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Do Kids Really Need a Smartwatch?
Jan 21, 6:20PM
At the London Toy Fair 2014, VTech has decided that the recent trend in wearable electronics should apply to kids too. So the company's new Kidizoom Smartwatch straps a 1.4-inch color touchscreen display, 0.3-megapixel camera, and various games, apps, and clock faces to your kids' wrist for somewhere around $66.
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It's a Perfect Day For a Snow-Conquering SuperTruck Monster
Jan 21, 6:18PM
As snow continues to clutter up the Eastern Seaboard, you'd be hard-pressed not to long for a ride in RaptorTRAX. It is, gently put, an unstoppable snow-chewing behemoth.
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This Digital Stethoscope Can Spot Extra-Subtle Heart Murmurs
Jan 21, 5:20PM
Physicians have been successfully diagnosing heart conditions using just their stethoscopes and ears for years now. But how many particularly subtle issues, like heart murmurs, have gone unnoticed? With the ViScope MD from HD Medical Inc., hopefully none ever do. It adds audio filters, a visual readout, and automatic murmur detection to a standard stethoscope to enhance what doctors already hear, ensuring nothing gets missed.
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Riding in the Car of the Future, Built in an Illinois Barn
Jan 21, 5:00PM
At first glance, this rockabilly Batmobile looks like a retro-fetishist's pet project. It's not. In fact, this freak machine, hand-built by a ragtag team in an Illinois town of 1,200, is the deepest look into the future of cars you've ever clapped eyes on. One frigid day in Brooklyn, Gizmodo buckled in for a ride.
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Hackers Swiped 70,000 Records from Healthcare.gov in Four Minutes
Jan 21, 4:52PM
After the bevy of problems Healthcare.gov encountered in its first few months of life, dumping one more onto the pile shouldn't phase you all that much, right? Well, not if that hiccup is actually a gaping vulnerability—and one that can grant hackers access to over 70,0000 private records in just four minutes, at that.
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12 More Viral Photos That Are Totally Fake
Jan 21, 4:50PM
Can you spot the fakes? Hundreds of amazing images wash over our greedy eyeballs each and every day, clogging our Twitter timelines and Facebook feeds. Many of them are fakes, lies, or both. Like these!
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Israel's Adding Lasers to Its Iron Dome Defenses
Jan 21, 4:40PM
When it comes to national air security, Israel doesn't mess around; it has not one but four separate levels of "active defenses" alone. And with the introduction of the new Iron Beam system, Israel now has five different ways to shoot down incoming projectiles.
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The Army Wants to Replace Up to 25 Percent of Its Soldiers with Robots
Jan 21, 4:20PM
Cash-strapped and somewhat adrift in terms of missions, the U.S. Army is in the midst of an existential crisis. Once ballooning in budget and size, the Army now says it wants to be "a smaller, more lethal, deployable, and agile force." And it's going to need robots to do it right.
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Mud Wars, Sex in the Park, and Crimes Committed for Truffles
Jan 21, 4:20PM
This week's roundup includes sex, violence, and truffles—the last of which is not unlike the drug trade, with a surprisingly shady underside. So, without further ado, here's this week's R-rated landscape reads.
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Radioactive Gold Rush: Nuclear Waste Storage Is a Booming Business
Jan 21, 4:20PM
First, dig a hole. Then, reinforce it with clay, concrete, steel, and plastic. Fill it with nuclear waste and cover it in forty more feet of concrete. Then profit. That's how one company in Texas has struck radioactive gold, charging companies $10,000 per cubic foot to store nuclear refuse.
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Glasshole: The FBI Took My Glass and Pulled Me Out of a Movie
Jan 21, 3:54PM
When you're not having crazy Google Glass sex, maybe you'd like to go see a movie. Movies are fun! But beware, if you wear your Glass you might find yourself with an unexpected date. Specifically an FBI agent and 5-10 cronies.
