10 Android icon packs you need to download now
So you’ve gotten into customizing your phone or tablet a bit and now you want to tweak a bit more. One of the easiest ways to change your existing look is to install a new launcher. Once you do that, it’s a breeze to swap icons packs in and out. Prefer a minimal look with…
Potluck’s new iPhone app encourages you to chat about the daily news
The world needs more social networks like it needs more politicians. Then again, we’ve got some time for Potluck, if only because the service is financially backed by Ev Williams and Biz Stone — two guys who have form when it comes to spotting a …
Virgin Galactic now accepting Bitcoin for future flights into space
As the value and credibility of Bitcoin continues to skyrocket, Virgin founder Richard Branson now wants to let people use the digital currency to finance a flight into space. Ahead of its first trips next year, Virgin Galactic has already had one…
Motorola inks deal with 3D Systems to build its modular ‘Ara’ smartphones
When Motorola threw its weight behind Phonebloks’ modular smartphone concept, it pretty much signaled to the rest of the industry that the Google company was dead serious about customization. But that radical vision of a completely upgradeable han…
Solidoodle 4 keeps 3D printing under $1,000 (video)
Sam Cervantes didn’t stand on his new printer when he brought it by our offices the other day. He thought about jt for second, a nice reprise of the day he introduced us to its predecessor late last year, but, well, he’d only just pulled that firs…
Jony Ive and Designer Marc Newson Interviewed on Charlie Rose Show
Following a discussion about the duo’s design vision and obsession with perfection in a Vanity Fair article last month, Apple’s senior vice president of design Jonathan Ive and industrial designer Marc Newson appeared on the Charlie Rose show last night, with airings of the interview…
New Apex Launcher Beta Brings KitKat Style
A good launcher can often be one of the best pieces of customization on our mobile devices. The newly released KitKat Google Experience Launcher makes your home screens beautiful, with various effects and animations. Unfortunately, it lacks some of the functionality and customization seen in …
Roadie tunes your guitar for you, tells you when your strings are about to break (hands-on)
Unless you’ve traded your guitar strings for an axe-shaped MIDI controller, tuning your guitar is probably one of those chores you’ve just learned to deal with. It’s hardly the bane of any guitarist’s existence, but sometimes it seems like there c…
Amazon could let Londoners pick up their packages from Tube stations
London’s Tube network is about to face some major changes that will not only affect its staff and passengers, but also — perhaps — Amazon shoppers. Plans are already afoot to shut down manned ticket offices across the Underground by 2015, in ord…
Deezer’s finally taking its music streaming service to the US in 2014
With 5 million paid subscribers in 180 countries, Deezer is such a ubiquitous presence that it’s easy to forget it’s not yet available in the US. That’s about to change, though, as the France-based online music service has told Le Figaro that it’d…
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