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nube stratos modular hammock tent at colchuck lake

The Nubé Stratos is the Optimus Prime of the hammock camping world

With its modular components, the Nubé Stratos gives hammock campers their choice of rain and bug protection.
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How to keep your gadgets from being part of a botnet

How to make sure your IoT devices aren't members of a botnet DDoS attack, and what you can do to protect yourself if it happens again.
Crua Hybrid

Need a sleeping bag, hammock, and tent? The Crua Hybrid can be all three

The Crua Hybrid combines a tent, a hammock and a sleeping bag in a single product designed to go anywhere. But will it make campers happy?
A Samsung Galaxy Note 7, after its battery exploded

Who certified the exploding Samsung Galaxy Note 7 safe? Samsung did

The Galaxy Note 7 and other gadgets that catch fire and burst into flames underscore a problem with safety certifications like UL and CE: Them don't mean as much as you think.
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A man is selling Hackintoshes for $329, and he really hopes Apple won’t mind

Apple has always tightly controlled both its Macbooks and the operating system they run, OS X, but there is a group of people out there putting OS X on other computers. We speak with one man from the Hackintosh community about his new HacBook Elite.
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Shh! Roku’s new $49 Streaming Stick lets you listen through your phone

Roku has unleashed the second generation of its new Streaming Stick, which brandishes a host of new features for the same low price of $40 USD.
Codecademy

It’s time we make ‘code’ an official language, and teach it in every school

Kids may intuitively master Twitter, Snapchat and Angry Birds, but unless we teach them programming in school, they’ll never have the skills necessary to develop the next generation of software.
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Rent an Apple Watch from ByeBuy, the Netflix for fickle gadget fiends

Want a new Apple Watch? Or maybe a ZenWatch? Or maybe an LG? Like Netflix for the latest gadgets, ByeBuy lets you try before you buy -- or just keep on trying.
Spiro X1 Headphone Adapter

High school students made this BT headphone adapter, but is it too simple to sell?

This crowdfunded Bluetooth headphone adapter is the brain-child of a group of brilliant high-school entrepreneurs, but will its oversimplified functionality be its undoing?
Gravity

For real? We ask a physicist to ruin our favorite action sequences

With the help of a real scientist, we give some of the most recent high-action sequences a reality rating. You’re welcome.
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Is Google Glass on the brink of going mainstream, or the brink of failure?

It’s been more than two years since Google unleashed its vision for a wearable future, and it’s clear to see that few of us are ready to join the Glass masses.
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How BuzzFeed infected the Internet with a killer virus

You’ve been infected. Just now. This morning, I bet. You’ve already been exposed to 17 amazing things that you will love, a quiz to find out which of your favorite TV characters you most closely resemble, and the one shocking thing you didn’t know about a very famous celebrity. A Facebook friend or someone you […]