UK's Girl Scouts Cry For New Photoshopped-Images Law for Airbrushed Celebrities

If you believe what you see on TV, the US' Girl Scouts seem to spend all their time selling cookies door-to-door, but over in the UK the Girl Guide Association is concerned with far-weightier goals: changing Photoshop's future in media. More »
#wimax

Clear's iSpot Is a 4G Hotspot For iPhones and iPads

With more cities being blanketed in the warm glow of WiMax every month, 3G speeds are going to start seeming primitive, fast. Clear's iSpot hotspot lets iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches get a taste of the delicious 4G future. More »

Gmail Adds Drag-and-Drop Saving for Attachments

Saving attachments from Gmail just got a lot easier—if you're using Chrome. The latest update lets you save attachments by clicking, dragging, and dropping them wherever you'd like. More »

Vonage Mobile App Lets You Call Facebook Friends From iPhone or Android For Free

Vonage, the VoIP company with the head-whacking commercials, has a new app for Android and iOS that lets users make free calls to Facebook friends over 3G and Wi-Fi. Finally, your reward for cultivating that extensive friends list. More »

Sharp's 3D Smartphone Is a Few Months Away, No Glasses Required

Sharp doesn't have a huge handset presence outside of Asia, but according to a spokesperson this week that's all about to change in a big way. The company says they're putting their glasses-free 3D panels in a smartphone in 2010. More »
#design

High-Tech Water Bottle Uses UV Light to Sterilize Water

An English graduate has won this year's James Dyson Award, which is a coveted design award in the UK. Taking on the noble challenge of finding a cure for water sterilization, Timothy Whitehead's bottle cleans water in just 2mins flat. More »

Who Needs Meditation, When They Can Just Watch the Gundam Time Lapse Video?

This time-lapse video of the 1:1 scale model Gundam in Shizuoka, Japan, is the most visually stunning thing you're bound to see all day. Watch it and go into a trance, only to wake up and book flights to Japan. More »

Leaked HTC Glacier Could Be T-Mobile's Ultra-Fast Project Emerald Android Phone

Either HTC has signed up T-Mobile for a couple of new handsets, or that Project Emerald HTC Vision/Vanguard/G1 Blaze has another new name: HTC Glacier. It's appeared in GLBenchmark's database, with results that that are off the scale. More »

Goddamnit, Now I Want to Work at Twitter

Any company that produces a Rushmore parody video as a recruitment tool instantly gets put on my list of Amazing Places To Work At. Google hasn't done a Wes Anderson video to my knowledge, but obviously the cafeteria compensates there. More »
#docks

Logitech S715i iPod Speaker Dock Survives Eight Hours On A Single Charge

Logitech's S715i is a simple rechargeable iPod speaker dock which will keep working for about eight hours on a single charge. No pricing information just yet, but there are a few specs: More »

Unlock Tool Ultrasn0w Now Available for iPhone 4

It took them a while, but the iPhone Dev-Team's carrier unlock tool Ultrasn0w is here, and ready for downloading to jailbroken iPhone 4s. It goes without saying to proceed with caution. [Dev-Team via Redmond Pie]

The Most Adorable Star Wars Pic Of The Day

If these kids trick-or-treated at my house, they would get every ounce of candy I had. [Buzz Feed]

A Review of Panasonic's $1,400 3D Camcorder

The folks of Camcorder Info have gotten their hands onto Panasonic's HDC-SDT750—one of the first 3D camcorders designed with consumers in mind—and reviewed it. Here's what they concluded: More »
#iphoneapps

An iPhone App To Schedule and Graph Sex With All Your Girlfriends

I once knew a guy who kept an actual database of all the women he dated so that he could always remember the relevant details about them and prevent awkward mixups. The DateMate iPhone app would've been ideal for him. More »

Use a Bluetooth Headset for Improved Reception in Spotty Locations

If sitting stone still in the one corner of your apartment that actually gets decent reception sounds like a terrible way to conduct a phone call, a Bluetooth headset can act as an extender for your cellphone's terrible reception More »

Create a Better Emergency Contact Number with Google Voice

Everybody's got a go-to in case of emergency (ICE) contact, but emergencies have a nasty habit of not caring whether your ICE contact is available to pick up the phone. Reader snappingleather's clever solution: Expand your ICE reach with Google Voice. More »

