The Amazing and Ridiculous Tech From a 30-Year-Old Sears Catalog

The Amazing and Ridiculous Tech From a 30-Year-Old Sears Catalog

Sears should have morphed into Amazon.

    



Software Hack Lets Feature Phones Jam Calls, Texts Within 75 Miles

Software Hack Lets Feature Phones Jam Calls, Texts Within 75 Miles

There’s something uniquely scary about the idea of your calls being jammed. Good news! It turns out blocking calls and texts to certain phones is pretty easy. Hackers have figured out how to turn a feature phone into a "jammer" with just a few software modifications.

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Who Here Thinks Bigger Phones Are Better?

Who Here Thinks Bigger Phones Are Better?

While it hasn’t been talked about recently, I know a lot of people think the next iPhone needs to be bigger, like the Galaxy S4.

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That’s Not How You Use That: Camouflage Cases

That’s Not How You Use That: Camouflage Cases

Camouflage has many uses. It’s worn by paintball enthusiasts. It’s the preferred fashion of backwoods militias. And of course, it’s used by the military. All of these valid uses, especially for military applications. But wrapping your smartphone (or knife or …

    



What It’s Like to Live Without a Phone

You know, it’s not that you wouldn’t miss having the Internet on your fingertips, text messages constantly flying through the sky and a camera to document every waking moment when you live without a phone. You totally would miss all that. But what would be even more annoying is how life would turn incredibly lonely without a phone because you start to notice how everyone else is so obsessed with theirs. Ban phones. [charstarlaneTV]

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UK Moves to Ban Phones Designed to Fit Up Prisoner Butts

UK Moves to Ban Phones Designed to Fit Up Prisoner Butts

Necessity is the mother of invention, and invention is the father of designing things that you can fit into your butt to sneak them into prison. And so a phone shaped exactly like a small butt plug has come into our world, and the UK government is trying to ban it.

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Your iPhone Could Soon Get Predator-Vision

Your iPhone Could Soon Get Predator-Vision

FLIR, or Forward-Looking Infrared, has long been a staple technology for militaries around the world, allowing operations under the cover of night without the blinding shortcomings of conventional night vision goggles. And slowly but surely, this heat-sensing imaging technology is working its way into the consumer market. Specifically, onto your iPhone.

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A Tiny Flexible Tripod For Perching Your Smartphone Anywhere

A Tiny Flexible Tripod For Perching Your Smartphone Anywhere

No one makes a more flexible, more adaptable, more articulated camera tripod than Joby with its Gorillapod line. But the latest addition, the incredibly compact MPod Mini, is actually specifically designed to hold your smartphone for hands-free skyping, movie watching, reading, or other prolonged activities.

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What’s the One Crucial Feature Your Next Phone Needs to Have?

What's the One Crucial Feature Your Next Phone Needs to Have?

By the time you’re ready for a new phone, it can feel like the whole world has changed. But still, there’s bound to be just one feature you lust for, one beautiful glowing feature that’s just out of reach on your current hunk of junk. The one that will inevitably decide your next phone.

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That’s Not How You Use That: Crossing the Street With a Smartphone

That’s Not How You Use That: Crossing the Street With a Smartphone

Walking used to be a gentle saunter spent taking in the scenery. Now, it has evolved into a quickly moving forward stride, and an occasion for checking your text messages, Twitter stream, Facebook updates, and hilarious Vines.