| Nomad Espresso Machine Delivers Hot Brew Anywhere, No Electricity Required | | Espresso lovers, you'll have to agree, there's nothing quite like a steaming cup of that seriously strong coffee in the morning. But sometimes it's just not available, and that's where the Nomad Go Everywhere portable espresso machine excels. As long as you have access to hot water, you can press out some bracing brew in no time flat. As long as you have access to hot water, you can press out some bracing brew in no time flat.
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| Help Preserve the Human Genome By Owning Your Own Copy | | Back in 2003, the groundbreaking Human Genome Project successfully identified all 20,000 to 25,000 genes in human DNA. It's a sizeable amount of information that filled 130 books — each 300 pages long. A new Kickstarter project aims to condense 3.2 billion characters of the human genome into five nickel discs that are around the size of CDs.
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| Hovercraft Golf Cart and More in This Week's Viral Video Recap | | Sunday, April 07, 2013 11:59 PM | Anita Li |
| As your weekend winds down, there's nothing better than to kick back, relax and enjoy our Viral Video Recap. This week's selection includes an unorthodox catnap, Gmail's color-themed April Fools' Day prank, a futuristic golf cart, swimming without a pool and annihilating Marshmallow Peeps — but not in the way you'd think. Check out our choices above, then tell us which video is your favorite in the comments.
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| The Real Reason TV Sales Are Declining | | Sunday, April 07, 2013 11:01 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| We've seen global TV sales decline for a couple of years now. What's causing the lessened interest? Is it the rise of mobile? Services like Netflix? Or are viewers simply no longer trying to keep up with the Kardashians? SEE ALSO: More Sunday Comics Comic written by Larry Lambert; illustrated by Jerry King.
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| 8 Babies Named After the Internet and Tech | | Sunday, April 07, 2013 10:14 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| You might love technology and the Interweb, but do you love it so much that you'd name your kid after something techie? Check out our complete list above of some of the most interesting tech-inspired baby names. Some parents across the globe have taken inspiration from the digital world, naming their little ones after well-known tech companies, symbols and Internet lingo.
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| Top 5 Kids Apps This Week | | Sunday, April 07, 2013 9:31 PM | Chris Crowell |
| Share a virtual bedtime story, manage a supermarket and explore a haunted house all in this week's top apps for kids.
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| Bravo Launching Interactive 'Real Housewives Awards' | | Sunday, April 07, 2013 8:42 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Playing off the ratings and social-media success of the Real Housewives franchise, Bravo announced this week that it will launch "The Real Housewives Awards" as a 2013 digital initiative. Fans of the six Real Housewives series will get to vote online in such categories as Best Supporting Agitator, Hottest Hubby, Most Coveted Closet, Best Heels and Most Desirable Destination Vacation.
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| Remembering Roger Ebert's Digital Legacy | | Sunday, April 07, 2013 8:09 PM | Christina Warren |
| Famed film critic, Pulitzer-Prize winner and Twitter superstar Roger Ebert died Thursday, after a long battle with cancer. Ebert is most associated with the movie industry, and for helping make film criticism accessible. But he wasn't just a film critic and acclaimed author — he was also a new-media pioneer. At 70, Ebert was more in touch with media and how to reach his readers than critics or authors 50 years his junior.
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| 7 'Mad Men' Supercuts That'll Get Your Heart Racing | | Sunday, April 07, 2013 7:14 PM | Stephanie Buck |
| As you woke up this Sunday morning, you didn't think about your growling stomach or worry about being late to church. You immediately sprang out of bed and shouted "MAD MEN!" at the top of your lungs. Congratulations, superfan. The day has come — Mad Men season six premieres on AMC Sunday night at 9 p.m. ET. Therefore, today is a holiday and should be celebrated as such.
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| Late Roger Ebert's Final Movie Review Publishes Online | | Sunday, April 07, 2013 6:24 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert, who died Thursday at age 70, was still writing reviews as his health worsened. Jim Emerson, editor of RogerEbert.com, published the late critic's final review Sunday, using Ebert's Twitter account to share the post.
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| Hands-On With The Week's Top Apps | | Sunday, April 07, 2013 5:42 PM | Emily Price |
| It was an interesting week for apps. After a long-standing dispute with Apple, Microsoft finally updated SkyDrive for iOS. Disney released a new mobile game featuring a high-flying cat named Mittens, and vintage-favorite Final Fantasy V launched for iOS. A new app for creating notes using your own handwriting launched for the iPhone, and Box released an update for Android.
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| LinkMe Displays Texts, Social-Media Alerts on Your Wrist | | Sunday, April 07, 2013 5:28 PM | Anita Li |
| Move over, Apple and Samsung. While two of tech's biggest companies are reportedly developing smart watches, startup LinkMe has already gotten a head start. LinkMe is a Bluetooth-enabled device that lets users view incoming text messages or social-media alerts on their wrist. They send a message with their smartphone via an app, which in turn, will be displayed on LinkMe.
