While some kids purposely get themselves into big trouble, there are those who find creative ways to do so. For example, one child decided to bring a host of cat pictures to class to entertain friends, but that resulted in detention. Click here to view the first image in today's viral picture gallery. Continue reading for a viral video of a Thanksgiving parade FAIL that was never supposed to happen.
So, you found a great deal on an old bus that has some potential to be restored to its former glory. What do you do after you pick it up and find out that it's not salvageable? Transform it into a chic home, like this family. You'll find solar panels for efficiency, along with a wood burning stove and other old school amenities still rule in the English countryside. Click here to view the first image in this week's demotivational poster gallery. Continue reading for a viral video of LEGO Link: The Legend of Zelda.
Digital artist extraordinaire Martin Hajek is back at it again, and this time, he brings up some incredible renders of what he thinks the upcoming Apple TV display will look like. As you can tell, it's pretty much a larger-sized iMac with a curved AMOLED display that should provide for some interesting viewing. Click here to view the first image in today's viral picture gallery. Continue reading for a viral video that will change the way you view security questions forever.
You may have seen a few images here and there from this photo set, but here it is in its entirety. Simply put as possible, every food and drink item you see is pictured with a stack of sugar cubes, with each one representing four grams of sugar. It's a great way to see just how much sugar you really consume with normal eating. Continue reading for more.
Did you know that Nintendo was founded as a card company in late 1889, originally named Nintendo Koppai. Based in Kyoto, Japan, the business produced and marketed a playing card game called Hanafuda. However, their calling was video games. In 1983, Nintendo launched the Family Computer home video game console in Japan (abbreviated "Famicom" and known outside Japan as the Nintendo Entertainment System or NES) alongside ports of its most popular arcade titles. Click here to view the first image in this week's trolling gallery. Continue reading for a viral video of an ultra geeky cake with built-in projection technology.
Bikers in London are fed up with dangerous conditions and made this dramatic appeal to officials.
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Earlier this week we talked about what the best Android phone to buy this month was, and now it’s time to go over the best Android tablets your hard-earned money can buy leading up to that glorious Christmas day. This space doesn’t move quite as fast as smartphones, but we’re about ready to head into what should be an interesting holiday season with a few new tablets leading the way.
The Nexus 10 is quite old, and is rumored to be supplanted by an updated offering at some point in the near future, but as it stands it’s still one of the better tablets to buy. A lot of that is on price and principal — who can say no to a Nexus device? And who can say no to a Nexus device with these specs for $400?
The specs I’m referring to include a 10.055-inch 2560 x 1600 display, Exynos 5 Dual (which is an ARM Cortex-A15 dual-core chipset with Mali T604 graphics), 2GB of RAM, 16-32GB of internal storage, WiFi + MiMo, Bluetooth, NFC, and more. And the fact that it’s already on Android 4.4 KitKat should allow you to buy one of these bad boys with confidence.
LG’s G Pad 8.3 jumps to number four this month, and for good reason. Spending a bit more time with the tablet reveals LG really did get the whole “feels just right in your hands” thing just right. Ergonomics aside, the G Pad 8.3 is one fine tablet on all of its other merits, too, with a Snapdragon 600 processor, 2GB of RAM, an 8.3-inch 1920 x 1200 display, 16GB of internal storage, a 5 megapixel camera and more. It looks great, too, which isn’t something we would have said about LG’s offerings from a couple of years ago.
In our Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition review, Rob Jackson noted some pitfalls of the entirety of the experience, the biggest of which being a laggy user interface when flipping through MyMagazines or trying to use popup apps.
That was enough to keep it out of our first spot, but not nearly enough to kick it out of our top 5. The Note 10.1 2014 edition reads like a fantastic device on paper, with specs being comprised of the following:
Samsung still has yet to address these issues with any sort of software upgrade, so it has taken a backseat to a couple of other worthy devices this month. If you just have to have the S Pen experience and don’t mind parting ways with $550, though, you can’t go wrong here.