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In Dre We Trust: Why You Should Try Beats Music
Jan 21, 3:30PM
After a year of hype, Beats Music is finally here, and if it has a definitive pitch, the company's frenetic, towheaded CEO Ian Rogers served it to me over blaring punk music in a Lower East Side bar last week. "I've got [legendary producer] Jimmy Iovine calling me on the weekend and saying, "What the hell is this playlist?"
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Dubai's Turning Drones into Firefighters
Jan 21, 3:20PM
It makes perfect sense. Burning buildings are very dangerous places for people to enter, so when there's a fire that needs to be put out, why not recruit robots to do the dirty work?
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The world's largest offshore wind farm from space
Jan 21, 2:57PM
The London Array—the world's largest offshore wind farm—started operating on April 8, 2013, about twenty kilometers (12 miles) off the coast of Kent and Essex, England. Looking at these pictures taken from space gives you a perfect idea of the Array's amazingly vast extension.
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8K (Yes, 8K) Broadcasts Just Took a Major Step Forward
Jan 21, 2:40PM
Back in May of 2012 the NHK's science & Technology Research Lab in Japan successfully broadcasted an 8K, 7680x4320 signal over a distance of 2.7 miles using UHF frequencies. As a proof of concept it showed that 8K TV could be successfully delivered to televisions over the air, but it lacked the distance of traditional TV broadcasts.
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Gawker Watch Fight Club's First Fight With Brad Pitt Digitally Removed | Jalopnik Sports Illustrated
Jan 21, 2:31PM
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The LighterBro Multitool Turns You Into John McClane and MacGyver
Jan 21, 2:20PM
If you're a smoker who's always got a disposable Bic lighter on hand, it's time to ask more of that small accessory taking up space in your pocket. The LighterBro is basically designed to serve as a case for your Bic lighter that also happens to give it amazing slicing, repairing, and bottle opening powers.
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Selling Shame: 20 Outrageously Offensive Vintage Ads
Jan 21, 2:00PM
One vintage ad warns women, "Don't let them call you SKINNY!" while another promises that smoking cigarettes will keep one slender. If the task of morphing their bodies into the current desirable shape isn't enough of a burden, women are also reminded that they stink.
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Awesome image of the Golden Gate Bridge burning in a sea of fog
Jan 21, 1:43PM
Brian Donovan captures incredible landscapes. This amazing image of the Golden Gate Bridge—taken in a perfect sunset as "the fog slowly filled the basin and the clouds began to light up"—is just one of them. Here are some more.
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This Is How People Thought of Fever Before They Knew What It Was
Jan 21, 1:30PM
Having a fever can be pretty terrible—but imagine having it before there was any cure, when nobody really knew what it was. This picture, from the 18 century, depicts just that.
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Verizon Is Buying Intel's Wildly Ambitious Internet TV Project
Jan 21, 12:43PM
After Intel very publicly announced some huge and ambitious plans for its internet TV service, it's just announced that it's... selling the project to Verizon.
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Microsoft Is Paying YouTubers for Positive Xbox One Coverage
Jan 21, 12:30PM
Microsoft has been outed by YouTube content generators, who claim the company has been offering to pay increased ad revenue to video producers who mention Xbox One in a positive light and include the relevant tag in their videos.
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With Beats Music now live, MOG will shutter on April 15th.
Jan 21, 12:15PM
With Beats Music now live, MOG will shutter on April 15th. Users will be offered a month's free trial of Beats Music but, sadly, playlists won't be transferable.
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All the World's Preventable Disease Outbreaks, Visualized
Jan 21, 12:00PM
Although medical science has advanced immeasurably in the last century, many preventable diseases still claim lives due to ineffective vaccination programs. This map shows when and where that happens.
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Beats Music Is Now Available
Jan 21, 11:37AM
You wants Beats Music? You gots Beat Music. The audio company's new streaming service went live in the US this morning, and you can go download the app for iOS right now.
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