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#time
The Superfriends of Publishing Have a Grand Digital Plan to Save Magazines
That "Hulu for magazines" is happening. It's impressive in its sense of scope and desperation, with Time, Hearst and Conde Nast—bitter rivals that publish more than 50 magazines altogether—coming together to save print magazines by mummifying them digitally. More » -
#iphoneapps
Stairs Dismount Gloriously Tumbles Onto the iPhone Soon
Stair Dismount for the iPhone is a spiritual descendant of the Stair Dismount Porrasturvat game back in 2001/2002 where you try your hardest to launch a ragdoll as best as possible down a flight of stairs. It was brilliant. More » -
#gaming
5 Games That Play Nicely on Netbooks
Liliputing put together a list of 5 decent, recent PC games that play smoothly on netbooks. Also, we would add the classic Half Life to their list, along with Diablo 2 (obv). Your recommendations? [Liliputing] -
#kindle
Amazon's Kindle 2 Gets 85 Percent Battery Boost, Native PDF Reading
Amazon claims that all it took was a six month firmware improvement test to get the Kindle 2 to run for 85 percent longer than before, which is a pretty damn impressive feat of engineering. More » -
#mediaplayers
LaCie LaCinema Classic HD: 1TB Media Player for $250
LaCie makes design-friendly, premium hard drives. But while it's no surprise that their LaCinema Classic HD looks this attractive, the $250 price is shockingly reasonable. More » -
#advertising
Google and TiVo Team Up To Ruin TV's Day
With data, of course! Google, which sells TV ads, is now subscribing to TiVo's user data, so they can make ads more "accountable," just like online. This is good, right? Depends on who you ask. More » -
#killawatt
Kill-A-Watt's Updated Graphical Version Has Programmable Timer
The original Kill-a-Watt was a barebones, if efficient, way of monitoring how much energy an appliance used. But what if you want more features? Like a timer or programming. Here it is. More » -
#ipod
Tiny Wooden Speakers for All iPods Make Me Hungry
You know I need breakfast asap when I read maple and cherry and the only thing I can think about is syrup, pancakes, and pie. And a giant coffee, please. Unfortunately, these wooden speakers for all iPods are not edible. More » -
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#screenshottour
Hands-On Look at What's New in Office 2010
Now that we've had some time to play with the Office 2010 Professional Beta, we thought we'd share what's new and useful inside Microsoft's big suite. Take a gander at the pictoral evidence below. [Lifehacker] -
#buyersguide
The Four Gaming PCs Worth Lusting After
We asked Maximum PC editor-in-chief Will Smith to name the best gaming PCs in four categories: monster laptop, value laptop, over-the-top desktop and "cheap" desktop. Though that last one is still a bankbuster, his picks are hot as hell: More » -
#mice
Razer Imperator Gaming Mouse With Slip-Slidey Thumb Buttons
Razer's Imperator is pretty standard right-handed Razer gaming mouse (5600dpi tracking, etc.), but it has sliding thumb buttons, so you can adjust exactly where they sit on the mouse. Could be gimmicky, but I'm definitely intrigued. [Razer] -
#review
Xbox 360 Wireless N Adapter Review
Sure, wireless n is great and everything, but if you told me I'd be streaming media between 2 and 3x faster through Microsoft's new Xbox 360 Wireless Adapter (802.11a/b/g/n) than their old a/b/g version, I'd never have believed you. More » -
#iphoneapps
iLingual Translation App Speaks Three Languages With Your Mouth
Somewhere on the App Store spectrum, between the travel phrasebooks and those apps that replace your mouth with a slightly weirder mouth, you'll find iLingual, an app that steals your lips, and uses them to speak three different languages. More » -
#chromeos
Google Chrome OS Benchmarked Against Ubuntu and Moblin, Comes Up Slow
Chrome OS dev code only just went public, but Phoronix has already thrown it on a Samsung NC10 netbook to test its performance and battery-life against Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10, Moblin 2.1, Fedora 12, and openSUSE 11.2. Interesting results ahead. More » -
#cars
This Car Will Run at 1,000mph
Bloodhound is a car being designed to run at a swooshing one thousand miles-per-hour. That's 1,609 km/h, which is way faster than the speed of sound. As the video shows, it'll have more thrust than the Eurofighter combat jet: More » -
#smartphones
The Best Smartphones on Every Carrier
For the first time ever, every major carrier in the US actually has smartphones worth buying, meaning you don't have to break up to get a good phone. Here's the best phones on each one, along with the best deals. More » -
#smartphones
Swype vs QWERTY: FIGHT!!!!!
