| XiStera Is Like a Swiss Army Knife for the iPhone 5 | | The iPhone 5 is known for its diverse functionality, but one multi-tool accessory aims to up the ante by serving as a kind of Swiss Army knife for Apple's flagship phone. The XiStera has eight different functions, including: pocketable lens adapter, stand, tripod mount, headphone wrap, stylus, bottle opener and keychain with optional LED lighting. Watch the video, above, for more details.
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| Type 'Atari Breakout' Into Google Image Search for a Cool Surprise | | Google is commemorating the 37th birthday of classic Atari game Breakout in the best possible way: It turned Google Image Search into a version of the game. To launch the Easter egg, you simply need to type "atari breakout" into Google Image Search, and hit enter. The search results will show up, but they'll be organized into a game that's very similar to Breakout, which requires the player to demolish brick walls with a ball.
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| Robohand Provides 3D-Printed Prosthetic Hands and Fingers | | From clothes and shoes to smartphone cases and even guns, there seems to be no limits to what 3D printers can create. And now, you can add prosthetic hands and fingers to the mix. SEE ALSO: 3D-Printed Face Made This Man's Life Whole Again Robohand is a mechanical 3D-printed hand that can be created using a MakerBot 3D printer.
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| Watch the Trailers for NBC's 6 New Fall Shows | | 1:27:39 AM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| On Monday, NBC teased its 2013-2014 TV schedule, an anticipated mix of returning shows and new series, during a star-studded upfront presentation to advertisers and media at New York City's Radio City Music Hall. Among the shows in NBC's programming plans are the following six new comedies and dramas, for which NBC released trailers after the event.
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| Meet the Kickstarter for XXX Projects: Offbeatr | | A Kickstarter for the XXX world? Meet Offbeatr, the crowdfunding platform for all things adult. It's sort of like a Kickstarter for porn — a place to brainstorm and then create all your kinky ideas. And, if they're popular enough, get them bankrolled. Last week the site announced they've funded over $280,000 for pornographic projects since their launch about nine months ago.
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| McAfee Launches New All-In-One Security Suite | | 12:29:23 AM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Nowadays, security threats affect every consumer regardless of the operating system or device they use. With that in mind, McAfee and Intel are launching an all-in-one security software suite called LiveSafe that includes anti-virus protection, a password manager and an encrypted cloud-based storage space secured by voice and facial recognition. LiveSafe's goal is to keep consumers safe at all times.
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| Caught in an Elevator With the CEO? 3 Conversation Starters | | Monday, May 13, 2013 10:59 PM | The Daily Muse |
| It’s Thursday morning, you’re in the elevator, and the CEO skates between closing doors to join you for a 30-floor ride. You consider commenting on the unseasonably balmy weather, but inquire about her watch instead. You then exchange a series of jokes and, in perfect unison, toss your heads back in laughter. At the 25th floor, she insists that you join her in the company lounge for a bite to eat—she’d like to get to know you better.
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| 'Casino Royale' Gets Action-Packed LEGO Remake | | Monday, May 13, 2013 9:56 PM | Neha Prakash |
| James Bond has always been known for his suave ability to wield guns, fight bad guys on moving trains and woo the ladies, but is 007 just as deadly cool in LEGO form? Yes, definitely, we have proof. YouTuber coccosnowball intricately remade the opening scene from Casino Royale using only LEGO pieces. The result gives off the same air of adventure as the classic Bond films, but with some action-figure nostalgia.
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| Keep Your Gadgets Dry at the Beach With These Waterproof Pocket Shorts | | Monday, May 13, 2013 9:29 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Many of us protect our gadgets from clumsy falls and nicks with protective cases. But when your precious smartphone gets wet from the elements or from an unfortunate drop down the toilet, sometimes there's no going back. Salt Lake City-based Stash Incorporated has designed waterproof pocket shorts that are designed to keep your phone and other pocket items dry.
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| Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen on the New Digital Age | | Monday, May 13, 2013 8:29 PM | Adam Popescu |
| The growth of the web, the developing world and digital-age career skills were all topics of discussion last Thursday night at a special fireside chat with tech heavyweights Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen at Google's Venice, Calif., headquarters. The talk felt like an in-person abstract for the duo's new book, The New Digital Age, which was finished after the two traveled to more than 25 countries to forecast the global digital evolution.
