Adam Clark Estes

Smugglers Busted With Nearly $400 Million Worth of Cocaine Molded Into Shipping Pallets

Remember that scene in Traffic where they mold cocaine into dolls? This kind of trickery happens in real life, too. A band of international smugglers recently got caught with over $370 million worth of cocaine disguised as 40 shipping pallets. No, the pallets weren’t filled with cocaine. The pallets were cocaine. A total of 11…

The Best Wireless Headphones For Every Discerning Ear

I love headphones, always have. That’s probably because for most of my life, I was hearing impaired. Headphones were the only way for me to hear music the way it was supposed to be heard—the treble, the bass, and everything in between. But I don’t want to be tethered to my laptop and phone: I…

IKEA’s New Solid Wood Furniture Is Beautifully Cheap

Everybody loves to make fun of IKEA building furniture out of glorified cardboard. But IKEA’s future in building furniture out of hardwood is more solid than you’d think. Behold the Skogsta collection. This new line of incredibly affordable kitchen and dining room pieces is made of solid acacia, a fast-growing tree that grows in warm…

Multiple Airlines Ban Hoverboards Because They Keep Catching on Fire

The three largest airlines in the country—American, Delta, and United—put hoverboards on the no-fly list this week. The decision came after multiple reports of the gadgets bursting into flames without warning. Obviously, spontaneous combustion and planes do not mix. In addition to the Big Three, both JetBlue and British Airways have banned people from bringing…

Hoverboards Keep Catching on Fire and the Government Wants to Know Why

The hoverboard backlash always seemed inevitable. First, there’s the misleading name. Then, there were videos of painful accidents and even hoverboards spontaneously combusting. And today, Overstock.com announced that it would no longer sell the gadgets due to safety concerns. This is just the beginning. The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is already in…

Bill Murray Can Steal the $2 Million Wu-Tang Album Back From That Asshat [Corrected]

The world wilted a little bit after learning that price-gouging pharmaceutical executive and human cesspool Martin Shkreli bought an impossibly rare Wu-Tang album for $2 million. But guess what. Wu-Tang reportedly wrote a brilliant clause into the sales contract that would enable them to get it back. A random guy tweeted out a screenshot of…

iPhone Smart Battery Case Review: I Can’t Believe I Don’t Hate It

My initial reaction to Apple’s expensive new iPhone battery case was in step with the everyone else’s: It looks like it has a tumor. But what I discovered after using it for a full day is it’s actually surprisingly great. What Is It? The $100 iPhone 6s Smart Battery Case is Apple’s first step into…

Sad Supervillain Martin Shkreli Bought That Top Secret Wu-Tang Album

I offer my deepest apologies to Wu-Tang fans. The buyer of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, a record-slash-art-project of which only a single copy will ever be sold, is now owned by a huge douchebag. The millionaire buyer’s identity has been revealed as pill price gouger Martin Shkreli. Bloomberg Businessweek reports that the pharmaceutical…

The Sad Reality of the Magic Mouse 2

I love Apple’s new accessories new. The Magic Keyboard is a beautiful work of industrial design and surprisingly fun for typing. The Magic Mouse 2 looks the same as its predecessor, but it’s rechargeable. And that, I’m afraid, is a blessing and a curse. After nearly two months of fun, my Magic Mouse 2 finally…

Apple pushed an update for the new Apple TV today that finally lets you use the Remote app to control the device. Additionally, Apple Music gets Siri support so get ready to sing into your remote. Or something. Contact the author at [email protected]. Public PGP key PGP fingerprint: 91CF B387 7B38 148C DDD6 38D2 6CBC…

Reliable Harvard Scientists Say E-Cig Flavors Can Cause “Popcorn Lung”

In the weird world of vaping research, it’s hard to find a scientist who isn’t funded by a tobacco company or an anti-smoking organization. However, in a government-funded study, a team of Harvard scientists made a grisly discovery. Candy-flavored e-cig liquid contains chemicals that cause a horrible condition called “popcorn lung.” The study revealed that…

Google Life Sciences Division Is Now Called… Verily?

Alphabet Inc., the newly founded parent company of Google, just added a new name to its portfolio: Verily. This Google[x] spinoff used to be the experimental lab’s life sciences division. Now, it’s Alphabet’s first new company and a creative use of the letter “V.” Verily will pursue wonderfully futuristic projects like the much anticipated smart…

This Anamorphic Cube Reveals a Different Painting Every Time You Spin It

The controversial end of Interstellar features Matthew McConaughey movie through a four-dimensional tesseract, transcending space and time. Somehow, this three-dimensional anamorphic cube reminds me of that scifi fantasy. Except it’s totally real. “Emergence Lab” by artist Thomas Medicus is composed of 216 hand-painted laser cut acrylic strips. They’re assembled in such a way that an…

Mischievous Programmers Simulate Barack Obama Giving a George W. Bush Speech

In the world of computer graphics, anything seems possible these days. It is possible, for instance, to make Barack Obama’s face deliver a George W. Bush speech. Or you could make Hillary Clinton do it. Or James Bond, if you want! The exciting new research that makes all this possible comes straight out of the…

Facebook quietly announced that its weird app experiment is over, and it will be closing the Creative Labs that led the initiative. That means apps like Slingshot (a Snapchat ripoff) and Rooms (a Reddit ripoff) will no longer be available for download. RIP Creative Labs. We never really knew you. Contact the author at [email protected].…

Taylor Swift Mysteriously Reappears on Spotify as Convicted Pedophile’s Band

It appears we have a troll in our midst. Three days ago, Taylor Swift’s hit song “I Knew You Were Trouble” re-appeared on Spotify. But it wasn’t under infamous Spotify-hater’s name. The artist listed was Lostprophets, a Welsh band whose lead singer is a convicted pedophile. Spotify pulled the song down on Monday morning, though…

China’s Airpocalypse Is So Bad, It’s Banning Half the Cars in Beijing

Beijing issued its first-ever red alert on Monday. The radical measure means that half the cars in the capital must stay off the streets, outdoor construction must stop, and schools must close. The pollution is simply too dangerous. While it should surprise no onethat China’s still struggling with its smog problems, the red alert in…

Toshiba Satellite Radius Review: An Amazing 4K Screen Attached to a Frustrating Machine

For many, a laptop is a deeply personal device, one that gets used and abused even more than a smartphone. So you really want to love using it—especially if you’re going to spend upwards of $1,600 on something like Toshiba’s new Satellite Radius 12. But the impressive hardware doesn’t make this laptop worth the price…

Google Wants to Patent a Blood-Sucking Smartwatch

Just when you thought our data-driven lifestyles were getting a little weird, Google wants to make it creepy. The companyjust filed a patent application for a “needle-free blood draw” device that can be implanted in a wearable. It’s the vampiric smartwatch you never asked for. All jokes aside, the invention looks pretty interesting and possibly…

Your Pet Desperately Needs This Astronaut-Inspired Backpack

“Who’s the greatest catstronaut in the United States? It’s you Champer-damper. It’s you!” That’s the song I would sing to my pet cat if I had a pet cat and carried it around in one of these amazing ventilated carrying cases from U-Pet. Each of the cases comes with three different options for your pet’s…