Jun 06
Watch: Cate Blanchett And Sarah Paulson Absolutely Lose It During Live Interview
Posted in: Today's ChiliIn case you needed another reason to go see “Ocean’s 8.”
Jun 06
Come for the one-liner, stay for Mandy Patinkin’s fatherly advice to the pop star.
Jun 06
“That funeral would be a straight party.”
Jun 06
I’d wager just about everyone has played with a Hot Wheels car at some point in their life. I know I played with lots of them as a kid, and my son loved them when he was small. We built more tracks than I can count, and I always wondered what going through the tracks in a car would be like. Hot Wheels has a new car called Zoom In that will let you enjoy your tracks from a whole new perspective.
The Zoom In is a rolling mount for your GoPro Session camera. Simply clip your camera into the cradle, and then you can flick it down the track. The first thing that came to mind was whether the top-heavy GoPro would make it hard to get the car to make it through the track, but Hot Wheels says that the camera car will go through the loops, curves, and jumps just fine thanks to a flip-up mounting bracket that maintains a low center of gravity when locked in place.
You can check out some sample footage of the Hot Wheels Zoom In mount in the video below. It looks pretty awesome:
Best of all, the Zoom In will retail for just $1.09 – the same price as other basic Hot Wheels cars. Of course, the Go Pro Session is not included, which will set you back $120 or more, depending on the version you go for.
[via Autoblog]
Jun 06
Anker, a battery maker turned accessory house, recently releases the $39 Spirit X earbuds under their Soundcore brand. Aimed at runners and other heavy sweaters, the earbuds are completely waterproof under the IPX7 rating, a classification that means it can stand up to 1 meter of submersion.
What this means is that you get a surprisingly cheap and rugged set of work-out earbuds that you’re not afraid to get a little dirty.
I tested a pair and found them quite nice for running. The rubber ear hooks kept them in place and the sound quality was not horrible, especially compared to my previous pair of Philips corded headphones. The sound quality, while a bit muffled, is what you’d expect from a standard pair of sports headphones and the rubber earbuds stayed in place quite nicely. The company claims that the headphones have a 12 hour battery life which is about right – I used them for a few days and saw little change in the battery level.
A small flap on the bottom of the control bar hides a micro USB port for charging and there are three buttons – volume up, track advance, and volume down. There are no voice prompts but there is a built-in microphone for calls.
These are not swimming headphones. The IPX7 rating means they’ll stand up to sweat and rain but not a few dozen laps in the pool. A aqua-phobic nano-coating keeps the drops out of the inside of the headphones and should let you keep trucking long after other headphones have rusted out.
Long thought of as a bargain Amazon brand, Anker is expanding its reach and understanding of the market. By building inexpensive gear for those who don’t mind a slight trade-off in audio quality they’ve hit an interesting spot in the headphone market. While this won’t beat your high-end over-ear headphones with all the trimmings, sometimes a $40 pair of daily wear earbuds is all you need.
Jun 06
Valve’s announcement that it would be bringing Steam Link to mobile device is one that garnered a lot of attention and excitement. The Android release of Steam Link went off seemingly without a hitch, but it was a different story on iOS. As it turns out, Apple didn’t take too kindly to the idea of Steam Link on iOS, and … Continue reading
Jun 06
The best drone is the one you have with you, Parrot says, hence its new foldable Anafi drone being so darn compact. Don’t confuse small size with a shortage of capabilities, mind. With 4K HDR video recording, some new automatic shooting modes that want to make you the next Alfred Hitchcock, and 25 minutes of flight time, there’s plenty to … Continue reading
Jun 06
Outside of horror movies, music boxes are pretty cool, but their big flaw is that they can only play a few bars of one song. This inflexibility wasn’t so much of an issue a century ago, but in the era of Spotify, it’s not great. That’s why Taiwanese…
Jun 06
While the Larry Page-backed Kitty Hawk didn’t make its goal to sell a flying car by the end of 2017, its newest model is more polished than the octocopter ATV prototype it debuted last April. While the Flyer, as it’s still called, remains a single-se…
Jun 06
Most of the time, we barely notice the lamp posts, bollards and road signs around us. They’re street clutter that barely registers in our brain as we go about our busy lives. But Oddviz, an art and design collective from Istanbul, looks at them diffe…
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