Author: Brian Barrett

Tossing and turning at night because your one-armed, lumpy-felt-breasted girlfriend left town? Or just feeling extra creepy? Never fear, sad lonely person: the Deluxe Comfort Girlfriend Body Pillow is here. And it is just awful. More »

All right, robots: you’ve bested our professional wrestlers and our penalty kickers. But as long as San Francisco 49ers kicker Joe Nedney has anything to say about it, field goals belong to the humans. More »

Sean Murtagh and Natalie Mead had planned on a London wedding when they returned from a trip to Dubai. But after Eyjafjallajokull’s enormous cloud of ash, they spent their nuptials stuck in a Middle East airport. Fortunately, there was Skype. More »

Confirmed: a bad McAfee update for Windows XP has shut down thousands, possibly millions, of computers around the world. That’s big trouble. UPDATED: More »

Google’s new Government Request tool shows exactly how many times governments from around the world either asked Google to remove content or to provide user information. And how often Google complied. It’s quite the roadmap to intrusion. More »

This is exactly how I always pictured the inside of a circuit: Batman, magic smoke, and attitude. [xkcd] More »

The HP Compaq Airlife 100 certainly looks pretty. But the more we find out about the specs, the more I’m doubting this first-wave smartbook. More »

This is the Giovannoni Washlet. And while I don’t recognize exactly what each component of its feature set is supposed to do, I do know what awesome sounds like. And “tornado flush” sounds awesome. More »

A Mexican site called Conecti.ca got some hands-on time with the HP Slate, and walked away decidedly unimpressed. The verdict: that the device is basically a keyboardless netbook. Well… yeah. More »

Bill Jordan’s recent iPad purchase turned nightmarish, in one of those delightfully grotesque ways that local news affiliates thrive on: a thief grabbed his shopping bag, tugging so hard that he took most of Jordan’s little finger with him. Gross. More »

While Earth Day’s not until later this week—but you’ve already got that circled in your hemp calendar, right?—Lenovo’s celebrating early with their new ThinkPad L Series: 14- and 15-inch notebooks that contain more recycled material than any other. More »

The mysteries of the universe rarely reveal themselves with such spontaneous clarity. I’m also pretty sure my toaster works the same way, just with tiny flamethrowers. [Tumblr via BuzzFeed] More »

For some reason I’m skeptical that the one thing keeping newspaper readers from switching to E-Ink readers is the form factor, but that doesn’t make this semi-transparent E-Ink newspaper display concept any less cool. More »

The Library of Congress announced this week that they’ll be archiving every public tweet made since 2006, but they’ve been keeping track of some people’s Twitter accounts way longer than that. We’ve collected some of the great tweets from yesteryear: More »

In future wars, our soldiers will be equipped with flexible, solar-powered computer displays on their wrists. And making it work has required a complete rethinking of how flexible displays are made. More »

After a tremendous amount of public backlash, Apple has backed down from their rejection of Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Mark Fiore‘s app. His NewsToons app had previously been denied because it “ridicules public figures,” an anti-satire stance that had set a dangerous precedent. More »

While you’re planning your weekend, I want you to consider skipping the ballgame/movie/park. Instead: strap on a helmet, sit on an airbag, and deploy it as your friends watch and laugh. Faceplant? No, no. That’s a neckplant you’re watching. More »

Google hinted at their aspirations towards putting everything—including printing—in the cloud when they first announced Chrome OS last year. Today, they’re taking the first steps with Google Cloud Print: a vision of a web, mobile, and desktop printing ecosystem without drivers. Presumably, you’ll be able to print from any device to any printer in the world. More »