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Our Favorite iOS, Android, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week
Sep 21, 12:00PM
Hello! You might notice that Apps of the Week looks a little different this week. You might also have noticed that our usual App of the Day posts were conspicuously absent. Things are changing, and we're replacing App of the Day with a new, improved, and Windows Phone-inclusive Apps of the Week. Let us know what you think of the changes, and please, enjoy.
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I Would Totally Freak Out If I Saw This Man Flying on a Broom
Sep 21, 5:42AM
For a second, I was stunned that a flying broom can lift a human into the air. Then I realized how silly I am. And then I secretly wished it were true that people could fly on brooms. Then I swore that some angles of the video looked real. And then I realized that it's just a super slick RC plane created to look like a man flying on a broom. Still. I want to believe that people can fly.
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Blue Alley Waltz
Sep 21, 4:00AM
Nothing about Sinitus Tempo's newest music video makes any sort of sense. And, you know, it's kinda better that way.
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This Week's Top Comedy Video: Everything Is Samuel L. Jackson's Fault
Sep 21, 2:00AM
Other than being beautiful (not that Samuel L. is beautiful) and rich and powerful, being a celebrity must be really crappy. Can you imagine all the strangers rushing up to you? Can you imagine all the weird demands that 'fans' have? Can you imagine all the delusional people blaming you for doing your job? Samuel L. Jackson can.
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Did You Buy a New iPhone Today?
Sep 21, 1:00AM
Though it didn't seem like it if you were hanging out at the mall or watching the local news or perusing tech websites, the truth is most of the world did not buy a new iPhone today. But a few of you did! Probably more than a few! Did you get in the trenches at an Apple Store? Scamper out to your carrier's money laundering outlet? Peacefully order online? Curse at your iPhone 5 for not having a fingerprint scanner and not giving you an upgrade or just laugh and count sheep from afar with an HTC One in hand?
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Leaked iPad Mini 2 Casing Shows a Possible 'Space Gray' Version
Sep 21, 12:17AM
So with the iPhone 5S, Apple introduced a new 'Space Gray' color that is its new black. Not in that tired fashionista way where trends are considered the new black but in a completely literal way in that Apple is calling its black 'Space Gray'. So maybe it's not surprising that a supposedly leaked iPad Mini 2 casing shows that it's also doused in 'Space Gray'.
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Most Beautiful Items: September 14 - 20, 2013
Sep 20, 11:00PM
iPhone, iPhone, and uh, more iPhone. We heard a lot about the new iPhones this week. But we also discovered some completely unrelated wonders like a famous Joy Division designer's plans to rebrand Kanye West, or an urban farm in a Shanghai mall. Here are some of the loveliest things we found this week:
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Touchy-Feely Speakers Hint at the Future of Haptic Interfaces
Sep 20, 10:20PM
Touchscreens are flat and hard by necessity—thanks to their dense layers of glass, conductive metal, and capacitors. But as haptic interfaces start to appear in commercial gadgets, touchscreen devices are poised to become even more… touchy. Enter Eunhee Jo, a Korean designer who's spending the next year as a designer in residence at London's Design Museum, and who specializes in haptic interfaces.
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This Dizzying Zoetrope Turns a Spinning Flatscreen Into a 3D Light Show
Sep 20, 10:01PM
Zoetropes are nearly as old as civilization—the first one was invented in 180 AD—but this is an entirely new spin (so to speak) on the same basic concept. This flatscreen monitor spins at such high speeds that our eyeballs are tricked into perceiving the two-dimensional animations playing on its surface as 360 degree figures.
The project was built by Lausanne University of Art and Design student Benjamin Muzzin, for his thesis project in media and UX design. It's a fairly simple (and fairly dangerous?) setup. Two monitor are mounted back to back on a rod attached to a stabilizing frame—below it, a motor spins the rod and the screen itself kicks into gear. At high speeds, the 2D shapes seem 3D, no matter where you're standing in relation to the screen—taking advantage of a phenomenon called "persistence of vision" in which our eyes fill in the gaps as an object moves at high speeds. Muzzin explains:
With this project I wanted to explore the notion of the third dimension, with the desire to try to get out of the usual frame of a flat screen. For this, my work mainly consisted in exploring and experimenting a different device for displaying images, trying to give animations volume in space. The resulting machine works with the rotation of two screens placed back to back, creating a three-dimensional animated sequence that can be seen at 360 degrees. Due to the persistence of vision, the shapes that appear on the screen turn into kinetic light sculptures.
It's unclear if he has any plans to replicate the process in the future, though these days he heads up a company that makes motion graphics for live music called Dazzle Studio. Which is appropriate, since we're thoroughly dazzled by this video. [CreativeApplications]
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iPhone 5S Camera Battle: A Stand-Up Camera That Doesn't Stand Out
Sep 20, 9:36PM
We spent the morning and afternoon testing out the redesigned iPhone 5S camera to get a sense of how it compares to its predecessor, as well as to the cameras on its biggest competitors. Without a doubt, it's a solid shooter that incorporates some improvements, but mostly, we're just damned impressed at how far smartphone cameras have come across the board.
