A Hub For Your Smart Home, Cheap IPS Display, and More Deals
Your home is like the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz; it only wants a brain. Luckily, Amazon has the Wink Hub for an all-time low $37 today. The Wink integrates with smart home appliances from over a dozen major manufacturers, giving you a single interface to control everything from your phone. [Wink Connected Home…
Mad Catz Reveals $300 Transforming Alien Mobile Gaming Thing
Mad Catz' engineers have gone insane.
Intel Is Just Daring Autonomous Drones To Rise Up And Kill Us All
At its big CES keynote this year, Intel announced a new processor for wearables, but it also did something much much bigger. It taught drones to be smart and then gave them a reason to rise up and hunt us down. Thanks guys.
How Bowie flaunted a huge dick on Saturday Night Live and nobody noticed
Yesterday was the anniversary of one of the most surreal music performances in TV story: 35 years ago David Bowie ushered the 1980sin Saturday Night Live. The producers censored a gay reference in the last of his three-song set—but they missed him repeatedly showing a giant penis at the end of it. [NSFW-ish]
Monster Suing Dr. Dre Over Beats Fiasco
Monster just sued Beats Electronics, manufacturer of ubiquitous Beats by Dre headphones, because Monster says it invented Beats, and that Beats stole its property and ran away. It's been clear for years that Monster designed the headphones, but does the company really have a legal claim to any of Dr. Dre's Monster…
3D TV Is Dead. Let's Hope Smart TV Is Next.
Two or three years ago at CES, this post probably would've been about some 3D TV equipped with dorky glasses, maybe a smart set that's more like a rusty Swiss army knife for home entertainment. This year, things are different. 3D is now a specter of CES past. With any luck, smart TVs are next on the chopping block.
Stunning Andromeda galaxy photo clearly shows over 100 million stars
Overwhelmed. That's how I feel when I zoom into this new panorama of the Andromeda galaxy. Yesterday it was the mind-blowing new photo of the Pillars of Creation. Today is this view of Andromeda with over 100 million stars in it. Yes, that is not noise. Each of those dots is a star!
Stardust Is The Best Fantasy Movie You've Never Seen
Put simply, Stardust is the best movie no one has seen. It managed to slip under a bunch of people's noses, most likely because of its name (it does sound pretty cheesy). Fortunately for you, that means this little treasure is something you can discover now. I hope you like fantasy.
LAPD Orders Tasers That Activate Body Cameras When They're Used
Today the LA Police Department announced that it had purchased 3,130 new Tasers that activate a body camera when they're being used. The camera is activated after the officer turns off the safety on the Taser. The "non-lethal" weapon communicates with the officer's body camera via bluetooth.
Intel's Curie Module Can Turn Everything You Wear Into a Smart Device
Here at Intel's big CES keynote, CEO Brian Krzanich is announcing Intel's new Curie Module, a tiny little device that will let you turn all the things you already own and wear into smart devices. It's a little button-sized hardware module, powered by Intel's teeny tiny Quark technology, and it adds a brain to anything…
Dell's New XPS 13 Hands On: A Sleek, Slick, Rock Solid Laptop Dreamboat
On paper, Dell's new XPS 13 seems impossibly good for the $800 starter price. It leaves you thinking "what's the catch?" I just saw it in person, and to be honest I couldn't find it. This thing seems fantastic.
What Whitney Houston Would've Sounded Like As a Disco Queen
Oliver Nelson is a Swedish electronic music producer with a decidedly disco touch. Whitney Houston was an American singer with a decidedly golden touch. What happens when you combine the two? Magical things, I tell you.
3D Printing Your Own Lawn Mower Sounds Like a Great Idea Until It Fails
After building a garage-sized high-speed 3D printer called the Cheetah, Hans Fouche decided that he needed to actually print something useful to convince people to buy his new machine—especially given its $10,000 price tag. So as a proof-of-concept he created what has to be the world's first—and quite possibly its…
First photo of the fully operative Chinese rivals to the US Navy F-18
The Shenyang J-15 Flying Shark—the first Chinese carrier-based fighter that is designed to match and even surpass the American F/A-18E/F Super Hornet—is no longer a test prototype. This photo shows fully operative serial units on the deck of the Liaoning, People's Liberation Army Navy's aircraft carrier.
There's a Netflix For Vinyl Records Now
Digital music sales have taken a dive, and meanwhile, vinyl is in the midst of a huge swell that probably won't let up anytime soon. So what has 2015's vinyl surge wrought? VYNL, or Netflix for records.
The Ultimate Guide To 2015's Science Fiction And Fantasy TV
This is going to be a huge year for science fiction and fantasy television, including some major A-list creators (Jonathan Nolan, Chris Miller and Phil Lord!) coming to the small screen to make beautiful love your eyes and faces. This is your year, people! Here's our complete guide to 2015's science fiction and…
Kepler Just Found the Most Earth-Like Exoplanets Ever Discovered
Kepler just can't stop discovering exoplanets. Nearly two years after scientists said it was crippled, the planet-hunting telescope recently identified eight new planets. But that's not all. They're all in the Goldilocks zone of their respective stars, and two of them are more Earth-like than anything astronomers have…
You Can Now Buy Dell's Incredible Android Tablet
Remember when Dell made Android tablets interesting again? Four months later, you can finally buy the Dell Venue 8 7000 tablet. While it's still listed as "coming soon" on Dell's website, Best Buy is now carrying the slate which wowed us with a beautiful screen, crazy camera, and ultra-thin chassis. It'll set you back…
Harman's New Headphones Listen To Your Ears
At CES, Harman just announced a bold-looking new set of AKG headphones designed by Quincy Jones. The involvement of a musician who's won 27 Grammys isn't what's most impressive, though. Harman says the AKG N90Q are "the world's first headphone with personalized sound."
Why China Is Building The World's Largest "Coast Guard" Cutter
The idea of a Coast Guard is one that has blurred in recent decades, with US Coast Guard vessels serving as far away from home as the Persian Gulf on a regular basis. Still, the Chinese Coast Guard's upcoming 10,000 plus ton super high-endurance cutters are clearly another sign of the country's extra-territorial…
Paul Revere's 1795 Time Capsule Will Be Opened Tonight (Again)
People are understandably excited to see what's inside Paul Revere's time capsule when it's opened tonight in Boston. The capsule was first interred in a cornerstone by Revere and Samuel Adams in 1795, and many news outlets are playing up the idea that the contents are a complete mystery. Except that it's not. Because…
I Fought a Dragon In a Head-Mounted Holodeck
VR is coming, for real this time, and everyone wants a piece of the pie. Me, I want to put every dumb-looking headset I see onto my face. Today it was the Sulon Cortex, a big ol' camera-toting headset that claims it'll turn your living room into the holodeck. It can't quite pull it off, but it tries its damnedest.
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