You're not an overprotective parent, just...cautious—which is why your kids still write with safety pencils and circles of paper even though they're nearly in college. And how are you going to teach them to drive? Thos things are automotive deathtraps! The Humanix iSAVE-SC1 might be a good start. More »
You're at a party. It's lame. There's a laptop in the corner running iTunes, and people are taking turns DJing to try to liven up the crowd. Unfortunately, the guy with the fingerless gloves is hogging the computer, and his circa-1994 drum and bass jams are failing. More »
Pillow talk: mostly awkward in real life, terrifically funny in a faux-80s instructional video that takes place on a park bench that compares man parts to salamanders. Not safe for work sexy talk awaits. More »
In its bid to compete with traditional cable offerings on even footing, YouTube has reached agreements with more than 100 producers to provide exclusive video content to the site. YouTube is aiming to create dedicated, broadcast-quality channels from these providers—including Reuters, the WSJ, Slate, The Onion, Ashton Kutcher, and Shaquille O'Neal. More »
It goes without saying Western soldiers haven't seen a lot of jungle and woodland shooting these days. The arid climes of the Middle East—and their urban centers—have been warfare hotspots. So how about some crazy new urban camouflage? More »
Happy people are always celebrating. Your laptop battery is charged! You actually put on pants today! But everyone really needs to find cause to keep a classy bottle icy now that Porsche has unleashed this bottle cooler on the universe. More »
I was looking at my cable bill today and becoming deeply angry at the fact that I have to subscribe to a suite of Cantonese channels in order to get The Cartoon Network. The hell? I don't even speak Cantonese. More »
What pours forth from that blazing glory hole? A shit-tonne of the purest gold on Earth. No joke. These fire-wielders are funneling 1000 kg of 99.99 percent pure gold into a mold to cast the hugest, most-valuable coin in history. More »
The Washington Post had an interesting back and forth wringing its hands over the future of journalism. Oh no! Journalism is dying! Again! Or so a newspaper with declining readership and revenue would have you believe. More »
So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn't possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn't worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. More »
UAV's are big, but they're not jet big—something the Navy's trying to correct with its X-47B, which aims to replace traditional fighters. Y'know, the ones with humans in them. Watch the drone killer stretch its wings a little. More »
You don't need to have evil motives for wanting to fake your identity or go incognito online; for many people, it's a matter of privacy and avoiding spammers and scammers. Thankfully, there are a great many tools for staying anonymous online. Here are a few of the best. More »
I'm not sure what that pillow did to this guy, but he is not taking it lying down. This mesmerizing video of pillow innards flying everywhere reminds me just how fragile life and bedding really are. More »
So HP's finally let loose another load of firesale 32GB TouchPads for $149, which will be available at Best Buy Starting November 1st. That would be totally great and welcome news except for one thing: You've got to buy a HP computer to get the sale price. Come on. More »
I think there are maybe 12 people in the world who want 3D on their tablets so this is for them. Ochanomizu Women's University has developed a way to turn the iPad display into a pseudo-3D display. Well, kind of. It requires a special device. More »
Jeannie: Another voice control app for Android that can actually hold a Siri-esque conversation with you. You can send emails, play music, search the web, set alarms, hear jokes, find news and more with Jeannie. There's a ton of features here, Lifehacker says that you can, "control apps, start and stop music or video playback, read a poem to you, translate text or words to or from Spanish, control your phone's volume, Bluetooth state, and Wi-Fi radio all by voice."
Apps make the iPhone shine. And you want your new (or even old) iPhone to shine, right? Here are the best iPhone apps this week! It's a solid list.
500px: 500px is like Flickr, if Flickr filtered all the crappy photos that the bulk of their users sometimes post and distilled it into true art photography. So it's a place where really good photographers can store their pictures in polished portfolios for other really good photographers (or just other people) to see them. It's an elite social network for photogs, basically. The iPad app is an extension of their web site, you can browse popular pictures, see editors picks, new pictures, your pictures, your friends pictures and your favorites too.
