Yesterday - August 14, 2010
#watercube

The Beautiful Water Cube In Beijing Is Now A Water Theme Park

Olympic stadiums have a short shelf life. They're oohed and aahed at during the games, but after the festivities, they're forgotten and left to rust. China is trying to prevent that by re-inventing the beautiful Water Cube as a theme park. More »
#bicycle

Oh Nothing, Just Riding Around On My Hubless Bicycle

Sure, hubless bicycles aren't exactly new, but it just trips me out seeing a guy riding his hubless bicycle around. It's like watching something that's not supposed to happen, happen. More »

Because Asking A Girl To Marry You In A Photo Booth Is Way More Romantic Than In Front Of Your Computer

Here's a picture of a guy proposing to his girlfriend in a photobooth. It makes me bubble inside and I never bubble inside. Just look at her, she goes from a simple smile to pure elated joy in under 4 pictures. More »

NFL Considers Ball-Tracking Chips for Accuracy

The NFL wants to insert a tracking chip into footballs so that it can give players fair and accurate spots. The new system could cut down on human error and solve many potential arguments during a game More »
#loft

Living In These Lofts Is Like Living In A McDonald's Playground

I'm sure when I was younger I wanted to live in a McDonald's playground forever. Now, thanks to the imaginative Japanese, I can. These Reversible Destiny Lofts in Tokyo are basically an adult-sized playground masked as housing solutions. More »

This Hair Dryer Has a Ferrari Engine Inside

The new Conair BaByliss Pro Volare hairdryer packs an "engine" built with Ferrari's team using real Ferrari parts. I'm just hoping that if I use the Volare my hair will ooze Italian sex appeal. More »

Don't Forget To Feed The Phone

If I told you there's a website that posted pictures of people feeding food to inanimate objects, what would you say? Yeah, I'd want to see it too. There's something awesome about a balloon drinking coffee and a girl eating door. More »

Try E-Mailing The Guy With The World's Longest E-Mail Address

Some guy's e-mail address is 345 characters long. Mine's only 17 characters long. Damn, he's way bigger than me. Here's his elongated e-mail address in all its glory. More »

A Touchless Automatic Paper Towel Dispenser And Cutter Might Be Too Much

For me, paper towel dispensers fall under things I never thought needed improving. The imaginative folks at CLEANCut think differently—they've created an automatic paper towel dispenser and cutter that's sleek, touchless and probably totally unnecessary. More »

Apple Employee Accused Of Accepting $1 Million In Kickbacks From Asian Suppliers

The Mercury News is reporting that Paul Shin Devine, a midlevel Apple global supply manager, has been arrested and accused of accepting $1 million in kickbacks from Asian suppliers of iPhone and iPod accessories. He allegedly sold confidential information. More »
#leica

Here's A Way To Make Your iPhone 4 Really Look Like A Leica Camera

Sure, you could add a faux leather skin to re-create the classic Leica feel but why do that when you could just print out a picture of a Leica Camera and tape it to the back of your iPhone 4? More »

The Next Best Thing To Oil

In order to create a renewable carbon economy, you can use solar power to split carbon dioxide. Combine the resulting carbon monoxide with hydrogen and you have the beginnings of a solar fuel that could one day replace oil. More »

Imagine You and 10,000 of Your Closest Friends Beating the Human Domino World Record

10,267 Chinese participants did just that, sitting in a field till it was their turn to topple onto the person behind them. They smashed the old world record set in 2000 by a whole order of magnitude. More »
#imagecache

Where Computers Lose Their Souls

We desperately hope that the computers which we ship to developing countries will be genuinely beneficial to locals, but unfortunately that isn't always the case—more often than not, they're simply abandoned until they're searched for precious metals. More »
#concept

Using Music To Reach The Memories of Alzheimer's Patients

Transcendental Tunes combines RFID technology (in the form of a golden, translucent gem) and a retro-looking wooden audio device to play digital music that releases the memories held captive by the mind in Alzheimer's patients. More »
#ipadapps

iSink U Is The Best Looking Battleship Game You'll Find For Your iPad

There's something incredibly satisfying about watching a torpedo shoot from your battleship and crash into your opponent's submarine with a booming sound. There's something even more satisfying about watching this happen from the safety of your iPad. More »
Friday - August 13, 2010
#microscope

iPad and Kindle Screens Compared Under A Microscope

Ever wondered how the Kindle and iPad displays compare if placed under a microscope? Me neither, but some folks decided to see how things look magnified. They even got closer than the picture above: More »

