TC Alum Drew Olanoff Talks To The Conan O’Brien Show About Google Glass
It’s with a tear in my eye that I share this little snippet with you – our own Drew Olanoff, who now works at Yahoo! with most of the rest of Palo Alto, talking to Conan O’Brien about Google Glass....
View ArticlePresenting The Funniest Vines Of 2013 (Thus Far)
It’s Friday in August and you know what that means: another episode in our semi-regular series entitled “Justify The Continued Existence Of Vine In The Face Of Massive Competition In The Video Sharing...
View ArticleThe FAA Shuts Down Beer-Delivery Drone
Ice fishermen on Lake Waconia in Minnesota were pleasantly surprised when a Wisconsin brewery, Lakemaid, flew a twelve-pack of their frothy suds over the icy wastes to their warm fishing cabins using a...
View ArticleBen Horowitz’s Bitcoin Bet
Today in bitcoin ephemera I present this interesting bet between VC Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz and Felix Salmon, noted bitcoin curmudgeon. Ben has invested in multiple bitcoin startups while...
View ArticleToo Bad! Tickle, The App That Saves You From Awkward Situations, Doesn’t...
Stuck in an awkward situation? A newly announced application called Tickle has been promising to give you an excuse to get away in the form of an urgent, but fake, phone call, which you can slyly...
View ArticleConan Takes On Bitcoin
Just for giggs, we present Conan O’Brien and the COO of BTC talking about Bitcoin. I think the brief informational video is far more useful to understanding the cryptocurrency than any of the Bitcoin...
View ArticleThis Demake Of Legend Of Zelda Is Most Fun You Can Have With Colored Squares
It’s dangerous to go alone! Go play The Legend Of Zelda, deconstructed and reduced to its component concepts! You are Link, a green square, and your mission is to kill Ganon (probably a dark block)....
View ArticlePrint Your Own Offline Glass
Remember a few months ago when I talked about the Offline Glass, a clever hack by a Brazilian ad agency that ensures that you and your good friends will be focused on chatting and drinking rather than...
View ArticleThe Reports Of Fire Phone’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
The cynics among us believe that the Amazon Fire Phone is going to be a flop. As Matt Haughey shows us in the above image, a phone attached to a product finder sounds like a mercenary mess, aimed at...
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HODOR!
Stop. the. presses. Yo, the ridiculously simple messaging app that lets you send a “Yo” to your friends and nothing more, has a new rival. (Or perhaps a more appropriate word would be “parody.”)...
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Epic Reddit Prank “Cat Facts” Is Now An App That Lets You Text Troll Your...
What do you get when you combine cats and epic-level trolling? Only one of the most popular Reddit posts of all time: the hilarious “Cat Facts” prank from Reddit user “frackyou” is the eighth-most...
View ArticleSmart Pipe Just Might Be The Best Waste-Based Startup Video Ever
Have you been concerned about your waste? Is it full of enough protein? Full of too much weird stuff like metal shavings or cat hair? Now there’s Smart Pipe. The system connects to your plumbing and...
View ArticleThe Don’t-Leave-Home-Without-It Machine Ensures You Do As It Says
In one of the greatest examples of LittleBits engineering I’ve seen in a while, maker Sean Ragan made a little box that reminds you to take objects when you leave the house. You can place anything...
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Cards Against Humanity Has Made Over $54K Selling Nothing On Black Friday
While chain stores everywhere are trying to get you to buy things in their physical and online marketplaces, one brand decided to sell absolutely nothing. For $5 a pop. That’s right. The group behind...
View ArticleApple Changed Its Site’s Code So The Word “click” Doesn’t Look Like…
If you squint, you can see how the word “click” might look inappropriate. But Apple’s too prim and proper for that. So when it wanted the tagline for its new desktop operating system El Capitan to be...
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BitCam is a fun, retro camera app for “your mini pocket computer”
If your early days on the internet involved dial-up modems, slow-loading pages, and low-res graphics, then you’ll get a kick out of a new app called BitCam. The app, which hails from Iconfactory, best...
View ArticleThis crazy iMessage app lets you prank friends by putting words in their mouth
Got iOS 10? Want to mess with your friends? A hilarious new iMessage App called Phoneys lets you prank others by sending stickers that look exactly like iMessage text bubbles. And thanks to the new...
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Laugh.ly grabs $2.25 million for its stand-up comedy streaming service
A streaming service for stand-up comedy called Laugh.ly, which publicly launched this past August, has now closed on $2.25 million in seed funding led by New York Angels, the company announced today....
View ArticleWatch Alexa rap with Too Many T’s in this interactive music video
Alexa can already sing and rap, but now she’s the star of a new music video by the English rap duo Too Many T’s. The London-based rappers this week released an interactive video that lets Alexa sing...
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The Alexa-enabled Big Mouth Billy Bass and other twerking toys go on sale
In September, Amazon launched its Alexa Gadgets Toolkit into beta, allowing hardware makers to build accessories that pair with Amazon Echo over Bluetooth. Today, one of the most memorable (and quite...
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