Casey Chan

You can make man made rainbows with this giant LED glow stick

Rainbows are visual desserts, you’re always happier after you see them. But we don’t see them enough! Not with a Pixelstick though. It’s a giant stick that has 198 LEDs that can be programmed to display colorful rainbows, 3D cubes, pulsating magic carpets and so on in your light paintings. Basically wave, set your camera…

Here Is The Simpson’s Epic The Hobbit Couch Gag

When you smash the world of our favorite cartoon family from Springfield with what very well might be our favorite literary fantasy world, well, you get this epic winding tour of The Simpsons traveling through Middle Earth that passes by all your favorite Simpsons characters as Hobbit characters to reach The Comfy Couch.

What it looks like to get hit in the face with a tank shell

So this is completely terrifying. In a you will probably pee a little bit as you watch this GIF kind of way. In a holy crap wait a minute this isn’t a video game right kind of way. No, no it is not. This is what it looks like to take a direct hit from…

Watch a woman turn into a flawless magazine model with Photoshop

You can stare at magazines all day and wonder why your body doesn’t curve like that and why your butt isn’t shaped like that and why your skin doesn’t glow like that but you’d only be killing yourself over magic Photoshop fairy dust. Anything we’re meant to see is totally fake and this GIF sums…

How to Build an Amazing Secret Monitor Only You Can See

Dealing with sensitive numbers in a top secret Excel spreadsheet? Reading classified documents that you don’t want people to see? Or most likely, exploring the more salacious parts of the Internet and don’t want to be thought of as a creep? Follow these instructions that show you how to create an awesome secret monitor only…

iPad Air Meta-Review: So Light, So Fast, So Beautiful

The iPad Air is Apple’s best iPad yet. But what does that mean beyond the usual lighter, faster, everything-er that Apple typically slaps onto its latest products? The first reviews of the iPad Air have hit the Internet and we’ve rounded them up to give you a clearer picture of Apple’s latest full-sized tablet. The…

Some new iPhone 5S are having battery problems. Apple told the NY Times, “We recently discovered a manufacturing issue affecting a very limited number of iPhone 5S devices that could cause the battery to take longer to charge or result in reduced battery life.” Those with crappy battery life will get a new phone.

What Happens When Two Computers Play Rock Paper Scissors?

Nothing. If nothing meant becoming lulled into hypnosis as two machines battle each other out in a human game that can be interpreted through specific algorithms. If nothing meant secretly betting on which computer is superior. If nothing meant enjoying the beats and pulses of anticipation as each screen throws out its pick. If nothing…

The Next Google Glass Looks Even Sillier Than the Old Google Glass

Here’s what the next Google Glass looks like. The official Google Glass Google Plus page just revealed the look of the updated version of Google Glass and it’s somehow even more cyborg weird. The overall look remains the same but it looks like Google is adding a single mono earbud for the second generation of…

Don’t Forget How Beautiful the World Is

Living in cities, driving on freeways, going to work, sitting in cubicles, shopping at supermarkets, surrounding yourself in urban density and all around stepping away from nature makes it easy to forget how beautiful she can be. We should never forget. Photographer Shane Black and two of his friends quit their jobs this past summer…

Nexus 5 Leaks Again for ‘Pre-Registration’ with a Full Spec List

Stop me if you’ve heard this before but… the Nexus 5, probably the most anticipated Android phone right now, popped up on the Internets before it was officially announced. https://gizmodo.com/nexus-5-pops-up-on-google-play-for-350-1447507439 In fact, it looks like the Nexus 5 has revealed its full spec list too. Can’t we just start buying this phone already, Google? This…

Here’s an Amazing Card Trick Bet You Will Always Win

The beauty of math and numbers and formulas and equations and so forth is that they can work without you ever understanding how the hell they work. What seems like complete randomness is actually just a math problem! Like this slick trick with a deck of cards. Take twenty or so cards and flip over…

A PVC Air Cannon Is Perfect for Scaring Trick or Treaters

You could make crazy DIY Halloween decorations to scare the creeps out of trick or treaters in your neighborhood. You could dress up drones as flying ghosts or ghoulish goblins to strike fear into child-sized candy beggars. You could be the cranky old man who turns his light off and seeps scare by ignoring costume…

7 Things You Do On the Internet That’d Be Creepy to Do in Real Life

You’re a different person online compared to your real life. It’s okay. You don’t have to irrationally like cats just because you’re obsessed with cat videos. You don’t have to literally poke the people you poked on Facebook. You don’t have to like or follow or tag or comment or stalk celebrities like you do…

The NSA Says an ‘Internal Error’ Caused Its Outage Not a DDoS Attack

The completely competent folks of the NSA are saying that its nuked website is a result of an internal error, a glitch, a mistake and not because hackers launched a DDoS attack on it. That’s cool, the NSA didn’t go down because of hackers but because it screwed itself up. https://gizmodo.com/the-nsas-website-is-down-1452393630 In a statement to…

Blowing Up Pumpkins with C4 and Detonating Cords Seems Way More Fun

What do you call the Halloween equivalent of being a Christmas Grinch? Because whatever it is, that’s what I am now. Gone are the happy days of trick or treating and dressing up in clever costumes and getting the brain blitzed to an unrecognizable shade of matter and carving intricate pumpkins and so on, instead…

Bloomberg: DirecTV and TWC Might Create an Aereo-like Service

As cable companies continue to come up with creative ways to sell us TV without hooking us onto traditional cable, Bloomberg is reporting that DirecTV and Time Warner Cable are both thinking about creating an Aereo-type streaming service for customers to use. If it works like Aereo, it means you get to watch TV over…

How Much of Your Shopping Is Done on Amazon?

If you live in a big city without a car, it’s probably easier to just do all your shopping on Amazon. If you drive everywhere and have a Costco membership, it might make sense to do all your shopping there. If you drive sometimes but like getting packages, maybe you combine the best of both…

Learn More About Time Travel So You Can Be Prepared for the Future

Though most of us probably think time travel only works inside a DeLorean, much smarter folks out there can explain it slightly better than Doc Brown. Like this TED-Ed animation narrated by Colin Stuart. It reveals how time travel is possible, who has time traveled the longest, the history of time travel and the hopeful…

Comcast Plans to Offer the Closest Thing to an HBO Go Subscription

The entire Internet would very much appreciate it if HBO offered an HBO Go subscription without the need to have cable. We want to pay for HBO Go like we pay for Netflix. But that hasn’t happened… yet. But people are trying! Even cable companies. Comcast has come up with a new package that’s probably…