Author: Brian Barrett

Forget Hulu: with no Flash allowed on the iPhone and iPad, whoever will protect us from the Legion of Doom? [The Duty via Walyou] More »

Europe! You’re so quirky. Specifically one Crowne Plaza Hotel in Denmark, which rewards guests who pedal on electricity-generating exercise bikes for 15 minutes with food. How long would I have to ride for a minibar pass? More »

Mark Fiore made a little online history this week by being the first web-only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize. His editorial cartoons, though, were rejected from the App Store for violating Apple’s anti-satire provisions. That’s a dangerous precedent. More »

If you’re visiting Israel any time soon, you’re going to want to leave your iPad behind: the country has banned all iPad imports, even from tourists. If they find yours, they’ll confiscate it and charge you a storage fee. What? More »

Toshiba’s got a new automotive HDD out today that’s packing 200GB of storage. Consider that your typical Ford today has just 40GB, and start planning all the music and movies and media that’ll be housed in your next car’s dashboard. More »

Photoshop CS5 has some incredible new features, particularly content-aware fill. It’s great! Just not as great as Olivia Munn fans might want it to be. Brace yourselves for supreme disappointment. [Reddit via The Daily What] More »

Got few dozen ship and train horns, 620 gallon air tank, gasoline powered air compressor, MIDI board, and unmatched patriotic fervor? Then you’ve got The Great American Horn Machine. Presenting God Bless America, as it was meant to be heard: More »

The Bosch Power Box 360 isn’t the prettiest boom box around, but it may be the ruggedest: its aluminum and rubber roll case makes it impervious to falls and, hopefully, apocalyptic fall-out. More »

You already just sort of know, logically and instinctively, that Google’s got a ridiculous number of servers working for them. That doesn’t make it any less mind-boggling when visualized. Get ready for a lot of scrolling. More »

What happens when you recreate Star Wars: A New Hope frame-by-frame by editing together a patchwork of 500 15-second crowdsourced scenes? Star Wars: Uncut, that’s what. If this isn’t a labor of love (and Lego!) I don’t know what is. More »

Maybe you’ll be taking that next tweet a little more seriously, Joe Twitterer: the Library of Congress announced today that they’ll be archiving every public tweet made since 2006. That’s right: Twitter is now your legacy. More »

The problem of how to tote the iPad is one that’s bothered us for a while now. Fortunately, turns out you’ve got plenty of options: Tool Belt! Baby Carrier! Party Tote! And some others on the sexier side. More »

Toshiba introduced a whole mess of new Regza LED LCD TVs today over in Japan, but it’s the Z1 series that grabbed our attention: 37- to 55-inch edge-lit LEDs with USB and LAN recording functionality. Gimme! More »

Aspiring Bond villains take note: there’s only one of these Nautilus VAS luxury submersibles on the market today, so if you don’t act fast you risk losing out on a $2.7 million submersible joyride like few others. More »

We can’t all have arc reactors or computer butlers—yet. But I may be willing to settle for a tiny Iron Man USB jump drive in the meantime. Adorable? Check. Collectible? Check. Affordable? Er… More »

Classical artworks might seem boring, but applying the 3D treatment reveals some highly comical surprises behind the frame. Give it some time—the good stuff starts about 30 seconds in. More »

The US Navy’s unmanned “Fire Scout” helicopter was out minding its own business on a trial run, when its home base warship detected a suspicious speedboat on radar. That’s when Robocopter kicked into high pursuit—filming the whole way. More »

Manga comics have long breathed life into complex worlds and absorbing characters. Now they’re doing so for radish plants in artist Koshi Kawachi’s collection of elegant Manga planters. More »

Let’s say a vodka bottle’s fancy label doesn’t quite broadcast how awesome you are for drinking it. What then? Why, slap a programmable blue LED ticker on there like Medea did. They also, lord help us, made an instructional video: More »

Google Docs has gotten a major overhaul, with improvements that beef up collaboration across the board. That means real-time, character-by-character changes for up to 50 collaborators. And it’s not just for the document editor. More »