Feb 05

D&D Mind Flayer Trophy Head Plaque Slices Wallets

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If you ever played Dungeons & Dragons and came up against an Illithid or the feared Mind Flayer, you know what difficulty lies in defeating the beast. You don’t have to roll a 20-sided die to capture this Mind Flayer and mount its head to your wall. All you need is a wallet with about 400 singles inside.

This Mind Flayer trophy head is made of foam rubber and hand-painted latex, and looks like something a hunter would hang on their wall. It’s gigantic at 25″ tall x 20″ deep x 20″ wide. You’ll need a suitably large wall to hang it on, and it will decorate thine dungeon (or basement) in creepy and cool style.

You can get your hands on the D&D Mind Flayer trophy head from Amazon for about $402.

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Feb 05

Casper announces the Glow — a portable, sleep-friendly light

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Over the past few years, mattress company Casper has expanded its product lineup to include everything from dog beds to nap pillows. (It’s also opened its own nap store.) The latest addition: the Glow, an $89 light.

While the company has never made this kind of internet-connected hardware before, Chief Strategy Officer Neil Parikh pitched the Glow as part of Casper’s mission to improve sleep. And although there’s already whole categories of sleep-friendly light bulbs and smart lamps, the Glow has a couple of smart touches that could make it particularly appealing.

The basic use of the Glow is pretty straightforward. You turn it on by flipping it over, and it fills your room with warm LED light. The light then dims to darkness over a 45-minute period — as Chief Product Officer Jeff Chapin put it, it’s “mimicking the setting of the sun and it helps you get sleepier as it dims into lower and lower amplitudes.”

You can control and customize the Glow with a smartphone app, but Chapin said, “There are some people who are never going to download the app and that’s fine.” That’s because the Glow can also be controlled by gesture — flipping it to turn it on and off again, twisting it (when it’s set on a flat surface) to adjust the brightness and wiggling it to get a low light.

Glow charging stand

The Glow is also portable, so if you wake up in the middle of the night and need to get a glass of water or use the restroom, you can just pick it up and carry it with you, rather than turning on a bright kitchen light. You can also set a wake-up time so that the Glow gradually lights up again.

“We’ve leveraged the good and the bad of light so that it would help you fall asleep, stay asleep and go back to sleep into the night,” Chapin said.

In fact, if you’re a frequent traveler who struggles with jet lag, you can even “freeze” the settings, pack the Glow in your suitcase and take it with you to your destination, though Chapin admitted, “We don’t know how many people are going to do that.”

In addition to buying a single Glow for $89, you can also get a two-pack for $169. The light comes with a small base for wireless charging.

The Casper team sent me a couple of Glows to try out for myself. I wasn’t able to download the app, but the Glow was indeed largely controllable by gesture. (My only real complaint is that the wiggle-for-dim-light only worked sporadically for me.)

Keep in mind that I didn’t have a particularly sophisticated or sleep-friendly lighting setup before this, and that it’s hard to know how I would have slept on any given night without the Glow. Still, I can say that I found myself getting sleepier as the light dimmed, and I seemed to pass out more quickly and reliably than normal. And since the Glow is pretty small (five inches tall and three inches wide), it was easy to find room for it in my cluttered bedroom, and to carry it around when necessary.

It sounds like Casper has plans for more products that go beyond bedding, addressing broader environmental factors that affect sleep.

“You can expect a lot more from us in the same vein, trying to help people [sleep] across the board, in a multivariate way,” Parikh said. “It’s a very complicated problem.”

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Feb 05

How to Watch President Trump's State of the Union Speech on YouTube, Facebook, and Amazon Fire TV

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After a couple of false starts, President Donald Trump is scheduled to give the State of the Union address to Congress tonight at 9pm Eastern, 6pm Pacific, 5am Moscow time. And there are plenty of ways for cordcutters to watch the speech this year on YouTube, Facebook, and TV-connected devices like Roku and Fire TV.

