Replacing Your Passwords with Your Heartbeat

Plenty of tech companies are working on different ways replace passwords (example: Google’s security ring), mainly because passwords are difficult to remember, easy to crack, and the average user has dozens. Enter Nymi ($79). Created on the basis of research done at the University of Toronto, the idea behind Nymi … Read More

Smartphone Radiation Meter

Suspect that your neighbourhood nuclear power plant has gone belly-up and those dastardly suits in charge have absconded with the nation’s bullion to their Diefenbunkers? Well, that’s a bizarrely specific, historically informed, and slightly alarmist concern to have, but as masters of Fallout 3, we have to respect it. If … Read More

Cable Drop

Know that “life hack” where you put monster clips on the side of your desk to hold your cables? It’s stupid and terrible. Aside from looking like something an ninth grader “invented” during the course of his regularly-scheduled cycle of destruction and haphazard tinkering (which was probably the case), it … Read More

How to Refurbish a Hatchet

Jimmy DiResta, a New York based designer, has quite the way with old tools. Here he is refurbishing an old Estwing hatchet, since it doesn’t really make sense to throw about a steel tool. [youtube width=”640″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCCjZE6Ve_A[/youtube]

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