| CollegeHumor Offers $2,600 to Buy Banana From Man Who Lost Life Savings | | Henry Gribbohm, the New Hampshire man who lost $2,600 in life savings at a carnival game only to score a stuffed banana as consolation, may see his luck turn around. Comedy site CollegeHumor launched a Facebook campaign Tuesday to buy back Gribbohm's banana — which sports a beanie and dreadlocks — for the full $2,600. Gribbohm lost what he claims to be his life savings over the weekend on a carnival game called Tubs of Fun.
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| Kickstarter Campaign Asks Celebs to Pay Regular Guys to See Their Films | | In the past few months, fans have funded a Veronica Mars movie starring Kristen Bell, and a follow-up to Garden State written by Zach Braff. Now, one tongue-in-cheek Kickstarter campaign is asking celebs to return the favor by paying a pair of plebians to watch their films. California-based friends Luke Barnett and Tanner Thomason say that after fans poured millions of dollars into Bell's and Braff's pet projects, it's payback time.
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| 6 Hassle-Free Remote Desktop Apps for iPad | | Remote desktop applications are a popular category in the App Store, but many of the solutions often involve confusing download instructions or a clunky interface. If you're looking for a fairly pain-free setup, consider the following iPad apps, which are all free and can connect to your desktop computer with minimal hassle. PocketCloud PocketCloud Remote Desktop is one of several cloud-based business products Dell’s Wyse offers.
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| IBM Manipulates Atoms to Create the 'World's Smallest Movie' | | Actors have a saying: There are no small roles. IBM is seriously challenging that expression, however, now that it's created a short film where the actors are actually individual atoms. A Boy and His Atom would be just like any number of unremarkable animated shorts were it not for the fact that it's only visible if you use a microscope that enlarges the action by 100 million times.
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| FaceSwap Lets You Swap Faces With Friends in iPhone Photos | | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 11:30 PM | Emily Price |
| Looking for a quick way to creep out your friends? Meet FaceSwap, an iPhone app that lets you instantly swap faces — yes, faces — with your friends in photos. Using Face detecting technology the app is able to find all of the faces in a photo, crop them, and swap them instantly. Once FaceSwap does its initial swap, you can pinch and zoom to perfectly position the faces.
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| 12 Famous Poets and Their Day Jobs | | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 9:05 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Artists often need to supplement their incomes with something a little more substantial, and that especially goes for poets. For instance, did you know that Robert Frost ran a dairy farm to earn some extra cash? Or that Maya Angelou sang calypso music in a nightclub? SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable In this comic, on the last day of National Poetry Month, Grant Snider of Incidental Comics shows us several other poets' day jobs.
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| No Technology Allowed at 'Digital Detox' Summer Camp for Grown-Ups | | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 8:36 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| If your smartphone is attached to your hip, your blood flows like a Twitter feed and you're fairly certain your eyes permanently see through an Instagram filter, then maybe it's time to disconnect for a bit? A new summer camp aims to help adults take a break from technology for a weekend of being a kid again. "Camp Grounded," a retreat brought to you by the folks at The Digital Detox, takes place this June near Anderson Valley, Calif.
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| Star Samsung Athlete Tweets Props for Galaxy S4 — From an iPhone | | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 8:18 PM | Sam Laird |
| David Ferrer is a Spanish tennis star. He's playing in the upcoming Mutua Madrid Open tournament. That event happens to be sponsored by Samsung, so Ferrer sent a tweet on Tuesday in which he gave a big ol' shout-out about how much he loves his new Galaxy S4 smartphone. Sounds like your average athlete tweet-for-cash, right? Well, there was actually just one problem here: Ferrer apparently sent the tweet from an iPhone.
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| Robot Learns to Gently Touch Objects | | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 8:01 PM | Discovery News |
| Humans are able stick their arms into cluttered areas like a refrigerator or reach across a table set for dinner without knocking anything over. Robots aren’t so good at that. In fact, until now, researchers generally design robots to not touch anything except for the object for which they’re reaching.
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| 'Mad Men' Gets a Paw-rific Remake | | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 7:37 PM | Neha Prakash |
| If AMC's Mad Men has taught us anything, it's that advertising is a dog eat dog world. So YouTuber umandaful did the only feasible thing and created a version of the show's opener featuring puppies. Only these dapper mutts are hardcore enough to handle '60s panache as well as Don Draper himself. And if you've ever seen a pup drunk, they quite resemble Roger Sterling's alcohol-fueled behavior on the show.
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| Facebook Music Game GIG-IT Will Let Players Create Virtual Concerts | | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 6:53 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| GIG-IT, a new social game coming to Facebook in May, will let players create 3D concerts featuring virtual versions of famous musicians along with music from the game's library or music available to purchase within the experience. Players will be able to customize every aspect of the concert such as the music, backup dancers, speakers, opening act, headline performers, wardrobes, sponsors and venue.