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| Sniff Your Phone: This Device Puffs Out a Scent | | Monday, May 13, 2013 7:59 PM | Discovery News |
| The sense of smell is a tough one to work into media — attempts at getting it into movies date back to the 1930s, and Disneyland and Walt Disney World include scents in some of their attractions. Technology companies have tried adding it to video games and television, so it was only a matter of time before someone tried to add it to a smartphone.
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| Helm Your Own Ship With Friends in This Cross-Platform Game | | Monday, May 13, 2013 7:36 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| If you've ever wanted reason to shout "Full power to deflector shields!" or "Get ready to make the jump to light speed," you might need to give this Kickstarter a look. Quintet is a five-player party game that puts gamers on the bridge of a spaceship. Each player controls a different role - engineering, science, tactical, helm and the captain — to help the ship reach its objective.
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| The Tonight Show's Biggest Viral Hit Is Probably Fake | | Monday, May 13, 2013 7:03 PM | The Daily Dot |
| That video of a couple singing karaoke at a gas station, Jay Leno's all-time greatest YouTube success, is totally fake. The clip is of a well-established Tonight Show bit called Pumpcast News, in which a news anchor on a screen placed above a gas station pump starts interacting with the customera in front of him. In this one, he notices a man singing as he starts to pump, then asks him and his wife to karaoke.
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| Vine User Inks Deal With 'Peanuts' Gang | | Monday, May 13, 2013 6:19 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Khoa Phan's stop-motion animations on Vine have caught the attention of Peanuts Worldwide, the new owners of the popular Peanuts comic strips starring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and friends. In a deal announced Monday, Phan will create 12 Vines using Twitter's six-second video service for Peanuts Worldwide.
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| If Snow White's Seven Dwarfs Were Hobbits | | Monday, May 13, 2013 6:16 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to the Shire we go! The seven dwarfs are known for being the lovable (yes, even Grumpy was lovable) pals of Snow White, helping her survive the wrath of the evil Queen's apple tricks. But artist Jordy Lakiere gave these seven dudes a more rough-around-the-edges vibe for his latest series.
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| 20 Songs for Space Exploration | | Monday, May 13, 2013 6:01 PM | Jessica Fee |
| Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield made history on Sunday when he filmed the first ever music video in space (fittingly, a cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity"). To commemorate his accomplishment, we've dedicated this week's Music Monday to the most epic songs for space exploration. We curated the selection of songs you tweeted to us, and added in a few of our own.
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| Make a LEGO Robot With a Raspberry Pi | | Monday, May 13, 2013 5:33 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| LEGO fans can create their own programmable robot with a new device that works with the Raspberry Pi computer. If you have a Raspberry Pi, the BrickPi system lets you convert the tiny PC into a LEGO robot, as explained in the video above. Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized, Linux-based PC that arrived in the U.S. earlier this year.
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| Twitter Acquires Data Analysis Startup Lucky Sort | | Monday, May 13, 2013 5:13 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Twitter has acquired Lucky Sort, a startup that specializes in data visualization, the two companies announced Monday. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Lucky Sort was founded two years ago and launched its first product called TopicWatch last February. TopicWatch let users analyze real-time trends on social media (including Twitter) as well as from other news sources.
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| Fascinating Live Map Shows People Around the World Editing Wikipedia | | Monday, May 13, 2013 4:56 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Wikipedia, the encyclopedia of the Internet, is a constant work in progress. Its articles are being crowd-edited every minute by scores of people around the world. Now, thanks to two programmers, you can see what articles are being edited in real time, with every edit conveniently displayed on a world map. Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi created the map, and it's available on this website.
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| Biggest Solar Flares of the Year Erupt From Sun | | Monday, May 13, 2013 4:33 PM | Space.com |
| A hyperactive sunspot on the surface of the sun has fired off two of the most powerful solar flares of the year in just 24 hours, and promises to unleash more solar storms over the next several days, space weather experts say. The active sunspot went into overdrive on Mother's Day when it erupted late Sunday night with an X-class solar flare, the strongest type of solar storm possible, NASA scientists said in an update.
