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Tech NewsAppleTurn Your Apple Watch Into a Tiny Macintosh Computer While it Charges
Turning the Apple Watch on its side while it’s charging overnight puts it in Nightstand Mode so you can always see the time. But with Elago’s amusing new W3 stand, instead of a tiny alarm clock, your Apple Watch becomes a miniature replica of the original Macintosh computer on your bedside table. Made of soft … Continued
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Forgetting a $100,000 Pair of Diamond-Saturated Headphones on a Plane Would Be Heartbreaking
Thanks to Onkyo, throwing on a pair of fancy rose gold Beats headphones is no longer a status symbol. Compared to Onkyo’s new Diamond Headphones which will be available—to a select few—for somewhere around $100,000, those rose gold ear goggles you were so proud of might as well be just another boring pair of white … Continued
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Wikileaks Somehow Reached a New Level of Desperate
In a characteristically desperate move, the Wikileaks Task Force tweeted out that the organization nobly devoted to making private documents public is looking to create “an online database with all ‘verified’ twitter accounts & their family/job/financial/housing relationships.” This feels desperate. Twitter verifies users based on whether their accounts are “of public interest,” meaning that many … Continued
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Apocalyptic Image of the Great Lakes Gives New Meaning to ‘Lake-Effect Snow’
A stunning true-color satellite image taken yesterday shows the Great Lakes shrouded by lake-effect snow clouds. It’s a glorious example of this meteorological phenomenon in action. This image was captured by the Suomi NPP satellite, and it shows bands of lake-effect snow clouds as they drift eastward from the western Great Lakes. Parts of northern … Continued
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Polaroid’s Tragic CES Booth Is What Happens When a Brand Dies
Polaroid’s CES booth might be the saddest thing I’ve seen all show. It’s not your typical “sad” CES booth—it’s huge and filled to the gills with products—but the contents inside show what happens when a brand collapses into itself. To be fair, Polaroid makes some good stuff. It’s new Pop Instant camera looks neat—if a … Continued
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Tech NewsApplePeople Keep Finding Coins in Their MacBooks and Nobody Knows Why
Look, I love my Macbook, but Apple’s products are often (rightly) criticized for being too expensive. We finally have an explanation for the huge price gouge customers have come to expect: they’re made with literal money! Earlier this week, an Imgur user named Greatease uploaded some photos that explain the key difference between an Apple … Continued
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Bank Robber Gets Caught After Using ATM Card During Heist
After a San Diego man named Alvin Lee Neal inserted his ATM card into the teller window at a downtown Wells Fargo, a clerk asked him if he needed any assistance. Neal told the clerk, “You’re being robbed. Don’t make a mistake.” Confused, the bank teller hesitated, so Neal passed a note which echoed a … Continued
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Miniature Brain and Skull Found Growing Inside Teen’s Ovary
While performing a routine appendectomy on a 16-year-old girl, Japanese surgeons uncovered an ovarian tumor containing bits of hair, a thin plate of bone—and a miniature brain. The unusual teratoma—a tumor containing tissue or organ components—measured four-inches (10 cm) across, so it was hard to miss. Analysis revealed clumps of greasy, matted hair, and a … Continued
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How to Move Your Photo Library Between Apple Photos and Google Photos
We’re all disappearing under a virtual avalanche of photos and videos, and no one’s really sure about how to organize it all—though Apple and Google keep trying. Android and iOS both have smart photo services built in nowadays, but what happens when you want to jump from one to the other? Here’s what you need … Continued
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Tech NewsAppleIs This Apple’s Click Wheel iPhone Prototype?
Sonny Dickson has images and video of what he claims is the iPod-based interface—including a gnarly-looking, on-screen click wheel—that almost beat out iOS for the iPhone. Whether it’s legitimate or not, let me just say this: thank Christ it didn’t see the light of day. Dickson says the system was known internally as AcornOS, and … Continued
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Thousands of People Are Watching Two Google Homes Argue With Each Other on Twitch
If you ever wanted to watch two virtual assistants argue with each other for hours on end, well, you’re in luck. Some maniac is live streaming two Google Homes arguing with each other, so of course thousands of people are watching it. The bots are actually having some pretty deep conversation, too. In one instance, … Continued
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This Batshit Sports Car Was 3D Printed From Laser-Melted Metal
The hype around consumer 3D printers has mostly died down, but that hasn’t stopped the startup Divergent 3D from barreling full steam ahead in the industrial printing world. The company debuted the first 3D-printed supercar—the Blade–two years ago and has since continued developing its printing methods. Now, it’s working with major industry players like Peugeot … Continued
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How the East Coast Avoids Dangerous Hurricanes
If you live on the East Coast, chances are you’ve spent some time preparing for one or two major hurricane events that, mercifully, wound up being pretty tame. Was the monster storm a case of too much media hype? Perhaps, but it’s also possible that you were being protected by an invisible coastal buffer zone. … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWatch a Knife Attached to a Rocket Going 150 MPH Slice The Hell Out of Meat and Fruit
Now this is some fun times. The Backyard Scientist strapped a kitchen knife to some homemade sugar rockets, put it on a track sprayed with graphite lubricant so it could murdercut things while zooming down at 150MPH, and then put various sliceable items on the other end to reach their imminent doom (for our infinite viewing … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidHome Alone Edited with More Blood Seems So Hilariously Demented
Let’s be real, if Kevin pulled off the traps and stunts he did in Home Alone in real life, there would be no movie, because the Wet Bandits would be deader than dead. Torching a scalp, smashing a head with a can of paint, beating up a chest with a crowbar, all those scenes would … Continued
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This Tiny Thermal Printer Turns Anything On Your Phone Into a Sticky Note
If you can’t stay organized or remember your to-do list without a myriad of sticky notes plastered around your computer’s screen, this new compact printer makes it easy to turn messages, photos, screenshots, and basically anything on your phone into a tiny square of paper you can stick or share. Mangoslab’s nemonic isn’t exactly a … Continued
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Tech NewsIntel’s Incredibly Tiny Compute Card Could Make Obsolete Dumb Gadgets Upgradable
The Intel Compute Card is tiny. It has a motherboard, memory, storage, wi-fi radio, and can even pack Intel’s latest Kaby Lake processor. Yet it’s only about with size and thickness of a few credit cards. You insert it into any dumb monitor and instantly have a computer as powerful as your laptop. When I … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidMixing Liquids Under a Microscope Creates Wildly Colorful Worlds
Wenting Zhu mixed together paint, alcohol, water, soda, and ink remover in weird combinations, stuck them under a microscope, and ended up with awesomely mesmerizing effects. Sometimes it’s beautiful and feels like you’re watching a kaleidoscope take focus, or seeing a star burst in a distant galaxy. Other times it can feel icky, like when … Continued
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The Game Boy’s Being Brought Back From the Dead With Some Awesome Upgrades
Though there were several iterations and updates to Nintendo’s insanely popular handheld gaming system, the Game Boy was officially retired just over a decade ago. And while Nintendo has no plans to revive the portable console, a company called Retro-Bit is stepping up to bring the Game Boy back from the dead. The Super Retro … Continued
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Intel’s Project Alloy Is What a VR System Should Be
Intel announced its Project Alloy VR concept back in August, but no one’s been able to try it since. That all changed this week at CES, where Intel showed off a developer kit to select media. Gizmodo was lucky enough to be invited into the private demonstration—and we’re happy to report that it was well … Continued