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Built-In Suitcase Blanket Gives You a Clean Place to Sit in Airports or Anywhere
It seems most airports are designed so that the randomly scattered power outlets are located as far from the gate seats as possible. So while California College of Arts student Daye Kim’s actually designed the Whaletale suitcase mat for parents wrangling kids while traveling, it also seems incredibly handy for anyone dealing with an overcrowded … Continued
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Talk to the Man Who Drives the $2.6 Billion-Dollar Mars Curiosity Rover
Matt Heverly has one of the coolest jobs in the Solar System: he drives rovers. On Mars. He drove NASA’s Opportunity rover for four years and now he’s getting ready for the biggest mission in the history of NASA’s planetary exploration—driving the $2.6-billion car-sized Curiosity rover after it lands this Sunday (I will be covering … Continued
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Yes, These Are $1000 Headphones For Cats
Is there anything worse than a smug cat staring at you all bored like it’s got something better to do than sit around while you’re listening to music? Sol Republic’s new headphones for cats—which were designed specifically for Deadmau5’s cat Professor Meowingtons pHD—will wipe that angsty gaze off your cat’s face. Sol Republic x Meowingtons … Continued
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Compact Hydroponics Cube Turns an Extra Parking Spot Into a Vegetable Farm
Tired of paying the exorbitant markup for fresh produce at your grocery store? For a mere $70,000—and the cost of finding someplace else to park your car—this compact hydroponics container lets you grow a farm’s worth of vegetables on a minimal chunk of land. In fact, the creators of the aqua-cube claim it can successfully … Continued
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Samsung’s New Superfast Chips Could Fuel Your Future iPhone
Samsung has just announced some superfast new chips and they might one day power an iPhone. The company claims the Pro Class 1500 line is the Usain Bolt of flash memory cards—four times speedier than predecessors, and possibly the fastest chips around. They can read data at 140 MB per second and write it at … Continued
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The Best Ultraportable Laptop of 2012
For a while now, ultraportables have been the only class of laptop that really matters. Sure, you can find more powerful machines for less money. But the mix of portability, speed, and beauty—along with the miniature muscle of Intel’s Ivy Bridge chips—has made ultrabooks the best laptops to own for almost all of us. Problem … Continued
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Who Is Nixeus Because Its Cheap 27-Inch Hi-Res Monitor Looks Awesome
You could buy Apple’s gorgeous 27-inch Cinema Display but it’ll cost you a grand. If you don’t have that kind of paper, Nixeus is about to drop the Vue, a display of the same size, packed with 2,560 x 1,440 WQHD resolution for just $430. “But wait, I’ve never even heard of Nixeus,” you say. … Continued
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Would You Buy This Freak Egg Carton?
A Hungarian designer completely rethought egg packing with Egg Box, a simple, modern carton. Only problem is, we can’t decide if it’s terrible or perfection. The single stackable piece of microwaved cardboard has ellipse cut-outs where the eggs go, and it supposedly protects the fragile orbs while letting you inspect them for cracks without having … Continued
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What’s Apple Doing With This Mystery Building?
North Carolina: home of BBQ, beaches, and Apple’s gi-freaking-normous data center. It’s where iCloud lives, and maybe Siri! And now the company is putting the finishing touches on a new center. Why? Nobody really knows. So Wired checked it out. From above, Wired was able to spot some interesting physical details of the 20,000 square … Continued
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Choose a Drinking Establishment According to “Vibe” with Don Q’s New Barometer App
Picking the perfect watering hole can be tough. You might not know exactly where to go to satisfy your urge for, say, one of those places with a mechanical bull. If only you had a group of locals that knew just the spot… You do! Barometer is a new app from Don Q Rum that … Continued
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BREAKING: David Pogue Has Lost His iPhone (UPDATE #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16—THEY GOT IT—Still Updating #17 #18)
New York Times technology writer David Pogue has lost his iPhone. He has posted a screenshot of where it might be on Lockerz.com, though. Won’t anyone help him find it? Or help him sign up for PhotoBucket? Update 11:52AM EDT: David has posted another photo to Lockerz.com, this time showing the larger scope of the … Continued
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Ingenious Chopsticks Never Touch the Table
The gentle curve of the tines on a fork make spearing food a little easier, but also help to keep them from getting dirty when placed on a table. Which is an issue that has made chopstick rests a necessary accessory at many restaurants, at least until these brilliant Restless Chopsticks become more mainstream. Created … Continued
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The Robot Sub That Can Chart Nearly Every Inch of the Ocean
As the world awaits Curiosity’s arrival on Mars, an alien landscape 141.6 million miles closer to home remains woefully unexplored. To chart the vast depths of the ocean, the UK has developed an unmanned sub capable of diving miles beneath the sea. It’s called the Autosub6000. This 18-foot, 3-ton, titanium-clad Autonomous Underwater Vehicle is the … Continued
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The iPad’s Smart Cover Could Someday Be a Second Display
Apple is trying to patent a Smart Cover for the iPad that has an embedded secondary display. Or in other words: Eat it, Surface. The cover would use a connector on the side of the iPad that would supply data and power to the cover. Here’s Apple’s description from the application: [The] accessory device comprising: … Continued
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Not Even the Olympics Can Make 3DTV Worth It
The 3D feed of the Olympics is the most ambitious 3D broadcast in history. It employs 50 3D camera rigs, manned by 80 souls who are split into three teams, which scurry around London from event to event. Obviously, it’s incredible to watch, but is it enough to make the effort and cost of watching … Continued
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Why Apple TV Just Became Apple’s Most Important Product
There are coincidences in this world, and it’s important not to read too much into them. Pandora playing the song stuck in your head doesn’t make you psychic. But then there are coincidences you can’t help but think might mean a little bit more. Like, say, three heavy hitter holdouts all hopping on Apple TV … Continued
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Apple Ditched Curved Glass iPhone Because it Was Too Expensive
The information about Apple’s early iPhone prototypes and concepts just keeps coming. According to a court filing, Apple considered building a phone with shaped glass, but it never happened because it would have cost too much cash money. Look at those images above. Trippy concept, right? Network World discovered the deposition of former Apple designer … Continued