Second only to the pain of your bare foot finding a tiny piece of Lego, is stepping onto an abandoned rawhide bone. It’s a harsh reminder that your dog has no interest in cleaning up after itself, but with this treat-dispensing toy box, that doesn’t have to be the case.
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Worried that Earth may soon suffer from overpopulation and irreversible environmental damage? Worry not, my fellow passengers of Spaceship Earth! In the future, we’ll just hop on our space-faring Mayflowers to go find habitable planets. At least that was the promise of this Sunday comic strip from 1959.
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A few weeks back Apple released iOS 7.1, the biggest update for iOS 7.0 ever since it was launched late last year. The update brought fixes for many bugs, apart from visual enhancements and new features. It seems that Apple wasn’t able to quash all bugs in this update. A new bug has been discovered in iOS 7.1 which lets anyone hide native apps on the Home screen in plain sight.
iOS 7.1 Bug Lets You Hide Native Apps In Plain Sight original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Mark Zuckerberg’s $2 billion buyout of Oculus Rift
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Supposing you’ve been frustrated in the past with Google I/O and the registration process which always leaves developers wanting without a quick trigger-finger, today may make you happy. Google has … Continue reading
Windows XP is without a doubt one of the most popular operating system iteration that Microsoft has ever created. It powered hundreds of millions of computers around the world, and despite being more than a decade old, is still in use by a vast majority. As iconic as the OS itself is its wallpaper, with its rolling green hills and blue sky, its one of the most easily recognizable images in the world. The photographer who took this picture, Charles O’Rear, wishes that he could have negotiated a better deal with Microsoft had he known just how popular his photograph would become.
Windows XP Wallpaper Photographer Wishes Negotiating A Better Deal With Microsoft original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Remember the day Microsoft announced its new Surface tablets? Sure you do: there was all the usual pomp and circumstance, and even that keyboard cover that turned the Surface 2 into a portable DJ booth. One thing that may have flown under your radar,…
This is the creepiest thing I’ve seen in a long time. This life-sized animatronic doll will do a dance just for you. A creepy dance that leaves you feeling bad and sad and creeped out.
When I first saw this I was like, oh cool. A sexy robot doing a dance. Should be cool. Nope. Not cool at all. From the neck down it all looks good, but then you see that weird lizard-like face and watch it dance, you are sorry that you are sharing the same planet with it and want to kill it with fire. And its gaze follows you.
Jordan Wolfson’s imagination brought this animatronic figure to life. He had some help from his friends at Spectral Motion. The piece is currently being exhibited at David Zwirner Gallery in New York, where I will never ever go now. It incorporates facial recognition technology, allowing her to focus on, and follow visitors at the exhibition until they shiver and run away crying.
[via Metafilter via io9]
This one goes out to all the city cyclists who have pulled up to the bottom of a steep-ass hill with three words echoing through their head: Oh. Hell. No. The Norwegian city of Trondheim built a special bike-lift that gives folks with wheels a free ride, no pedaling required.
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Facebook decision to acquire Oculus hasn’t been well received, at least by the people who provided the initial funding for this company through Kickstarter. It initially raised $2.5 million by seeking contributions from anyone and everyone, and confirmed yesterday that Facebook is picking it up for $2 billion. The New York Times ran a report yesterday citing a source which claimed that post acquisition, Facebook is going to rebrand Oculus with its logo and interface. If that would have been true, it would be akin to sprinkling salt on the wounds of all those who’re opposed to this acquisition.
Facebook Won’t Rebrand Oculus With Its Logo And Interface original content from Ubergizmo. 
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