A childhood spent building everything from castles, to spaceships, to monsters is all one really needs to remind themselves why Lego is the ultimate toy for everyone from toddlers to seniors. But check out the trailer for Beyond the Brick: A Lego Brickumentary for even more reasons to love all those colorful plastic pieces.
In late October of 1971 a group of academics and technologists gathered at a conference at Georgetown. They were given the task of devising the most comprehensive (yet invisible) surveillance program imaginable. What they came up with sounds an awful lot like our current debit card system.
Love it or hate it, HTC changed their camera hardware for the One M9. In getting away from their Ultrapixel shooter they touted so much with the One M8, HTC also had to change up the camera software — then fix it. Now, we’re getting a new feature for the One M9 camera; the ability to save and send pictures … Continue reading
This morning we’ve gotten word from an anonymous source that the Surface Pro 4 will be revealed at a special Microsoft event in mid-May. This follows with last year’s announcement of the Surface Pro 3, having taken place on May 20th, 2014. When we got our first Surface Pro 3 hands-on back then, the device seemed like the bees knees … Continue reading
You might be interested in buying an Apple Watch (unless you already have). Once you strap that thing on your wrist, you’ll undoubtedly — at some point — wonder how much it costs to make. You spent upwards of $350, but what did Apple spend on parts and such? Curiosity gets the best of us from time to time, and … Continue reading
Unless you live in California, it’s not that often that you make an effort to specifically check the traffic conditions for your morning commute. That’s probably because you’ll be spending a big chunk of your time with your face buried in Twitter ins…
I was torn this past winter. I knew the Galaxy S6 was imminent and that there’d likely be a model with a curved screen, but I was dying to see what it was like to live with its bigger precursor, the Galaxy Note Edge. Would I feel a twinge of regret w…
The Bruno dumps trash cans into the era of smart appliances. It has a motion sensing lid, it tells you when it’s low on trash bags, and it can remind you when to take out the trash. But it’s smartest feature is the vacuum cleaner hidden at its base. Something tells me your pets won’t like that feature.
The Bruno has sensors that will trigger the vacuum cleaner when you’re sweeping dirt into it and then turn the air pump off when you’re through. The dirt it sucks will supposedly end up in the trash bag, although how exactly that happens isn’t shown in the current product pictures. One can only assume that it sucks it from the bottom to the top and it falls into the top of the bag.
The Bruno can be used with standard 13gal. trash bags, but the low trash bag alert on its app will only work with Bruno-branded trash bags, which fit into the storage pod near the container’s rim. Should you decide to buy the Bruno bags, you’ll be able to order some from within the Bruno app.
The trash can has a retractable cord and a built-in battery that should last up to 30 days per charge, so it doesn’t have to be placed near an outlet most of the time.
Pledge at least $139 (USD) on Kickstarter to get the Bruno smart trash can as a reward.
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Selfies are “in,” as they say which means people constantly have to put up with contraptions like selfie sticks which have received more than their fair share of criticism. Many entertainment venues are not welcoming selfie sticks, they’ve been banned from the year’s hottest music festivals and even Wimbledon will not tolerate them. Fear not, there’s another contraption for your wide-angle selfie needs and its called the selfie arm.
Created by artists Aric Snee and Justin Crowe who say that the idea behind the selfie arm came from his fascination with peoples’ “constant, gnawing need for narcissistic internet validation.”
As the name suggests the selfie arm looks like a human arm that you can hold hands with before snapping that selfie. When you post it on social networks it’ll look like you were with someone and not on your own.
This seems like a good option for people who would like to put up the facade of an active social life whereas the reality is completely on the contrary, they won’t appear lonesome as they snap themselves in flattering light or some place interesting.
Fortunately though the selfie arm won’t be mass produced. The artists are only going to sell a limited batch of ten for $6,200 a pop, that’s because it’s made out of lightweight fiberglass.
It’s very much possible though that a very cheap Chinese selfie arm knock off could make it on the market in the near future.
Who Needs Selfie Sticks When You Can Get A Selfie Arm? , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use. 
It has nearly been four years since HP launched its ill-fated TouchPad tablet. The tablet came at a time when almost every other manufacturer was trying to develop its iPad-killer but almost all of them failed. TouchPad was a monumental failure and HP had to launch a fire sale just to get rid of the units that it had produced. However the tablet found home with a dedicated community that swapped its webOS software for Android. The same community has released an HP TouchPad Android 5.1 Lollipop ROM which works better than you might have expected.
This is surprising because of the fact that the TouchPad’s hardware is over four years old by now, yet it’s quite capable of running this Android 5.1.1 Lollipop ROM.
Based on the Android Open Source Project, the Evervolv ROM for the TouchPad is based on Android 5.1.1. It brings almost everything that you would expect from Lollipop to the tablet.
However since this is a ROM developed by a third-party one has to keep in mind that the installation process can be a bit tricky, particularly if you’re not used to tinkering with custom ROMs for such devices.
All of the instructions have been posted by the developer on the XDA thread, be warned though this process requires quite a lot of tweaking before the TouchPad can run Lollipop.
HP TouchPad Android 5.1 Lollipop ROM Works Just Fine , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use. 
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