Website Compares Smartphone Proportions

The size of your smartphone matters. It seemed like when mobile phones first came out they were huge and then they got really tiny and now they're making their way back to becoming bigger again.

Phone-size.com is a site that answers questions about your phone size in the best way possible and it lets you stick up your current phone and see how its rivals measure up?

Your Information Is Worth up to $5,000 a Year to Marketers and Advertisers

Google probably knows what kind of person you are already, though its not exactly actual data, but its estimates are not that far off. They know their demographics!

Google+ and Gmail are all free, but we pay for those services in a currency of personal information. Privacy firm Reputation.com says your personal info could be worth anywhere from $50 to $5,000 per year to market researchers and advertisers.

Microsoft Paid Nokia $250m in The Fourth Quarter of 2011For Adopting Its Windows Phone Platform

Nokia released their financial results today and it showed that Microsoft had paid the company a cool $250 million in the final quarter of 2011 for adopting Windows Phone. That's the first payment but in total, these platform support payments will probably add up to billions.

X-Ray Specs Are Here In The Form Of An App (video)

Did you ever wanted X-ray specs when you were younger? Looks like the time has finally come, and X-ray vision will come as part of a free app for Android or iOS devices which will let you see under the clothes of models in the Moosjaw clothing catalog.

Siri Tweak Translates Languages For You (video)

Siri may be useful at times, but I don't see how I'm really using it on a daily basis. But aside that there's the tweaking and hacking of it to make it even more powerful and interesting. The latest Siri hack is called Lingual, and its a jailbreak only tweak that will turn Siri into a translation device.

The iPad Demand Led to Last Year's Deadly Foxconn Explosion [Foxconn]

Foxconn seems to always be in the spotlight when it comes to all things gadgety. Charles Duhigg and David Barboza of The New York Times have a massive profile on the human side of a totally avoidable dust explosion in a plant frantically rushing to keep up with demand for iPads. An explosion that happened last May that killed four people and left 18 others seriously injured.

Scientists Discovered the Speed Limit for Quantum Particles

Scientists always knew that quantum particles itneracted with one another at a slower speed and had trouble measuring the speed of which it happens up until now, that is.

An article published by Nature Magazine talks about an experiment run by Marc Cheneau and he was able to prove that the velocity ceiling for quantum particles by trapping a quantum gas with atoms in an optical lattice between intersecting lasers:

This Is How You Charge All 16 of Your USB Devices Simultaneously

Don't have enough ports to charge your USB devices? Here's a 16 port USB charger that could do you just right.

This is the Datamotion Systems PowerPad Charging Hub, there's all these USB ports for you if you ever find yourself lack of one. The company claim it's "designed for charging Apple devices" but you'd obviously be able to charge whatever you like.

The Love Box Lets the iPhone 4 Film Both Sides of a Story (video)

The word tech probably doesn't even belong here, but this is the limited edition Love Box and it lets you record both sides of a conversation using a simple sliding mirror. That's just McGyvering the whole situation.

How Long Should You Wait To Get Back To A Job Application

The job market is one tough place. And when you've went for an interview, you'll have to expect to wait a long time to hear back from a company. But how long should you wait? CNN Money has a general rule of thumb on it.

1,000,000 Spiders Made This Silk Cape. Is It Strong Enough To Stop A Bullet? (video)

This cape, took four years and one million Malagasy golden orb spiders and eighty workers to catch and release the two inch arachnids daily to make. It was commissioned by Nicholas Godley and fabric researcher Simon Peers.

Prevent Car Doors From Freezing Shut By Using Cooking Spray

If you've never traveled or lived in a cold country then this might all seem very new to you. Getting in your car after a snowstorm in the morning might be difficult since, you could very well find the doors frozen shut. You can avoid this, with some cooking spray.

HTC Will Stop Making So Many Phones

HTC has a problem. It realizes it's addicted to new phones. And if HTC's execs make good on recent words, we may no longer be drowning in a torrent of the company's new models every other week. Effing finally.

Google Maps Will Warn You Where Disaster Strikes

Google Map's new Public Alerts system debuted today and pulls disaster warnings from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration and National Weather Service and Us Geological Survey. Other US Agencies will be able to push their warnings as well so that it will show up on the map. In fact, every agency around the world should work together for something like this.

Using A Mobile Phone In North Korea Now Will Promise Punishment Like A War Criminal

Looks like living in North Korea is about to get worse. If you're caught using a mobile phone, it'll earn you a certain death penalty.

North Korea is holding a 100-day-long "mourning period" for the late Kim Jong-il. And part of the festivities include a cell phone moratorium and those who go against it will be "branded as war criminals" and punished accordingly.

This Machine Reads Tree's Rings into a Musical Score (video)

This modified record player reads growth rings from a tree like musical notes and was created by German artist Bartholomäus Traubeck, He describes the process on his website:

A tree's year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. It is mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture). The foundation for the music is certainly found in the defined ruleset of programming and hardware setup, but the data acquired from every tree interprets this ruleset very differently.

Stem Cell Transplant Prevents Blindness

Researchers published the first results of a clinical trial where doctors transplanted stem cells into the eyes of patients suffering from a form of progressive blindness. And guess what? The preliminary results are looking good.

Scientists Create Brightest X-Ray With Over 3.6 million Degrees

A newly created X-ray laser is a billion times brighter than any previous x-ray source and it could possibly unlock the secrets of the sun.

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory created the laser, which fires rapid-fire laser pulses to heat up matter to over 3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit and then probe what's going on inside.