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This Concrete Tableware Brings a New Dimension To Dining
Sep 20, 9:20PM
When it comes to tableware, are traditional round dishes hopelessly square? Architect and designer Vidó Nóri's brand new geometric collection not only casts aside the circular shape, but also ditches ceramics for the industrial appeal of concrete.
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The Most Popular Cocktail Ingredient You've Probably Never Heard Of
Sep 20, 9:00PM
You're out on a date. You're hoping to impress your companion and come off as a worldly gentleman or gentlewoman, but the bar menu is chock-full of alien ingredients. Your choice is simple: Get the one with fernet.
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Other Kitchen Devices Can Harness Power from Your Microwave
Sep 20, 8:40PM
When your microwave is sitting there glowing and spinning inside, do you ever wonder where all those stray rays of energy go? Turns out they usually just slip out the door, into thin air. But a Japanese scientists has found away to harness that power and use it to juice your other appliances.
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Nielsen will launch its Twitter TV Ratings Service on September 30.
Sep 20, 8:12PM
Nielsen will launch its Twitter TV Ratings Service on September 30. It will be the first time the company has formally used Twitter data to augment its long-standing media metrics system.
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Everyone's a Master Bartender With This App-Connected Drink Scale
Sep 20, 8:00PM
You've mastered opening your guest's beers with your bare hands, but what about when a dinner party calls for something a little more sophisticated? You can try you hand as an amateur mixologist, hoping you've got the proportions right for the perfect cocktail. Or wait for Brookstone's new Perfect Drink system that guarantees precise pours.
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This Week in Time Capsules: Lost "Steve Jobs Capsule" Has Been Found
Sep 20, 7:51PM
This week we have a 1913 capsule in California that for some reason contained hair clippings and a tooth; an Andy Warhol capsule that will be opened in Pittsburgh tomorrow; and a TV crew that finally found the long-lost Steve Jobs time capsule in Colorado!
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Military Scientists Use Yelp and Digg To Test Viral Marketing Skills
Sep 20, 7:40PM
In the age of Reddit and BuzzFeed, it seems like everybody wants to know the secret to making things go viral. Even the military wants to know how to make things go viral, and one research team says they've figured it out—using an algorithm they tested on social networks like Digg and Foursquare. Wait, why does the military want to know the secret to viral marketing? You'd be surprised.
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Ouch.
Sep 20, 7:19PM
Ouch. BlackBerry announced a quarterly net operating loss of nearly $1 billion and plans to cut 4,500 jobs on Friday afternoon, shortly after trading was halted. By 2015, the company plans to cut operating expenditures by 50 percent.
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Apple TV Just Got Support For iTunes Radio and More
Sep 20, 7:15PM
Apple TV didn't even warrant a mention at the iPhone event earlier this month, but as expected, the set-top box just got a software overhaul.
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15 Toylines from the '80s That Will Never Ever Be Coming Back
Sep 20, 7:10PM
The '80s were the golden age of the action figure, but not all '80s toylines were gold. For every He-Man or Transformers, there are a dozen series that will never return — either because they've been forgotten, or they've been outclassed, or just because they sucked in the first place. Here are 15 toylines whose relaunch is forever aborted.
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How To Talk Your Friends and Family Through iOS 7
Sep 20, 7:01PM
It's already happened to you and now it's happening to the ones you love. They're staring at their iPhones in bewilderment and disbelief. Everything that made so much sense a few days ago is different, and scary. You want to talk them through the change, but where can you start? Here's a template:
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Dealzmodo: 10 Pack Of HDMI Cables, 12 Pack Of Compressed Air, ATH-M50
Sep 20, 7:00PM
It's bundle day here in DealsLand. Grab a 10pk of HDMI 1.4 cables for only $13, or a 12pk of Dust Destroyer for $30. If you want something a bit more high-end, pick up the excellent Audio-Technica ATH-M50's, my headphones of choice, for just $126 with code 1-ATH-M50-50.
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iPhone A7 Chip Benchmarks: Forget the Specs, It Blows Everything Away
Sep 20, 6:31PM
We just ran benchmarks on Apple's new iPhone 5S, revealing that, yup, this is the dopest smartphone silicon ever made. This thing freaking churns, crushing every other smartphone out there on both computational power and graphics. But if you look at common specs like core-count and clock speed for the hardware, you'd never know it.
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A Rare Tour of Le Corbusier's Last (and Most Brilliant) Building
Sep 20, 6:20PM
A retrospective closes this weekend at MoMA on French architect Le Corbusier, best known for his residential projects like Villa Savoye (as well as that chair). But I'd argue that his most genius work was Église Saint-Pierre, a remarkable cathedral in Firminy, France. Here, Le Corbusier manages a kind of architectural alchemy: creating the effect of stained glass windows with only paint and concrete.
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A Salad Spinner With a Turbo Button—Who Wants To Wait For Salad?
Sep 20, 6:00PM
The allure of a shiny new gadget is easy to overcome when it costs hundreds of dollars and comes with a multi-year contract. But cheaper contraptions, like the stuff you'll find in a kitchen store, are almost impossible to resist. Does anyone really need a salad spinner with a turbo button that promises 50 percent faster rotation speeds? No. But anything with a turbo option is just too tempting. Whether it's cars, computers, or EMSA's new Turboline salad spinner.
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