Regular words are so boring. Isn’t everything a heck of a lot better when it’s written in emoji? An art and technology studio in Oakland, Calif., called Disk Cactus has launched a Kickstarter campaign for the Emoji Keyboard, a product that combines hardware and software to turn your Mac’s keyboard into an emoji typing machine. …
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Yep, you can finally play Cards Against Humanity online, thanks to Canadian designer Dawson Whitfield. Cards Against Originality Cards Against Humanity is a great card game for adult time, one perhaps best described by its creators as a “party game for horrible people [that is] as despicable and awkward as you and your friends.” But it requires that you to …
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Yep, the dress has an iPhone case now, because this meme just refuses to die. Bastex Wireless People with an iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus can now preorder #thedress phone cases from Amazon. The cases are being made by Bastex Wireless, and will be released at the end of March, just in time for you to have forgotten what …
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Kids and adults alike have long jokingly said “open sesame” in the hopes those magic words might literally open doors. Dheera Venkatraman, a grad student at MIT, might be the first person to make the words actually work. Related Links Ö smart ring displays Elvish, notifications for high-tech Frodos Push Button, Receive Bacon comes to life Blink to control this …
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KFC is rolling out a new coffee cup later this year to celebrate its 50th anniversary, but instead of traditional coffee cup materials, the new Scoff-ee Cup is made out of a cookie. Yeah, you read that right. Now playing: Watch this: RippleMaker prints on your cup of coffee 1:06 At select KFC restaurants in the UK, the company will …
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The next time you’re headed to the park to play a game of ball, forget about the ball. A new startup called Zyro wants to replace tennis balls, soccer balls, hockey pucks and frisbees with a special aerial drone designed for sports and multiplayer gaming. Zyro’s creators — a team of engineers, drone enthusiasts and rugby players — recently launched …
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Oh, hey T-Mobile CEO John Legere. Looking good! Screenshot by Anthony Domanico/CNET A guy named Steve Wozniak (no, not that Steve Wozniak) released an extension for the Google Chrome Web browser, and it seriously might be the best and worst thing on the Internet. Called Googlifier, the Chrome extension adds googly eyes to every image on a particular website as …
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Adobe’s Photoshop graphics-editing software came out 25 years ago today, February 19, and as part of the company’s ongoing celebration of the milestone, it’s released an incredible short video featuring elaborate artwork created using the tool. Related Links Checking out Photoshop for Chromebooks: Network-computing revived What’s Darth Vader doing riding a bus? The video is set to Aerosmith’s “Dream On,” …
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Comcast in Philadephia has unleashed a new remote with a branding cue taken from Apple in Cupertino. Marguerite Reardon/CNET On today’s episode of brands behaving bizarrely, we virtually head to Philadelphia, where Comcast has put together a branding strategy that’s a bit of a head-scratcher. I think we all get that brands need to put their marks on things so …
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Saturday is Valentine’s Day, which could mean an uptick in visits to Las Vegas wedding chapels. But with so many of them to choose from, wouldn’t it be nice to see what they look like ahead of getting hitched? Google has released Street View images of several Las Vegas chapels, so soon-to-be-newlyweds can enjoy a casual morning at the hotel …
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