Watch a super genius honey badger break out of all kinds of cages

Watch a super genius honey badger break out of all kinds of cages

No matter what you do, you can’t keep this honey badger locked up. It’s a master jail breaker. Lock the gate? It’ll find out how to slide it open. Put it in a deep pit with high walls, it’ll build a rock ramp. Take away the rocks? It’ll use mud or trees to climb out. What a fascinatingly clever little badger. I hope he never stops coming up with crazy plans to free himself.

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EIZO ColorEdge CX241 24.1-Inch LCD Monitor

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EIZO is set to ship their latest LCD monitor in Japan, the ColorEdge CX241. Built for professionals in printing, photography and post production, this 24.1-inch IPS LED-backlit monitor provides 1920 x 1200 native resolution, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 350 cd/m2 brightness, 7.7ms (GTG) response time and 178/178 degree viewing angles. Not only that, the monitor also provides 99% coverage of the Adobe RGB color gamut and comes with a built-in collection sensor for re-adjusting the color mode, and has DVI-I, HDMI and DisplayPort connectors. The ColorEdge CX241 will begin shipping from April 24th for 104,630 Yen (about $1,025). [Product Page]

Gigabyte GV-R523D3-1GL Graphics Card

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CFD Sales Inc. Japan has listed Gigabyte’s latest GV-R523D3-1GL graphics card on their product page. The card will become available from late April for 4,750 Yen (about $46). Powered by an AMD Radeon R5 230 GPU, the card is equipped with a 64-bit memory interface, a core clock of 625MHz and a 1GB of DDR3 memory set @ 1066MHz, and has D-Sub, DVI-D and HDMI outputs. [Product Page]

Most Beautiful Items: April 11 – 18, 2014

Most Beautiful Items: April 11 - 18, 2014

Tiny homes, classic cars, and mesmerizing cityscapes—those, among other wonders, are the treasures we’re working with in this round of the most beautiful items of the week. Check out what we discovered for you below:

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Nike FuelBand and hardware team tipped as terminated

Nike has had a change of heart over its wearables ambitions, it seems, with a report surfacing that the FuelBand fitness tracker’s future development has been nixed. In addition, it … Continue reading

Lost Horizon Introduced The World To Shangri-La

Lost Horizon Introduced The World To Shangri-La

"In these days of wars and rumors of wars—haven’t you ever dreamed of a place where there was peace and security, where living was not a struggle but a lasting delight?" Good question, easy answer: Duh.

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Nike reportedly killing the Fuelband to focus on fitness software

Just days after Nike announced the launch of its Fuel Lab location in San Francisco to enhance partnerships with other digital services for athletes, there’s a report that it’s fired much of the team behind its FuelBand wristwear. CNET reports that,…

Hide your stash, heat-seeking drones are helping thugs hijack UK weed crops

Criminals are dicks. That much we all know is true. But now these dicks are using heat-sensing drones to pull off “sophisticated” heists of weed farms (yes, that weed) in the United Kingdom, as local paper Halesowen News discovered. Consider this…

Report: Nike Is Killing the FuelBand

Report: Nike Is Killing the FuelBand

Nike has fired the majority of the team responsible for its FuelBand fitness tracker according to a report from CNET today, which also claims that the company is jettisoning wearable hardware for good. An anonymous source says that roughly 55 employees were let go from Nike’s Digital Sport hardware team, which covers industrial design and engineering for wearables.

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Gadget Lab Podcast: A Smartphone With a Vaporizer Module

In celebration of 4/20 on Sunday, Mat and Mike spend this week’s show getting high — on technology!