When You're Convinced Your Loved Ones Are Imposters

You're looking at a woman who resembles your mother. She moves and talks like your mother, and she's even dressed the same as your mother. In fact, she is your mother. But you're absolutely certain that she's an imposter. More »
#squeakyscience

Evolution in the Balloon Animal Kingdom

People have been twisting balloons into squeaky little animals for decades, but Willy Chyr's work marks an evolution in the craft. Instead of dogs and bunnies, he makes gigantic, science-inspired sculptures of jellyfish, neurons, and zooids. Huh? More »

NYPD's Computers Are Certain That This 82-Year-Old Woman Is a Dangerous Criminal

Rose Martin has been questioned by police some 50 times in eight years, stemming from her involvement in crimes ranging from robbery to murder. Of course, she's not actually involved, but the NYPD's computers continue to think otherwise. More »

Microsoft SenseCam Review: What It's Like to Record Your Whole Life

Imagine a format that lies somewhere between photos and video, and a device that takes that format automatically, without you having to click a button. Microsoft's SenseCam is a prototype that hangs around your neck, lifecasting everything you see. More »
#accessories

MoviePeg iPhone Stand Keeps It Simple, Stupid

There are plenty of good reasons you might want to prop up your iPhone. Say you're using it as an alarm clock. Or (sorry David Lynch) watching a video. MoviePeg, without being cutesy or funny or DIY-y, just does it. More »

Xbox 360 Coffin Is the Only Suitable Resting Place For Your Red-Ringed Console

To serious gamers, the thought of just trashing a console—even if it's an Xbox 360 that's been claimed by the red ring of death—is just downright disrespectful. This coffin lets it rest in video game peace. More »
#howto

How To: Hide Your "Collection"

All this talk about preserving digital legacies got me thinking: What about the bits we don't want to leave behind? Y'know, the risqué material? Don't pretend you don't know what I'm talking about. More »

Nokia Crowdsources All That Boring "Design" Business

You know what? Nokia's just about had it with you guys complaining about the design of their devices. "Let's see you do better," the company says. "No, really, use this panel of sliders and buttons to design your dream phone." More »

The Department of Defense Covertly Dismantled a Terrorist Message Board...Created By the CIA

An incident from 2008, brought to light recently by the Washington Post, reveals just how discombobulated our nation's cybersecurity efforts actually are. A terrorist-tracking forum, created by the CIA and Saudi government, was shut down by the National Security Agency. More »
#memoryforever

The Life and Death of the Rolodex

Just a few years ago there were no virtual social networks, no synchronized address books, and no smartphones. But people had social networks and phones, and they had to memorize and organize thousands of contacts. Or have a Rolodex. More »

Wrapsol Ultra Film Protects Phones When They're Dragged Behind a Car at 35 MPH

The makers of Wrapsol Ultra adhesive film wanted to prove how well their product protects gadgets. So they took an innocent Nokia, wrapped it up like a sandwich, and dragged it behind a car at 35 miles per hour. Ouch. More »
Yesterday - March 19, 2010

Sometimes the Photoshop Crop Tool Is All You Need

A caption of "no, I did not photoshop this" accompanied this silly picture and I didn't believe it. I still don't, but that's just because I have proof: The crop tool was used. Here's the original image: More »
#roundups

This Week's Gaming Stories You Cannot Miss

I'm not gonna lie. The news on the upcoming Star Wars MMO isn't very big, I just really wanted to use this picture for the lead. But don't worry, lots of other good stuff inside this week's gaming stories: More »

GameBone Accessory Will Turn iPhones Into PSP Look-Alikes

When we last saw renders of the GameBone iPhone gaming accessory it looked ridiculous. But the latest design actually looks like something we might slip our iPhones into to give them four buttons and a d-pad. More »
#concept

Energy-Generating Waterfall Doubles As Bungee Platform

During the night, this tower is an energy-generating waterfall. During the day, it creates power using large solar panels while allowing bungee jumpers to leap from level 90.5. More »

The Typo We've Been Waiting For

Admit it. You've been waiting for someone at a publication to slip up and make this typo ever since the LHC was announced. Unfortunately for Telegraph.co.uk and fortunately for us, Rebecca Watson caught a screenshot when it finally happened. [Flickr]

From the Tips Box: Bookmarked Addresses, Touchpad Hotkeys, and Chrome Updates

Readers offer their best tips for remembering addresses with your browser, assigning a hotkey to turn on and off your touchpad, and discerning when Google Chrome updates itself. [Lifehacker]

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter: Surprisingly Fantastic

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter takes gigantic liberties. But if you can allow your imagination to accept the incontrovertible fact that our 16th President also killed vampires on the side, you'll be entertained right up until John Wilkes Booth's fanged appearance. [io9]

Football - Real Kick iPhone Game Actually Plays Meatspace Soccer

Some app developer was smart enough to realize that the iPhone's speaker pushes air around, and thus, can be used to move a little styrofoam ball around a fake soccer field. More »
#iphoneapps

