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Tech NewsEvery Lego Fan Needs These Red Brick Slippers
One of the most painful feelings in the entire world is when you accidentally step onto a Lego brick with your bare foot. AGH the shooting needle of plastic is a horrific reminder of how big a weakling your feet are. No worries though. For true Lego fanatics, they can turn to Lego brick house … Continued
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Tech NewsYou Won’t Believe What Happens When You Light These Chemicals on Fire
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you mixed Mercury(II) thiocyanate (Hg(SCN)2) and Ammonium chromate (NH4)2CrO4 together and then lit it on fire? NO?! What’s wrong with you? It’s unbelievably hellish and impossibly alien combined with one burning force of what the horrifically kraken insane. The video starts off innocently enough with just ordinary … Continued
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Tech NewsHow Much Food Do We Waste Every Year?
We’re wasteful people. Maybe not you and maybe not me but definitely “we”. Some of us try to live as consciously as possible but it hardly matters when the rest of us are inconsiderate and lazy. The United States wastes about $165 billion in food every year. Half of the food produced in the US … Continued
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Tech NewsSocial MediaYou Won’t Need a PIN When You Pay for Everything with Your Face
Imagine a world where your debit card stays in your pocket at all times, and you never have to touch cash. This is a place where you don’t have to remember your wallet, or even phone, when you run down to the corner store. It’s a future well off in the distance, to be sure, … Continued
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Origami for iOS and Android: A Better Way to Share With Family
No one wants their parents on their Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or any other social media site they might be busy embarrassing themselves on. They surely don’t want to see pictures of you on the verge of consciousness every night and you certainly don’t want them posting embarrassing things in a public forum. Origami keeps things … Continued
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This Vest Claims To Regulate Your Body Temperature
In our ongoing coverage of things that claim to regulate one’s body temperature, I present to you the Nike Aeroloft 800 Vest. It’s $180. Like the Helly Hansen H2 Flow, Nike’s Aeroloft relies on a series of laser-cut holes and strategically placed chambers of down filling that allows for the dissipation of one’s body heat … Continued
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Ikea Resurrects the Little Table That Inspired Ikea as You Know It
Ikea is coming full circle square. This week, the company announced the return of Lövet, the humble table that inadvertently sparked the flatpack revolution in 1956 when, in a fit of desperation, a young designer chopped off its legs in order to cram it into his car. You see, for its first ten years of … Continued
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Microsoft had to eat $900 million last quarter in unsold Surface RT tablets, which might help explain that $150 price drop the other week. We’ll be listening in on the earnings call later to day for any more details and to try to pinpoint exactly how many things Steve Ballmer smashed when he heard the … Continued
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What Are Your Favorite Keyboard Shortcuts?
At Giz, we spend our days all clickity-clackity on our keyboards, and we’re pretty sure a lot of you sit at desks all day, too. Like us, you’ve probably got some favored keyboard shortcuts that changed your life when you discovered them. We want you to share it with us. What are the best keyboard … Continued
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We’re Way Behind Schedule For Curing the Common Cold
Despite all of the wonderful advances we’ve seen in modern medicine over the last century, we still have yet to crack a stubborn little virus: the common cold. What a letdown. The February, 1962 issue of Reader’s Digest included an article by Robert O’Brien titled “Forty Years From Now.” The piece looks at all the … Continued
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Tech NewsBuy These Headphones, Help a Deaf Person Hear
It’s not often that you can indulge yourself with a shiny new toy and help someone in need at the same time. But with LSTN, an up-and-coming company that specializes in making headphones out of reclaimed wood, that’s the whole point. LSTN is the brainchild of Bridget Hilton, a music industry veteran who was on … Continued
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You Can Get a Free Year of Xbox Live Gold for Buying Office 360
Good news, Microsoft fans! For a limited time buying Microsoft products will get you more Microsoft products for free. To be more specific, you’ll get a yearlong subscription to Xbox Live Gold when you purchase the new(ish) Microsoft Office 365 which also happens to be a subscription based software suite. Advertised as a back-to-school deal, … Continued
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This Personal Alarm Weaponizes Your House Key
A self-defense course will teach you how to use your keys as a weapon, but in practice, when you’re under attack and panicking, protecting yourself with a keyring isn’t as easy as it sounds. So the Hit, from Unikia, combines a loud audible panic alarm with a pop-up holder that turns a key into a … Continued
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Dealzmodo: $100 5.1 System, Jim Guthrie Humble Bundle, Marvel Blu-rays
Add 5.1 surround to your living room for $104 courtesy of woot! today. This Pyle 5.1 Home Theatre system with Active Subwoofer will have your neighbors complaining without aggravating your wallet, and you can blow all your non-techy friends’ minds by explaining what the .1 in 5.1 is. [woot!] Top Deals • Pyle 5.1 Home … Continued
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All Those Open Browser Tabs Really Are Killing Your Laptop’s Battery
There’s a ton of info on the web. You’re never going to read it all, but you want to, so your browser has fistfuls of open tabs waiting for that rainy day when you’ll want to read a two-month-old article that’s no longer relevant to anything. But have you ever wondered what all those tabs … Continued
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Shooting Challenge: Insects And Other Creepy Crawlies
This is it. My favorite annual Shooting Challenge of the year. You go out into the grass and muck and photograph bugs. The Challenge Photograph an insect, bug, arachnid, whatever! The Method Many of you will dust off the old macro lens this week, which is fantastic. Others might repurpose a telephoto lens for ground-level … Continued
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Anonymous Says They Leaked 2,000 Congressional Email Passwords
The rascals over at Anonymous are still pretty upset over the recent revelations about the NSA spying on seemingly everyone so they’re acting out in the only way they know how: hacking. Specifically, releasing the supposed email accounts—and passwords—of seemingly everybody on Capitol Hill. On Monday night, the affiliate account @AnonLastResort tweeted a link to … Continued
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Tech NewsA 69-Year-Old Experiment Finally Worked For the First Time
One of the longest standing experiments has finally yielded a result. Started in 1944, it only took 69 years but the tar-like pitch at Trinity College Dublin has finally dropped. Pitch, for the uninitiated, is a highly viscous material that looks solid but is actually just a slow moving liquid. The point of the experiment … Continued
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