QWERTY is pretty much the king of smartphone text input. But there's a new challenger on the horizon. It's called Swype, it works with one-hand input and, yeah, it is pretty fast. More » -
#blockquote
Obama to Robots: I'm Watching You
I don't know about you, but I like a President who can throw a funny, geeky sci-fi reference once in a while. Clearly, el Comandante en Jefe has watched his Terminators and scary Big Dogs a few times. More » -
#googlewave
What if the Declaration of Independence Was Created in Google Wave?
So you've scored an invite and watched the videos, but still confused about Google Wave? Google's latest explanatory tactic: recreate famous documents to showcase Wave's features. Here's the declaration of independence, complete with edits from the founding fathers. More » -
#speakers
BassJump Brings MacBooks a Bit of Bump
BassJump is, quite simply, a dedicated subwoofer to compliment your MacBook—in both aesthetics and sound. More » -
#apple
Jerry Seinfeld Upgrades Classic Mac with iMac
Sadly, obsolete gadgets have to be replaced. Happily, change is good. This is what happened to Jerry Seinfeld's ever-present classic Macintosh which, after all these years, has been replaced by a new iMac. More » -
#usb30
Buffalo's USB 3.0 External Drive Arrives in the U.S
As expected, the DriveStation HD-HXU3 is the first external USB 3.0 drive in the U.S. It promises transfers up to 4.8Gbps (compared to USB 2.0's 480Mbps) and Buffalo has a two-port USB 3.0 PCI Express card to get you started. More » -
#peripherals
Elecom 'Spoon' Mouse For Bite-Sized Travel
If you're going to buy a travel mouse, it might as well, in some small way (possibly entirely induced by marketing), resemble a spoon. Right? More » -
#nintendodsixl
Inside Nintendo's DSi LL
Yesterday we saw how the DSi LL (or XL, as it will be known in the US) compares to the Sony PSP-3000. Yeah that 4.2-inch screen is freakin' huge. Now here's a look under the hood. Controller board porn! More » -
#tasers
Lobster Taser: Now We've Tasered Everything
The lobster taser, which looks to me mostly like a lobster photocopier, is supposedly a more humane way of dispatching the delicious bottomfeeders than the normal "stab in the brain" or "boil alive" methods. Also, tasers. More » -
#crime
Facebook Linked to Middle School Redhead Beating
The beating of a 12-year-old redheaded boy this past Friday is linked to two of the favorite punching bags of those unwilling to directly blame the jerk kids responsible: Facebook and South Park. More » -
#imagecache
What Are These Guys Looking At?
These aren't teens crowded around a laptop in a dorm room. These are the President of the United States and his staffers crowded around a laptop on board the Air Force One. We don't know what's on the screen. Guesses? More » - Yesterday - November 23, 2009
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#monitors
Ostendo's Crazy Curved Monitor Can Finally Be Yours For $6,500
Ostendo's super curvy CRVD monitor wasn't actually for sale when we first saw it, but it looked damn good. Judging by this video which uses three of the monitors, it still looks incredible. And now you can actually buy it. More » -
#games
Zombie Outbreak Simulator: Sim City Plus Google Maps Plus the Undead
The RTS web game Zombie Outbreak Simulator plops you down into a Google Maps-provided area of DC swarming with zombies. The outbreak's details are up to you: How many civilians? Are they armed? It's a killer timewaster (GET IT?). More » -
#neuroscience
Brain Scan Finds Man Was Not in a Coma—23 Years Later
Rom Houben has been trapped in a series of worst nightmares, including trying for 23 years to alert those around him that he was not in a coma. A new report suggests he's not alone in his experience. More »