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| Amazon Cloud Player Launches PC App | | Monday, May 13, 2013 4:22 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| As part of its mission to bring its music service "everywhere," Amazon announced the release of a dedicated Cloud Player app for desktop PCs Monday. The release comes less than a week after Amazon announced iOS compatibility with Ford Sync-enabled vehicles. PC users could already access Cloud Player through their web browsers, but the primary benefit of the PC application is the ability to store music offline.
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| Track Down Gatsby in This 8-Bit Web Game | | Monday, May 13, 2013 4:04 PM | Chelsea Stark |
| If the world of Baz Lurhmann's The Great Gatsby is too glitzy for you, maybe you'd like to try on something a little more ... pixelated. Great Gatsby Game transports you back to the land of the Nintendo Entertainment System in look and feel while you remain safely on your web browser. Just like any video game version of a movie, however, it's a little off base in terms of the subject matter.
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| Benevolent Is Like Kiva for the Silicon Valley's Working Poor | | Monday, May 13, 2013 3:52 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Ask the average American what comes to mind when they think of Silicon Valley, and you'll often hear answers about the area's booming technology sector. Less discussed even among the technology community is the skyrocketing number of poor and homeless people who live just miles from the doorsteps of such business behemoths as Google and Amazon.
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| Tiny iPhone Charger Fits in Your Pocket | | Monday, May 13, 2013 3:32 PM | Chip Chick |
| The team at Phonesuit wants to iPhone 5 users with extra battery power, but they don’t want to cramp your already existing iPhone case's style. So, the company released an external battery that works alongside any case. Best of all, it fits right in your pocket. The Phonesuit Flex Pocket Charger contains a 2600 mAh battery and a Lightning charger. That battery tops the Mophie Helium, another external battery pack, by 73%.
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| Why Newt Gingrich Won't Call a Smartphone a Smartphone | | Monday, May 13, 2013 3:23 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| You know that shiny new iPhone 5 or Samsung Galaxy S4 in your pocket? You probably call it a cellphone, right? Well, Newt Gingrich says you're wrong. Gingrich recently posted a three-minute video arguing modern cellphones shouldn't be called cellphones at all. "Think about it," petitions Gingrich, who's been attempting to shape himself as a Republican thought leader on high-tech issues from moon colonies to flying cars.
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| 10 Best Users to Follow on Vine | | Monday, May 13, 2013 3:15 PM | Jessica Fee |
| Vine has quickly become one of the top iPhone apps of 2013, and is arguably the most popular social media network since Instagram, which launched in 2010. Most commonly, people use Vine to create six-second snapshots of everyday life, but the more innovative accounts have taken the tool one step further to produce high-quality mini-movies.
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| What to Expect at BlackBerry Live 2013 | | Monday, May 13, 2013 3:09 PM | Christina Warren |
| Google isn't the only company holding a mobile developer conference this week. BlackBerry's annual BlackBerry Live conference kicks off Tuesday in Orlando. It's been a big year for BlackBerry. In the last four months the company has changed its name, released its first BlackBerry 10 smartphone (the BlackBerry Z10) and rolled out its first QWERTY BlackBerry 10 device, the BlackBerry Q10.
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| Google Offers 15GB Unified Storage Across Gmail, Drive, Google+ | | Monday, May 13, 2013 3:02 PM | Emily Price |
| Google is consolidating storage between Drive, Gmail and Google+, now offering users 15GB of free storage shared across all three platforms. “Life gets a bit easier when your Google products work well together—whether that’s inserting a Drive file into an email or sharing a photo from Drive on Google+.
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| 'Doctor Who' Debacle: Can You Avoid Spoilers? | | Monday, May 13, 2013 3:00 PM | Chris Taylor |
| In the history of spoiler alerts, there's never been anything quite like this. Over the weekend, it emerged that some U.S. fans of the popular BBC time travel show, Doctor Who, had been sent their preordered copies of the Season 7 Blu-Ray early. How early? Three weeks ahead of schedule, and prior to the season finale actually being screened on both sides of the Atlantic (which happens Saturday).
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