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Eton's New Boost Turbines Double (or Quadruple) Your Battery Life
Sep 17, 12:00PM
Unless you own a RAZR MAXX, chances are good that your phone's battery is going to die by the end of the day. So you can either gird yourself for another fun-filled bus ride staring out the window or you can get the one of Eton's three new Boost Turbine backup batteries.
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Apple Offers 'Last Compatible Versions' of iOS Apps for Ageing Devices
Sep 17, 10:59AM
With iOS 7 due to land tomorrow, Apple seems to have decided to look after users with ageing hardware, too. It now offers a 'last compatible version' of iOS apps if you attempt to download an app not supported by your current firmware.
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A Rare View of the Earth With Calm Skies
Sep 17, 10:13AM
Because we're all usually so wrapped up with the weather in our immediate vicinity, it's easy to forget that, somewhere on the planet, there's usually a cyclone, depression or tropical storm brewing. Not so this week, though—and this image from NASA shows the Earth's skies in rare, relative peace.
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What the Google Street View Wi-Fi Decision Actually Means
Sep 17, 9:25AM
Is a Wi-Fi signal the equivalent of an FM radio station, blasting classic rock ballads through your car speakers?
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Bowers & Wilkins P7 Headphones: Over-Ear Excellence, Over-the-Top Price
Sep 17, 8:35AM
Bowers and Wilkins has been making excellent on-ear headphones for a while now, but with the P7s it's offering up its first-ever over-ear cans—for a price.
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Can a New Logo and Redesign Make Bing Any More Popular?
Sep 17, 7:48AM
Out with curly and blue; in with angular and gold. Microsoft's Bing search engine has just received a major redesign which it's hoped will reinvigorate the service—but is it really enough?
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Fujifilm X-A1: This Mirrorless Shooter is Budget Inside and Out
Sep 17, 5:00AM
Today Fujifilm is formally announcing the X-A1, the small and cheap mirrorless camera that had leaked almost in full a couple of weeks ago, marking the lowest end of Fuji's interchangeable lens cameras.
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Lick (NSFW)
Sep 17, 4:00AM
Just for the record, I'm pretty sure your eye isn't supposed to make that sound when you touch it.
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New Leaked Nexus 5 Shows Off Its Giant Screen and Giant Camera
Sep 17, 2:48AM
So a Nexus 5 apparently got left at a bar. It happens! And when it happens, pictures get taken and we lucky folks get to see what one of the most anticipated phones of the year looks like up close. It matches up quite nicely with the leaked phone in the Android 4.4 Kit Kata promo video—horizontal Nexus branding, large camera lens—and definitely seems to be the same LG phone cruising through the FCC right now.
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All 16 Million Colors of the RGB Spectrum Are in These Pictures
Sep 17, 2:30AM
If you want to feel like you're tripping out on wonderful drugs and/or see all the colors of the RGB spectrum in one image, going to the allRGB website should have you covered. It's a project that show off images that contain all 16,777,216 distinct colors inside the RGB spectrum. Each of those colors pop up in a single pixel on an image. Gnarly.
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The Nexus 4 Is Completely Sold Out and Supposedly Never Coming Back
Sep 17, 1:39AM
After a wonderful price cut last month, Google has now completely sold out of both the 8GB Nexus 4 and the 16GB Nexus 4 on Google Play. Impressive!
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That giant 6-inch Lumia 1520 that was targeted to launch this month is supposedly being delayed unti
Sep 17, 1:02AM
That giant 6-inch Lumia 1520 that was targeted to launch this month is supposedly being delayed until late October because of the Microsoft and Nokia deal. That is, if we see it at all.
