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Tech NewsYou Don’t Want to Live Inside This Perpetually Rainy House
A haunted house? Yes please. A crowded house? Sure, as long as someone’s always playing “Don’t Dream It’s Over.” But one thing I could not stand is a rainy house, like this one, which will be rainy for the entire month of June. Australian art and design collective The Glue Society have put together the … Continued
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Photofon Shows Just the Photos in Your Twitter Timeline
Love Twitpics (or Lockerz now or whatever?) but hate having to open them individually every time you see one pop up in your overstuffed Twitter timeline? Check them all out at once, Instagram-style, with Photofon for iOS. Just pop in your login credentials and it’ll show you all the photos linked in your Twitter timeline. … Continued
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Tech NewsAppleiWork for iPhone
They’re small, they’re powerful, and they’re finally here. Pages, Numbers, and Keynote for the iPhone are packed with features, proving just how extensive pocket-size productivity can be. They also prove that it can be a real pain in the ass to do work on your phone. What is it? Pages, Numbers, Keynote; $10 each, iPhone. … Continued
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Tech NewsEveryday Looper for iPhone and iPad
Your voice! It’s the only instrument you always carry with you. Unless you’re that weird guy who always walks around with a harmonica in his pocket. But for most of us, it’s the voice. Everyday Looper lets you layer vocal track on top of vocal track for to make simple and sonorous acapella sandwiches. What … Continued
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On the Way to Woodstock for iPad
Woodstock is perhaps the single most mythologized pop culture event of the ’60s, perhaps the most mythologized decade in pop culture history. And because your hippie aunt’s account of the historic concert can’t really be trusted (if she did it right), the interactive On the Way to Woodstock app is an invaluable resource for the … Continued
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EartherClimate ChangeOur Choice for iPad and iPhone
While the iPad has ramped up my of internet reading considerably, I still prefer to tackle books in their physical form, largely because there’s no real advantage to reading them on the tablet. Our Choice, the latest volley in Al Gore’s noble crusade for climate change, is evidence that when crafted with care, the electronic … Continued
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Tech NewsSeamless for iPhone
Here’s a problem you might have encountered: you’re boppin’ along to a song on your computer when you realize it’s time to leave. So in addition to putting on socially acceptable clothes and making sure you have your keys, you have to tap, tap, tap your way to that same song on your iPhone, too. … Continued
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EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger
This week, a sperm bike makes donor deliveries, the first EV built by Porsche 100 years ago, an iPhone infographic, find out if you’re in a nuclear hot zone, a couple cool gadget-y videos and more! The ‘Sperm Bike’ Carries Donor Samples to Fertility Clinics Around Copenhagen This one is the ‘Sperm Bullitt’ and it … Continued
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Tech NewsAppleThis Week’s Best Apps
In this week’s app roundup: Panoramas, produced; Sword & Sworcery EP, miniaturized, slit-scan photography, discovered; mobile browsing, made social; Wikipedia, beautified; The Civil War, learned about; the wisdom of age, brought to your iPad, and much, much more. The week’s best iPhone apps Photosynth: Basically, Photosynth is a panorama photography app. It’s got Microsoft’s Photosynth … Continued
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The Week’s Best iPhone Apps
Photosynth: Basically, Photosynth is a panorama photography app. It’s got Microsoft’s Photosynth engine under the hood, stitching together as many shots of a given area-up, down, left, and right-as you feel like snapping to create a surprisingly smooth model of the space. Whereas other apps of its ilk have you do this thing where you … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Week’s Best iPad Apps
Qwiki: Qwiki for iPad, like their website, is like a visual Wikipedia. Which is to say it’s a super pretty way to learn stuff. How so? Instead of delivering information in text and hyperlinks, Qwiki provides a narrative to the topics you search for with an audio commentary and relevant visuals. But! It ain’t perfect. … Continued
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Tech NewsSlit-Scan Camera for iPhone
Maybe you’ve heard about slit-scan photography, a process in which an image is developed one thin ‘slit’ at a time. Probably you haven’t! But if Photo Booth has taught us anything, it’s that the joy of taking wacky warped pictures is universal. And the Slit-Scan Camera iPhone app is like Photo Booth on acid. What … Continued
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Use Android’s Official Zippo Lighter App to Participate in a Strange, Ancient Concert Ritual
Back when everyone was smoking cigarettes wherever the hell they wanted, concertgoers apparently did this thing where they’d wave their lighters around during certain songs? Or something like that? That was before my time so I don’t really know—I had to turn to the anthropologists at Wikipedia to get the historical scoop: Sometimes at rock … Continued
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Tech NewsHonk for iPhone
Parking perilous. There’s always the problem of the meter: How much money did you feed it? And how much time did that give you? When was that, anyway? Then there’s the less common but far more concerning question: Where the hell did I park to begin with? Don’t panic. Honk knows all. What is it? … Continued
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EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger
A hacked trumpet becomes beautiful iPhone speakers, printable batteries store 40% more energy, new apps for Android users, chip breakthrough allows for instant gadget upgrades, a better way to shop Craigslist with one click, and more! Hark! iPhone Speakers with Amazing Sound Made from Broken Trumpets Not only does it look amazing, but it sounds … Continued
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Strange and Beautiful Underwater Photography Not Altogether Unlike Your Own Boring Photography
Russian marine biologist Alexander Semenov studied invertebrates at Moscow State University Moscow State with an emphasis in squid brains. Yeah! Squid brains. Pretty awesome. And that’s only like the fifteenth coolest thing over at WonderHowTo, where you’ll find an interview with Semenov along with some stunning images of the otherworldly sea creatures he photographs. But … Continued
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Tech NewsMicrosoft
Photosynth for iPhone
One of the first TED Talks I ever watched was a fellow from Microsoft demoing a new technology called Photosynth. It used hundreds of photos from Flickr, all snapped from different perspectives, to synthesize beautiful 3D models of popular tourist destinations—I think they showed Chartres during that demonstration—and it blew my mind, though it seemed … Continued
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NBC’s Royal Wedding App Is the Best Way To Keep Up With That Royal Wedding Thing
Soon, in a spectacular display of viral marketing for the new HBO series Game of Thrones, the House of Windsor and the House of Middleton will be joined by the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton. If this is something you’re interested in keeping up with, NBC News has put together a fittingly elegant … Continued
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Tech NewsQuotebook for iPhone
A good quote deserves to be remembered, and Quotebook is designed to do just that: it’s a simple, elegant way to archive those scraps of language you know might be worth revisiting down the line. What is it? Quotebook, $2, iPhone. There’s not a whole lot to it: it’s a notebook for quotes. A quotebook. … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign
Shooting Hoops in the Adidas AdiZero Crazy Lights, the Lightest Basketball Shoes Ever Made
The Adidas AdiZero Crazy Lights, which will make their debut on the feet of professional basketballers during next week’s playoffs, each weigh just 9.8 ounces, making them the lightest basketball shoes ever made. They may or may not have helped prevent me from embarrassing myself in terrifying pick-up game earlier today. The AdiZero Crazy Lights … Continued
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