The HDX line of Kindle Fire tablets is the latest in Amazon’s series. This changes the game up quite a bit by Amazon’s standards, a company whose modest first step into the tablet arena has since been bested with better offerings each year to follow. The HDX comes in 7-inch and 8.9-inch flavors, giving users a decent balance between screen real estate and portability.
The Amazon Kindle Fire HDX includes 2560 x 1600 resolution, storage options of 16-64GB, 4G LTE, a quad-core 2.2GHz processor (likely a Snapdragon 800), and more. As we all know by now, though, it isn’t the specs Amazon is hoping will win your hearts.
It’s the deep integration with their various services, including Prime Instant Video, MP3, Cloud Storage, Kindle e-Books, the Amazon Appstore, and a whole lot more. Content is king in Amazon’s world, and it’s something they have been very good at for quite some time. This is definitely one of the better buys of the holiday season, especially for a starting price point of $229.
This 7-inch ASUS-made wonder slides in at the number 1 spot thanks to that nice 1920 x 1200 resolution (323 ppi), quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset clocked at 1.5GHz, 2GB of RAM, 16-32GB of internal storage, 5 megapixel rear camera, 2 megapixel front camera, dual-band WiFi N, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC and more.
Google really does make it a bit unfair with their willingness to throw profits aside and offer this device up for dirt cheap, but that doesn’t make us feel reluctant or guilty for awarding the Nexus 7 2013 the top spot anyway. Oh, and did we mention you can get KitKat on this thing?
Amazon Kindle Fire HD
It’s not quite as powerful as the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 7 or 8.9, but the 7-inch Kindle Fire HD still holds its own where it counts. Amazon couldn’t care less about the profit from device sales here, though, which is why it’s so cheap at a starting price of just $140. As with the HDX, it’s all about apps and services for Amazon. Specs include 1280 x 800 resolution, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 8-16GB of internal storage, 10 hours of battery life and more.
Samsung’s Note series has become the go-to for performance and features in the tablet space, so the more weildy of the bunch — the Note 8.0 — deserves a bit of recognition in the top 5. The Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0′s HD resolution and quad-core chipset are quite nice, and that all-important S-Pen functionality pushes this as one of the better “small” tablets to consider at the point of sale.
This is the latest product from ASUS that will allow you to transform your tablet into a netbook. The Transformer Pad TF701 is a 10.1-inch 2560 x 1600 device with NVIDIA’s Tegra 4 processor on board. This powerhouse also includes a 5 megapixel rear camera, a 1.2 megapixel front camera, HDMI-out and more. And when you dock the tablet inside the dock, you’ll get a combined 17 hours of battery life (which is much more than any of today’s Netbooks can claim).
Here are just a few tablets to look forward to in the weeks and months to come. None of them are available for purchase yet, and some aren’t even official, but it’ll give you a good idea of what to expect once that ever-difficult purchasing decision arises this holiday seasons.
This marvelous phone/tablet combo pack is set to launch sometime soon. ASUS was one of the first companies to make our “use a powerful phone as the guts of a tablet” dreams come true, and now they’ve gone and outdone themselves with the announcement of the Padfone Infinity.
The phone bit includes a 5-inch 1080p HD Super IPS display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB or 32GB of internal storage with microSD, 13 megapixel rear camera with a 2 megapixel front camera, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, WiFi N, 2,400mAh battery and more.
Dock the phone into the rear of a device that has a 10.1-inch HD display and a huge battery, and you’ve got yourself one of the most powerful tablets, as well. Sounds pretty damned good to me, and worth keeping an eye out for once ASUS makes these available.
Motorola DROID tablets
Motorola has a tablet or two launching soon. We’re not sure what they are. We’re not sure how they’ll look. We’re not even sure when we’ll be seeing them. All we know is that they’ve confirmed some tablets are in the works, and that one of them will most certainly be headed straight for Verizon’s DROID lineup. With the great work they’ve done with the Moto X and the latest DROID phones, Motorola definitely gets a good deal of our attention.