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Awesome Guy Re-Created the Star Wars Opening Crawl with HTML and CSS
Sep 17, 12:00AM
Here's something completely awesome on a day that needs more awesome. Tim Pietrusky recreated the famous opening crawl of Star Wars from 1977 using HTML, CSS and JavaScript because he couldn't find a web version of it. Even better, the code is all up on Codepen.io and Pietrusky detailed his process on his website for all to see. Watch the opening sequence here (just click on the text). [Tim Pietrusky via BoingBoing]
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Watch Gravity Control This Hypnotic Drawing Machine
Sep 16, 11:00PM
Gravity forever keeps our feet flat on the ground, but it's tough to see the "wow" factor of something we live with every day. But Shizouka-based designer Kouichi Okamoto of Kyouei Design found a way to reveal the wonder in the ever-present force with Magnetic Field Record, a mobile artwork that offers a new way to look at what keeps us from floating away.
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This Slo-Mo Car Explosion Is Even Better Than Your Fiery Fantasies
Sep 16, 10:40PM
So the Slo-Mo Guys have kicked pans of gasoline, blown up paint, and played with Molotov cocktails, all in gloriously indulgent slow motion. Now, they've upped the ante considerably and blown up a freakin' car. Just because.
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The DOD Can't Read Your FOIA Form Because Its Only Fax Machine Broke
Sep 16, 10:20PM
Have you attempted to fax your way to full or partial disclosure of government documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) recently? Well too bad, suckers! Because the Office of the Secretary of Defense has a broken fax machine, and it ain't getting fixed anytime soon.
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The First Radio Nerds Were A Bunch of Trolls
Sep 16, 9:42PM
Today, there's a lot of scaremongering in the media surrounding online trolling. When people are being terrible to each other, there's often this knee-jerk reaction to blame the technology rather than acknowledge that human beings have always been just plain horrible. Case in point: the radio trolls of 1910.
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Do You Ever Order Stuff on the Internet and Forget?
Sep 16, 9:40PM
This colorful tiny shirt that will impress a lot of cool tenth graders came for me in the mail today, and I had totally forgotten about it until now. Surprise! Am I alone here, or does anyone else order random things online and erase them from your memory until they arrive?
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The Last USB Sync Cable You May Ever Need
Sep 16, 9:00PM
With connections for microUSB, Apple's old Dock Connector, and its new Lightning option, the CrossLink cable by Id America can sync or charge pretty much any modern smartphone or tablet you can get your hands on. And if the Crosslink's flat cable anti-tangle design isn't enough, it's also available in six different colors that will perfectly complement your iPhone 5C, and it will set you back just $18. We'll take ten, please. [id America via The Awesomer]
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Man Who Was Evicted For 1964 Olympics To Be Evicted For 2020 Olympics
Sep 16, 8:52PM
The IOC hates Kohei Jinno.
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Light Waves and Lasers: A Short Narrated History of Holography
Sep 16, 8:44PM
Last week we brought you inside the kooky but wonderful Holographic Studios in New York City. While we were there, we learned a whole lot about the history of hologram technology. It's a sprawling story with many facets—and also lasers.
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E-Ink Smartphone Flip Covers Are a Wonderful Idea
Sep 16, 8:20PM
Despite being relatively primitive devices compared to the phones and tablets we all carry, the strength of e-ink displays have kept dedicated ereaders on the market for a lot longer than many had predicted. And at IFA, companies like Alcatel and PocketBook were demoing smartphone flip covers enhanced with an extra e-ink display complementing their primary touchscreens.
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Google's making Google Voice more secure by requiring you to call from a phone number registered to
Sep 16, 8:14PM
Google's making Google Voice more secure by requiring you to call from a phone number registered to your account in order to check your voicemails by phone. But maybe more noteworthy is that Google is still making minor tweaks to Voice instead of killing it and focusing on Hangouts already. What's up with that?
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Why, How, and Where You Should Start Eating Bugs
Sep 16, 8:00PM
Whaddya mean you didn't chow down on cicada during this summer's mass emergence? You'd be surprised how delicious those little creepy-crawlies are with a bit of salt and vinegar. Besides, if you had, you'd have gotten a head start on our inevitable bug-eating future.
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Archeologists Use Lego to Restore a 3,000-year old Mummy Sarcophagus
Sep 16, 7:40PM
The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge recently restored a 3,000-year old mummy case using Lego frames. The sarcophagus is now restored to its former glory, complete with an internal Lego support system. This is just further proof that there is literally nothing that Lego can't do.
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