| 10 Cute Animals Walking Like Humans | | Friday, February 22, 2013 10:31 PM | Eric Larson |
| It thinks it's people! Check out our collection of animals walking on two legs -- it's just as funny as it sounds.
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| Thinglist Is a Simple App for Saving Ideas and Recommendations | | Friday, February 22, 2013 10:10 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| What do you do after the website you created gets sold off for the second time in a year? Start making iPhone apps, apparently. Forrst, an online community for designers and developers, was acquired by Zurb in January after having previously been acquired and then largely overlooked by Colourlovers last March.
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| Nike+ Users Could Power 6,700 Houses Daily | | Friday, February 22, 2013 9:09 PM | Sam Laird |
| To mark the one-year anniversary of FuelBand energy-tracking device, Nike shared with us some interesting stats about how active users are.
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| 8 Questions We Still Have About the PlayStation 4 | | Friday, February 22, 2013 8:16 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| Sony announced the PlayStation 4 with a lot of fanfare and in-your-face visuals. The two-hour presentation inundated the media and gaming industry with a lot of pretty lights and sounds, but left more questions that needed answering. While we're not expecting to see the PlayStation 4 on store shelves until late in the year, there's a lot we hope to learn before then.
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| Girl's Curling Iron Disaster Goes Viral | | Friday, February 22, 2013 7:08 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Tori Locklear was a simple Internet do-gooder. She took to YouTube to try and teach the rest of us hair-novices how to properly curl hair with hopes of bringing more glamour to the world. Unfortunately, Locklear had yet to really grasp the dos and don'ts of hair management with a curling iron, and instead of ending up with perfectly-quaffed hair, she ended up with perfectly-fried hair.
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| Mark Zuckerberg to Sergey Brin: 'I Can't Wait for Google Glass' | | Friday, February 22, 2013 6:23 PM | Chris Taylor |
| For connoisseurs of corporate conflict, the cold war between Facebook and Google is hardly a satisfying one. Sure, the two tech giants have rival social networks, and there's little in the way of collaboration between them.
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| 3D-Printed Rocket Parts Will Take NASA to Mars | | Friday, February 22, 2013 6:03 PM | Amanda Wills |
| NASA engineers are building the largest rocket ever constructed -- one that will eventually take us beyond the moon -- using 3D-printed materials.
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| Gollum's Precious Version of 'I Dreamed a Dream' | | Friday, February 22, 2013 5:18 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Sure, it's pretty distressing to hear Fantine's story in Les Miserables, the Broadway-play-turned-Oscar-nominated-film. The character, most recently played by Anne Hathaway, gets into some iffy situations. But you know who has a really sad story? Gollum from Lord of the Rings. He loses his only ring to a bunch of greedy boys and has nothing left to live for.
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| Humane Society's Vine Lands Adorable Cat a New Home | | Friday, February 22, 2013 5:01 PM | Zoe Fox |
| It didn't take long for non-profits to catch the Vine bug. As soon as Twitter launched the new Vine app, Becca Meyers of the New York Humane Society shared a six-second clip of cat Parker from the non-profit's newly minted account. Last Friday, Parker went home with his new permanent owner, who says she adopted him because of the adorable video shared to Vine.
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| Why Google Glass Could Be Bad For Your Eyes | | Friday, February 22, 2013 4:31 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| Google Glass isn't even out yet, and people are heralding the part-camera, part-mobile device as the future — a revolutionary product that will surely change the way we use (and view) technology. But some vision specialists are worried the high-tech specs, which you'll be able to wear on your head, could lead to health issues, including eye strain, headaches and neck pain.
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| Study Shows iPhone 300% More Reliable Than Samsung Smartphones | | Friday, February 22, 2013 4:07 PM | Emily Price |
| A new report from product Q & A site FixYa found that the iPhone was more reliable than smartphones made by Motorola, Samsung and Nokia. The study looked at data from 722,558 problem reports listed on the site, and combined that information with market share data from StatCounter to create an ultimate reliability score for each smartphone manufacturer.
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| Matboard is Like Pinterest For Inspiring Creative Professionals | | Friday, February 22, 2013 3:58 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Pinterest's motto is that "no matter what you're interested in, there's a place for it here," but Austin Phillips has found this to be problematic for creative professionals using the service who want to find very specific content.
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| Google Glass May Arrive For Consumers by End of Year | | Friday, February 22, 2013 2:10 PM | Emily Price |
| Can’t wait to get your hands on Google Glass? You might not have to wait much longer. In an interview, Google Glass product director Steve Lee told The Verge that it plans to have a “fully-polished” version of Glass available for consumers by the end of 2013. Even better? Glass will be priced at less than $1500 when it goes on sale.
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| 3D-Printed Suckers Make Robot Octopus a Terrifying Possibility | | Friday, February 22, 2013 11:38 AM | Geekosystem |
| Researchers are re-purposing animal parts that could be useful to new robots. The latest entries in that field are 3D-printed robotic suckers, which mimic the suction ability of a squid or octopus. It may one day help tomorrow’s robots grip objects, move around and, of course, one day restrain human prisoners. Until that day, though, they will be pretty cool.
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| 20 Worst Mom Emails Lurking in Your Inbox | | Friday, February 22, 2013 10:39 AM | Christine Erickson |
| Moms: can't live with them, and you literally cannot live without them. They might drive us crazy sometimes, but they also remind us they care. In the 21st century, that means a quick email or text to say hi, check in or send a little e-love. That doesn't mean the generation gap is easy. Besides, most moms don't have time to brush up on Internet etiquette because they're too busy worrying about you.
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| Pope's Twitter Account to Shut Down When Benedict XVI Leaves Office | | Friday, February 22, 2013 10:08 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| The papal Twitter account, @pontifex, will be shut down when Pope Benedict XVI leaves office, the CNN reports citing Vatican radio. "It seems unimaginable that one could continue to use a communication tool so popular and powerful during the 'sede vacante' period," said Vatican Radio, without giving info on whether Benedict XVI's successor will use Twitter.
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| Chicago Wants To Be the Smartest City on Earth | | Friday, February 22, 2013 8:10 AM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Chicago's Chief Information Officer Brett Goldstein fundamentally believes the secret to a smarter and more responsive city lies in finding meaning in the vast quantity of data cities collect about themselves. "I would argue cities are ecosystems, that's not really something that's new that people would say," Goldstein told Mashable.
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