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Category Archives: Futurist
Top Stories: Friday May 6, 2011 [Total Recap]
The Best Gadgets of the Day [Best Gadgets Of The Day]
The Last Vending Machine You’ll Ever Need [Blip]
Quite possibly mankind's greatest achievement since the advent of the Automat, this vending machine carries everything the DIYer could dream of. It's located in the Metrix Create:Space, a hacker hangout in the Seattle area, and sells everything from Nutterbutters to Arduino kits. Need a servo or DC motor for your project? How about an MRE or an LCD display? Solder tubes, ShamWows, bread boards, this machine has you covered. The only thing it doesn't sell is an open-source breathalyzer kit.. .oh wait, nevermind, it does.[Metrix Create:Space via Wired Gadget Lab] More »
Creative ZEN M300: A Non-iPod Nano [Audio]
Secretly want an iPod nano, but loathe Apple/iTunes/iPods/yourself? Creative's ZEN M300 is like a slightly jumbo-er nano—but it plays video, has a microSD card slot, is Bluetooth-y and doesn't force you to use a thumbnail-sized touchscreen. More »
Set Your Phone to Dial for Help When It’s Stolen [Lost And Found]
You can locate your lost or stolen smartphone on a map using an app like Find My iPhone for iOS or employing other clever tricks on Android, but if you're feeling particularly mischievous, you can also set your Android phone to dial for help when it's been stolen. Here's how. More »
Tiny Touchscreen-Controlled Drone Makes Spying on Bad Guys a Cinch [Video]
Predator Drones are nifty, but all that hassle of private contractors and CIA control room is kind of a hassle! The Aeryon Scout Quadrotor makes aerial surveillance a breeze—snap it together, let it fly, and start peeking. More »
Take iPhone Photos, Get Paid [Video]
Wired, GQ and New Yorker Subscriptions Are Coming to the iPad [Blip]
One year, 20 bucks. That's what subscriptions to Wired, Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair and the New Yorker will likely cost when Conde Nast confirms their subscription pact with Apple in the near future. Single issues will probably cost $2. It's expected that, as in the deal Time Inc. reportedly struck, current dead-tree subscribers will have iPad access for free. [NY Post via Wired] More »
AirServer Lets You Push Airplay Audio To Your Apple Computer [Video]
AirServer allows your computer to show itself as an Airplay speaker to compatible devices, which might seem silly or unnecessary to some, but its actually pretty neat, especially if you think of iOS music apps. More »
Google’s New Quiz Site Challenges Your Google Powers and Paradoxically Destroys Itself (Updated) [Google]
It's 2011 and none of us have to go to college, or even high school, or really pass beyond a 5th grade reading level, because Google is a terrific brain-crutch. But how well can you crutch along the knowledge trail? More »
Horses Need Gas Masks Too [Animals]
Horse gas masks first came about around World War I to protect them from chemical agents. Amazing that we still used horses during warfare then! I do love how fitting them up with these crazy masks makes the little horsey look a lot more intimidating and apocalyptic. Gas masks have that effect. [Industrial Anatomy via Neatorama] More »
Easily Distracted People May Have Too Much Brain [Republished]
Johnny Depp Can’t Watch 3D Movies [Movies]
It seems Johnny Depp won't be enjoying his new movie, "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" like most audiences on May 20th. Like a very small portion of the population, he simply can't see 3D movie effects. More »
A 3-Year Old Boy Armed With a Blowtorch Burnt Down His Neighborhood [Children]
Yesterday, a 3-year-old boy and his dog decided to go for a morning stroll through the neighborhood. Only this walk involved a blowtorch and some $5,000 in property damage. Kids today really know how to have fun. More »
People Who Took This Facebook Class At Stanford in 2007 are Making Millions [Facebook]
Anyone who's seen "The Social Network" knows that, by the middle of the last decade, the leaders in tech were skewing younger and making money faster. In one notable instance at Stanford, the secret of success was this: cut corners! More »
Soyuz Launch Looks Like Alien Invasion to Russian Locals [Space]
What's that eerie light shining in the night sky over this city? That is the Soyuz carrier rocket launching from the Plesetsk cosmodrome near the city of Ekaterinburg, the largest city in Russia's Ural Mountains. More »
BeBook Live Tablet Launching With Froyo for No Good Reason [Crap]
The BeBook Live is set to be filed away as yet another Android tablet you probably won't use. It's handsome enough, but its middling specs and dated OS make it a downright throwaway. More »
‘Home Videos’ Show Bin Laden Watching Himself on TV [Video]
Intelligence officials released five "home videos" of Osama Bin Laden recovered from the Al Qaeda leader's compound after he was killed by U.S. forces on Sunday. We know what you're wondering: None of them, so far, are sex tapes. More »
This Lamp Shines Like Soft Moonlight [Design]
Eraclea is a fetching little lighting design created by designer Neil Poulton. The LEDs housed in its concrete body give off a gentle glow that, in the dark, remind you of the crescent moon hanging right above the ground. [Designboom] More »

















