Wireless charging is cool, but usually the chargers are a mild pain to get connected to your phone right. They’re flat, so you have to drop your phone on the thing just so to make it work. No short supply of first-world problems, amiright? Anyway, seeing this wide-open market and seizing the day are the more »

Alerting all fly ladies and dandy gentlemen:  looking for a new accessory to bring to the club that says, “I’m from the future” but also, “I am now visually responding to this bass drop” at the same time? Look no further than DropShades, the digital sound-reactive glasses now available on Kickstarter. A tiny microphone and more »

Hey you, fat nerds! Worried about the nutritional value of your food? I’m sure you are! Google is rolling out nutrition facts on over a thousand food items in their search. Building on their work with Knowledge Graph, the feature bridges previously unconnected sources information so that things like zucchini and summer squash return the more »

The white version of LG’s Nexus 4 is now available at the Google Play store, as well as T-Mobile’s site. Announced earlier this week, the pricetag is $299.99 for the 8GB option, $349.99 for the 16GB. For a limited time, the phone will come with a free white bumper (roughly, a $19.99 value). On the more »

Yahoo has gotta turn a profit after dropping $1,100,000,000 on Tumblr, so if you’re a Tumblrer get ready for a bunch of Denny’s plugs and gifs of Grand Slams. The new sponsored ads will be distinguished by the shimmering dollar-sign you see on the right. Not too in-your-face, yet. We’ll see how far Yahoo pushes more »

Wikipedia is getting in on the location-based services bandwagon with Wikipedia Nearby, a new web application which provides uses with articles based on their proximity to the user. Available for both mobile and PC, the app takes advantage of MediaWiki’s relatively new GeoData extension, which connected geo-coordinates to a central API which programmers could query more »

Facebook is smartly adopting Twitter’s verification feature, so now we can see whether the pages of celebrities we like on the service are actually run by the celebrity. Just like Twitter, verified pages will have a small blue checkmark next to the name. They’re rolling out the change for individual profiles as well. You can more »

I guess Wednesday is the best day for app updates; the Twitter mobile app was updated today. According to the company’s blog post, the most obvious changes involve better photo controls: images are now previewable in an uncropped form and adding images to tweets are as easy as clicking a little photo icon right in more »

If your anything like me, keeping up with the flood of spam, notification reminders, and actual correspondence without having an exploded mess of an inbox seems a herculean task. Google has some good news for us slobs though, rolling out some new sorting features with the general overhaul its inbox. Here’s what the new inbox more »

Further proving there’s truth to the trope of German efficiency, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology have engineered the world’s fastest wireless connection, pulling off transmission speeds that rival fiber-optics. Clocking in at an astounding 40gbit/s (which is about 5 GB a second, or 1,600 more »

I learned a word recently: skeuomorph. It’s a design term which refers to an ornament or design on an object made to resemble some other material or previous function. Basically, it’s where the look an older model is retained for a new product even though it’s functional purpose is gone, usually to give the consumer more »

Soleil Moon Frye, the actress best known for playing eponymous lead of the ’80s sitcom Punky Brewster, has entered the tech start-up scene. The Moonfrye app will inspire parents with DIY crafting tips or something. The specific workings of the app are unclear, but it’s basically an outgrowth of her Moonfrye.com blog, which is all more »