celebrate…
Computing 11 years ago This App Won’t Let You Forget Your Credit Card At The Bar Max Behrman Losing your possessions can be a pretty unnerving experience. It’s one of the worst feelings: knowing that you had your…
Computing 11 years ago Why Is This Person Taking Concert Pics With An iPad? Sam Biddle The reality of any concert today is that your vision is probably going to be locked by hundreds (or thousands)…
Computing 11 years ago The Australian Honeycomb Tablet Spec Showdown Nick Broughall 2010 was the year of the tablet – mostly because Apple realised there was a market for a large touchscreen…
Gadgets 11 years ago Buy This Router Cooler Because Your Router Might Be On Fire Sam Biddle HAVE YOU CHECKED YOUR ROUTER? IS IT ON FIRE? ARE YOU SURE? CHECK IT AGAIN. ARE YOU SURE IT’S STILL…
Mobile 11 years ago Apple Patent Reveals Extensive Stalking Plans Ryan Tate The spying iPhone is no accident. A recent Apple patent application reveals that the location-tracking dossiers accumulated in iPhones are…
Gadgets 11 years ago A Brief History Of Strange Prison Escape Tools Adrian Covert The recent Taliban prison escape was undeniably crafty. But especially noteworthy was the creation of the 320m tunnel without power…
Computing 11 years ago How To Run iPad Apps On Your iPhone Casey Chan It’s not exactly practical to do – what with different screen resolutions and such – but it’s possible to run…
Gadgets 11 years ago The RapidRoller Is The Swiss Army Knife Of Paint Rollers Kyle Wagner Black & Decker’s RapidRoller’s frame pivots to three positions so that you can use it for different angles and jobs….
Science & Health 11 years ago What’s Really Going On With The Latest Higgs Boson Rumour? Alasdair Wilkins
Online 11 years ago The Vibrating Sauna Pants Casey Chan Places I never thought needed more sweat: my crotchular region. But maybe I’ve been doing it wrong! This pair of…
Gadgets 11 years ago Handheld Dracula Sucks Your Entire Life From Your Phone Sam Biddle You might already be creeped out about what your phone knows. But as The Atlantic points out, iPhone tracking isn’t…
Cameras 11 years ago Leica i9 Case Concept Gives iPhones A Proper Working Camera Kat Hannaford All you Hipstamatic Instagram-addicts that love nothing more than cloaking something digital in an analogue costume need to rally Black…
Mobile 11 years ago Your Phone’s Accelerometer Could Make Mobile Broadband Faster Adrian Covert MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan thinks wireless carriers aren’t using their networks in the most efficient way possible when it comes…
Entertainment 11 years ago Can Nixon’s RPM Headphones Handle My George Michael Remixes? Kat Hannaford Looking not entirely dissimilar from the Danish Aiaiai TMA-1 headphones I liked so much last year, these Nixon RPM headphones…
11 years ago Sticky Tape Magic Trick Turns Frosted Glass Clear Kat Hannaford If you’ve ever worked in a cubicle surrounded by frosted glass partitions, you may’ve seen this trick before – but…
Online 11 years ago Transgender Woman Beaten In McDonald’s, Employee Films Attack Margaret Hartmann Last week a disturbing video of Chrissy Lee Polis, a transgender woman, being beaten into a seizure by two girls…
Computing 11 years ago Microsoft’s BSOD Will Actually Be Black In Windows 8 Kat Hannaford Microsoft’s Blue Screen of Death has been simultaneously worrying and pissing people off since Windows 1.0. No doubt trying to…
11 years ago You Can Store More Ink In These Spiral Ballpoint Pens Kat Hannaford From the pages of “my-god-it’s-so-simple-why-didn’t-I-do-that-first” comes these spiral ballpoint pens, which hold double the amount of ink in their tightly…
Gaming 11 years ago Nintendo Confirms Wii Successor Brian Ashcraft Today in Japan, Nintendo confirmed the Wii’s successor. The still unnamed console will be revealed at this year’s E3 gaming…
Science & Health 11 years ago Alleged LHC Memo Hints Scientists Have Found The Higgs Boson Jack Loftus
Online 11 years ago Russians Deny *Wink* Sex Has Taken Place In Space *Wink Wink* Jack Loftus Sex in space: Out of this world! Allegedly, I mean, as it’s never been conducted by astronauts (in space, at…
Online 11 years ago Japanese Alien Pod Bus Provides 12 Laps Of Luxury Jack Loftus If the V’s were real (no, not those, the good ones) they’d probably travel around in a bus like this…
Computing 11 years ago Gazelle Gets Into The Reselling Business Jack Loftus I’ve used e-waste recycling service Gazelle a few times now, so I’m comfortable recommended other recyclers use it as well,…