Casey Chan

Would You Pay 300 Bucks for a Radio?

Geneva, maker of very pretty but expensive rectangles that pump out sweet sound, has a radio that costs 300 bucks. To be fair, the Geneva WorldRadio is a little more than just a radio, it has a Bluetooth receiver, touch controls, alarm cock and a headphone jack (along with its FM tuner). So that makes…

You’re Going to Be So Disgusted with Humans After Watching This Video

Human beings, I love ya, but man are we disgusting. This video by Aaron Rogers lists and animates all the scientific grossness of being a human and it gets pretty gnarly. Like how many hot tubs our saliva can fill and what our eye boogers are made from and all the other nasty stuff that…

What Happens When You Tie a Knot in the Middle of a Zipline

Our crazy awesome friend DevinSuperTramp and his gang of crazier and even more awesome friends came up with ways to make a zipline ever more fun: tying a knot in the middle of the line, running two people at once to catapult a person and trying as many insane tricks with skis as possible. The…

PBS Explains What Trolling Is

If you’ve traveled around the circuit track of the Internet a couple of times, you’ve heard about trolls trolling. What does that mean? For the Internet unfamiliar, it’s basically a bunch of not so lovely online folks who post stuff to get people angry. The latest video from PBS Off Book explains trolling, cyber bulling…

Ray Kurzweil is going to work for Google focusing on machine learning and language processing.

Snapchat Now Automatically Sets Your Sexy Video Messages to Self-Destruct in 10 Seconds or Less Too

The safe sexting app that automatically deletes pictures you send to friends a few seconds after they view it has added something that could get a lot raunchier: videos. Yep, Snapchat does video now. You can record a video up to 10 seconds long and send it to your Snapchat friends. They can only watch…

You Guys, Google Is Just So Freaking Cute

If you hadn’t noticed, it was a pretty big day for Google. The Google Maps app came out late last night and completely dominated Apple Maps and to celebrate, Google—as only Google can—had its YouTube, Google Earth and Gmail Team poke fun of Google Maps over Twitter. It’s good natured nerd humor that’s just sooooo…

What Happens When You Leave a Piano on the Street?

Heartbreak, that’s what happens. The video, made by Anthony Sherin, captures the life of a piano left on the streets of New York City. It starts out nicely, people play a few notes, others join in and then… it gets ransacked and stripped to shreds. The saddest part is when a couple comes with dollies…

Here’s a Good Reason Why the Camera Megapixel Wars Needs to Stop

This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who understands cameras and megapixels and storage space but it could be a good excuse to not get suckered by the megapixel wars in buying a camera. The more pixels, the more space it takes. A thousand images taken on the 36 megapixeled Nikon D800 takes up…

Download Google Maps for iOS Right Now and Get Turn by Turn Navigation, Public Transit Directions and Street View

After somehow managing to survive life without it, Google Maps is back and better than ever for iOS. That means no more melting world of Apple Maps, no more false listings, no more getting lost and no more map inferiority on your iPhone. Get rid of Apple Maps and go download Google Maps in the…

An Awesome Guy Made a Flying Drone Armed with a Paintball Gun

Any sort of flying drone is already awesome. How do you make it more awesome? Attach a camera and arm it with a paintball gun so it can fly around and shoot unsuspecting people, animals and/or objects. Doesn’t that sound like a crap ton of fun? Made by Milo Danger, it’s a little bit of…

This Skateboarding Video Isn’t Real

You’ve never seen a skateboarding video with angles like this. As skateboarder Danny Brady goes in for his trick, you’ll see a slow motion, almost bullet-timed view of him. But. It’s not real. As incredibly detailed as it is, it’s all fake. You won’t believe it. Made by NEON, the video tries to shows a…

Holy Crap Pacific Rim Looks Monstrously Incredible

When you have giant monsters fighting giant machines in a movie, my god, you have my interest. When you have Guillermo del Toro direct your movie, my god, you have my interest. When you have Jax Teller from Sons of Anarchy and Stringer Bell from The Wire in the same movie, my god, you have…

Here Are the Clearest Pictures of the BlackBerry 10 L-Series AKA Blackberry’s Last Hope

The BlackBerry 10 L-Series, which has been spied before, just got a full centerfold at Tinhte.vn and the biggest surprise? It kind of looks wonderful. The L-Series, which is also known as the hail mary phone that RIM is banking the entire company, looks a lot like an iPhone 5 from some angles but at…

Oh Hell Yeah, There’s Going to Be Even More Arrested Development Episodes Now

If news that Arrested Development was going to get 10 brand new episodes didn’t make you want to celebrate by doing the chicken dance, how about this: Netflix is expanding its order of episodes for Season 4. Now there’ll be anywhere from 12-15 new Arrested Development episodes as opposed to 10. HOORAY! https://gizmodo.com/arrested-development-is-coming-back-exclusive-to-netfl-5861053 Deadline reports…

Watching This Guy Make Cotton Candy Art Is Incredibly Tasty

Have you ever tried to make cotton candy? Whenever I start twirling that stick in that intimidating centrifugal force of a cotton candy machine, my cotton candy turns out lumpy, tumorous and never looks appetizing. I mean it’s still delicious—like any sugary cloud would be—but it looks disgusting. This guy though, makes art with cotton…

How Are Dead People Liking Stuff on Facebook?

Have you noticed your friends liking stuff on Facebook that you know they don’t like? Yes? No? Well, have you seen some people like stuff on Facebook even though they’re… dead? It’s happening. And it’s because of a weird underworld of fake Facebook Likes. Read Write took a look at the odd phenomenon of fake…

You Can Major in Social Media for College Now

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram—these are things that we use everyday! And these are things that a whole college education can be based off now. Newberry College in Newberry, South Carolina has made an entire undergraduate major for social media. You can graduate with honors in Facebooking. As one of the first interdisciplinary majors in social media,…

How to Make an Awesome Ugly Christmas Sweater with an iPad

People are growing more and more obsessed with ugly Christmas sweater parties, so if you want to show off how awesomely ugly your clothing can get, try this: an ugly sweater outfitted with a burning iPad. It’ll blow the mind of every inebriated party goer you run into. Made by DIY master Mark Rober, Rober…

This Awesome Art Made with Food Is Proof Your Parents Should Have Let You Play with Your Food

Do you remember yourself as a child? All that unbridled creativity, all that stepping out of the box, all that kidness. You used to be the Picasso with the dinner plate, moving peas here, swiping sauces there. It look like a real piece of art until… your mom or dad told you to quit playing…