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If you’ve got the space at your next BBQ, the Boxman is a swanky alternative to the plebeian tent or—gag!—lowly picnic table. Made from a converted shipping container, you’re guaranteed to make your friends and neighbors feel inadequate. More »

Theft of underwear and jeans must be a pretty big issue for Wal-Mart stores considering that the company wants to track each garment using RFID tags. All that stands in this plan’s way is some itsy-bitsy privacy concerns. More »

The Sprint Evo 4G does a lot of things brilliantly, but endurance is not one of them. Until this Mugen battery pack came along, granting Evo owners’ wish of a full day’s use on one charge. More »

That man in the top of this photo? That’s Captain Brian Bews and he’s lucky to be alive. The skilled pilot barely managed to eject before his CF-18 fighter jet crashed during a practice flight. Update: Video added. More »

They claim that it would make consumers feel some phones are safer than others without adequate scientific proof, and are thus suing the city of San Francisco to stop their mandatory radiation warning law. According to the FCC, all phones are safe below a certain SAR level; San Francisco says it just wants to inform [...]

Apple devotion as religious fanaticism is rhetorical old hat. Perhaps it is more than tired flamebait, though. The Atlantic points to a paper by Texas A&M’s Heidi Campbell that lays out the four narrative myths that make Apple “divine”: More »

In this week’s well-protected app round-up: good jams, streamed and downloaded; Tron tanks, embattled; and French fiefdoms, established on the iPhone; social media links, elegantly arranged on the iPad; hard-hitting NFL games, pocketed on your Android, and much, much more! More »

All BYU student Nicholas Homer wanted was to enjoy life’s simple pleasures: a warm day, a cold beer, a motorized couch to amble around campus in. But some things are just too beautiful for this world. More »

While die-hards gear up for the Season 4 premiere this weekend, Jeffrey Stephenson gets working on a sweet reimagination of the PC that would fit right in at any mid-century office or living room. More »