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Corning and Samsung Team Up for Gorilla Glass-Tough OLED [Samsung]

Gizmodo - Fri, 2012-02-03 23:28
#samsung Gorilla Glass, especially version 2.0, has earned its reputation for durability and strength. But reputation only goes so far and Samsung wants something more. That's why Cornign and Samsung are joining forces to develop a newer, better, more scratch-resistant AMOLED screens. More »


12 Floating Airports That Turn City Skylines and Rivers into Landing Strips [Transportation]

Gizmodo - Fri, 2012-02-03 23:20
#transportation Whether sitting atop the Hudson or drifting just above a skyscraper, these conceptual floating airports put landing strips where they're needed most: in the middle of bustling metropoleis. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 12 of the best. More »


Music Bloodline Is the Perfect Discovery Tool for Spotify-Using Music Nerds [Music]

Gizmodo - Fri, 2012-02-03 23:00
#music Music discovery on Spotify sucks. It really sucks. It's amazing that you can listen to millions upon millions of songs for $10 a month, but trying to find something new is frustrating if all your friends listen to crap. Music Bloodline is your savior. More »


Pixound Turns Photos into Musical Instruments, and It’s Better Than You Think [Apps]

Gizmodo - Fri, 2012-02-03 22:40
#apps Pixound brings an intriguing approach to the music app: letting you play any photo as if it were a musical instrument. That was enough to get our attention, and when we first started playing around with the Pixound app for iOS ($1), we thought it was a neat gimmick, but probably not worth a buck. More »


This Week's Top Web Comedy Video [Video]

Gizmodo - Fri, 2012-02-03 21:30
#humor Ah, the pixie dream girl of romantic comedies past. She's perfect, isn't she? So light-hearted, so whimsical, so in touch with the simple joys of glitter. But what lies beneath that fairy dust exterior? Well, this. More »


The Army's New Individual First Aid Kit Will Save Life and Limb without Getting in the Line of Fire [War]

Gizmodo - Fri, 2012-02-03 21:20
#war The Army's IFAK—Individual First Aid Kit—used to be built into a SAW ammo pouch. This was a terrible solution as the pouch would continually get caught on other equipment—not what you want in a fire-fight. But no longer! The US military has just overhauled this life-saving accessory. More »


Kitties, Komen and The New Editor of Mainstream News [Internet]

Gizmodo - Fri, 2012-02-03 21:00
#internet There's a new editor in chief of mainstream news. More »


The World Now Buys More Smartphones than Computers [Factoid]

Gizmodo - Fri, 2012-02-03 20:30
#factoid In 2011, manufacturers shipped 487.7 million smartphones and only 414.6 million computers—that's desktops, laptops and tablets. Combined. We'd heard prophecy of this day, and now it may have arrived. More »


How the Best Super Bowl Commercial Was Almost Cancelled by Apple [Video]

Gizmodo - Fri, 2012-02-03 20:00
#apple You know Apple's 1984 commercial. You've seen Apple's 1984 commercial. Heck, it's widely accepted that the 1984 commercial is one of the best ads of all time. But did you know it was almost cancelled by Apple before it ever aired? More »


The Domino's Super Bowl Pizza War Room Oozes Pepperoni, Cheese, and Sadness [Pizza]

Gizmodo - Fri, 2012-02-03 19:30
#pizza On Super Bowl Sunday, 55 IT specialists will huddle together in a dark room to keep their company's website afloat on the biggest day of its entire year, since it's going to be bombarded by millions of ravenous fans. But the company they work for isn't the NFL. More »


The Hustler: Sometimes Winning Doesn't Mean Shit [Movie Night]

Gizmodo - Fri, 2012-02-03 19:00
#movienight If you haven't seen The Hustler yet, one of the best movies in the history of cinema, please don't delay it anymore. This movie will leave you in awe from beginning to end. And while you are at it, have a whiskey or two. More »


These Childhood-Adult Hybrid Portraits Are Freaky and Fascinating [Photography]

Gizmodo - Fri, 2012-02-03 18:30
#photography Photographer Bobby Neel Adams' Age-Maps are as fascinating as they are spooky. He combines a person's childhood portrait with an adult one, resulting in these weird hybrids. Some of the results are hilarious. Others freak me out. More »


Everything You Need to Actually Meet Your Deadlines [Toolkit]

Gizmodo - Fri, 2012-02-03 18:24
#toolkit A workplace with constant access to the internet can be a knife in the face of productivity, and a total nuclear disaster for any actual deadlines. Here are a few tools to help you stay on track and on time. More »


3 Ways to Chill Your Superbowl Beer FAST [Happy Hour]

Gizmodo - Fri, 2012-02-03 18:00
#happyhour It's game time. You're hosting, which makes you the quarterback of the party. Your friend blitzes you with a six-pack of warm beer. Don't let this blitz get in the way of getting blitzed. Here are two tried and true fast beer-cooling techniques... and one harebrained scheme. More »


The Destruction of a US Navy Ship As Big As a City Block [Video]

Gizmodo - Fri, 2012-02-03 17:40
#watchthis This is a fascinating video. It shows how the US Navy destroys its old ships, one scrap of metal at a time, recycling every component to make new parts. The ship is the USS Savannah, a Wichita-class tanker almost as long as two football fields and ten floors high. More »


Tom Brady Watched Last Year's Super Bowl with an Illegal Stream [Super Bowl]

Gizmodo - Fri, 2012-02-03 17:20
#superbowl Tom Brady—Patriots QB, NFL boy of gold, Gisele's hubby and Uggs slanger—is in the Super Bowl this year so he doesn't have to worry about where to watch the game. Last year though, Brady didn't play in the Super Bowl and had to watch it at home like the rest of us. What did he do? Well, Brady fired the game on an illegal stream off the Internet. Brady! He's just like us. More »


Google Docs Goes Offline, Sync Photos to DropBox, Stream Music, and Play a Darwinian Puzzle Game [Video]

Gizmodo - Fri, 2012-02-03 17:00
#androidappsoftheweek Managing content on your Android gets to be a pain pretty quick. How much music can I put on here? Did I sync all those photos to my computer? Is this document the most up-to-date version? This week's app picks help make managing those things a snap. Oh, and we've got a pretty sweet game, too. More »


Smack a Hockey Puck, Get an NFL Workout, Cross Tetris and Boggle, and Become a Phantom Detective [Iphone Apps Of The Week]

Gizmodo - Fri, 2012-02-03 17:00
#iphoneappsoftheweek If you want to be ripped like those NFL guys you're going to have to workout. Like all the time. You shouldn't even be reading this post. Quit your job and download an NFL player's workout app. Or if you're in Canada, go after a hockey puck. Forget it, I know we're all just gonna sit around and play video games on our iPhones. More »


MythBusters Was Banned from Talking About RFID Chips Because Credit Card Companies Are Little Weenies [Video]

Gizmodo - Fri, 2012-02-03 16:40
#rfid RFID chips are super cool because those little buggers can beam things wirelessly. The guys at Mythbusters totally thought so too and wanted to make an episode about how trackable and hackable RFID chips were. Sounds amazing! Everyone would've learned more about the technology that's invisibly invading our lines. But, nope. Credit Card companies banned 'em. More »


There's One Very Important Time You Should Always Lie Online [User Manual]

Gizmodo - Fri, 2012-02-03 16:20
#usermanual Using the internet is only worthwhile if you can show off the perverse and wonderful things you've found on it. So, now that we're always online and always in touch, we're constantly sharing links. But what if you've seen it already? Lie. More »


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