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Report: The Next Xbox Controls Your TV and Cable Box—with Kinect
This would make a lot of sense in a lot of ways. According to the Verge, the next Xbox will control your TV, and makes some actual sense out of the rumored “always online” feature of the new console. It’s also packed with some interesting new Kinect features that could foreshadow the direction Microsoft is … Continued
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There’s Gross Alternative Fuel Just Hanging Out in the Sewers
Everybody knows about using oil as a fuel source, but London is putting a new spin on the concept. Soon the city will be mining its own sewers to bring up glorious globs of old cooking grease and melting them down into fuel. Delicious. The chunks of fat, oil, and grease build-up—affectionately(?) referred to as … Continued
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Shooting Challenge: First Moments of Spring
It finally—finally—feels like spring. Time to get out there and enjoy it. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, shoot a photo of the best season of the year. The Challenge Take a photo that shows the first bits of spring coming to life. You have until April 15th to do so. The Technique I don’t know … Continued
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GE Is Freeing Up ‘Thousands’ of Patents to Fuel Your Imagination
Today, at an event in New York, GE announced that it will open up “thousands” of patents from its library of some 20,000 to inventors using Quirky’s crowdsourced product development platform. That means that if you’re bright enough, you can use a GE patent to invent something. GE will still collect royalties on your brain … Continued
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With a Dock This Awesome, Who Needs a House?
This 3,000-square-foot dock is on Storm Bay in Ontario is so awesome, but unfortunately because of the recession, the guy who owns it couldn’t afford to build a house to go with it. But hey, it’s basically the size of a house anyway. The port has a fixed extruded aluminum plank boardwalk that leads to … Continued
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Teeny Tiny Analog Synthesizers Are the Most Adorable Way to Lay Down Your Jams
Well, these new itty-bitty analog synthesizers from Korg are just so cute I want to gobble them up. And from the demo video above, it sounds like the three Volca series keyboards are lovely little groove machines you might want to use, too. The synthesizers come in three Volca flavors: Keys (for leads), Bass (for … Continued
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Baby Gorillas and Business Decisions Go Together Like Baby Gorillas and Everything
“I’m really glad we hired that in-house psychic,” said no one, ever. But you know what’s sad? IBM reports that 46 percent of midsize companies make gut decisions, even now. Sounds crazy, right? You don’t want anyone’s gut or a game of darts determining the future of your midsize enterprise. So don’t let it. Business, … Continued
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There’s an All-Natural Bed Bug Cure That Actually Works
As man still struggles to find a way to overcome the scourge that is bed bugs, it turns out that Mother Nature has already created a highly effective trap for the pests. Using bean leaves was once thought to just be an old folk remedy, but researchers at the University of California, Irvine and the … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign
The 15 Best Digital Designs of the Year
The Design Museum has announced the contenders for the sixth annual Designs of the Year. And their shortlist for digital showcases some of the most innovative interpretations of technology we’ve ever seen. Candles In The Wind. This revolutionary new lighting concept uses modern LED technology to recreate the experience of light from a candle flame. … Continued
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Jurassic Park’s Dinosaur Sound Effects Were Actually Animal Sex Sounds
So, uh, this is an uncomfortable one. You know the dinosaur sounds from Jurassic Park that framed the way you imagined every dinosaur ever? They were actually recordings of animals boning, or just about to bone. The velociraptor raspy bark, a basic means of communication for the dinosaurs in the film, were actually cut from … Continued
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Beets Parody Headphones Are Actually Not a Prank
Revealed while the internet is still recovering from last week’s barrage of fake April Fool’s products, OrigAudio’s Beets headphones—a parody of Dre’s Beats headphones—are real and will set you back just $25 a pair. Will they sound as ‘good’ as an authentic and considerably more expensive pair of Beats? Probably not, even when you consider … Continued
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The Casiopea Lamps Are Elevated, Illuminated String Art
These lamps are made from string, and yet somehow they don’t look like they were glued together by a second grader. They’re elegant and modern, though the materials they’re made from are so simple. They’re part of a collection by Miguel Herranz called Casiopea, which is actually a misspelled version of the constellation Cassiopeia. That’s … Continued
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Burner: The Single-Serving Phone Number App Is Now for Android
You may already be familiar with the iPhone version of this disposable phone number app, but Burner has just opened up its brave, new, anonymous world to Android—use it wisely. https://gizmodo.com/burner-stop-worrying-about-creeps-calling-5932884 What does it do? Cornered into an awkward situation with a doe-eyed, phone-number-requesting stranger? Selling your couch to a potential weirdo on Craigslist? Making … Continued
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What’s Inside the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset?
The Oculus Rift might be something out of Demolition Man. Or it might be a Virtual Boy. However it turns out, it’s deeply ambitious, and iFixit has the first look at what’s inside the new VR headset. To start, the OR—a development sample here—has a single 1280 x 800 resolution LCD (640×800 viewable per eye) … Continued
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A Stunning Crystal Chandelier That’s Actually Made From Lego
If you’ve inexplicably amassed some 8,000 clear window pieces in your Lego collection, thanks to the design talents of Tobias Tøstesen you can turn them into a stunning see-through, floor-to-ceiling chandelier. What’s particularly great about this approach to decorating is that it’s far cheaper than a similarly sized chandelier made of crystal, but no less … Continued
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The Exterior of This Tokyo Coach Store Is a Pattern on the Outside and Shelves on the Inside
The new Coach store in Tokyo features shelves that display wallets and purses on the interior and form a louvered facade on the exterior. When the store opens, each of those boxy shelves will hold one single Coach item like a belt or another accessory. The building was designed by a firm called OMA, and … Continued
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Could This Be the Front of the Next iPad?
Since the launch of the iPad mini, there’s been some speculation that the next full-size iPad might ape its looks. Today, French site Nowhere Else has published an image of what it claims to be the bezel of the next iPad—which does indeed look a little like the mini’s. While it’s certainly worth taking a … Continued
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Leaked Paper Reveals Wide Reach of America’s Drone Killings
A leaked top-secret Justice Department white paper reveals the true extent of US drone killings—and lays bare the fact that unmanned aircraft are targeting far more than just Al-Qaeda terrorists. The document, acquired by McClatchy, reveals that “at least 265 of up to 482 people who the U.S. intelligence reports estimated the CIA killed during … Continued