If you love LEGOs, you might have imagined building a real house from them. And with the surging popularity of 3D printers, such a dream seems well within reach. Nick Johnson, a spokesman for real estate blog Movoto, decided to find out what it would take to build a 3D-printed house. “Given that we’re due…
Beating your head against the wall trying to find a specific attachment in your overstuffed Gmail inbox? Google just made life easier for you with a newly added keyword search feature for Gmail attachments. Previously, the popular email client only allowed search within text files, but now users can search within files from several leading…
Eager to take Android 4.1 Jelly Bean for a spin? Phones equipped with the next generation OS can do a Barrel Roll, spinning search results 360 degrees around your screen as if they were a barrel rolling down a hill. If you have a phone currently running Android 4.1, you can activate the Easter egg…
Power failures aren’t that common in the U.S., but they are more likely to happen in the summer, when people crank up the air conditioning. Back in August 2003 a blackout covering much of the northeast happened because the control systems for the grid system did exactly what they were designed to do — but…
See how unique, custom 3D printed prosthetics allow Derby—a dog born with deformed front legs—run for the very first time. For those that think Derby’s prosthetics seem too low, the team started this way to give him a chance to get used to his new legs. Luckily with 3D printing it’s easy to iterate design,…
High-speed wireless data networks are vulnerable to a simple jamming technique that could block service across much of a city, according to research findings provided to a federal agency last week. The high-bandwidth mobile network technology LTE (long-term evolution) is rapidly spreading around the world. But researchers show that just one cheap, battery-operated transmitter aimed…
The anonymity of online shopping will soon be available in real time. Starting Oct. 14, Target will tag the top 20 toys of the season in its stores with QR Codes. Perfect, the company says, for secretive mobile shopping. All shoppers need to do is download the Target app and scan whichever marked toy they’d…
No Apple TV upgrade was announced at the company’s iPhone event on Tuesday, but it looks like the media-streaming device could get a fresher sooner than later. According to an All Things D report, Apple TV will receive a system update on Sept. 18, the same day iOS 7 will launch. Although we don’t have…
It’s a Saturday afternoon, you’re hungover in bed perusing Facebook and torturing yourself trying to decide whether you want actually make moves to get brunch or just order a salad aka a bagel on Seamless. Naturally, as you do with all major life decisions, you avoid them. So you go to check instagram. But fuck.…
Dropbox is the latest tech company to have fallen victim to a security breach, and there’s a good chance your account is at risk. But unlike recent hacks on sites such as Yahoo, LinkedIn and eHarmony, account names and passwords weren’t posted online, making it more difficult to check via a tool if yours was…
8 Absurd Tech Knockoffs 1. PlayStation Vita Chinese Ripoff Sony’s PlayStation Vita was released this past February, but a ripoff PS Vita has already been spotted in Taiwan. At $55, this “PSP MP5” costs a fraction of the PS Vita yet manages to offer some impressive features including 3,000 games, a browser, music and video…
Quick! What’s the most commonly pirated PC application? If you said “Microsoft Word,” you might be right. But “Adobe Photoshop” wouldn’t be wrong, either. And despite Adobe’s best efforts to the contrary, that isn’t going to change any time soon. Within a day or two of the debut of Adobe’s new software subscription service earlier…
Griffin Technology‘s first Lightning connector accessories are expected to launch at retail locations beginning on Dec. 3. The company announced four new items in total. At 4 feet long, the $24.99 4USB-to-Lightning cable is designed to save space and eliminate tangles. It is especially geared for car use. With Griffin’s 9.8-foot straight USB-to-Lightning cable, $29.99,…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGic9Ylcync?enablejsapi=1&] A lot of changes are coming to Apple products this year. Monday’s keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference showed the future of the iPhone, iPad and Macs — and here are the top highlights to come from the event. 1. iOS 8: The announcement of iOS 8 drew heavy applause from the crowd.…
Payphones in New York City have largely been made obsolete by the fact that almost everybody’s got a cellphone for staying in touch on-the-go. Luckily for the long-forgotten phones that still dot the city’s streets, they’re about to get a twenty-first-century upgrade. New York City’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications introduced on Wednesday the…
It seems Google is trying to bring an end to all the fake “diagnoses” resulting from folks searching for their symptoms and arriving at the wrong conclusions — or at least alleviate the problem. An image posted to Reddit shows a Google search for knee pain, and an option for the user to video chat…
Update: This post was updated October 2013 to reflect current statistics and tools.Congratulations! All that time you’ve spent coaxing your HTML to transform your blank, white and Times New Roman font-filled web page to something that vaguely represents a design-worthy website is about to become completely and totally moot. Delete all those tags peppered at…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhwvXTVQoPM?enablejsapi=1&] The new HTC One may only be a few hours old, but the stress tests have already begun. It’s already passed one: The new flagship Android phone turns out to be remarkably water-resistant. The gang at TechSmartt decided to risk sacrificing a shiny new HTC One M8 by immersing it in water for…
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Parallels 8 Forces Mountain Lion and Windows 8 to Play Nice Parallels for Mac Version 8 Parallels lets you run Windows on your Mac. The trick is you can run both OSes simultaneously, with your Windows apps showing up just like Mac apps would. Version 8 supports Mountain Lion features, such as dictation and notifications,…