And that’ll do it for our list of the best Android tablets to buy. Things should be even more interesting by the time we put the next installment out, but take some time to go over the list for December, and think about where you stand on it. Feel free to disagree — we all have our own thoughts and opinions about these sorts of things, so you won’t be hurting our feelings! We want to hear all about it in the comments section below, so have at it!
PS: don’t forget that you can talk all about these tablets, and more, over at AndroidForums.com. Be sure to make an account and join the millions of folks currently driving some very healthy discussion over there.
When Android founder Andy Rubin stepped away from the mobile operating system he helped create, rumors suggested he would pursue his lifelong love of real robots instead. Now, The New York Times reports that those rumors were true: Google has purchased seven different robot companies for a secretive new robotics initiative — and placed Rubin at its head.
November is drawing to a close, which means your weeks of shaving negligence have turned your wispy mustache into a full-blown, manly beard worthy of cavemen
We're sure you've grown to love your unkempt facial hair, and will miss it dearly when it's gone. Your chin will be much colder
So before you butcher your beard, revel in these 11 "facts" from Doghouse Diaries about the power of facial hair
Until next year, men (and women) of Movember!
Comic illustration courtesy of Doghouse Diaries. Published with permission; all rights reserved. Read more...
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It might not have had a starring role in any movies or rock bands named after it, but scientists now believe there was a species of mega-predator that roamed Earth at the top of the food chain for millions of years before Tyrannosaurus.
It's called Siats meekerorum, and a team of researchers led by Lindsay Zanno, a North Carolina State University paleontologist, and Peter Makovicky, from Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, discovered the dinosaur's partial skeleton in Utah in 2008. They announced their findings last week, calling it the third largest carnivore ever discovered in North America. Read more...
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Here's an RSVP posted on Reddit this morning, in which Peyton Manning regretfully declined to attend a fan's wedding. Such a polite young man!
    
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If you happen to find out who this jerk-ass non-tipper is, you are hereby ordered to yell "U Mad?????" right in his face, many times over.
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Eight ZIP codes in Central Texas are among the highest in the nation in median household income and percentage of college graduates, according to an interactive map published by the Washington Post.
The ZIP codes, all west and southwest of downtown Austin, have median household incomes of at least $97,000 ...
Just because you are Facebook friends with your old lab partner from high school doesn't mean you want to see his posts each day in your News Feed
The social network will soon allow users to "unfollow" friends whose comments and updates they want to remove from their News Feed, according to a Facebook spokesperson
The new Unfollow button, which was first reported by TechCrunch, will work in the same way that users were able to "hide all" from friends in the past, simply with new phrasing. The idea is that users can block content they don't want to see from their friends without going so far as defriending them Read more...
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Romance probably isn't the first thing you think about when looking back on the five intense seasons of AMC's Breaking Bad. After all, no one would say Walt was an ideal role model for love and marriage.
But for photographer Ashley Eubanks, there couldn't be a more perfect way to capture her best friend's engagement.
The happy couple, Hannah Schuster and Mackey Macaluso, provided the props for the shoot and embraced their favorite anti-heroes for some addictively cute photos
We expect the wedding reception to include an ample supply of Gatorade and Funyuns, bitch Read more...
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Although trips to the emergency room linked to energy drinks almost doubled between 2007 and 2011, little was known about how the highly caffeinated beverages affected the heart.
Now, researchers say that healthy adults who downed the drinks, which are also high in the amino acid taurine, had increased heart contraction rates an hour later, according to a study presented Monday at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.
“We don’t know exactly how or if this greater contractility of the heart impacts daily activities or athletic performance,” said researcher and radiology resident Jonas Dörner, M.D., of the University of Bonn, Germany, in a news release. There are concerns about the products’ potential adverse side effects on heart function, especially in adolescents and young adults, but there is little or no regulation of energy drink sales.” Read more...
