Meet the Founders Convincing Thousands of Parents to Pay $100 for a Rubber Duck
Pi lab started out making traditional consumer electronics, but found its biggest hit with a high-tech spin on a classic children’s toy.

August 15, 2016 at 06:01PM
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Your Hipster Jewelry Tattoos Can Actually Be Made Into Remote Controls
This new technology named “DuoSkin” is a fabrication process that allows people to create customized devices and attach them to skin.

August 15, 2016 at 04:33PM
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A Gift for Music Lovers Who Have It All: A Personal Utility Pole
Takeo Morita wanted absolutely the best fidelity possible from his audio system, so he bought a utility pole. Normal electricity just wouldn’t do anymore. To tap into what Mr. Morita calls “pure” power, he paid $10,000 to plant a 40-foot-tall concrete pole with a personal transformer in his front yard.

August 15, 2016 at 01:42PM
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Why I’m finally leaving cable TV
This lack of guidance, let alone customization, is increasingly onerous as I see that time spent surfing channels is time I could be spending catching up on the dozens of shows in my back catalog that I already know I want to watch.

August 15, 2016 at 08:31AM
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The Election Won’t Be Rigged. But It Could Be Hacked.
The United States needs to return, as soon as possible, to a paper-based, auditable voting system in all jurisdictions that still use electronic-only unverifiable voting machines.

August 15, 2016 at 02:42AM
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New, Unofficial, Modern-Looking ‘GoldenEye’ Remake Is Free On PC
One of the most influential and beloved video games of all time, “GoldenEye 007” didn’t age so well. Thankfully, a team of awesome, detail-minded fans has recreated the original game with enhanced graphics, more content and online multiplayer. Most importantly, “GoldenEye Source” is free on PC.

August 14, 2016 at 07:19PM
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‘Super Mario Bros’ Recreated In Excel Is The Best Possible Use For Excel
We’ve got to admit, this recreation of the most famous video game level of all time isn’t 100 percent perfectly faithful to the source material, but it beats the hell out of the lame spreadsheets we make.

August 14, 2016 at 04:29PM
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The lost infrastructure of social media.
More than a decade ago, the earliest era of blogging provided a set of separate but related technologies that helped the nascent form thrive. Today, most have faded away and been forgotten, but new incarnations of these features could still be valuable.

August 14, 2016 at 08:24AM
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This Is the Most Horrifying Robot We Have Ever Seen
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a one-eyed robot staring at a human face —forever. That’s the promise of MooreBot.

August 14, 2016 at 08:24AM
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I Still Think Selfies Are Bad
Science has found that selfie-taking is often (not always; please calm down) correlated with narcissistic tendencies. Narcissism isn’t empowering.

August 14, 2016 at 08:24AM
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