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Feb 05

The National Parks ‘font’ has finally been digitized

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Fonts are as synonymous with a brand as a logo, and these days every kind of company and organization (and some cities) have a design they call their own. Even America’s National Parks have their own distinct lettering, found on wooden signs througho…

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Feb 05

CloviFi transmitter helps free you from cables

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We are slowly but surely moving away from different forms of wired devices, from our smartphones that are now able to charge up wirelessly all the way to transmitting video and audio signals sans cables. CloviTek Inc.’s latest wireless device that will hit the market would be the CloviFi transmitter. The CloviFi is a dedicated wireless device that was specially developed in order for it to transmit TV audio to smart devices, where this tiny, rounded black box boasts of a modern and sleek design that ought not to have any issue at all blending in with different background decor and surroundings.

With the CloviFi transmitter, you will be able to enjoy numerous ways to hook up to your audio sources via various inputs. Using it is extremely simple: for instance, you can attach the CloviFi box to your TV or even opt to place it behind the TV on the same shelf or platform. With a single CloviFi transmitter, you can then connect different number of Android or iOS users that are living under the same roof, or in a business environment at the office, or even other public establishments where people often look for a Wi-Fi signal, such as lounges, hospitals, the gym, or your favorite watering hole. Those who are connected via the CloviFi transmitter can then make use of their personal headphones and a free mobile app in order to stream whatever strikes their fancy.

The CloviFi transmitter will conform to the Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g/n standard, where it features a S/PDIF coax (RCA) audio digital input, a 3.5mm jack, a single USB 2.0 port, delivering a maximum sampling rate of 48 kHz in 16-bit stereo. There are just two indicators for a quick visual reference: power and status, and the CloviFi transmitter will be powered via a microUSB cable. It can be purchased for $139 apiece for those who would like to have yet another wireless option around.

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Feb 05

Project xCloud eyes native console games on mobile via Azure cloud

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Even while it is having not so small issues with Windows 10 updates, Microsoft seems to already be turning its gaze towards a new ambitious venture on the gaming side of its businesses. Perhaps emboldened by how its Xbox gaming and entertainment arm has been its most profitable last year, Microsoft is trying to expand its territory in ways it … Continue reading

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Feb 05

As Long as Mark Zuckerberg Thinks Facebook Is the Internet, He'll Never Be Sorry

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Happy Zuckerversary! Facebook officially turned 15-years-old on Monday, and its founder has blessed us with yet another blog post explaining how he sees his own creation in its terrible teens. After all this time, Mark Zuckerberg still either can’t or won’t accept that he runs a platform, not the internet.

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Feb 05

NBC Sports and Rory McIlroy launch a streaming service for golf nuts

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NBC Sports and four-time major champ Rory McIlroy have unveiled GolfPass, a streaming service for golfers. It will include 4,000 instruction videos, archived tournaments and even a free round of golf, all for $10 per month or $99 per year. The networ…

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Feb 05

Samsung Teaser Video Might Have Given Us A Glimpse At Their Foldable Phone

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When Samsung unveiled their foldable smartphone last year, we have to say that we were a little disappointed because what they showed on stage simply wasn’t much to go on. However it seems that Samsung themselves might have give us a glimpse in a now deleted video uploaded by Samsung Vietnam.

In the video (it has been reuploaded), it basically shows some of the futuristic devices and concepts that Samsung has been working on. It shows a variety of products, like a smart window that shows animations and the weather, a smart wardrobe that can take measurements, a tattoo machine that the tattoo artist can guide remotely, and most interestingly of all, a foldable smartphone.

It shows up for a brief couple of seconds, but it does seem to be in line with what Samsung unveiled at SDC 2018 last year. It shows a device that folds in half like a pamphlet, which when unfolded becomes the size of a tablet. It also shows how this device can have a display on the inside and on the outside, which might be a bit overkill, but who are we to judge?

Samsung is hosting an event later this month on the 20th of February where the Galaxy S10 is expected to be announced. However the company has been posting teaser ads in some countries that hints that the foldable phone could be unveiled in full then as well, so check back with us in the coming weeks for the details.

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Feb 05

Seth Meyers To Gov. Ralph Northam: ‘You Can’t Moonwalk Your Way Out Of This One’

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“He’s … arguing that it couldn’t have been him in blackface because there was a different time he wore blackface.”

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