Stop for a second and take a look at the fingernail on your baby finger. That’s roughly the size of a microSD card that can now hold a whopping 200GB of data thanks to SanDisk. Remember when USB flash drives with a full gigabyte of storage were mind-blowing? We were so foolish back then. Read more…
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SanDisk Squeezes 200GB Into a Tiny microSD Card
Milled aluminum. All-day battery life. Intel Core i5 and i7 processors. A bitchin’ keyboard, and a large, clickable trackpad with excellent multitouch response. If you didn’t know any better, you’d think I was describing a MacBook Air . I’m not—I’m talking HP’s Spectre x360, a gorgeous premium convertible PC that starts at just $900. Read more…
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HP’s Spectre x360 Might Be The Best Transforming Laptop I’ve Ever Seen
Concrete is an amazing building material: cheap to create, strong when used correctly, and hard-wearing, too. But turning it into exotic and shapely forms can be prohibitively complex and expensive. Now, a 3D printer capable of producing one-off moulds as large as a phone booth could help turn architectural dreamw into affordable reality. Read more…
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A Room-Sized 3D Printer Will Make Freeform Concrete Design Easy
You would need a microscope to be able to see all of the miniature components etched onto the single tiny microchip powering the clock in a digital watch. But you can see them all with the naked eye on artist Gislain Benoit’s The Clock , which is made from 1, 916 hand-soldered components that end up weighing a hefty 14 pounds. Read more…
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Some Very Patient Genius Soldered a Digital Clock From 1,916 Components
If you don’t have your Windows 7 disc handy—but want to create a custom installation , run Windows from a USB drive , or just do a fresh install —you’ll need an ISO file of the disc. You used to be able to download them from Digital River’s servers , but those links no longer work. Now, Microsoft has a Software Recovery Center where you can download those ISOs for free. Read more…
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Microsoft Now Lets You Download Windows 7 ISOs with a Valid License
Security consultant Mark Burnett has just published 10 million passwords along with their corresponding usernames. It’s a thoughtful offering to other researchers—but a legally risky move given the current legal situation surrounding hacking. Read more…
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A Researcher Just Published 10 Million Real Passwords and Usernames
The Wall Street Journal reports Netflix and Nintendo are in the early stages of producing a live-action series based on The Legend of Zelda . Read more…
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Report: Netflix Making Legend of Zelda TV Series
Scientists have a promising if slightly grisly treatment for wounds: skin from human cadavers stripped of everything but its cells. Sound weird? Let me explain. Read more…
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Skin From Human Cadavers Helps Wounds Heal Better
After the hoverboard, there are few sci-fi inventions more worked-on than Star Trek’s tricorder. Portable, simple diagnostic machines have been promised for years — there’s even a $7 million prize for building one — but most designs are still years away from reality. Read more…
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A Smartphone Dongle That Will Tell You If You’ve Got STDs
BlackBerry is trying to destroy the best thing it ever made. Not the line of hardware keyboard phones, or the less-relevant-than-ever BBM service. I’m talking about the music video. That mind-blowingly earnest and inexplicable REO Speedwagon cover about BlackBerry 10 . It’s gone now. What the fuck, BlackBerry? Read more…
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BlackBerry Just Killed the Greatest Thing It Ever Made