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| Netflix Will Lose Almost 2000 Movies Tomorrow | | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 6:34 PM | Christina Warren |
| Netflix's streaming catalog is about to lose nearly 2000 movies. As of May 1, 2013, Netflix will officially have 1794 fewer titles in its streaming repository. Now, before you freak out too much, this isn't as bad as the Great Netflix Starzageddon of 2012.
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| Dove Experiment Gets a Ballsy NSFW Parody | | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 6:24 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| You've seen the Dove "sketches" campaign. You've seen the parody. Now, here's another parody. The premise: Men are seated in a room and describe their testicles to an artist. Before long, they get hip to the fact that the man is, in fact, sketching their nether regions according to their description. Then, some men and women describe the body part in question.
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| Google Glass Video Shows How It Works | | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 5:21 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| If you're in the majority, chances are you haven't gotten your hands on a pair of Google Glass just yet. Here's a look at how it works once you're wearing the specs
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| Lowe's Gives Home Improvement Tips in 6-Second Vines | | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 4:45 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Can you offer a home improvement tip in 6 seconds? Apparently yes, as Lowe's demonstrates with these Vines. The retailer introduced the following Vines last week. Unlike previous Vines from brands, these are designed to be useful. The effort, called "Lowe's Fix in Six," offers simple, everyday improvements that consumers will want (hopefully) to share with others.
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| Coding Is the Must-Have Job Skill of the Future | | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 4:35 PM | Adam Popescu |
| Fast forward to 2020. What job skill must you have? Coding. Well, we may be getting ahead of ourselves slightly. It's uncertain that HTML and CSS in their current form will be on the menu of the next decade. But what we do know is, for the foreseeable future, coding is one of the most important and desirable skills there is, no matter how it evolves. Coding is the new black.
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| 'Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon' Is Crazy, Stupid Good | | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 4:25 PM | Lauren Hockenson |
| Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is crazy, stupid and one of the most brilliant pieces of gaming this year. A veritable send-up of the first-person shooter genre as a whole, Blood Dragon takes the immersive mechanics of its Far Cry brethren and melds it with the mind-numbing ridiculousness of ‘80s post-apocalyptic action heroism.
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| Bud Light Offers Proof That Facebook Ads Work | | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 4:15 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| For some time, Facebook has deflected criticism about its low click-through rates for ads by arguing that the metric is irrelevant. However, showing a link between ads on the network and a corresponding sales boost has been tricky. Data from partner Datalogix may help Facebook make its case. In particular, a Facebook campaign for Bud Light appears to have helped increase sales.
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| Full STEAM Ahead: Traveling Tech Carnival Launches | | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 4:02 PM | Adam Popescu |
| The circus is coming to town — the Two Bit Circus that is. And today the think tank troupe of self-described artisanal engineers is launching a Kickstarter campaign to produce the STEAM Carnival. This isn't bearded ladies and strong men carnival fare. This is a tech bent affair focused on hooking kids with the thrill of cool education. STEAM stands for science, technology, engineering, art and math.
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| The Best Twitter Accounts for Entrepreneurs | | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 3:53 PM | BusinessNewsDaily |
| Small business owners and entrepreneurs who use Twitter only as a marketing tool for their businesses are missing out. The microblogging service can also be a huge resource for them in the day-to-day operation of their business. However, business owners must know the right accounts to follow in order to benefit from all that Twitter can offer.
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| Musician Dances With iPod to Wham! at the Mall | | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 3:40 PM | Christine Erickson |
| Nashville musician and YouTube favorite Preston Leatherman has graced the mall again with his impeccable dance moves — this time, to the catchy beat of Wham!'s "Wake Me Up (Before You Go Go)." The 21-year-old is most famously known for his 2011 holiday version of the series, in which he danced to "All I Want for Christmas Is You," and even got a nod of approval from Mariah Carey herself.
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| Former Wireless Lobbyist Reportedly Obama's FCC Pick | | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 3:23 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| President Barack Obama is set to name former wireless lobbyist and campaign supporter Tom Wheeler as his nominee for Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, according to a report. Obama might publicly name Wheeler (pictured above, left) as his nominee as early as Wednesday, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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| Justin Timberlake Song Gets Kitty Remix in 'Cat & Tie' | | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 3:14 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Finally, empirical evidence that the prince of pop and tuxedos has a voice as soothing as a cat's meow. YouTuber RobBlissCreative has remixed Justin Timberlake's "Suit & Tie" featuring purring kitties in place of Jay Z. SEE ALSO: Watch Justin Timberlake's Hilarious Moments From 'Timberweek' It's music to our ears. Nothing this great has been produced in the music/animal industry since Taylor Swift had a duet with a goat.
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| 3 Quick Tricks to Improve Your Gmail Experience | | Tuesday, April 30, 2013 2:40 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| If you use Gmail, then you're on it every day; at work, at home and on your phone. That's why you should make sure you get the most out of it. In this week's installment of Hack Tricks, you'll get to know Google's email service a bit better. SEE ALSO: How Gmail Has Evolved Over the Years We've all made the dreaded email faux pas.
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