Roll Over Your Foes With the Vertrax Treaded Skateboard

The idea behind the Vertrax concept skateboard is the ability to cruise over a variety of non-paved surfaces with thick treads. Does it look cool? Sure! Would it work? We'll never know! But it is a neat piece of design. More »
#architecture

An Aquarium Made of Colossal Beach Pebbles

According to the architects, the "Batumi Aquarium is inspired by the characteristic pebbles of the Batumi beach-–the residue of dynamic seas continually shaping the shorefront throughout millennia." Each of the stones forming the building will hold a unique marine biotype. More »
#apps

This Week's Best Apps

In this week's totally awesome app round up: Splodes, sploded; nearby lightning strikes, pinpointed; the apocalypse, rendered in adorable 8-bit style; free turn by turn navigation, improved; Xvid files, played on your iPad; and so much more! More »

From the Tips Box: Network Filters, Status Bar Size, and Saving Electricity

Readers offer their best tips for getting around some network filters, enlarging the font in Firefox's status bar, and toning down on your PC's power consumption. [Lifehacker]
#concepts

Toilets, Toilets, Everywhere, Nor Any Place to Poop

"As a cartoonist-inventor, I sometimes cannot resist the temptation to illustrate a concept even while knowing it is crazy, stupid or at least poorly conceived" says Steven M. Johnson. Looking at these toilet concepts, I'm happy his will is weak. More »

The io9 guide to selling your collectibles online in a bad economy

Chances are, your rare toys, comics and other collectibles aren't just awesome — they're worth serious cash. But how can you get what they're worth in such a lousy economy? Don't panic: We've collected surefire shwag-selling tips from top sellers. [io9]

Runaway Subway Blows Through Six Stations with No Driver

Passengers on the London Tube barely escaped with their lives when a defective train with no driver broke away and sped through six stations without stopping. Circle round and hear the harrowing tale of London's ghost train of death. More »
#prison

How Ankle Monitors Could Replace Prisons

"Traditional prison," writes Graeme Wood in this month's Atlantic, "has become more or less synonymous with failed prison." One radical solution: scale back traditional prisons in favor of sophisticated monitoring devices. And it's actually not as radical as it sounds. More »
#concepts

Say Hello to the Periscope Cam

Living on a submarine would probably get pretty miserable pretty quickly. But this wacky camera concept brings the best part of submarine life—the periscope!—to all your landlocked photographic adventures. More »
#ipadapps

Photoshop Express for iPad Quick Review: Avoid for Now

Like the iPhone version, the new Photoshop Express for iPad is a basic image editing program that can publish your photos in your own Adobe-based online gallery or through Facebook. It's nice and fast. Unfortunately, it has problems. More »

How to Seed Moved or Renamed Files in BitTorrent

BitTorrent etiquette dictates that once you've downloaded files, you also seed them to help others' downloads go quickly. If you need to move or rename your download, everything's thrown off. Reader Jake Champion explains how to seed after moving or renaming files. More »

Omega Is Already Using Apple's Liquid Metal

When we shared with you Apple's acquisition of Liquid Technologies' supermaterial, we noted that liquid metal is already in use across a variety of industries, from sports to aerospace. Or, you might find it on the wristwatch you have now. More »
#interview

Terry Crews Talks The Expendables, Action Movies, and the Joys of His AT&T MicroCell

The Expendables, in theaters today, delivers old school, ass-kicking action movie action with an entire constellation of the genre's stars. We talked to one member of the Expendables crew, Terry Crews, about the movie, iPhone apps, and plenty more. More »
#dealzmodo

Gadget Deals of the Day

If you're still a little hung over from last night's #GizDay festivities, cool your throbbing headache with some extra-sweet deals on a Core i3 Lenovo Laptop, a 2TB External Hard Drive, or some free Starbucks Business Cards. More »
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