The Daily Engadget: Don't Trust Repairmen, Bare-Handed Buying
Our friends over at Engadget obsessively cover everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics, which is why we compile this daily roundup of their top stuff (or, at least, what we think is tops). For more details on any of these stories, click on the Engadget links in each story below.Don't Trust PC ……
Split Stick: Two USB Drives in One
Have you ever thought to yourself, “this two-gigabyte USB drive is okay… but how much cooler would it be if I taped two of them together!” No? Well neither have we, but apparently someone did, and gave birth to the Split Stick.The Split Stick is a double-sided USB drive — slide the button one way to expos……
Recent Twitter Hack Reveals Humans Are Still Security's Weakest Link
According to a post on Twitter's official company blog on Wednesday, the data of several of the microblogging site's employees was hacked back in May. Although the site itself was not compromised (user accounts are fine), the e-mail and other personal accounts of employee Jason Goldman were exploited…….
Bill Gates Devises Plan to Fight and Destroy Hurricanes
Oh, Bill Gates. Is there anything you can't do? The tech tycoon's path from college dropout to billionaire CEO has been well documented, but the man's enduring legacy may focus more on his post-Microsoft accomplishments. Gates has promised hundreds of millions of dollars to help impoverished count……
Pre-Teens Build Successful iPhone App
Apparently the children of the world are out to make us at the Switched offices feel, well, a tad unaccomplished. When it isn't nine-year-old Indian girls working for Microsoft, it's 11-year-olds getting astrophysics degrees, and sixth graders getting $6.5M to fund video game ventures. Even non-prodi……
'Tourist Remover' Gets Rid of Annoying Photobombers
Photobombers: the scourge of tourists and photographers everywhere. You snap a beautiful panoramic shot of the Mediterranean coast, but when you get home to organize your pics, there's some Euro-dude in the distance wearing a Speedo and picking his nose.
Tourist Remover, as reported by BoingBoing, prov……
