Is it ethical to pirate ebooks of texts you already bought in a bookstore? Randy Cohen, the New York Times Magazine ethicist who weekly presides over readers' matters of morality, says yes it is. More »
After gathering dust for 60 years, one of the first modern solar cells ever built was recently uncovered and sold at auction. It still works! Take whatever that original Energizer bunny was claiming in 1989 and add another "...and going." More »
If you live in Mexico, you may just be shit out of luck this weekend if you want to actually get any use out of your cellphone. Unless you've registered your number due to the new law, that is. More »
A bunch of Danish students turned old hair dryers into mobile phone booths. They supposedly think that this is the perfect way to let people make private calls in public. I just plain think they're trying to ruin Superman. More »
Ever try to slip a camera under a girl's dress? Just think of how much simpler amateur upskirting would be if you could just twist a knob to raise her skirt. Someone just needs to hurry and perfect this tech. More »
Some think animals who live without oxygen are proof of alien existence, but how about little creatures who can be dried out, frozen, and boiled only to be resurrected with a few drops of water? Are those our next overlords? More »
Meet Kevin Trudeau. Kevin's a nice guy—he's an author, annoying product pitchman, renowned conman, and convicted felon—and he's currently spending 30 days in jail for encouraging people to send emails to a federal judge. Turns out that's illegal. More »
This is iPhone OS 4 running on an iPhone 3GS. Even though it's not finished, it's surprisingly usable—not nearly as slow as iPhone 3 beta running on iPhone 3G last year. More »
Today Apple added some excellent features to its iPhone platform, so we were forced to update our smartphone beginner's guide chart. Here it is: More »
Want to experience the thrill of watching iPhone multitasking for the first time? The agony that it's not coming to your iPhone? Well, just watch the entire iPhone 4.0 keynote. [Apple] More »
OK, sure, that Winnie the Pooh iBook looks pretty slick. But what about all of those real books that are gathering dust on your real bookshelf? Well, with this Instructable, those too can become (slightly less slick) ebooks. More »
A certain red-headed devil child we call Matt. But also, we've been mail renting lenses and high end gear we couldn't dream of affording from Borrowlenses.com. More »
This awkward-looking contraption can read your mind—sort of. It's an encephalometer from Hitatchi, and it measures the change in blood flow across your brain. You know what that makes it good for? Neuromarketing, apparently! And an old joke. More »
Thus spake Jobs, in joking response to a totally benign question today about the lack of widgets on the iPad. More »
We all know that you can't run Flash on Apple's mobile devices. But now Apple is trying to make it impossible to develop for iPhones in any other development environment but Apple's own. Oh boy. More »
Make no mistake, iAds are the iPhone user's worst enemy. If Buzz Lightyear were at the unveiling, he'd have rocket punched Apple right in the face. More »
Snooping around the new iPhone OS 4 software, some have already spotted something interesting: Three new functions called AVCaptureDevice.hasFlash, AVCaptureDevice.flashMode, and AVCaptureDevice.hasTorch. Do these functions mean the next iPhone's camera will get a flash? Possibly. [AppleInsider] More »
This is supposedly the world's most remote restaurant; if you make it there you get to eat lunch for free. On the one hand, what a deal! On the other, HOLY SHIT LOOK AT THIS PATH: More »