'Anti-Laser' Traps All Incoming Light

Call it the anti-laser. Instead of amplifying light, it would soak it up completely, leaving utter darkness. More »
Yesterday - August 3, 2010

The Japanese Certainly Know How To Sell Slow-Motion Cameras

I have to congratulate whoever is behind these videos advertising slow-motion cameras, because I'm convinced that I need one. The bikini-clad girls and the pudding-covered men are enough to make me want to create an epic slow-mo film. More »
#patent

Samsung Files a Patent For a Front And Rear Touchscreen Tablet

Samsung's filed a patent for a tablet incorporating front and back multi-touch screens. [Unwired View via Electronista]

Secret-Knock-Detecting Door is Straight Out of a Fantasy Movie

Want to get into David Glicksman's workshop? You don't need a key, you just need to know the right knock. So awesome. [David Glicksman via Make]
#furniture

Venn Diagram Tables Show Off Overlap Between Good Taste and Living Room

From the portfolio pages of Swedish design firm Outofstock comes the gorgeously clever Hues set of nesting, venn diagram-inspired tables. Each is crafted from colored waterjet-cut glass and iron legs. More »

Modded Nintendo Lets You Play Mario With Your Eyes, Poorly

This is both completely cool and totally useless: a group of engineers going by Waterloo Labs in Austin, Texas created a way of controlling an original NES by simply moving your eyes. More »
#space

The Most Beautiful Way to Clean-Up Space Junk

Space junk is everything from spent rocket upper-stages that measure meters across, to lost bags of tools let go by careless astronauts, to shattered Chinese satellites to flecks of paint moving at 25 times the speed of sound. Under the wrong circumstances any piece of junk could kill a perfectly good satellite or even an unlucky space-walker. How should we prevent dead satellites from adding to this dangerous cloud of debris?  More »

The Best Things to Buy in August

Major retailers are reminding you it's back to school, back to work, and back to seasons without so much sun. Before you buy what they're selling, consider the nice chunk of change you can save in August with these smartly timed purchases. [Lifehacker]
#rim

Underwhelming BlackBerry Spells Doom For RIM

Research In Motion needed a miracle. It needed a fresh-faced BlackBerry and an operating system that made people say "whoa." Yet when it took the stage to unveil the BlackBerry Torch and the BlackBerry 6 operating system, one thing became clear: These were not heaven sent. This could very well mean the end for the BlackBerry. More »

AT&T; Monolith Display Contents Finally Revealed

It was a fun guessing game while it lasted, but those mysterious AT&T; displays turned out to be housing the BlackBerry Torch after all. Phew! We can all finally stop losing sleep over a marketing obelisk. [Thanks, Bryan!]
#roundups

EcoModo - The Best of Treehugger

This week on TreeHugger, Ford Explorer gets delivered via 9000 horsepower chopper, bike rides for blind people, robot powered by sewage, caterpillars inspiring softbots, and win a powermeter in our sweepstakes. More »
#siggraph

Flash Memory Capable of Playing More Than a Few Movies at a Time

Last week's annual SIGGRAPH conference was, as usual, a place where dazzling visual displays were commonplace. But solid-state storage firm Fusion-io's demo of an ultra-efficient drive took was perhaps a bit overstimulating, playing 2,000 DVD-quality movies simultaneously. Eyedrops recommended. [Fusion-io via Core77] More »

iOS 4.1 Beta 3 Now Available to iPhone Developers

Looks like iOS 4.1 Beta 3 is now available for download in the iPhone Developer Center. We'll be taking a look and letting you know what's new since the last beta shortly. [AppleThanks, TJ!]

Papercraft Ninjas Print, Build Life-Size Cardboard NSX Race Car

Epson employees took advantage of their papercraft skills and giant printers to build an impressively detailed 1:1 cardboard replica of an Acura/Honda NSX Super GT race car. Build photos of what we consider the sexiest recycling project ever below. [Jalopnik]

Why Has Apple Neglected the Remote App? Because Just One Guy Made It

Last week, I asked just why Apple has left its Remote App to rot in the App Store, unupdated despite new hardware coming out. The reason? One guy wrote it, and now he's working on other things. More »
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