Jun 01
Will and Jaden Smith may want to pick up some new Cartier before they take a look at this week’s box office numbers. It might help to ease the pain.
Jun 01
Two months after giving birth to baby girl Lincoln, Kristen Bell went on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” to talk about her bundle of joy and her other big love: sloths.
In the episode that will air Monday (June 3), Ellen asks Kristen what motherhood is like. “It’s actually better than I expected,” admits the 32-year-old actress. “It’s pretty wonderful, yeah. It’s a lot of fun.”
“Better than a sloth?” asks Ellen, jokingly.
Jun 01
It seems the long road to full equality in “The Prairie State” will continue to wind on, at least for now, as marriage equality supporters look ahead to both the veto session in the house and the current marriage lawsuit making its way through the Illinois court system brought by Lambda Legal and the ACLU.
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Jun 01
Mookie Blaylock, Former NBA Star, Upgraded To Serious Condition After Car Crash That Killed Woman
Posted in: Today's ChiliATLANTA — Former NBA All-Star guard Daron “Mookie” Blaylock has been upgraded to serious condition a day after his SUV crashed head-on into a van and killed a woman.
Atlanta Medical Center spokeswoman Nicole Gustin said Saturday that the 46-year-old Blaylock had been upgraded to serious condition. On Friday, the hospital listed Blaylock in critical condition, and police said the former Atlanta Hawks player had been placed on life support for a short time.
Jun 01
US Cellular’s been promising a WP8 handset for quite some time now, and it looks like the company’s about to deliver exactly that. As you might recall, US Cellular’s last Windows Phone offering was the entry-level ZTE Render which ran WP7.5 (Tango). We recently obtained promo materials for an ATIV Odyssey with US Cellular branding. This mid-range Samsung device, which is currently available on Verizon, packs a 4-inch WVGA Super AMOLED display, 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of built-in storage (with microSD expansion), LTE and NFC support, plus a five-megapixel autofocus camera with flash. While none of this is official (yet), we fully expect US Cellular to make a proper announcement real soon now. Until then, check out the gallery below for some of the aforementioned promo material.
[Thanks, anonymous tipster]
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Samsung, Microsoft
Jun 01
Wow. This is a real sport. Extreme Barbie Jeep Racing is basically off-roading, but without the huge heavily modified and super horsepower 4x4s. Instead you use cheap, fast, toy plastic cars that grown men barely fit in, and remove the speed limiters. Sounds awesome.
From what I can gather from the info available, you drink a bunch of moonshine, slap each other on the back a few times, crank up the country music and then push each other down the hill in one of these kid’s cars.
I guess I would be game for that. Just don’t try to feed me any roadkill or anything. And the minute I hear banjo music, I’m out!
[via Jalopnik]
Jun 01
Satechi 7-Port USB 3.0 Aluminum Hub
Posted in: Today's Chili
Throughout my relatively short life, there is one lesson that I have learnt – never argue with a lady whenever she is mulling over whether to pick up that particular pair of shoes or handbag, never mind that she already has umpteenth pair of shoes and countless handbags back home. Assuming you are a geek, you might want to take your “revenge”, so to speak, in a more subtle manner by telling here that when it comes to gadgets, there are just certain items on your list that you will never compromise in not purchasing those – and one of them would definitely be a USB hub. After all, you can never have enough USB ports lying around to plug in your ever growing collection of USB-powered devices, so you might as well get the best USB hub possible at that particular point in time, no? Enter the Satechi 7-Port USB 3.0 Aluminum Hub that would certainly not look out of place in any home or office.
One thing of note though – Apple users would seem to be more suited for the Satechi 7-Port USB 3.0 Aluminum Hub, since it has the kind of external looks that are ideal for the Mac and MacBook. Boasting a sleek, compact design and additional connectivity for multiple USB-based devices that will include (but are not limited to) flash drives, printers, digital cameras, and external hard drives among others, the Satechi 7-Port USB 3.0 Aluminum Hub sports a slim, strip shape design which takes up as little room as possible on your desk, and the way it is laid out makes life a cinch when you want to plug in or remove devices in a jiffy.
Do bear in mind that the plug and play 7-Port USB 3.0 Aluminum Hub would be accompanied by its own power supply, where that would deliver speedy data rates of up to 5Gbps, which is 10 times faster compared to USB 2.0, making it a snap to transfer photos, music, and HD movies. If you are interested, the Satechi 7-Port USB 3.0 Aluminum Hub will come in a white or black trim where it will be sold for an introductory price of $54.99.
[ Satechi 7-Port USB 3.0 Aluminum Hub copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
Jun 01
There are a lot of drive-through places, but not many cater to cyclists. Sure, you can still go through the drive through on your bike, but it’s not the best experience in the world to be treated to the exhaust of other vehicles waiting in line – and some places expressly disallow bicyclists at their drive-throughs.
With the goal of providing cyclists with a better coffee experience when they’re on the go, urban authorities in Zurich teamed up with a team of designers to set up the Velokafi.
The Velokafi is essentially a bike-through coffee drive-in that is dedicated to serving cyclists. The highlight is perhaps the wooden tables with slits for the bike wheel that lets people have their coffee without getting off of their bike. To compensate cyclists for getting the word out about the coffee shop, baristas hand out free cups of coffee to cyclists who check in to Velokafi on sites like Facebook and Foursquare.
The Velokafi is part of Zurich’s strategy to improve their transportation infrastructure by 2025. Looks like things are going pretty well so far.
[via Pop Up City]
Jun 01
What are some of the modern day innovations that you think will stand the test of time? The car is definitely one of them, as we all know that it is rather difficult to get around without any form of wheels. I would like to think that when it comes to mobile devices, the smartphone would also eventually end up to be an indispensable tool of everyday life. Well, if that were to be the case, you might want to be at the forefront of the action with the introduction of SETA, a smartphone stand that was specially designed to be the “last stand” that you will ever need. It was manufactured to perform a whole lot better compared to other traditional phone stands or docks, as SETA will suspend smartphones at what is deemed to be the perfect viewing angle regardless of where you place it – on the desk, nightstand, counter, or other smooth surfaces.
The thing is, the SETA smartphone stand might not even make it out of the gate, considering how this is still a Kickstarter project as you read this. Pledges for the SETA smartphone stand would start from $10 onwards, depending on how much faith you have in it. Just how high is the compatibility rate of the SETA smartphone dock? Well, the folks behind it claim that it has a 100% record, since it can hold just about every smartphone and accommodate all charging cables to date, so we guess it is future forward unless some other hardware manufacturer decides to take a different route with their chargers later on.
Other than that, there is also the patent pending T-Channel cord holder, in addition to a NanoSuction technology that has been incorporated into SETA, where it will synthetically emulate the adhesive qualities of gecko feet, which means your smartphone will be able to magically cling to the NanoSuction SETA pad, as the base pad secures SETA to most flat, non-porous surfaces without leaving a sticky residue behind.
Kickstarter Page
[ SETA smartphone stand could be the only one you will ever need copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
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