Adamantite! Rearden Metal! Uru! Durasteel! Dalekanium! Unobtanium! Thousands of fictional characters have fought and died for these equally fictional super-materials. So what is the real-life strongest substance on our puny, sun-warmed planet? More »
If you’re the type who likes to regale your guests with silly viral video clips on the big screen in the living room — and who doesn’t? — this next item is for you. Vimeo has just launched its “couch mode” full-screen viewing mode. Like YouTube’s Leanback mode, it features a simplified UI with just the options you’d want while couch-surfing: in this case a More Info screen toggle and a Watch Later queue. Less clutter means more time to watch eight year old rappers and bad local comedians. Sounds like a winner to us! Currently only available to Chrome and Safari users, with support for other browsers on its way. Get a closer look at the info screen after the break.
Considering that you’re an avid viewer of The Ben Heck Show, we’re assuming this is old news to you and yours. On the off-chance that you missed the last episode, we’re here to rope you back into reality. Embedded past the break is a video filled with love, laughter and legitimate instructions on building your very own Portal t-shirt. According to Benjamin, the system consists of a front-mounted LCD, pocket-mounted battery pack and rear-mounted camera, and naturally, it’s being released just prior to Halloween. You now know exactly what you have to do.
This is the view from the last drops of your water bottle. And here are 44 more brilliantly conceptualized photos from this week’s Shooting Challenge: More »
Antoine Dodson is helping to promote the Sex Offender Tracker app.
(Credit: BeenVerified)
Jay, Josh, and Danny from BeenVerified are back in The 404 studio to show off their brand new sex offender locator app for the Android and iPhone! For some reason, it keeps going off during the show…
BeenVerified is an online service that makes it easy to do quick, thorough background checks on people, and it’s a lot easier than simply Googling someone’s name. The instant search not only gives public access to legal databases for criminal records and phone numbers; it’s also an excellent source for monitoring sex offenders in your neighborhood.
Their latest Sex Offender Tracker App uses augmented reality to display graphical overlays on your phone that help you locate registered sex offenders in your area, and can you believe it? They got ANTOINE DODSON to be their spokesperson in the commercial!
Keep listening if you’re unaware of Mr. Dodson, but with a successful single that has gotten 35,000 YouTube hits so far and his own Halloween costume, you should really know this guy already.
The Sex Offender Tracker app is available for the iPhone and Android for $1.99, and 5 percent of all proceeds will be donated to the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (Rainn), an anti-sexual-assault organization.
The guys stick around after the break for the following batch of video voicemails:
We’re taking our time with the new MacBook Airs, trying to find out if you can really count on these wonder wedges to serve as your main machine. But some early benchmarks are already out, and here’s how they look: More »
Been holding off on an iPad until you could put just the right two-line message on the back of it? Well, today’s your day, as Apple is now finally offering free engraving for both the 3G and WiFi models just as it does with iPods — and conveniently just in time for the holidays. That will change the shipping time from 24 hours to one to three business days, however, so make that message count.
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