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Live Out Your Hoop Dreams Anywhere With This Wireless Basketball Set
Oct 22, 2:01PM
Nerf changed the way we all played indoor basketball without a proper court; replacing trash cans and balls of paper with plastic nets and foam balls. And now you can take your scaled-down game to near NBA-caliber levels with Eastpoint's new wireless hoops and scoreboard that keeps tab on time and points complete with the simulated roar of a non-existent crowd.
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Microsoft has brought back the Windows RT 8.1 update, after customer installation troubles had them
Oct 22, 1:34PM
Microsoft has brought back the Windows RT 8.1 update, after customer installation troubles had them pull it on Saturday. [Microsoft Support]
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Where to Watch Today's Apple iPad Event Livestream
Oct 22, 1:22PM
No need to sit at home biting your nails come 1PM EDT/10AM PDT, because Apple's given us an nice little surprise in the form of a livestream for today's big iPad unveiling.
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WSJ: Microsoft Is Working on Its Own Version of Google Glass
Oct 22, 1:14PM
Microsoft may have not hopped on the smartphone bandwagon especially early, but they aren't about to be left behind again. According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is already working on its own smartglasses. Yup.
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NYTimes Pays a Visit to Our Friend, the Amazing GIF Machine
Oct 22, 1:13PM
Regular readers of our sister blog Deadspin are probably familiar with editor Tim Burke's incredible GIFing skills. What you might not know is that Burke never misses a moment because he built an incredible eight-monitor computer station that can keep track of every sporting event that's happening at a given time. Today, the NYTimes has a nice profile of Burke. While we highly recommend you go check it out. We do have one quibble with The Grey Lady's story: It's pronounced "GIF" not "JIF."
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Boldy Shower Where No Man Has Showered Before
Oct 22, 1:05PM
Traditional aesthetics call for a monochrome shower curtain in your bathroom that elegantly matches the rest of the room's color motif. But as we all know, Star Trek fans are never much for norms, and there's no doubt ThinkGeek is going to sell a shuttle bay's worth of these clever transporter room shower curtain and bath mats.
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7 Artists Who Create Strange New Worlds Using Nothing But Thread
Oct 22, 1:00PM
There's something otherwordly about the optical illusions a single string—or 3,000 of them—can conjure up in our brains. It's almost as if a simple fiber installation holds a gateway to a whole other dimension—when, in fact, we're just looking at lines in space. Here, we take a closer look at seven visionaries who can conjure entire new environments using the most delicate materials.
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Deadspin Man Buys Ticket To Game 1 Of World Series For $6 On StubHub | Gizmodo Why We Need to Sleep
Oct 22, 12:58PM
Deadspin Man Buys Ticket To Game 1 Of World Series For $6 On StubHub | Gizmodo Why We Need to Sleep So Much | Kotaku Korea's Cop Cats Will Arrest You with Cuteness | Lifehacker How to Declutter Your Facebook News Feed Once and For All
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Scientists Have Created a Disk That Can Store Data for a Million Years
Oct 22, 12:00PM
Magnetic disk drive storage was born in the 1950s—thanks, IBM!—but while storage density and power efficiency have rocketed, the lifetime for which data can be stored has remained about the same, at around a decade. That could soon change.
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Nokia's 'Black' WinPho Update: RAW Photo Support, New Apps and More
Oct 22, 11:30AM
The latest update to Nokia's Windows Phone build (which expands upon Microsoft's GDR3 release), named Black, brings with it some features you may be surprised to learn Nokia handsets didn't already contain…but here's a big one for you: It also brings RAW support, not available on any smartphone before.
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Breasts Age Faster Than the Rest of a Woman's Body
Oct 22, 10:45AM
The breasts of women seem to age more quickly than the rest of their body, according to new research which uses DNA analysis of tissue and blood to measure the rate of cell decline.
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Hands-On With Nokia's Lumia 1520 and 1320 Phones and 2520 Tablet
Oct 22, 10:00AM
The phablet world just saw two new monsters roar into town — Nokia's mammoth 6-inch, 1080p resolution-screened phone, the Gorilla Glass 2-displayed 1520, and a lower-specced 1320. We've been lucky enough to get our hands on 'em.