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This incredibly realistic painting of Morgan Freeman was created with just one finger on an iPad Air, all in one layer
Artist Kyle Lambert is a trained oil painter and illustrator from the UK who uses his YouTube account to upload time-lapses of his impressive iPad painting projects, frequently choosing celebrities such as Freeman for his subjects.
Lambert told Mashable the painting took a month to create using the iPad app Procreate
"It captures every brush stroke automatically and you can export it to the camera roll," Lambert explained. "It has the best canvas size and and video export. It’s the most like Photoshop." Read more...
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In a remarkable story of survival that made headlines last June, a Nigerian chef miraculously lived through three days trapped at the bottom of the sea in an air pocket of a sunken ship. Six months later, newly-released footage shows the survivor's dramatic and unlikely rescue.
The video documents divers from the commercial diving vessel Lewek Toucan searching the Jacson 4 tugboat wreck for bodies
At the 5:30 mark, the diver speaking in a high-pitched tone reaches for a hand, only to find that it belongs Harrison Okene, the 12-man crew's sole survivor. The diver excitedly describes what he's found to a fellow rescuer, and before long they outfit the terrified chef with a breathing mask and prepare to return him to safety. Read more...
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Former Tiger Charles Barkley was spotted out in Auburn last night, prepping for his alma mater's matchup with Alabama in today's Iron Bowl. Here's a relevant paragraph published earlier in the week.
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Mike Tomlin's sideline dance in front of Ravens returner Jacoby Jones could end up hurting the Steelers in more than a fine.
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Good job at converting an old jersey into something timeless that can be passed down to his kids.
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Milk might have been a bad choice, but putting Ron Burgundy on a bona fide local-news show was definitely a good one.
The Anchorman protagonist, played by Will Ferrell, joined CBS's North Dakota affiliate KX News on Saturday night. Entirely in character, the actor gave an awkward rundown of local news events, such as the sparkly Christmas tree in downtown Minot, N.D.
Co-anchor Amber Schatz admirably reported the news alongside Burgundy, and hardly ever cracked a smile — even when he photobombed her segments.
Burgundy appears throughout the entire 30-minute segment, above. (Note: The video blacks out sporadically, likely due to commercial breaks.) Read more...
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Since Facebook acquired Instagram last year, there has been much speculation about its plans for the popular photo-sharing app. Now, new reports indicate that Instagram is working on a messaging feature.
Citing an anonymous source, GigaOm reported last month that Instagram was preparing to launch a new private-messaging feature. It claimed the new feature would pop up in an updated version of Instagram before the end of this year.
A holiday launch, one of the busiest times on social media in terms of photo-sharing, would make perfect sense for a new Instagram messaging product. Read more...
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For parents thinking about getting their child a cell phone for safety, the FiLIP smartwatch and phone hybrid may stave off that need for a few years.
FiLIP helps parents easily call and keep track of their children. Of course, the watch tells time, but it can also pin down a child's location.
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Parents can program up to five numbers into the gadget, which kids can call with the touch of a button. Using the FiLIP app, parents and other pre-authorized adults can track the child's location, make calls, send texts and set "SafeZones," which are virtual radii around a specific destination. Parents select SafeZones based on the location where their child usually spends the most time, such as school. FiLIP sends a notification to parents whenever their child leaves or arrives at a SafeZone. Read more...
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Your average American workplace is not always kind to introverts. Trends like open-floor offices and everyone-talking-at-once brainstorming sessions can be draining, and might even convince you that a natural preference for extroversion is the real price of admission for professional glory and success.
I’ve been there. However, I’ve got good news.
Fact is, with clarity and intention, any ambitious introvert can begin to receive the recognition he or she deserves at work. Here are three truly life-changing tips for introverts in the office. Adopt them today, and you’ll soon be seen as the invaluable asset that you are. Read more...
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