Tag: SUPERLATIVES

It may surprise you that beneath our gentle, gadget-loving exterior, there lies a closeted obsession with speed. Sure, we tend to talk about Twitter and have been known to spend hours debating the best instant-messaging client -- or the best sci-fi villain (it's so obviously IG-88) -- but we turn our heads just like the next person when a Ferrari F430 rolls by. In honor of our innate love of ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much is a recording worth? Way more than that if the RIAA has anything to say about it. The folks over at Listverse have compiled a top 10 list of incredible audio recordings, and my is it a potent one. The range of emotions we experienced when listening to each selection was as varied as the recordings themselves. The most startling is a recording of ...

Scientists at UCLA have constructed the world's smallest light bulb. When it's turned off, the tiny filament is invisible to the naked eye. Flip the switch, however, and it becomes a tiny pin-prick of light. The minuscule bulb was created using carbon nanotube technology, a much touted scientific breakthrough that has, until now, been used to do little else other than create portraits of our ...

We stared slack-jawed at our monitors when we first read about 15-year-old Paige Horne's 15,000 texts per month. We screwed our faces up in astonishment when we heard about 13-year-old Reina Hardesty's 440-page long texting bill. We pulled at our hair in disbelief upon learning of two grown men who sent 217,000 text messages in a month. But now we've had enough. There is no way. There is no way in ...

A couple of very bored Pennsylvania men decided to gun for the world record number of text messages sent in a month, and, over the next four weeks, went about clogging the airwaves with 217,000 SMS messages. The pair, Nick Andes, 29, and Doug Klinger, 30, were a little shocked, however, when T-Mobile went about clogging Andes's mail box with a $26,000 cell phone bill. Despite having an unlimited ...

Been another long week here at the Switched offices, but we stumbled on this absurd car-ready crock pot earlier in the week, and it set us off on a flurry of excited Googling for other crazy AC-powered car gadgets. Although our favorite may be the passenger-seat-ready sandwich maker, you can buy a portable pizza oven if that's more your thing. In other news, A Wyoming Dad took a hammer to his ...

Welcome to Urlesque's weekly wrap up format, which we'll be bringing you every weekend here on Switched. Our friends over at Urlesque try to present as many of the best bits from the Web as they can, but ultimately there are lots of goodies that don't make it onto the site. Per usual, check out this week's hottest posts from Urlesque below... then make the jump (new!) for more things that the Web ...

Welcome to Urlesque's weekly wrap up format, which we'll be bringing you every weekend here on Switched. Our friends over at Urlesque try to present as many of the best bits from the Web as they can, but ultimately there are lots of goodies that don't make it onto the site. Per usual, check out this week's hottest posts from Urlesque below... then make the jump (new!) for more things that the Web ...

This week on Switched, we had tons of good stuff, including British flash mobs, Twitter fights, and some hilarious gadget satire from The Onion. If you missed them, they're all here and if you've already seen them, read them again. Starting off the week strong, the Onion perfectly lampooned the hype and marketing surrounding gadget product releases. The hilarious video is definitely not safe ...

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/Dell_XT2_multitouch_tablet_official_11_hours_battery_life'; The machine translation is pretty weak, but Dell's 12.1-inch (1,280 x 800 pixel) Latitude XT2 looks to have just made its first tentative steps in a global launch. The video posted after the break comes courtesy of Korean site, AVING, where the convertible tablet was apparently just released. ...

In a record that will undoubtedly score the record breaker a lot of chicks, Sri Lankan born, Toronto-based TV-watching machine Suresh Joachim has broken his own Guinness world record for "nonstop broadcast-television watching." His latest effort, which took place in Stockholm, Sweden, clocked in at a ridiculous 72 hours. His own previous record, which was set in 2005, was 69 hours and 48 minutes ...

What a week. With so much web goodness flying at us from all angles, it's tough to catch it all. Keep reading for the best of Urlesque this week, and then make the jump for the biggest stuff on the web this week, from some of the best viral collectors on the 'net. Urlesque Christian Bale flipped out. Did you hear about that? We had a remixed rant-off with Bill O'Reilly (Bale is winning!) and ...

This week on Switched, we had tons of good stuff, including pranks, planes, and poorly planned pictures. If you missed them, they're all here and if you've already seen them, read them again. The government postponed the digital TV switch, but a bunch of stations are going through with it anyway. Sorry, Grandma. A teacher proved that educators shouldn't be on Facebook, especially when they ...

'Guitar Hero' may have sparked some debate among music's elite about whether or not it's good for the music industry, but among gamers, there's no debate that it is a serious test of skill, particularly the song "Through the Fire and Flames" by DragonForce. It's seven-plus minutes of carpal-tunnel-inducing pain that only the best can survive, and a 14-year-old kid from Texas has recently become ...

About six months ago, IBM unveiled Roadrunner, a super computer built to maintain our nation's nuclear arsenal. Roadrunner was twice as fast as BluGene/L, the fastest computer on Earth for three years running. But if you thought Roadrunner was impressive, you haven't seen anything yet. IBM has begun work on Sequoia, a new super computer for the Department of Energy (DoE) that will also help ...