SPIN Play: It's a leaner, more straightforward take on a digital publication than some we've seen—there are no interactive infographics or crazy control schemes—but that's probably a good thing. If you're familiar with Spin, this incarnation will be familiar: there are some longer features, shorter capsule profiles, album reviews, a handful of movie reviews, and a laundry list of new songs you simply must check out. But what's nice about it is that now you don't have to search those songs out on your own. Tap the music icon and they play. Tap the video icon, where available, and a video plays. They keep playing as you poke through the magazine, too, which is nice, though you can stop them at any point (or advance to the next track without the article-specific icons) through an always-present playback bar at the top of the layout. $2.

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The Nintendo 3DS, once slammed as an eye-destroying device, is now being thought of as a tool for diagnosing eye disorders. According to Digital Trends, optometrists feel this could be a useful tool for early warning signs.

"The 3DS could be a godsend for identifying kids under six who need vision therapy," associate director for health sciences and policy for the American Optometric Association Michael Duenas told the Canadian Press.

Kids who can't see the 3D effect could possibly have a lazy eye. Dizziness or discomfort caused by the 3DS could also indicate a vision problem. Of course, there is still contingency of cranky old men who aren't having it."Kids should be out running around," noted director of the Vision Performance Institute at Pacific University Jim Sheedy.[Digital Trends] More »

This is the cover for the current issue of Wired magazine. The woman on the cover isn't just a model in the traditional sense: She's Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries, and very possibly the first woman engineer to grace the cover of Wired. And she looks good on it. So, some people freaked out. More »

Quick, check the "Activities and Interests" section of your Facebook profile. Unless "sitting around thinking about maybe doin' stuff but honestly just killing time on the internet" is on there, you're living a lie. [Comical Concept via The Daily What] More »

Dissident members of the internet hacktivist group Anonymous, tired of what they call the mob's "unpatriotic" ways, have provided law enforcement with chat logs of the group's leadership planning crimes, as well as what they say are key members' identities. They also gave them to us. More »

Media coverage of the Japan nuclear reactor leak makes it seem like the worst kind of power plant disaster that you would ever face. But when you look at the actual statistics and history of similar disasters, nuclear power plants are not the most dangerous energy sources - even when terrible accidents happen. More »

If you've got a Google TV and an Apple mobile device—hey! it can happen—you can now make them play nice with the official Google TV Remote app for iOS. [iTunes, screenshots via CrunchGear] More »

JD Power issued their smartphone rankings, giving the iPhone top ranking, and placing RIM's Blackberry phone at the very bottom. Motorola, HTC, Palm, Nokia and Samsung filled out the list, respectively. For the complete ranking criteria, check out [BGR] More »

Disguising your iPad as a notebook is a pretty smart idea, aesthetically and logically. Pad and Quill's beautifully crafted Octavo for iPad 2 updates the notebook case to work with the magnetic features of the iPad 2. This week's Gizmodo Giveaway brings you the chance to win one of these stunning hand sculpted cases. More »

There is a right way and a wrong way to dispose of our nuclear effluence and I'm pretty sure just dumping it into the Columbia River isn't the right way. Plutonium takes a closer look at the economic and environmental costs of our Cold War arms race. More »

Did you go out and see the Supermoon last night? It was huge! Well, in some places. I went out in New York and didn't even notice a difference. Nonetheless, here's the gigantic, fiery Supermoon hanging over Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. She looks pretty scary. [MSNBC] More »

We've seen a flood of Android phones so far in 2011. We got our first whiff of the coming deluge in January when we went to the Consumer Electronics Show and saw around a dozen really impressive models on the show floor, all with big displays, 4G radios, beefy processors and promises of epic battery life. Some had interesting add-ons, like big physical keyboards for thumb commandos, or the Motorola Atrix's whacky full-sized laptop dock. More »

Anna Marinenko, a designer from the Ukraine, wanted to create a tribute to the people of Japan, and from her mind sprung this simple clock: More »

Oh, Onion. Sometimes your satire cuts so deep that it comes out the other side as near-fact: "Microsoft Word Now Includes Squiggly Blue Line To Alert Writer When Word Is Too Advanced For Mainstream Audience." [The Onion] More »

About 7,500 feet over California there's a small autonomous flying wing trying to prove that it can land, all by its lonesome, on the deck of an aircraft carrier. More »

What could be more fun than a Kinect-powered eyeball that blinks to life when you enter the room and then follows you around until you leave? A lot of things, actually, because this is terrifying. More »

Back in the day, when NASA pilots posed with Corvettes and we were just getting to the Moon for the first time, our brightest minds thought space colonies might look at little something like this. More »

You say your address is Number 523? Hmm. I still can''t seem to find it. More »

Lest there be any doubt as to when those ballyhooed Nokia phones running Windows Phone 7 are being developed, CEO Stephen Elop confirmed that said handsets were being created right this instant. Availability is another story: 2012 [Reuters via BGR] More »

Some 24-inch and 27-inch Apple Cinema Displays owners are experiencing distracting flicker when connected to a MacBook Pro via the new Thunderbolt port. More »