High Definite/Nerdy Sh*t

A Santa Ana start-up called Liquipel is offering a vapor treatment that applies a “nano coating” to your phone that will prevent it from being damaged from accidental exposure to liquids. I’ll let this 90′s style informercial show you how it works.

The Liquipel site states that there are currently 11 different kinds of phones (Apple iPhone 3G through 4S; HTC Evo 4G, Shift 4G, MyTouch 4G and Thunderbolt; Motorola Droid X and X2; and Samsung Charge) that can be treated for $59.

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Painful iPhone truths, in iPhone wallpaper form.

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After being “dark launched” in July, Facebook has officially launched their social archaeology tool, Timeline, which displays the user’s updates, photos, friends, and any other actions they’ve done since becoming a member of the social network in a chronological manner. Gizmodo’s Sam Biddle seems to be a fan, while The Atlantic’s Rebecca Greenfield has some concerns. Here’s a quick rundown of what you need to know, in case watching a 1 1/2-minute video is too much for you.

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Andrew continues his war against classic video game enemies.

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Some Most things shouldn’t be shared.

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On June 11, 1997, LightSurf Technologies founder Philippe Kahn took and transmitted this photo of his newborn daughter by jerry-rigging a digital camera and a phone, making it the world’s first “camera phone” photograph and inadvertently condemning the planet to a future filled with Duck Face photos.

Screw you, Philippe.

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Happy Place

A new subreddit in the same vein as “Explain Like I’m Five” in which participants explain things the way Calvin’s dad would. For example:

How come pizza is delivered, but we have to drive to the burger place?

Pizzas have to stay in motion to taste good. That’s why you toss pizza dough in the air when you’re making it. If they’re stationary for too long, they stop tasting good, which is why the third slice is never as good as the first. You can trick pizza into being tasty again by putting it in the fridge–the coldness dulls its senses and makes it thinks it’s moving.

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For those of you that can’t make it to Baltimore’s 5k Zombie Run, don’t fret. You too can run around like a crazed lunatic in the comfort of your own neighborhood with Zombies, Run!, a “running game and audio adventure”.

Zombies, Run! is an ultra-immersive game for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android where you help rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse. By going out and running in the real world, you can collect medicine, ammo, batteries, and spare parts that you can use to build up and expand your base – all while getting orders, clues, and story through your headphones.

Zombies, Run! | Kickstarter

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