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If you really like eating eggs, but you really like making toast, the BangBang is the device you've always dreamed of: a toaster-style, four-egg steamer, suitable for streamlining your morning routine or rigging your neighborhood egg toss. Delicious efficiency. [Yanko] More »
Business - Food and Related Products - Cooking - Shopping - Poultry
The Sony EVIL NEX 3 camera may look a bit odd, but it's got a 14 MP Sony Exmor HD sensor, a touchscreen—along with old-school knobs—and some nice specs: More »
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Last week, in the early hours of the morning, a crew methodically swept over New York City in a laser-equipped Shrike Commander aircraft. They were busy creating the most accurate, detailed 3D map of the city to date. More »
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They're described as "eccentric, mad-scientist RadioShacks" and they're full of gadget guts, cables, and parts you won't find in the average, corporate-owned locations. Run by "RadioShack nostalgics" who want to keep hobby shops alive, these stores are shrines to tinkering. More »
55 years after Albert Einstein's death, physicists will be testing something he scribed in his theory of general relativity report. Three spacecraft flying 3million miles apart will fire lasers at each other, overseen by Nasa and the European Space Agency. More »
AT&T may have improved their dropped call performance lately, but they've still got a lot of work to do. According to a recent survey from ChangeWave Research, AT&T customers experience 3x the percentage of dropped calls as Verizon users. Ouch. More »
HyperMac, our favorite brand of precious-extra-juice-giving external batteries, has updated their line to offer 10W USB charging of the iPad. The four capacities will give your tablet a total run time ranging from 34 to 99 hours. Yes, that'll do. More »
When Faisal Shahzad left his bomb-loaded car parked in Times Square, every step of his escape route through Manhattan was caught by both police and private spycams. If they're the NYPD's eyes, this room is its central nervous system. More »
For a while today, a Twitter bug let anyone force anyone to follow their accounts. It was a hilariously simple trick, and equally bizarre. Even better? This bug was discovered by accident, by a Turkish Twitter user. Here's what happened. More »
The thing about wirelessly streaming video to millions and millions of phones is that it's, like, hard. More »
For this week's Shooting Challenge, we've brought in a special guest judge. Martin Waugh is not only a master of catching water drops in flight; he's oft-labeled the inventor of the "drop collision" shot. More »
NPD Group's smartphone survey* puts total iPhone's sales for the first quarter at 21%. That's third in the ranking. Second position goes, for the first time, to the Android platform, with 28%. El Número Uno belongs to BlackBerry, with 36%. More »
First, Verizon changed their mind about the Google Phone after releasing the similar HTC Incredible. Now Sprint, weeks before the release of the Evo 4G, has done the same. And with that, the CDMA Nexus One is all but dead. More »
Starting May 16, you'll be able to pick up the Palm Pre Plus at AT&T. It will sell for $150 with rebate, and for a limited time, that deal will come with a free Touchstone charging dock. Ooohhh! More »
Current hard disk drives are up against their ceiling: a few hundred GB per inch. But a combination of two unique writing methods could lead to new HDDs that pack ten times as much data in the same space. More »
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon cover materializing on Primrose Hill, in Regent's Park, London. Beautiful. Tripping. Awesome. Some of you probably don't know what the hell I'm talking about. Don't worry. It'll make sense one day. More »