This Week's Best iPhone Apps

In this week's reminiscent app roundup: Music, comprehended! Transformers, done justice to! Zombie defense, executed within the bounds of Newton's laws! Images, kaleidoscoped! Premium navigation, sold piecemeal! iPhones, blown upon! And more... More »
#energy

Tendril Vision Clock Helps You Save in Electricity Bills

I like the Tendril Vision's looks. And I like it even more because it's real, even while it feels like a spare part for the Enterprise's bridge. The clock connects to the electric grid, giving you real time consumption information. More »

DIY Alien Race Invades Earth

After birds and firetrucks and scuba divers and branches and the devil and burgers and God and teddy bears and drunks and noses invaded Earth, now it's the turn of crafty DIY aliens. Here's their mothership. [Google - Thanks oakleytimebomb!]

The Five Stages of Data Loss Grief

So your hard drive just died, and you didn't back it up. I'm so, so sorry. You can expect to go through the following five stages once you discover that all of your photos, files and music are gone forever. More »

Steve Jobs on Organ Transplant Lists: "I Almost Died" Waiting

When Steve Jobs received his liver transplant, he was considered "the sickest person on the waiting list." Now he's speaking out about the faults in California's current organ donor system which left 400 people dying in wait last year alone: More »
#nowavailable

Now Available

Pony up that cash, it's payday! This is what you should be blowing your kids' college fund on, unless you already blew it on St. Patrick's Day—here's what's Now Available. More »

Best Buy Now Completely Full of Crap in 3D

If you drop a few grand on a 3DTV package, the Geek Squad will "sync" those 3D glasses for you free—part of a "$149.99 value." The problem? Syncing shutter glasses only requires that you LOOK AT THE SCREEN. More »
#memoryforever

The Future of Storage

If you take the guts of a Blu-ray or DVD player, blow it up, and spread it across a work bench, it looks like this. So you might be surprised to know that you're looking at the future of storage. More »

You'd Be Crazy to Buy a Palm Now

Palm is dying. They've been hemorrhaging money since late last year, and yesterday's woeful earnings announcement sealed its fate. It didn't have to be this way. But it's been coming for a long time. More »
#lego

My Childhood Memories Live In Lego's Underground Secure Vault

Nothing brings up memories as smells do. In my case, it's the smell of plastic. Thousands of little colorful plastic pieces in cardboard boxes. Literally, all those memories live in a secure, temperature- and humidity-controlled, fireproof archival vault in Denmark. More »

Apple Bans Game, Days After Developer Publicly Trashes App Store

Last week, game developer Tommy Refenes publicly called Apple's app store "awful" and "horrible." This week, Apple yanked his game from their store. [Kotaku]
#dealzmodo

Gadget Deals of the Day

Today's deals are loaded with laptop savings like the 17 incher from HP, experience the high octane immersive driving action of Shift, and churn out some more saving by ripping music with the youtube music downloader in today's hobomodo. More »

Ah, Spring. The Perfect Time To Shop for Gear

Just take this survey, and you could win a $150 Apple Gift Card to spend as you wish. Email the last question to surveys@gawker.com and you could be one step closer to putting a down-payment on that iPad. Then you'll be the coolest kid in school. [Rules]
#broken

God of War Smites Human Hand (X-Ray)

Generally speaking, videogames don't cause real bodily harm. But this X-ray, sent to us by a physician, proves that God of War III can break actual bones. More »

Google Wants 3D Graphics Acceleration Directly In Chrome

Google's ANGLE project, launched today, will allow their Chrome OS to be able to access graphics hardware using the OpenGL ES 2.0 API. What this means to you: 3D graphics in your browser! More »
#blockquote

A War Photographer's Storage Casualties

The size and quality of digital photographs has exploded over the last 10 years. So, we asked our friend and war photographer, Teru Kuwayama, how his storage and backup system has changed to accommodate the data boom. More »
#chart

Would the iPad Take Over Casual Home Gaming?

Get ready, because this one may get big: 44% of all iPad applications being tested on the actual device are games. Hey Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft, the iPhone/iPod titan is getting its tentacles all over the living room. More »
#memoryforever

Nostalgia vs. Digital Reality: The Perils of Permanent Perfect Memory

It's easy to claim that the stuff you liked as a kid was way better than the crap kids watch today, because you haven't seen it in years. But now you can, in better quality, even. Does it hold up?

Windows Phone 7 Emulator Shots Show Inconsistent Vision

It's unclear whether the task manager and file explorer found in these Windows Phone 7 emulator screens will make it to the final release, or if it will live only in emulators and debug versions of Windows Phone. Here's why we're wondering. More »

How Apple Keeps iPad Developers on Extreme Lockdown

If you're a software developer lucky enough to get a look at the iPad before its release, you'd better be ready to submit to some of the toughest security measures this side of Super Max. More »
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