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The Scale That Thinks It’s a Rug [Concepts]
This concept scale that doubles as a decorative rug might—might—be the thing to finally get me taking better care of myself.
Designer Kwan Sunman's Rug With Scale project does away with the cold, judgmental form factors of your average bathroom scale, ensconcing it instead in a warm and inviting rug. The readout from the scale shows up on a small red tag that illuminates its user's current weight, previous weight, and goal weight to help chart progress.
The rug portion is also removable (for washing) and interchangeable (for personal style preference). That is, it will be, if this ever becomes an actual, buyable product. Fill in your own "worth the weight" pun here, if so inclined. [Red Dot via Yanko]
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Java : The Dog – Beagle S60v5 ML Retail kriker
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The Body of a Tank, the Brain of an Android [Android]
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We’ve come across plenty of robots that were controlled by phones before, but usually those phones were being controlled by human hands. Some California hackers, however, are building bots that put Android to work for their robo-brainpower.
Their first creation, the TruckBot, uses a HTC G1 as a brain and has a chassis that they made for $30 in parts. It’s not too advanced yet—it can use the phone’s compass to head in a particular direction—but they’re working on incorporating the bot more fully with the phone and the Android software. Some ideas they’re kicking around that wouldn’t be possible with a dinky Arduino brain: face and voice recognition and location awareness.
If you’re interested in putting together a Cellbot of your own—can you even conceive of a cooler dock for your Android phone? Or a better use for your G1?—the team’s development blog has some more information. The possibilities here are manifold; mad scientists, feel free to share your Android-bot schemes in the comments. [Wired]
Image credit Miran Pavic / Wired.com
The Apple Lawsuit Rampage We’d Love to See [Humor]
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Apple’s lawsuit against HTC made one thing clear: Steve. Jobs. Will. Cut You. And with all the patents they’ve got? Nobody’s safe. Here’s who’s next on the subpoena warpath:
Patent #8,567,301: A Process to Cryogenically Microbead Pasteurized Dairy
Defendant: Dippin’ Dots
Patent #5,475,939: Inexpensive Self-Assembled Home Furnishings With Names That Sound Like Lesser Norse Gods
Defendant: Ikea
Patent #6,374,752: Constructing an Opulent Hyper-Futuristic City Without Having the Resources to Maintain It
Defendant: Dubai
Patent #3,405,356: Music Composition Utilizing Three Chords In Sequence and Repetitive Anti-Establishment Lyrics
Defendants: Joey Ramone; Iggy Pop; Johnny Rotten; et al
Patent #2,366,291: How a Bill Becomes a Law
Defendants: Congressional and Executive Branches of US Government; “School House Rock”
Patent #4,769,002: Placing “I” Before “E” (Excepting Those Occasions In Which Preceded By “C” Or When Phonetically Comparable to “A”)
Defendants: Strunk and White; My Third Grade Homeroom Teacher; the English Language
Patent #9,753,482: Achieving Fame Despite Lack of Discernable Talent or Drive
Defendants: Paris Hilton, Spencer Pratt, the Cast of “Tool Academy,” et al
Patent #1,749,682: Dogs
Defendants: Dogs
The Loch Ness Monster Isn’t In Scotland, She’s Lighting Up My Living Room [Design]
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Alright, so maybe Nessie isn’t lighting up my living room just yet, but you can bet that if this concept lamp design ever gets produced, she will. The big question though: Shall I put her on a wall or ceiling?
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Nessie the Lamp was designed by 2-B-2 Architecture and is everything I want in a lamp. It’s silly, curvy, and can be split into pieces if I ever get bored of it. Somebody please produce this thing already. [Yanko Design]
Viacom Pulling "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" From Hulu [Hulu]
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Tragedy! The New York Times is reporting that Viacom is going to pull “The Daily Show,” “The Colbert Report,” and other Comedy Central properties off of Hulu next week. The reason, as always: money. The bigger question: who’s next?
Apparently Viacom realized the importance of “The Daily Show” to Hulu—it’s consistently one of the site’s most popular programs and is clearly in sync with the Hulu demographc—and wanted outsized compensation, possibly including upfront payment.
You’ll still be able to watch rebroadcasts of John Stewart and Stephen Colbert on TheDailyShow.com and ColbertNation.com. But the larger point seems to be that if you’re not one of Hulu’s major network stakeholders, sharing your content on the site may not be financially viable. That doesn’t immediately impact many popular shows outside of Viacom’s cadre, but if Hulu wants to be a big tent for online video, they’re going to need the participation of third-party content providers. Of which there are plenty, including BBC America, WB, and a whole lot of niche content providers with passionate fan bases.
Maybe Hulu’s inevitable pay model will be a solution that helps spread the wealth a little better. But if they lose many more shows by then, it may not even matter. [NY Times]
And Tesla the Twain Shall Meet [Image Cache]
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Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla: The most powerful of minds, and the best of friends. Here, a captivated Sam Clemens tests Tesla’s inductively powered incandescent lamp. The mad scientist lurks in the background, like, well, a mad scientist.
It’s not terribly surprising that the two men were friends, since they were both revered figures in Gilded Age New York City, but it’s endlessly fascinating to read about how these two men came to be friends—essentially, as mutual fanboys.
There’s also a lesson to modern day science and tech luminaries: spend your famous friend currency wisely. [TheOpenEnd]
Old Dogs DVDRip XviD
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Two best friends ? one unlucky-in-love divorcee and the other a fun-loving bachelor
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Cellphones’ Location Patterns Show That We Are Predictable Ramblers [Science]
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A study on cellphone location data—made over users calling every two hours on average—says that human moves are predictable 93% of the time. And here I was, thinking that I was better than a bacteria.
