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Tech NewsAppleThe iControlPad Is Finally Available and Will Turn Most Phones Into Overpriced Game Boys
It’s been several years since we began covering the iControlPad, a gamepad adapter for mobile devices, and I’ve stopped believing that I’d ever type these words, but here we go: The iControlPad is finally available and the first units will ship out next week. The adapter’s priced at $75 and will give just about any … Continued
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Apple May Finally Be Cleaning Up the iOS Notification System
I’ve ranted and raved about how much the iOS notification system annoys me in the past, so rumors that Apple is buying a small company and having it revamp that whole mess are making me drool. Could it be that I’ll finally get a proper, logical, and neat notification system on my iPhone? According to … Continued
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What It Takes to Engrave Words Onto the Edge of a Razor Blade
This photo is showing you the edge of a razor blade at about 400x magnification. Yes, that’s how close you have to get in order to read the motto hand engraved onto the surface by a 64-year-old man named Graham Short. The engraving in the photograph was preceded by about 150 failed attempts—engravings which were … Continued
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Tech News
This Fully Waterproof Headlamp Will Make an Adventurer Out of Anyone
Up 100 lumens of illumination, distance and strobe modes, red LEDs to preserve night vision, and a fully waterproof body. Yes, the Black Diamond Storm is an oddly appealing sounding headlight. It’s so appealing in fact, that I’m almost tempted to order one for $40 and find a cave to explore right now. [Black Diamond … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
Vatican: Stop Confessing Your Sins to an iPhone
A few days ago something called “Confession: A Roman Catholic App” made its way into the Apple App Store and got a lot of attention. It’s a two dollar app designed to help you examine your conscience in order to “participate in the Rite of Penance” and it makes it a point to proclaim that … Continued
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Why You Should Never Steal From a Vengeful Guy With a Surveillance System
A little while ago a guy noticed his shovel was missing from his front yard, so he checked his security camera footage to see what might’ve happened to it. What’d he discover? Some woman walked into his yard, stole his shovel, and let her dog take a dump on his snow-covered lawn. He also discovered … Continued
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ScienceHealth
Soon Your Doctor Will Pull Out His Phone to Give You an Ultrasound
MobiUS is a simple medical ultrasound imaging system like many others—but it has one rather astonishing plus: All you need is the wand, some gel, and a smartphone. Mobisante is the firm behind the new technology, and it’s just announced that the MobiUS has received FDA approval for use in the U.S. MobiUS is, according … Continued
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Uh Oh! 4G Broadband Might Jam GPS Signals?
Grab your tinfoil hats and teddy bears, folks! There are some scary whispers about GPS-jamming 4G signals going around. The theory appears to be that 4G broadband frequencies (1525-1559MHz) are close enough to GPS frequencies (1559-1610MHz) to cause disastrous interference. [GPS World via Slashdot]
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Daily Roundup – Feb 9, 2011
Why People Are Talking About the iPad 3 When the iPad 2 Isn’t Even Out Yet We know that the iPad 2 is coming soon-it’s why we keep telling you that you shouldn’t buy the current model at this point. But now there’s suddenly talk of the iPad 3 already. What’s going on? More » HP’s … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
Why People Are Talking About the iPad 3 When the iPad 2 Isn’t Even Out Yet
We know that the iPad 2 is coming soon—it’s why we keep telling you that you shouldn’t buy the current model at this point. But now there’s suddenly talk of the iPad 3 already. What’s going on? It basically started with an innocent remark made by Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, a guy with a knack … Continued
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Tech NewsFacebook
A Video Walkthrough of the Facebook Phone
First we heard that Facebook is making a phone, then we were told that it’s not, then we heard that there will be two Facebook phones, and then we wondered what make sense about all these rumors. Click to viewAnd now? Now we’re pretty damn sure that the Facebook Phone is real—particularly considering that TechCrunch … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Would It Really Be So Hard to Design All Restaurant Websites Like This?
Have you looked at a restaurant website recently? Odds are that it was a horrid mess that didn’t give you any of the information you needed. Is it really that difficult to design a decent site for a place that sells food? Click the image on the right for a closer look at how things … Continued
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Researchers Already Have a Twitter Generator That Predicts How You’ll Tweet
Twitter is great for making friends and sharing links, but researchers are also increasingly using it to study human interactions. This is more difficult than it sounds, since privacy settings and caps on server access can make it hard to gather research data from social networking sites. It’d be much easier to have a virtual … Continued
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The CIA’s Flickr Page Is Awesomely Bad
This is Charlie, a remote controlled fish built by the CIA long ago “to study aquatic robot technology.” While once a seaborne spying device, he spends his twilight years in the CIA museum. Except now his visage graces the CIA’s brand new Flickr page, a tentative step into social media from one of the most … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
WSJ: iPad 2 Is in Production and It’s Thinner, Lighter and Faster
We’ve gone over this before: It’s been pretty obvious that a new iPad should be coming out soon and that it’ll most likely be thinner, lighter, and faster than the current model. Now the WSJ has an anonymous source confirming all those things and making suggestions that the next generation Apple gadget will have a … Continued
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Tech News
When Was the Last Time You Listened to a Cassette Tape While Driving?
According to automotive experts, the last car to be factory-equipped with a cassette deck was a 2010 Lexus. As that final model—a Lexus SC 430—rolled off a production line somewhere, a bit of our childhoods faded away. Or did it really? Being a child of the late 1980s, I now struggle to recall a time … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
Did Apple Seriously Forbid a Guy From Selling iPad Cutting Boards?
Well, this is awkward: According to a fellow named Dean Kaplan, Apple told him to stop making and selling cutting boards that look like iPads. Supposedly the reason given was that there are likeness issues. What on earth, Apple? It’s just a piece of wood with a bit of paint on it, not a realistic … Continued
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Groupon Responds to Super Bowl Commercial Controversy
Yesterday, Groupon dipped into its $950 million piggy bank, and spent a bit of that dough on a couple Super Bowl ads. The group-discount service touted the spots as a way to give in to its “Napolean complex” and “invade the rest of the world” with a proper primetime commercial. Groupon sure did make a … Continued
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Sam Spratt
We sincerely doubt that Sam knew what was ahead of him when he made his first digital painting about two to three years ago. After all, it’d be pretty odd if he managed to predict that he’d find himself drawing Adam Frucci riding a space raptor or Chewbacca breast-feeding Macaulay Culkin. Either way, he’s full … Continued
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Tech News
Sam Biddle
While we often make fun of Sam for his peculiar taste in sweaters, we definitely appreciate and adore him for all the news culture experience he brings to our team. We believe that the writing talent may run in the family as Sam has apprenticed under his father, a tech and science journalist from the … Continued
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