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| Synced Smartphones to Light Up Brad Paisley's ACM Awards Performance | | Sunday, April 07, 2013 5:06 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Country crooner Brad Paisley's performance of "Beat This Summer" with singer John Mayer during the Academy of Country Music Awards on April 7 will feature a light show powered by fans' smartphones, Sony Music Nashville told Mashable.
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| Does Reworking Beatles' Song 'Hey Jude' Into a Minor Key Make It Better? | | Sunday, April 07, 2013 4:39 PM | Charlie White |
| What if the Beatles had lived in an alternative universe, and the group's 1968 megahit "Hey Jude" was not intended to cheer up John Lennon's son Julian, but to sound like a funeral dirge? That's just what you'll get with this version of "Hey Jude," mashed down into a minor key that feels completely different, especially to those of us who've grown up with the Beatles and their groundbreaking music.
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| Six 1968 TV Ads Don Draper Would Respect | | Sunday, April 07, 2013 4:01 PM | NowThisNews |
| Get back in a Mad Men state of mind with these ads from 1968. Mad Men season 6 starts Sunday night, and this quick sample of ads should give you some context to the advertising landscape of the era. As you can see, things have changed drastically in 45 years: SEE ALSO: How to Catch Up on Mad Men Before Season 6.
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| 12 Free Children's Ebooks You Can Download Right Now | | Sunday, April 07, 2013 3:36 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| The print publishing industry may be in decline, but story time definitely isn't. A child's first few books open doors to new worlds, and considering how enamored children can get with mobile devices, ebooks are a great combination of things literary and digital. SEE ALSO: Top 5 Apps for Kids This Week But when your son or daughter first dips his or her toes into reading, it can be uncharted waters, which can get expensive.
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| That QR Code Tattoo Was a Bad Idea | | Sunday, April 07, 2013 2:55 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Depending on how reputable your tattoo artist is, you might be taking a big risk by getting a tattoo in a language that you don't understand. In this Sunday Comic by Maria Scrivan, we can see that Chinese characters and erudite symbols aren't the only things you need to watch out for these days. SEE ALSO: More Sunday Comics Some people actually have gotten QR code tats.
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| NASA to Get $100 Million for Asteroid-Capture Mission, Senator Says | | Sunday, April 07, 2013 2:31 PM | Space.com |
| NASA will likely get $100 million next year to jump-start an audacious program to drag an asteroid into orbit around the moon for research and exploration purposes, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson says. The $100 million will probably be part of President Barack Obama's federal budget request for 2014, which is expected to be released next week, Nelson (D-FL) said.
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| Watch 'Mad Men' Roger Sterling's Best Bad Boy Moments | | Sunday, April 07, 2013 1:23 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Mad Men season 6 commences on April 7 with a two-hour episode on AMC. Sure to make a whiskey-soaked splash (or an LSD-infused one) during the premiere is Roger Sterling, the World War II Naval veteran turned ad executive who favors solving problems with a flask. SEE ALSO: How to Catch Up on 'Mad Men' Before Season 6 In the video above, NowThisNews rounds up Sterling's memorable lines and scenes, including one where he bares all.
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| Drunk Uncle on 'SNL' Mocks Tumblr, Snapchat and Galaxy Note | | Sunday, April 07, 2013 1:00 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage played Peter Drunklage, the brother-in-law of Saturday Night Live's Drunk Uncle, during the "Weekend Update" skit on April 6. The duo confusingly poked fun at blog-hosting platform Tumblr, photo-messaging app Snapchat and Samsung's line of Galaxy Note devices. "All they care about is 'Tumblr me, Tumblr me, Tumblr me,'" Peter Drunklage mockingly said about children these days.
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| If Facebook Made a Real Facebook Home | | Sunday, April 07, 2013 12:33 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Facebook made its big mobile announcement last week: the introduction of Facebook Home on Android devices. CEO Mark Zuckerberg referred to the new home screen and app launcher as "putting people first, instead of apps." SEE ALSO: More Sunday Comics In this Sunday Comic, our friends Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech imagine what it would be like if Facebook made a real home.
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| How to Manage a Micromanaging Boss | | Sunday, April 07, 2013 12:15 PM | The Daily Muse |
| Every morning when I arrived at my office, I used to find a to-do list printed out and neatly laid on my keyboard, courtesy of my boss. But this wasn't a typical bulleted list — it was a long (upwards of three pages), drawn-out document, where each bullet point was accompanied by paragraphs of elaboration, laying out to the very smallest of details exactly how I should accomplish the task.
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| 35 Ways Musicians and Music Brands Are Using Twitter's Vine App | | Sunday, April 07, 2013 10:49 AM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| When Twitter introduced Vine on Jan. 24, it quickly encouraged musicians to get creative: "Artists, Vine is out now! ... Show us your world ... in video," tweeted @TwitterMusic.Celebrities, rising artists and music brands responded, giving fans a visual and auditory glimpse into their lives with intimate 6-second, GIF-like videos.
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