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Is This Inductive Stand Worth Twice What an iPad Costs?
The convenience of being able to charge a device without having to hunt down a power cord is certainly appealing. But convenience isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you gaze upon Strut’s new LaunchPort iPad charging system. The triple-chromed steel base secures your iPad through a set of neodymium magnets, ensuring it’s … Continued
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10 Surprising Uses for WD-40 (and 5 Places It Should Never Be Sprayed)
Everybody knows WD-40 is the go-to product for silencing squeaks, displacing moisture, preventing rust, and loosening stuck parts. You probably have a can sitting in your garage right now. It has a ton of uses, but it’s no panacea. In fact, there are a some jobs that the lube will absolutely ruin. Your house is … Continued
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Ejector Seat Bar Stools Are the Most Efficient Way To Get Rid Of Creeps
If you completely avoid the bar scene because you’re tired of spending your nights dealing with creeps, you’ll sincerely wish this bar stool—crafted from an F-4 Phantom ejector seat—were fully functional. Because instead of having to jot down a fake phone number to escape an awkward situation, you could simply send the jerk blasting through … Continued
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Report: iOS 6 May Confirm Taller, 4-Inch iPhone
Well this is interesting. iOS 6, pictured above on the left, is now able to scale to show five full lines of apps when displayed at 640×1136—the resolution a reported 4-inch iPhone would have. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-5-the-complete-rumor-roundup-5930100 iOS 5.1, which is on the right, only shows four app rows when run in the same iOS simulator app. … Continued
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Oil and Alcohol Make a Stunning Slow-Motion Ballet
It’s an experiment that’s been conducted for over a hundred years now, but these days it’s incredibly easy to record and share the complex interactions of a drop of naphthenic oil as it plunges through a tank filled with isopropyl alcohol. The unique patterns and shapes that are created as the oil drop makes its … Continued
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10 Biggest Gadget Design Fails
A fair number of companies that read our product reviews tell me that they take our criticism to heart to improve their wares. That’s flattering to hear, but I don’t think the message is getting to the right people. How do I know? Companies continue to send us new laptops, tablets and smartphones that exhibit … Continued
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Want $50,000 Worth of Development for Your Brilliant App Idea?
BMW’s i concept vehicles are all about efficiency and sustainability — in vehicular engineering (who knew a battery could be integrated into the chassis?), design that makes their cars look like works of art, and more. They’ve even been building out apps to help make your driving experience more efficient and sustainable. Now you have … Continued
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Report: Underage Children Abused in Samsung Factories
A new report by a Chinese labor watchdog makes Apple’s Foxconn woes look like a game of spin the bottle, Laptop Mag reports. Untreated injuries? Check. Dangerous workplace? Check. Hitting children and forcing them to stand? Check. This is bad. The report chronicles the inner workings of HEG Electronics, which manufactures gadgets on behalf of … Continued
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Prisons Are Getting Fewer In-Person Visitors Because of Skype-Like Video Visitation
How close does a video call come to replicating actual human contact? What if that call is the only contact you have with the outside world while in prison—does that change the calculus at all? Apparently so, for inmates in the District of Columbia Department of Corrections. The department’s installed 108 video units, split between … Continued
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You Might Unlock Google Glasses With a Simple Eye-Roll
Google has earned a patent for screen unlock that uses eye-tracking information, meaning when you finally get your hands on a pair of its augmented reality specs, you could access them with an eye roll. Just don’t let your mom see you do that because she will be PISSED. Your eyes would follow a moving … Continued
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Samsung Exposes Its Blatant iPhone Jealousy
In the legal battle between Apple and Samsung, the latter’s fate rests on how much it can claim it never needed or wanted to plagiarize. But after reading memos like these, that’s going to be very, very hard to buy. AllThingsD relays some highly humiliating internal documents recently squeezed out of Samsung in court—and they … Continued
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Seven Reasons Curiosity Is the Baddest Rover Ever
While Curiosity was still flying through space, way before it landed on Mars, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory were busy working with a clone rover back on earth. In a simulation area called the Mars Yard, scientists put the duplicate Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) through a series of experiments to perfect the rover’s software … Continued
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Gorgeous Golden Gate Knife Packs the Same Steel as Its Namesake
Though it was crafted in France, Laguiole’s beautiful Golden Gate Bridge folding pocket knife was inspired the iconic red orange bridge spanning the San Francisco Bay. And in addition to a handle designed to look like it’s made of criss-crossing girders, the knife is forged from the same steel used in the actual bridge that’s … Continued
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The First Color Photo of Martian Landscape from the Mars Curiosity Rover
Shooting a robot millions of miles from Earth and landing it on another planet is incredibly impressive and all, but it wasn’t a just an aeronautical physics experiment. We went there to collect data. Now we’ve got some: the first color images from Mars Curiosity. The image was taken by Curiosity’s Mars Hand Lens Imager … Continued
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Tiny Toaster USB Hub Is So Adorable You’ll Want To Vomit
There’s seemingly an infinite supply of novelty USB flash drives and hubs for consumers to waste their money on, but none come close to the gag-inducing adorableness of this tiny toaster hub and accompanying anthropomorphized slices of toast. https://gizmodo.com/lets-figure-out-infinity-once-and-for-all-5932423 The hub itself is $28, but if you want to complete the set with all four … Continued
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Foldable Wireless Keyboard Bets on NFC For Cordless Conquests
Choosing the path less taken by connecting to a device using NFC in lieu of the more common Bluetooth, Elecom’s new TK-FNS040BK wireless keyboard skips the hassle of having to always pair with your gear at the cost of a considerably limited range. The joy of NFC is that it draws considerably less power than … Continued
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Let’s Figure Out Infinity Once and For All
It’s probably time to fire up that second cup of coffee; the journey that TED-ED lecturer Dennis Wildfogel is about to take you on is one of infinite infinities. In other words, it’s going to make your brain hurt. But it also just might make you smarter. Or, at least, infinitely frustrated. But at least … Continued