Quickie

Twenty strangers meet and kiss on camera for the first time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpbDHxCV29A I’m amazed how intimate some of these get for a first kiss between strangers.

Spoilers for Season 2: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqewar6lMIg] Now imagine if these characters had been written by Sorkin instead… Hmm.

Nest, who recently reinvented the thermostat for the 21st century, are at it again with the smoke alarm: To improve safety, Nest had to find a way to thwart false alarms, which lead people to tempt fate by disconnecting their units. The company’s solution is the pre-alarm heads-up. Nest Protect detects the problem before it reaches alarm-triggering levels and informs you, deploying its reassuring yet authoritative prerecorded human voice. Users can forestall the full-scale siren of the alarm with a wave of a hand under the device. This “gestural hush,” detected by motion sensors in the smoke detector, gives them some time to deal with the offending situation. When the air returns to normal, the voice delivers an all-clear message and the device glows green. ...

New from Nintendo: The new Nintendo 2DS system gives you all the features of the Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL, minus 3D viewing. And the price makes the world of Nintendo games even more accessible. Did I miss something where Nintendo didn’t have a dual-screen console beforehand? Or where they can’t just implement this in software? And now the 2DS doesn’t fold up like all the dual-screen consoles before, meaning it needs something to protect the screen. ...

Shooting an AK-47 underwater leads to all kinds of rad stuff. Cool, cool cool cool.