Amanda Kooser

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson alarm app gets your candy ass out of bed

Former wrestler and current acting superstar Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson gets up at 4 a.m. every day, works out and conquers the world. He doesn’t smack the snooze button only to slither into the kitchen an hour later for a cup of coffee like a mere puddle of a person. Now he wants to share …

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Crave giveaway: May the 4th Star Wars goodies from ThinkGeek

Congratulations to Michael L. of Neptune, New Jersey, for winning a Ventev Powercell 10000+ portable battery pack last week. May the 4th, the Star Wars holiday, is fast approaching. You’re digging in your closet for appropriate accessories and scouring your kitchen to come up with accouterments for your Brunch Strikes Back party. Let Crave and ThinkGeek help you out with …

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Final ‘X

The final trailer for “X-Men: Apocalypse” opens with Professor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) saying, “Things are better. The world is better.” But the plaintive piano music in the background clues us in that not all is happy-happy in the world of superpowered mutants. The villain of the piece is Apocalypse (played by Oscar Isaac from “Star Wars: The Force Awakens“), …

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Rainbow grilled cheese makes for a psychedelic sandwich

I have a recipe for rainbow grilled cheese. First, capture a unicorn. Next, milk that unicorn. Then make cheese from the unicorn milk. Age it for centuries in a magic cave. Slice. Butter two pieces of bread, place the cheese in the middle and grill on an iron skillet. Or you can just pop over to Hong Kong eatery Kala …

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Weird contraption turns your hoverboard into a hover

Two-wheeled hoverboards may simultaneously be some of the most maligned and most coveted gadgets on the market. The small rolling platforms have been implicated in a series of battery fires. Amazon stopped selling them. And yet you still see people zipping around on them. Now there’s a bizarre accessory that lets you sit and roll. The Hoverboard Cart comes from …

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#WhenIWas: Women share stories of childhood sexual harassment on Twitter

For the most part, Tuesday’s Twitter-trends sidebar isn’t too surprising. Terms like “MacBook,” “Pulitzer” and “#PrimaryDay” are there. Then, up near the top, is #WhenIWas. Click on it and you enter an unexpected world where women across Twitter are coming together to share their experiences of sexual harassment from childhood. The hashtag originated with the Everyday Sexism Project, a website …

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You can only buy this colorful, unique iPad Pro in one place

You can stroll into an Apple Store and select an iPad Pro in your choice of three colors: silver, space gray or gold. Or you can help out London’s Design Museum during a charity auction and select an iPad Pro in an almost indescribable shade of yellow/green. Apple’s Design Team donated the inscribed “Edition 1 of 1” tablet to raise …

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This underwater drone lures and photographs your pet fish

Humans take and upload endless photos of their felines to the Internet. Fish need love, too; it’s just harder to capture a really great fish picture. Unless you have a Submariner Camera, a small remote-controlled submersible with a camera on board. The remote control lets you take videos or just snapshots. It also lets you move the device up, down …

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Whew! There will be no texting in AMC movie theaters after all

You could almost feel the panic spreading across the land. Adam Aron, CEO of theater chain AMC Theatres, sat down for an interview with Variety this week. The conversation turned to millennials and how to appeal to them. Aron said he’d be open to allowing people to use cellphones or to text during movies. A lot of film-goers, however, were …

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Buy this James Bond

You can walk into a Lamborghini dealership and easily plunk down $200,000 for one of the Italian super cars. Or you can click over to eBay and pick up a Lambo lookalike for a lot less. What’s the catch, you say? Well, it needs a little work. But on the plus side, it’s amphibious and you’ll feel like James Bond …

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