Casey Chan

A Man’s Gut Brews Its Own Beer and Gets Him Drunk When He Eats Carbs

Okay, this is the best beer belly any one of us could ever dream of having. A 61-year-old man found himself getting drunk without ever drinking alcohol because he had brewer’s yeast in his gut. Basically, whenever he ate any carbs, the man’s intestinal tract would start turning that into beer and make him drunk.…

Report: Google May Stop Using Cookies to Track Users

According to a report from the WSJ, Google is considering ditching cookies to track its users. Instead, Google would “create its own anonymous identifier for each individual”. Google, which has previously secretly planted cookies in Internet Explorer and the iPhone, says it’s an attempt to make the Internet more secure for users. A Google spokesperson…

How to Silkscreen T-Shirts in Your Bathroom

Ever wanted to silkscreen your own graphic T-shirts at home? Don’t. Moca TV shows us what it takes to make a professional looking T-shirt and the process is probably not worth effort. It takes expert squeegee skills, a whole lotta waterproof tape and of course a good design. Just wear your t-shirts plain. Moca TV…

Staples and Radio Shack have decided to remove Amazon Lockers from their stores because they’ve realized that helping customers shop elsewhere isn’t a good idea. [Bloomberg]

What the Next iPad Might Look Like Next to the Current iPad

Reports have been filed, sources have spoken, parts have leaked and most everybody agrees that the next iPad (iPad 5?) will sport a much thinner bezel than what we’re used to from the current iPad. Basically, with the narrower bezel and thinner body, the next iPad will look like a bigger version of the iPad…

iPhone 5C Meta-Review: Colorful Plastic Masks Sure Are Fun

The iPhone hasn’t delved into the recycled slums of plastic since the days of the 3GS. That was way back in 2009. But with the iPhone 5C, colorful plastic is now in vogue. How much better has Apple gotten at doing plastic? How does it compare to other plastic phones? And most importantly, why should…

iPhone 5S Meta-Review: That Fingerprint Scanner Is Pretty Sweet

The iPhone 5 was one of the best phones money could buy. The iPhone 5S looks just like the iPhone 5 but packs guts that are even better, improves a camera that was already fantastic and adds a fingerprint scanner that can be either viewed as a game changer or a gimmick. What’s the deal?…

The Bestest Friends Ever Filled a Guy’s Entire Home Plumbing with Beer

Friends don’t get better than this. They could always have your back, they could be your groomsmen at your wedding, hell they could even give a kidney to you and they won’t ever beat these guys who pranked their friend by replacing his entire home plumbing system with beer. As in every faucet would spew…

Yep, the iCloud facelift to look a lot more like iOS 7 is finally public now. The iOS 7-designed iCloud website was previously in beta but has now gone wide. This update comes the day before the launch of iOS 7.

What’s the Biggest Living Thing on Earth?

Dinosaurs! No. Blue whales! No? Pandas? Ha. It really depends on what you consider a thing and what’s not a thing. And what’s actually living and what’s not traditionally considered living but is. And what’s on Earth and what’s inside Earth. Because if we’re counting any sort of organisms, it could very well be mushrooms…

New Leaked Nexus 5 Shows Off Its Giant Screen and Giant Camera

So a Nexus 5 apparently got left at a bar. It happens! And when it happens, pictures get taken and we lucky folks get to see what one of the most anticipated phones of the year looks like up close. It matches up quite nicely with the leaked phone in the Android 4.4 Kit Kata…

All 16 Million Colors of the RGB Spectrum Are in These Pictures

If you want to feel like you’re tripping out on wonderful drugs and/or see all the colors of the RGB spectrum in one image, going to the allRGB website should have you covered. It’s a project that show off images that contain all 16,777,216 distinct colors inside the RGB spectrum. Each of those colors pop…

The Nexus 4 Is Completely Sold Out and Supposedly Never Coming Back

After a wonderful price cut last month, Google has now completely sold out of both the 8GB Nexus 4 and the 16GB Nexus 4 on Google Play. Impressive! https://gizmodo.com/you-can-buy-a-nexus-4-8gb-for-200-and-a-16gb-for-250-1211597361 And also a little bit sad because The Verge is reporting that Google has “no plans” to bring the Nexus 4 “back in stock in any…

That giant 6-inch Lumia 1520 that was targeted to launch this month is supposedly being delayed until late October because of the Microsoft and Nokia deal. That is, if we see it at all.

Awesome Guy Re-Created the Star Wars Opening Crawl with HTML and CSS

Here’s something completely awesome on a day that needs more awesome. Tim Pietrusky recreated the famous opening crawl of Star Wars from 1977 using HTML, CSS and JavaScript because he couldn’t find a web version of it. Even better, the code is all up on Codepen.io and Pietrusky detailed his process on his website for…

Here’s the First Short Film Made Entirely from Vines

You could say that every Vine is a six-second short film but Airbnb stitched together a hundred Vines to tell one story. Yes, there are some jump cuts and stop motion involved. Yes, there is an inspirational soundtrack. And yes, it’s actually pretty good. Called Hollywood and Vines, Airbnb offered up $100 of credit to…

Watch iOS 6 Morph Into iOS 7 in One GIF

Things are going to change once iOS 7 hits your iPhone next week. Doesn’t matter if you’re buying the new iPhone 5C or 5S or not, all those icons you’ve gotten used to will morph into brighter, flatter and larger versions of what you know. Best part about this GIF though? Scott Forstall’s creepy smile…

Can You Spot the Photographs Hiding in Plain Sight?

It’s not too difficult to find the still photographs in this video but some seem to pop up and surprise you when you’d least suspect it. This short little video created by mustardcuffins shows photographs that “skim across the skin of reality”. Awesome concept. [mustardcuffins]

Nokia Was Testing Android Lumia Phones Before Microsoft Swallowed It

It’ll never happen now but the dream of beautifully brawny Nokia hardware loaded with dominating Android software was an idea that Nokia had been toying around with before Microsoft swooped in and bought Nokia’s phone business. In fact, Android-powered Lumia phones actually existed inside Nokia. You heard it right, ANDROID LUMIA PHONES. https://gizmodo.com/breaking-microsoft-is-buying-nokias-phones-business-1243005211 The NY…

You Can Pre-Order the iPhone 5C Right Now

iPhone 5C pre-orders just went live and if you want to brighten up your life with some colorful plastic and if you want to avoid waiting in a silly line, you can head over to Apple.com to get your new iPhone. The carriers are all taking pre-orders too (along with others), so hopefully you have…