| Motion-Activated Bike-Wheel LEDs Light up as Graphics | | 2:26:58 AM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| A Northern California company is taking bike lights to a new level by developing LEDs that light up wheels with custom images and animations. MonkeyLectric's Monkey Light Pro system for bicycle wheels creates a LED light show when the bike is moving. Monkey Light Pro is a set of four rows of LED light strips, which are waterproof for riding in the elements.
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| Yahoo's Hulu Bid Is Between $600M to $800M: Report | | Yahoo has bid between $600 million to $800 million for premium video-streaming service Hulu, according to sources. The wide range is due to the fact that Yahoo has tabled several different offers that vary depending on certain factors, including the length of licensing rights for content, as well as the control that Hulu's current owners — Comcast, Disney and News Corp.
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| Take a 3D Tour of Mount Everest With This App | | Sunday, May 26, 2013 11:57 PM | Anita Li |
| A new app lets users explore Mount Everest in lifelike detail without ever having to leave the couch. Called Mount Everest 3D, the iOS app shows the world's highest mountain from "any perspective" in the form of a 3D map, according to its App Store description. = Created by German company 3D RealityMaps, the map is based on high-resolution images from WorldView satellites, and details common routes, base camps and weather stations.
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| Rare Apple 1 Computer Sells at Auction For $671,400 | | Sunday, May 26, 2013 10:59 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| A very rare Apple 1 computer sold for a record $671,400 in a German auction on Saturday, according to The New York Times. As Mashable reported ahead of the auction, the Apple 1 computer is a low-powered PC from Apple's humble beginnings, which began with original co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. This specific computer that was up for sale at German auction house Auction Team Breker is still functioning.
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| Man Transforms Plane Into Street-Legal Race Car | | Sunday, May 26, 2013 10:27 PM | Geekosystem |
| What do you do when you have an abandoned airplane and a van? If you’re Officer Jeff Bloch, you get some buddies together and weld them into the a plane that’s also a car, and call it "The Spirit of LeMons." I’m not saying that this street-legal plane/car isn’t cool to look at it, but a car that flies is cooler than a plane that drives. That should be your next project, Officer Bloch.
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| 6 Ways Yahoo Can Become Cool Again | | Sunday, May 26, 2013 9:57 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Yahoo has had quite a week. Within a matter of days, the company, led by CEO Marisa Mayer, revamped the design of its photo service Flickr, bought gaming platform PlayerScale and entered the bidding for video-streaming service Hulu. After all that, is Yahoo as cool as Google or Apple? SEE ALSO: More Sunday Comics In this Sunday comic, our friends Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech show the six ways Yahoo can become cool again.
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| Hands-On With the Week's Top Apps | | Sunday, May 26, 2013 9:29 PM | Emily Price |
| It was an interesting week for apps. Shazam and Flickr got a whole new look, and a new video app brought filters and pro-effects for mobile video editing. What's more, Google's Ingress received a huge upgrade, and the final version of Opera made its way to Android. Curious about what all these apps look like? Check out the hands-on video, above, featuring our favorite apps from this past week.
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| How to Create a Top Secret Facebook Group | | Sunday, May 26, 2013 9:00 PM | Amy-Mae Elliott |
| Did you know that you can create a totally, top secret group on Facebook that only you, and people you invite to join, can see? We have taken a quick look at how to make such a group, and some essential settings once you've got it all set up. SEE ALSO: How to See EVERYTHING in Your Facebook News Feed Take a look through our easy-to-follow walkthrough in the how-to gallery above.
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| 5 Tips to Design the Best YouTube Channel Page | | Sunday, May 26, 2013 8:28 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| If you create and share your own videos on YouTube, then you've already taken the first step in putting your face out there. But there's another way to put your best face forward: Craft your channel page. Though your channel's landing page might appear simple (and it's grown simpler over the years), there are a number of features you can fine-tune to optimize a viewer's experience.
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| 12 Cute Letters From Kids to Soldiers | | Sunday, May 26, 2013 7:51 PM | Christine Erickson |
| Kids have the most creative, fascinating imaginations. These little tikes have no filter and no problem saying exactly what's on their mind. It's that curiosity and wide-eyed view of the world that brightens the days of so many soldiers. While honoring those lost this Memorial Day, we also salute the kids that have shared words of encouragement and kindness to the military.
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| 10 iPhone Apps to Fill Up Your 'Fun' Folder | | Sunday, May 26, 2013 6:09 PM | Christine Erickson |
| With the power of iPhones, we can do incredible things on the go. We can manage bank accounts without speaking to a teller; water the lawn at home while on vacation; monitor and track our heart rate. Then there are apps that have absolutely no use, aside from curing boredom. These are the ones you probably hide in a folder to avoid explaining yourself to nosy friends.
