Bizarre Discman Is Smaller Than An Actual CD
The Sony D-88 wins the prize for smallest CD player ever made. It also wins the prize for “most likely to cause irreparable scratches in your physical media.”
November 23, 2015 at 11:35AM
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Don’t Gift The Apple Watch This Year
The smartwatch may be good some day, but not today.
November 23, 2015 at 09:40AM
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Carry Your Cash In Style
Made up of 3 aluminum plates, 2 stretchy o-rings and a built in bottle opener, you can configure the A2 Aluminum wallet however you want. Plus, it’s engineered for easy access and secure keeping of all your wallet’s contents.
November 23, 2015 at 06:39AM
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The Toxic Remnants Of Silicon Valley’s First Computers
Today, Silicon Valley is a dreamy officescape, a place where ideas and networks are currency. But in the 1960s and 70s, Silicon Valley proper manufactured hardware — and this industrial boom created one of the most polluted places in America.
November 23, 2015 at 12:51AM
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Sony employees on the hack, one year later.
What it was like to be a rank-and-file Sony employee as the unprecedented cyber-attack tore the company apart.
November 22, 2015 at 09:58PM
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What I learned letting a homeless man from Whisper stay in my apartment for a month
Anonymous geo-posting apps like Whisper and Yik Yak have gotten a lot of attention for letting users post offensive and controversial content, but what happens when anonymous app offenses go beyond speech?
November 22, 2015 at 02:00PM
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The real-world consequences of the cloud
Private companies spend billions of dollars stuffing warehouses full of servers and expend huge amounts of energy keeping them cool. Nor is the cloud neutral political territory, with technological and ideological roots stretching back to the Cold War, when the military needed a communication network that wouldn’t fail even if many of its nodes and pathways were taken out by a nuclear bomb.
November 22, 2015 at 01:01PM
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A 90,000-Lumen Flashlight Is Damn Bright
At a certain point, lights get so blindingly bright that they’re basically useless. But that doesn’t mean that they’re not cool to play with!
November 22, 2015 at 12:01PM
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Disrupting The Weed Market
Marijuana companies are ditching the stoner image as they use technology to shoot for broad appeal. Goodbye, tie-dye. Hello, cannabis-infused salmon.
November 22, 2015 at 11:12AM
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Skype is the new Thanksgiving
With airfare ever on the increase, more people are turning to video chat as a way to connect on Thanksgiving. But is it an adequate replacement for the tradition of Thanksgiving dinner?
November 22, 2015 at 10:14AM
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