Tools are an essential part of your home. But you don't need a huge tool box or fancy tool belt to take care of small home projects. A small set of quality tools will serve you quite well.
Apple's doing its own Black Friday sale and like Amazon's, we can get in on the potential bargain action too. It's unlikely Apple will carve much off the asking price, but it'll be worth checking out on Friday, just in case. [Apple via SlashGear]
All we have really is this video from ExoPC, the guys behind that familiar looking tablet with the unusual UI. It shows a 40-inch touchscreen replacing a your desk, which lets you swipe, pinch and tap your way round a custom interface.
Maybe I'm just paranoid, but when I see a vending machine designed to easily duplicate keys, my immediate thought isn't, "Wow, that's convenient!" It's: "Wow, what an easy way to secretly duplicate someone's key without being seen doing it!"
More good news from Microsoft: Windows 8's upgrade process won't be like a mythological Greek hell punishment. Through clever software design, Windows 8 's setup will blow Windows 7 away—82 per cent fewer clicks, and massively cut install times.
HP's earnings were brutal this past quarter, sure. In response, new CEO Meg Whitman's clarion call to investors, repeated over and over again? We need to be more clear. We need to let you know what's going on.
Now, AllThingsD claims, the rumours will finally bear fruit: a Facebook Phone made by Facebook. The real deal. And it sounds pointless.
Microsoft is trying to hire new employees by luring them with god's greatest creation, the devil's most delicious treat and man's greatest love: bacon. They've set up a bacon cart (!) outside of Amazon's offices and will give away free bacon to everyone. EAT BACON, WORK MICROSOFT.
Pizza boxes themselves have a pretty impressive history of design. So when you cross them with something iconic like Jordans? It's cool enough to make me stop thinking about why in the world anyone would want me to associate pizza with feet.
You probably won't be in demand on the club scene, but you can save yourself the cost of a pair of 1200s with this DIY analogue turntable made from discarded technology including a cooling fan and a cassette player.
The zombie apocalypse is coming, and you can't take your katana everywhere. Well, you can, but that's a pain. Much better is Gerber's new Apocalypse Kit, which has all the cutty slashy stuff you'll need to make it through the zombie plague.
Even the brilliant mind of Leonardo da Vinci needed to jot things down in a notebook so he could remember what he needed to do. The only difference, of course, is that da Vinci's to-do list was much more complex than ours. I mean, who needs to calculate the measurement of Milan and its suburbs and learn how to repair a lock, canal and mill?
HP will tell the investors just how rocky its waters are later tonight, but for now, enjoy this gem: the company lost £2.10 billion solely through buying and squandering WebOS.
If there's one thing that sucks about Facebook, it's the paucity of advertisements. We need more! And we need them in real time. Luckily, TechCrunch reports, we're in luck—more live Facebook ads are headed our way today.
Technology blog GHacks reports that YouTube is testing a new homepage design and that anyone can force this new design by adding a cookie to their browser. Here's how to do to so for Chrome and Firefox.
Google Search for iPad just got a huge update that completely redesigns the tablet search experience and it's sweeeeeet. It's prettier, slicker, faster, uses bigger pictures, has Instant and does EVERYTHING better. The weird thing? It's only for iPad. Android tablets are left out.