The study—published last week in Science magazine—found out that no matter how far humans travel, they almost always do it in a predictable manner. For cellphone users who stayed within an area with a radius of six miles, they could predict their moves with 97% to 93% accuracy. As they increased the radius, the predictability stayed at 93%.
It seems logical, since we are animals that like to adopt certain customs. But while I don’t need cellphone location data to predict that Matt would visit Momofuku Milk Bar every two days, or that I would be eating buttery steak at El Almacen every week, this study could be extremely useful for architects designing urban spaces, engineers creating transportation networks, or—perhaps the most logical—telecommunication companies planning cellphone tower locations and bandwidth capacity. [Science via Ars Technica]
Ask an Expert: How To Watch Porn on Your iPhone [Nsfw]
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Apple’s moral App Store crusade has been devastatingly and alarmingly effective, laying waste to over 5000 apps the company arbitrarily deemed objectionable. So, we asked Lux Alptraum, Editor of Fleshbot (NSFW), what’s left? She calmed our nerves. (With porn.)
What Apple’s been doing was widely characterized as a porn purge, but despite names like “Asian Tits” and “Boobs!”, none of these apps were really porn apps, because they didn’t have those three to five human parts that people seem to like so much. But no matter: If you wanted to find suggestive photos of scantily clad ladies or gents in the App Store two weeks ago, it would have been easy. Today, you’re basically out of luck.
Which brings us to Lux. She edits Giz’s sister hot cousin site Fleshbot, she’s an iPhone user, and she knows the iPhone porn landscape better than anyone else.
So!
The Controversy
Apple’s been cracking down on apps deemed “inappropriate” in the iPhone App Store. Before the purge, though, what was even available? Were there many adult iPhone apps worth downloading?
Well, it depends on how you define adult. There was definitely no nudity, but there were porn-related apps—as in, pornstars and sites had apps of their own, which had softcore promo content.
I know Burning Angel, Suicide Girls, Teagan Presley, Sunny Leone, and a bunch of others all had apps and Pink Visual—which is one of the more tech forward companies—had stuff that got shut down too. (I think theirs was the Cutest Girl app—they sent a press release after the crack down speaking out against it.)
There are also—and I don’t know if these were affected by the crackdown—adult dating apps. The main one that comes to mind is GrindR, for gay men, but there’s also PinpointsX (which I think is still in beta).
Ah! The “there is a willing human sex object X feet from you, right now, and he/she looks like this” apps! I think those are safe. Which is funny, because those will actually get you laid.
Ha, yes! But it’s also weird, because those aren’t safe for children either, and could potentially expose them to much worse than a picture of a girl in a bikini. (Not that I want them banned, because I obviously don’t.)
The Alternatives
Anyway, so, apps are basically no help right now, if you’re looking for naked humans. So what are our options?
The entire internet! It’s actually not as dire as it seems at first. Given that mobile Safari is a relatively robust platform, a wide variety of content is pretty easily available on the iPhone. Anything that’s picture based will work just fine.
The main issue comes with Flash—a lot of video sites are Flash-based. However, most sites worth their salt have iPhone compatible versions that deal with that. Because they’re well aware that their consumers have a reason to want mobile porn.
Yeah, that’s the question everyone always has-where are the iPhone-optimized versions of the various “tubes,” or rather, which are the best?
I’m kinda loathe to promote the tubes, just because of the piracy (ed note: fair point! Pirating porn is no different than pirating a studio film, even if it’s easier) but PornHub seems to have the best mobile interface. I was kinda shocked to see that XTube—the most amateur-heavy tube site—has a mobile site that’s just Brazzers mobile. You can’t get Xtube on your iPhone, basically—it just takes you to a pay site, which is bizarre.
Here’s a list of the free stuff to get you started (NSFW!!!):
• Pornhub
• iPhonePornGrid
• Xshare
• Spankwire
• iFap.to
So what about that legit content—the pay sites?
Pink Visual seems to have put the most thought into mobile stuff.
they have ipinkvisualpass.com as their dedicated iPhone site
and I know they’ve done iPhone adult games, like iTouchHer
Here’s a list of the best paid stuff to get you started (NSFW!!!):
•iPinkVisual
• DigitalPlayground
• Brazzers
• Bangbros
Now, most pay sites throw you some preview material, right? So you know what you’re getting into?
Generally, yes. But it’s more limited on the mobile front for obvious reasons.
I ask because I think people generally assume the mobile porn experience isn’t a great one. But in a way, it’s kind of the best one—I mean, your iPhone is with you at all times.
It’s one handed! And super private.
And that! I’m glad you said that one. Thanks, Lux!
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So to sum things up, the Great App Purge of The Last Few Days is bizarre and annoying, but the best porn app of all is already installed on every iPhone in existence, and was designed by Apple. Enjoy!
Casttoo X-Ray Cast Wraps Replace Pity with Awe [X-rays]
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I’ve never had the pleasure of breaking a bone, but if I did, you can bet I’d be wearing a Casttoo to share my innermost threshold for pain with the world.
Casttoos are customizable cast decals. You email in the image of your choice—yes, X-rays work great, though a shattered Terminator endoskeleton might be a valid secondary option—and they’ll mail you out a decal that can be affixed via hairdryer. Prices range anywhere from $20-$40, but hopefully, if you’re on decent pain meds at the time, you’ll have no issues shrugging off the small purchase. [Castoos via bookofjoe via DVICE]