Tech & Gear
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Gorillaz App: Band Releases Mixed Reality App in Advance of Album (Video)
Gorillaz has a new album coming out, but you still have a couple weeks to wait until it actually gets released. In the meantime, you can occupy yourself with the band’s remastered videos, its singles (and their accompanying videos), and even a “new multimedia story.” And now we have one more piece of the Gorillaz […]
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Google AutoDraw: Turn Your Doodles Into Art (Video)
Some of us, as the saying goes, can’t draw a straight line to save our lives. There are a variety of different aids to help those of us with these difficulties, but the latest is the first to use Google‘s artificial intelligence technology. It’s Google AutoDraw, available now for your doodling pleasure. Google AutoDraw uses […]
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Elretron Penna: A Retro Wireless Keyboard (Video)
I’m just barely old enough to have used a typewriter when I was a kid, so I can state with firsthand authority that there’s nothing quite like an old-school typewriter keyboard for sonic and tactile satisfaction while typing—modern computers can’t match it, and smartphones and other wireless devices DEFINITELY can’t. Enter the Elretron Penna, a […]
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‘Neurotransmitter 3000′: A “Biometrically Controlled Thrill Ride” (Video)
Somewhere, a graduate fresh out of college is roaming around at a house party at which he knows almost no one. A family friend approaches him and takes him aside for a heart-to-heart. “I just want to say one word to you,” he says, “Just one word: Biometrics.” That young man may well have been […]
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Tamagotchi: Original 90s Virtual Pet Gets Re-Release (Video)
One of the signature items of any 90s kid ensemble is the Tamagotchi, the digital pet that fit in your pocket and provided a pleasant distraction from schoolwork in the days before 24/7 social media contact with friends and enemies. Now, the original 90s model from Bandai is reportedly coming back, just like Seinfeld, The […]
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MAX Motor Dreams Crib Simulates Soothing Late Night Car Rides for Babies (Video)
One of the things they don’t tell you in parenting school is that nothing quiets a baby down quite like an extended late-night car ride. Is it the vibrations of the car? The darkness? The sounds? Whatever it is tends not to be replicated in your house, which leads to bleary eyes and other symptoms […]
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Analemma Tower: “Suspended Skyscraper” Will Hang From Geostationary Asteroid (Video)
The Clouds Architecture Office has recently revealed a project that, admittedly, seems pretty crazy now—but remember, the Ferris Wheel seemed crazy when it was first announced, too. It’s a “suspended skyscraper” known as the Analemma Tower, a luxury residential complex which will orbit the Earth attached to an asteroid in geostationary orbit. There seem to […]
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Wax & Jackson Record Tote Bag
There was a time when carrying a record bag marked you as a member of the musical underground, shunned from professional society and cursed to roam the Earth in search of the perfect beat. Today, though, we have the Wax & Jackson Record Tote Bag, which gives you a way to lug records and various […]
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FedEx SoundTrack: “Experience a Package’s Journey Through Sound”
Watch your back, Domino’s Pizza Tracker: There’s a new online delivery tracker in town, and it makes your little cartoon chef look like a pathetic little bore. It’s FedEx SoundTrack, which purportedly allows users to do no less than “experience a package’s journey through sound.” That lofty description refers to FedEx SoundTrack’s function of creating […]
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Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation Technology Transforms Paintings Into Photos and More (Pics)
The particularly cynical among us have always said to believe half of what you see and none of what you hear, but it may be time for even the most trusting to adjust that ratio somewhat. I feel this way because I’ve just seen some incredible examples of what (I think) is called Unpaired Image-to-Image […]
