- newThese earbuds can read the label on your snack
Instead of walking around with a camera on your face, how about one in each ear? A team at the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School has built VueBuds, a pair of wireless earbuds with a grain-of-rice camera tucked into each shell. — Read…
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- newA Silicon Valley startup wants to sell you a brain-reading beanie
Skip the keyboard and skip the dictation: a California startup called Sabi says it will ship a wool hat that lets you type by thinking, and it wants the first ones on heads before the year is out. The company came out of stealth this week with a pitc…
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- newThis clock sorts the 43,200 times of day alphabetically
Ryan Bateman, a Berlin-based technologist who tinkers with oddball web projects at boat.horse, built a working clock that tells time by spelling every possible moment in English and sorting the list A to Z. He calls it The Accursèd Alphabetical Cloc…
- 2 hours ago 16 Apr 26, 5:12pm -
- new"Justin Bieber's guy" rents Coachella buggies, drives them straight to Mexico
A Newport Beach rental company handed over four electric festival buggies to a man claiming to be part of Justin Bieber's team. The story that held together just long enough for the vehicles to make their way to Coachella, and then, very efficiently,…
- 2 hours ago 16 Apr 26, 4:56pm -
- newSantaCon organizer allegedly ran actual con
The man behind New York's annual SantaCon, a festive sea of red suits, public intoxication, and supposed charity, has been charged with wire fraud after prosecutors say he siphoned off more than half of the $2.7 million raised, treating a holiday fun…
- 2 hours ago 16 Apr 26, 4:42pm -
- newWatch the deranged new trailer for the Street Fighter movie
Some weird part of me has needed the forthcoming Street Fighter movie for a long time. The 1994 Hollywood movie was bad (though Raul Julia was great) and the anime was better, but this looks like just the ticket: a well-coreographed fight movie (with…
- 3 hours ago 16 Apr 26, 4:32pm -
- newStop Flock campaign targets invasive surveillance network
The Stop Flock campaign takes aim at the domestic surveillance startup, whose cameras are everywhere now—even inside buildings. "Mass surveillance isn't public safety," the campaign states, "it's public control."Flock Safety markets AI surveillan…
- 4 hours ago 16 Apr 26, 3:05pm -
- newTurn shoebox memories into digital keepsakes with this Kodak film and slide scanner for $40 off
TL;DR: Kodak Slide N Scan Film & Slide Scanner digitizes old slides and negatives with a built-in 5-inch LCD display for $149.99 until April 19 (MSRP $189.99), making it easy to preserve memories at home.There's a certain kind of box most people…
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- newMAGA Mike fact-checks the Pope on Jesus
House Speaker by the thinnest margins, Mike Johnson took a moment to explain Christianity to the Pope. Suggesting that while Pope Francis might frown on war, there's always the handy "just war" doctrine for when the teachings of Jesus become a little…
- 21 hours ago 15 Apr 26, 10:25pm -
- newWhat if your calendar ran on a worm that splits itself in half?
Once or twice a year, on reefs across Vanuatu, Samoa, Fiji, Timor-Leste, and other islands of the southwestern Pacific, the palolo worm tears itself in half. The front portion stays put in the coral rubble where the worm normally hides. The back end…
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