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| Samsung Accidentally Places Galaxy S4 mini Image On Apps Site | | Sunday, May 26, 2013 5:19 PM | Emily Price |
| It looks like all those Samsung Galaxy S4 mini rumors might be true. While Samsung hasn’t officially announced the pint-sized version of the phone, the handset has shown up in images on Samsung’s official apps site. Originally spotted by TGSpot, Samsung's apps site allows you to sort apps by device, letting you see at a glance what might be compatible with your particular device.
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| Worldwide Protest in 436 Cities Targets Monsanto and GMOs | | Sunday, May 26, 2013 4:55 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| More than 2 million protesters in 436 cities across the world took to the streets Saturday, in a unified charge against agribusiness giant Monsanto and genetically modified foods. The AP reported that the "March Against Monsanto" protests took place in at least 52 countries and 436 cities. The movement grew from a Facebook page — reportedly created months ago — that called for the May 25 demonstrations.
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| Console Showdown: Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4 | | Sunday, May 26, 2013 4:27 PM | Emily Price |
| On Tuesday Microsoft announced the Xbox One, the next generation of its popular gaming console. The announcement came roughly three months after Sony announced its own next-generation console, the PlayStation 4. So, how do the two stand up against each other? Ralph Cifra, a visual artist from the Philippines, created this infographic comparing the two unreleased consoles side-by-side.
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| How Apple's Alleged Tax Avoidance Changed Its Image | | Sunday, May 26, 2013 4:01 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| The U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations claims that Apple didn't pay taxes on at least $74 billion in overseas income by setting up subsidiaries in other countries. SEE ALSO: More Sunday Comics In this Sunday comic, we see how this scandal has changed the tech giant's image — literally. Taxes really do take a bite out of earnings. Homepage image courtesy of Flickr, Dennis Goedegebuure.
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| 6 Apps You Don't Want To Miss | | Sunday, May 26, 2013 3:36 PM | Emily Price |
| It can be tough to keep up with all the new apps released every week. But you're in luck — Mashable takes care of that for you, creating a roundup each weekend of our favorite new and updated apps. This week Flickr got a whole new look on the web as well as on Android. A new app brought Instagram-like features to editing mobile video, and several popular apps got even better.
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| Klipsch KMC 3 Portable Speaker Will Knock Your Socks Off | | Sunday, May 26, 2013 2:24 PM | Charlie White |
| When Klipsch decided to insert a new wireless music system at the top of its line of Bluetooth speakers, it wasn't messing around with the Klipsch KMC 3 Wireless Music System. The 17-inch-wide Bluetooth speaker can hardly be described as pocket-sized, but its 7.8-pound weight and handy carrying handle invite you to take it along on your next picnic or beach bash.
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| Keep Plants Alive with These 3 Techie Tools | | Sunday, May 26, 2013 1:32 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Since this Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start to summer, you might be dusting off those gardening gloves to spruce up your home. But if you're looking for an easy way to keep plants alive this year, check out these three products featured in the video above that make it quite simple. 1. "Let's Patch" Self-Watering Planter Sometimes knowing just how much water plants need is tricky.
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| 'Arrested Development' Creator Leaves Viewers a Note on Facebook | | Sunday, May 26, 2013 12:55 PM | Charlie White |
| If you stayed up all night watching season 4 of Arrested Development — released Sunday in its entirety on Netflix at 12:01 AM PT — you might be too bleary-eyed to read this candid note from the show's creator, Mitch Hurwitz.
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| How Cavemen Used Social Media | | Sunday, May 26, 2013 12:02 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Whether you consider the advent of social media to have started with Usenet systems in the 1970s or with the creation of Facebook in 2004, it's been around for a while. But what about cavemen? How did they interact virtually? SEE ALSO: More Sunday Comics In this Sunday comic, Maria Scrivan shows us that there may have been a very early inspiration for the Facebook Like.
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| Apple Might Have Flashed an iWatch in Latest Ad | | Sunday, May 26, 2013 11:48 AM | Charlie White |
| Hey wait a minute, is that the Apple iWatch we caught a glimpse of in the company's latest soft-sell image spot, released on Thursday? As you can see in the screen grab above and in the video below, the guy's clearly wearing some sort of electronic watch on his right wrist, and it's certainly not the Pebble Smart Watch, which has a more overall rectangular shape and a rectangular face as well.
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| How to Get Started as a Consultant | | Sunday, May 26, 2013 10:53 AM | Jennifer Parris |
| If you want to switch careers but still stay within your industry, a consulting job might be for you -- here are some tips on how to become a consultant.
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| Let's Talk 'Arrested Development' Season 4 | | Sunday, May 26, 2013 10:07 AM | Christina Warren |
| After a more than seven-year absence, Arrested Development returned to Netflix on Sunday at 12:01 a.m. PT. And we couldn't be more excited — so excited, in fact, that we stayed awake to watch all the new episodes as soon as they dropped. We know we weren't alone. The biggest issue now: Where can fans go to discuss the show without worrying about spoiling it for others? That's where we come in.
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