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No, Da Vinci Wasn't The First Inventor to Dream About Human Flight

Leonardo DaVinci’s wing and glider designs have inspired literature, art, and cinema over the centuries. But plenty of other people have schemed to take to the air, long before the Wright Brothers. Here are just some of the inventors who devised methods of unpowered human flight...with mixed success.
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Incredible video shows every Jason Statham punch ever from all his movies

Some people dedicate their lives to doing good by like, building houses and killing mosquitos and being a doctor and making sure people can get water or something. Other people dedicate their lives to a much simpler cause that is totally different but is absolutely still improving the world around us: by punching as… » 8/25/15 10:30pm Yesterday 10:30pm

FAA Approves In-Flight Internet That Might Not Suck

Slow internet is the worst possible kind of internet, as anyone who’s sold kidneys to use in-flight Wi-Fi can probably attest. GoGo, the biggest player in the airborne Wi-Fi game, has been promising faster speeds since 2013; thanks to a FAA decision, the company is now one step closer to coming through. … » 8/25/15 10:30pm Yesterday 10:30pm

Honest trailer of Mad Max: Fury Road shows how improbably awesome it was

If there is one thing all of humanity can agree on it’s that Mad Max: Fury Road was pretty much the most awesomest action movie this year. But it’s even more awesome to think about how impossible that awesomeness was: it’s a franchise whose last movie was 30 years ago. Its director did Happy Feet and Babe. Mad Max… » 8/25/15 9:30pm Yesterday 9:30pm

What it's like for a parent to raise a superhero kid

We know the origin story for most of all our superheroes: parents die, a kid gets bit by a spider, other people get sent to Earth, some are just rich ass sociopaths. And we’ve seen superheroes before they get their powers when they’re Just Like Us but what we rarely see is what life is like through the perspective of… » 8/25/15 8:45pm Yesterday 8:45pm

100 Miles From Dubai: Driving The $80 Million Road To Nowhere

Jebel Jais was supposed to lead to the boom of the new, growing, oil-rich and tourist-friendly United Arab Emirates. Instead the road became a perfectly paved 22-mile symbol of the global recession, a dream for fast drivers, and a safe haven from a brutal surveillance state — all to the tune of just $80 million. » 8/25/15 7:45pm Yesterday 7:45pm

Video: How to sharpen your knives

If you have a really nice set of chef knives, you’d know (or should know!) that the blades need to be maintained and sharpened to make life easier for you in the kitchen. Chef knives are meant for chopping food stuff but they’re basically bad ass mini-swords. How To You shows us—in very instructive detail—how to… » 8/25/15 7:20pm Yesterday 7:20pm

How Two Ex-Amazon Engineers Invented a New Type of Customizable Force Interface 

It feels like a wave of pressure-sensitive tactile interfaces has been about to crest for years. But a pair of engineers believe they’ve built the hardware and software that could delivers on that promise—and they’ve funded the first round of production in just a couple of hours. » 8/25/15 6:20pm Yesterday 6:20pm

These $19 Cooking Thermometers Give You a Reading In Under Four Seconds

If you don’t want to shell out for a Thermapen, these colorful meat thermometers give you a reading within four seconds, stick to your fridge via a built-in magnet, and boast a 4.5 star review average. [Cooking Thermometers, $19 with code UWPHWK8N. Multiple colors available]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00... » 8/25/15 6:15pm Yesterday 6:15pm