It would appear that the pipe dreams of a USA-based launch of Xiaomi’s next product were just that. Today Xiaomi released an invitation/teaser one-sheet for an event that’ll take place next Tuesday, December 9th. This invite suggests that we’ll see something fabulous, or at least fabulously strange: “The air is not enough, the water is not enough, no matter how … Continue reading
In the wake of Apple’s iCloud security issues, CEO Tim Cook released a statement that said, in part, “when an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product.” In an interview with Time magazine, Facebook’s boss, Mark Zuckerberg, has a retort for that. With Facebook ramping up their own ad network, Zuck has taken offense to Cook’s … Continue reading
Those who have an iPhone 6 or 6 Plus can’t put them down, it seems. The latest web traffic statistics for mobile devices are in, and it shows iOS users have distanced themselves from Android a bit further. An impressive 61.4% of mobile web traffic is from iOS devices, up from 60.6% since the launch of the iPhone 6. Android … Continue reading
Outrage by proxy, maybe? A plaintiff in the Apple DRM lawsuit was withdrawn by their attorney today after it was discovered neither of the two plaintiffs named in the suit actually had an iPod that deleted music. As we noted previously, the Judge in the case, Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, was “concerned” about the lack of a true plaintiff. In one … Continue reading
Need to sleep outside somewhere that you could literally freeze to death in under an hour? Turns out they make sleeping bags designed to make that not just possible, but even comfortable. Here’s what they feel like.
Thefts involving smartphones are on the rise according to a new FCC study. In 2013, 3.1 million Americans had their smartphones stolen. That was up from 1.6 million thefts in 2012.
Some retailers believe that it’s important to make their stores easy to find. They’ll even pay a premium for space in popular malls or streets with lots of foot traffic. Sony is taking a different approach with its Xperia Aquatech Store, one that definitely does not value convenience and spits on the concept of foot traffic. For one thing, it’s underwater. For another, you have to scuba to get there. On top of that, you have to be invited.
In the spirit of making problems go away, sometimes you want to just launch a particular person/problem into the sun. So—could you? And just how big would the canon need to be?
Anyone who takes cooking semi-seriously should have at least a great chef’s or santoku knife, and a great paring knife. Today at Bloomingdales, you can get both from Shun, plus a knife block and honing steel for $225. The Shun Premier chef’s knife was one of your five favorites, and it’s certainly the most visually striking of the bunch. The santoku included in this set is virtually identical to that knife, only 1″ shorter. Buying the knives separately would cost nearly $300, so this price really is finely chopped.
If you’ve tweeted in the past 3.5 years, you’re probably on this map. A data artist named Eric Fischer has spent the past few years on the seemingly Sisyphean task of tracking every single geotagged tweet, and he recently posted the final product: A lovely light map of 6.3 billion tweets.
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