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How to Defend Your Home Without Firearms
So, what, you think you’re better than Batman? The Caped Crusader’s out there protecting an entire city without packing heat but you can’t defend your little abode without a gun? For shame! Here are four methods for protecting you and yours without exercising the Second Amendment. Buy a Home Security System The least dangerous way … Continued
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iOS 6.1.1 Is Out, iPhone 4S Gets First Dibs
Apple started pushing out iOS 6.1.1 for the iPhone 4S this afternoon. You can download it here. Apparently the over-the-air update fixes some issues with 3G coverage in Europe. We haven’t seen it pop up on the iPhone 5 or any other devices yet. However, since it seems to address a wireless connectivity issue, it’s … Continued
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Every Apple Product Supposedly in the Works
Did you hear the latest rumor about Apple’s “explorations” into a Dick Tracy-like smartwatch that’ll soon be attaching itself to everybody’s wrists? It’s coming soon. Or never. But it’s just another one of an avalanche of products Apple is rumored to have in the works. We’ve rounded up everything Apple’s supposed to have in the … Continued
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These High-End Office Chairs Are Your-Butt-Thanks-You Deal of the Day
If sitting is the new smoking — that is, it makes you look cool and significantly shortens your life expectancy — then we, as sitting addicts, should choose our brand. People even moderately acquainted with high-end office chairs know about the Herman Miller Aeron, but Steelcase also makes a few premium thrones. In particular, the … Continued
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An incredible book of poetry about DC’s Legion of Super-Heroes
Is this your first visit to the 30th century? Those of you from a millennium past may experience disorientation. Know that we have addressed our epoch to utopia. Know that we looked to you when we designed the answer to the question of our future, a fiction. —”Welcome Visitors,” Raymond McDaniel (Special Powers and Abilities … Continued
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Whip Up a Bewildering Nerdy Decor With This Giant Sword and Arcade Scented Candles
Need scented candles, a giant foam sword, or a ringtone machine to annoy your buddies? Of course you don’t but, you want ’em and ThninkGeek’s spread for Toy Fair 2013’s got you covered. Among the sweet new digs are, bizarrely, a set of scented candles developed in conjunction with the kings of the game, Yankee. … Continued
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The Doctor Who 50th anniversary will be in 3D and movie theaters, too
Whovians may be grumbling that the 50th anniversay of the longest-running scifi show in the world is only getting a 60-minute special to mark the occasion, but at least it just got upgraded. The BBC announced that the as-yet-untitled Doctor Who special will be broadcast in 3D, as well as played in movie theaters for … Continued
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Watch thirty epic hours of snowstorm Nemo in just sixty seconds
Last Friday, a hulking blizzard snowstorm overtook the Northeast. Few places were as hard-hit as Boston, parts of which were shrouded in more than thirty inches of snow by Saturday morning. This timelapse video, shot by Beantown resident jere7my tho?rpe between Friday 2/8/13 and Saturday 2/9/13, packs 30 hours of snowfall, plowing, shoveling, and disappearing/reappearing … Continued
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It’s Completely Safe to Crash This Fake RC Blimp In Your Living Room
Taking a few notes from the Hindenburg disaster, China’s Amax Toys has created what appears to be a remote control flying zeppelin letting you recreate the glory days air travel. But upon closer examination, it’s actually a dual-rotor RC helicopter with a rollcage designed to only look like a blimp. So not only is there … Continued
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The Nexus 4’s Charging Orb Is Now On Sale in Google Play
The Nexus 4 has been around for a few months now, but the Android phone’s pretty wireless orb charger is just now available in the Google Play store. The accessory costs $60 and is supposed to ship in less than a week. And while $60 seems like a lot to spend on a charger, the … Continued
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History Channel’s Vikings is just as brutal as Game of Thrones
Vikings, the new scripted show from the History Channel is bonkers violent. It’s like Game of Thrones without the nudity. Backed by historical research and lots of sexy Australian actors, this show is the channel’s first venture into scripted drama. Thankfully writer Michael Hirst from Elizabeth, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and The Tudors is manning … Continued
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I can’t stop obsessing over this weird movie about computer chess
When I first watched this teaser trailer, I thought Computer Chess was a documentary put together from actual footage of the programmers who invented a computer that would eventually beat a human grandmaster at chess. But it’s actually something far more beautiful and strange. Computer Chess, which just debuted at Sundance, is a fictional story … Continued
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11 Amazing Soundboards For Your Listening Pleasure
Sure, singers sing and guitarists strum, but you owe just as much to the engineers behind the music as you do the musicians themselves. They may not get much time in the Grammy spotlight, but in honor of the mixers and shakers who make music worth listening to, here are 11 epic past and present … Continued
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Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome‘s soundtrack had a human-vs.-synthetic war of its own
The Battlestar Galactica web series Blood and Chrome finally aired on the Syfy Channel yesterday, but the franchise isn’t quite finished yet — at least if you’re interested in hearing composer Bear McCreary explain how he made the prequel series’ fantastic score in this vlog. It’s actually a fascinating look at the human performances and … Continued
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Six New Toys That Will Destroy Your Faith in Humanity
Toy Fair is where America’s children’s dreams come true—sometimes. After visiting the 2013 edition at NYC’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, the kid in me was terrified as much as he was delighted. I don’t know if any boy or girl would play with some of the things I saw… or run. Just take a … Continued
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Facebook Is Working on a Ticket Buying Feature (Updated)
Buy tickets for the Rihanna tour on Facebook? Maybe soon. Facebook is reportedly testing a feature that would let you do just that. Said feature has been spotted in the Netherlands and Israel, meaning Facebook is testing in select markets before going wide. Clicking a “buy tickets” button on an event page, though, takes you … Continued
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Did dinosaurs produce “milk” for their young?
As if putting feathers on dinosaurs wasn’t insult enough, a radical new theory from Paul Else of the University of Wollongong is proposing that dinosaurs produced a kind of milk for their offspring, that they essentially lactated — a physiological process that’s associated almost exclusively with mammals. But as Else’s new paper suggests, some modern … Continued
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Floating Swarm Bots Form Emergency Bridges, Runways, and Islands
Teamwork is a new concept in the field of robotics, but the idea of creating hundreds of cheap disposable robots that work together to complete a greater task has a lot of promise. So far swarm bots—as they’ve come to be known—have successfully tackled problems on land and in the air. But now DARPA wants … Continued