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- What’s next for mobile now that adaptive design has failed? | VentureBeat
- Tour the updated Google Search iPhone app… with bunnies | VentureBeat
- Man, stranded in the desert, makes a motorcycle from his broken car - Hack a Day
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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Handerpants, Devil Duckies and Rubber Chickens: Inside Archie McPhee
SEATTLE — It’s hard to explain Archie McPhee. Instead, let’s start with some of the things you can buy here: Cthulhu water bottles. Bacon-flavored toothpaste. Devil duckies. Fire-spitting wind-up nuns. Band-Aids that look like bacon strips. Bacon-flavored gumballs. A plastic … Continue reading
Infoporn: How Flatscreen TVs Get Cheaper
Like multicore computer chips, Android smartphones, and Starbucks coffee, LCD TVs are getting cheaper—and bigger—all the time. Inevitably, your brother-in-law’s new 55-inch TV cost less than the 48-inch model you bought two years ago. Why? Science! See, flat-panel … Continue reading
Exercise Wet, While Your Phone Stays Dry
My phone is about as integrated into my life as my left temporal lobe. I’m not going running without it. That’s why the H2O Audio Amphibx Fit Armband ($60) is a boon for technophile exercise-junkies like me. Sure, it’s … Continue reading
Exercise Accessories Help You Measure Up
Can a smartphone help you train better? Maybe — if you’re the kind of person who gets obsessed over logging every workout, tracking your pace and counting how many miles per week you’ve averaged. And if you’re that kind … Continue reading
Stick It to the Weatherman With Your Own Personal Forecasts
It’s a comfortable 63.3 degrees on the roof of Wired headquarters, with a slight 3-mph breeze, and the barometer is at 30.14 inches and rising. A few blocks away, it’s 61.1 degrees and there’s a 4-mph breeze from … Continue reading
Review: Naked Steel, Bare Flesh Sex Up Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones opens with violence, nudity, foul language and a soundtrack dominated by cello and kettledrums. A medieval-looking haze of smoke hangs over the computer-generated cities of Westeros. Mud and filth fill the castles. Characters drop their silks and … Continue reading
Video: Spaceship Lands at San Francisco Airport
One of the first planes to dock at Virgin America’s new San Francisco International Airport terminal was a spaceship. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo arrived hitched between the twin fuselages of WhiteKnightTwo, its mothership and launch platform. “For the first time … Continue reading
Microscopic Art Hides Inside Computer Chips
Considering the expense, precision and difficulty of manufacturing computer chips, you would think the engineers designing them are pretty serious people. But it’s not all business inside a chip fab, as these microscope photos reveal. In fact, the designers of … Continue reading
Virgin’s Richard Branson Plans Deep-Sea Diving Venture
Gallivanting billionaire Richard Branson is well on his way to space. Now he plans to explore the deepest parts of the ocean as well. Branson announced his undersea exploration venture, Virgin Oceanic, on Tuesday. Unlike his suborbital-space-flight company, Virgin Galactic, the … Continue reading
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Happy 30th Birthday to the Portable PC
The portable computer was born 30 years ago this weekend, when Adam Osborne unveiled the Osborne 1 in San Francisco. Osborne, a journalist and book author, made the transition to entrepreneur on the strength of his personality, ambition and vision. … Continue reading