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AT&T has announced that it'll be the exclusive carrier for Nokia's 6-inch Lumia 1520 smartphone when
Oct 22, 9:49AM
AT&T has announced that it'll be the exclusive carrier for Nokia's 6-inch Lumia 1520 smartphone when it arrives in the US.
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This Map Shows the DDoS Attacks Happening Across the World Right Now
Oct 22, 9:30AM
Yesterday, Google announced Project Shield, a suite of free tools to help small websites stay online during DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks. To accompany it, Google has also made available a live map of DDoS attacks which shows when and where they're happening.
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Bloomberg: HTC Is Building a Smartwatch Ready for 2014
Oct 22, 8:30AM
Smartwatch rumors seem to a dime-a-dozen these days, and now here's another: Bloomberg is reporting that HTC has been working on an Android-based smartwatch,
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Nokia's Massive New 6-Inch Lumias: My God, It's Full of Tiles
Oct 22, 8:00AM
Just like pretty much every other smartphone maker that isn't Apple, Nokia is sizing up. Today it took the lid off two new, six-inch display Lumias—the 1320 and the 1520.
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Lumia 2520: Nokia Is Making a 10-Inch Tablet Now, Too
Oct 22, 8:00AM
Nokia just revealed its very first tablet, the 10-inch, Windows RT 8.1-running Lumia 2520. As far as tablets go, it's pretty standard fare.
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Windows Phone Finally Gets Instagram (And a Bunch More Apps)
Oct 22, 8:00AM
Instagram is finally officially coming to Windows Phone via Nokia Lumias, Nokia just announced at Nokia World. Yes, you can finally stop using that silly Hipstamatic workaround.
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: 8,336,615 (New York)
Oct 22, 4:00AM
"We are lonely but never alone" makes an equally appropriate slogan for both big city and digital living. With infinite possible connections at both our physical and virtual fingertips, why do so many people feel so isolated from the rest of the Earth's seven billion hguman inhabitants? Filmmaker Paul Riccio explores this phenomenon in the engrossing visual monologue 8,336,615 (New York).
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What a Chicken Nugget Looks Like Under the Microscope
Oct 22, 3:56AM
There is no nugget on a chicken. There are breasts, there are wings, there are thighs, there are drumsticks. But there are no nuggets. So what is the chicken nugget made of then?
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This Magical Pair of Underwear Can Filter Out Your Fart's Smell
Oct 22, 2:35AM
Here's technology we can all get behind for our occasionally smelly behinds. Shreddies is a pair of underwear that promises to filter out farts. Seriously, it's supposed kill your fart's smell and be able to neutralize odors up to 200 times the stinky strength of the average fart. So even if you have a particularly foul brand of flatulence, Shreddies can let you fart wherever you want without feeling like you've dropped a bomb. Freedom farts.
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Why We Need to Sleep So Much
Oct 22, 1:30AM
One of the universal truths for most humans who appreciate things like comfort and relaxation and a collection of soft feathers and enveloping warmth and rejuvenation is that we love our sleep. It makes us feel good! And sure it wastes a lot of time but we feel like crap when we don't have enough of it. And beyond feeling good, we sort of need it. But why do we need it? Why is it that we can die faster from lack of sleep than lack of food? Scishow explains the science behind sleep. [Scishow]
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6 Horrifying Parasites That Will Gross You Out
Oct 22, 12:00AM
Need an easy way to gross yourself out? Watch this video that describes six different parasites by Asap Science. You have worms that create a nest around your butt hole, parasites that take over the tongue of a fish, ants that can become zombies and a whole lotta other scariness. What's least comforting is how unavoidable it all seems. The littlest things can eventually be the most damaging. [AsapSCIENCE]
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How Encouraging People to Walk Can Help Strengthen Our Cities
Oct 21, 10:00PM
I live in L.A., a land of 20-lane interchanges, parking lots the size of football stadiums, and mind-bending, soul-crushing, life-altering traffic. Every day, I meet people who don't even know we have a public transit system and see places in my neighborhood without any sidewalks. This is because, a half-century ago, my city decided to redesign itself for cars, not humans.
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Facebook Is Lifting Its Ban on Decapitation Videos (Updated)
Oct 21, 9:45PM
Don't even think about posting cartoon nipples on Facebook. Decapitations, however? Go right ahead. Six months after establishing a ban on blatant, gruesome beheadings, Facebook has decided to (once again) keep videos of decapitations available to the masses.
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