Casey Chan

Frank Gehry Is Designing Facebook’s New Office Building and That’s Sad

Frank Gehry, the genius architect who designed the Walt Disney Concert Hall or the curve perverted one-trick pony who litters beautiful cities with Toontown buildings because he can’t draw a straight line anymore (depending on your perspective), is going to be designing Facebook’s new engineering office building. You don’t even need to know architecture to…

Here Are the People Behind Google Doodles

Google Doodles are the Cracker Jack prizes of the Internet, the digital back of the cereal box, a quirk that humanize the giant search company. And it’s funny because the Doodles themselves exist in a sort of mysterious world—they pop up one day and then disappear. Very few people know about the process of creating…

The Wacky Words That Are Now in the Oxford Dictionaries Online: LOLZ, Photobomb, Mwahahaha and More

Dictionaries exist in between a rock and a hard place: jump on new words too late and they look like a dinosaur, add in words too early and they’re made into a mockery. Words are hard, yes, but some words don’t exactly need defining like some of these just added to the Oxford Dictionaries Online.…

Watch This Girl Incredibly Paint a Portrait of Adele with Burning Candles

Hong Yi, the lovely artist who makes mind blowing art from everyday objects like books, coffee and basketballs, is back at it again. This time? She paints a picture of Adele using burning candles. Seriously. Who needs a paintbrush when you have hot wax, right? https://gizmodo.com/watch-a-girl-sculpt-zuckerbergs-face-with-books-5916540 I can barely light a candle without burning myself…

Use This Equation to Figure Out If Alien Life Exists

The Drake Equation, developed by astronomer Frank Drake, is an equation that estimates how many alien civilizations might live in our galaxy. But the more we find out about the way of the milky, the less chance alien life exists. Just check out the difference between how much alien life existed before when the Drake…

Saying Happy Birthday to Your Friend on Facebook Is Meaningless

We’ve already told you that Facebook ruined your birthday. And it’s so completely true! It’s completely meaningless now, hordes of semi-friends and quasi-acquaintances fake like they care about you. Ugh. And maybe when the wall posts first start trickling in you’re a little happy but as more and more keyboard vomit starts popping up, you…

This Most Amazing Time Lapse Shows The Beautiful Life of a City

Call it vapid, call it fake, call it soul sucking. Go ahead. Complain about the traffic, complain about the people, complain about the smog. You can say whatever you want but the fact is this: Los Angeles is so very beautiful. Don’t believe me? Watch this time lapse video of LA by Colin Rich which…

The iPad Mini Might Actually Be Announced in October

We’ve long known that iPhone 5 Day 2012 would be September 12th—Apple would hold an event, Tim Cook would go on stage, a new iPhone would be announced and Apple will claim that this changes everything. There were also reports that a new 7-inch iPad mini would be announced on the same day. They might’ve…

An Unknown Hacker Group Claims That It Shut Down the World’s Largest Oil Company—And That They’ll Do It Again

The NY Times is reporting that unknown computer hackers who call themselves “Cutting Sword of Justice” have claimed responsibility for spreading a malicious virus into Saudi Aramco, the Saudi government-owned oil company that’s also the world’s largest, and destroying three-quarters of all its computers. The hackers used a similar virus as the government created virus,…

The Impossible Project recreated the giant 8×10 instant film for large Polaroid cameras at $19 a shot. ‘Spensive!

Here’s a Video Comparison Between Rumored iPhone 5 Parts and the iPhone 4S

If you weren’t aware, a new iPhone is coming out very, very, very soon. And before any new iPhone release, rumored parts of the upcoming iPhone get leaked and pictures get taken and videos get made. This video purportedly shows iPhone 5 parts compared with iPhone 4S parts and the biggest difference? You guessed it:…

LG Has Started Production on Super Thin Screens Supposedly for the iPhone 5

Reuters is reporting that LG has started mass production of a “new and thinner display, widely speculated to be for use in Apple’s next iPhone.” It makes sense, especially since we expect the iPhone 5 to be announced on September 12th, for factories to start pumping out iPhone 5 parts. https://gizmodo.com/report-apple-iphone-and-ipad-mini-announcement-will-be-5930041 The screens LG is…

Best Buy Wants You to Spend $1000 on a HDMI Cable

Best Buy, who must think that if people are silly enough to shop there, they might be a big enough sucker to get ripped off on HDMI cables, is offering a “diamond” “high-speed” 2-foot HDMI cable for the most ridiculous price of $940. What a steal! What a criminal rip off. It’s a glitch, of…

What Facebook Deals with Everyday: 2.7 Billion Likes, 300 Million Photos Uploaded and 500 Terabytes of Data

If you were ever curious to how many photos get uploaded to Facebook everyday or how many likes happen across the entire social network or the sheer size of data booking the face is responsible for, look no further. Facebook gave a state of the union (of sorts) that detailed just how big Facebook data…

What Do You Think Happens When a Tank Smashes Into a Giant Mud Puddle?

It’s like watching Shamu and being in the splash zone only worse because it’s dirty, filthy mud that gets splattered all across your body. But come on, giant tank plus mud puddle? You already know it’s coming. Mud for you! Mud for you! Mud for everyone! [The Awesomer]

NFL Helmets Are Finally Using Technology to Make Things Not Suck

The NFL has taken their sweet ol’ time to embrace technology—coaches still use black-and-white photo printouts to show plays, binder thick playbooks are still the norm and helmets still had analog radio headsets for communication. Well, at least one of those ancient technologies is getting better. The NFL is finally replacing the old analog communication…

There Is Such Thing As DIY Molten Lava and It’s Awesome

You know what’s always amazing? Lava. The power of that liquid molten burning is stunning and out of this world—when you see it, you feel like you’re getting a peek of hell. You know what’s even more amazing? That people are making their own molten lava. The DIY lava is a project from Syracuse University…

The Science of Why Wet Animals Shake Themselves Dry

When a dog gets wet, what do they do to dry themselves? Shake away. It’s the same for every animal! A team of researchers studied 16 wet animals including dogs, mice, tigers, bears and others to see the difference in their technique and recorded their shakes in slow motion to find out. The science of…

Online Prostitution Laws Are Out of Date and Letting Internet Pimps Off the Hook

According to legal experts, the laws that have been regulating prostitution have left giant loopholes when it comes to online prostitution. So though real life brothels can still be policed with those old laws, brothels that originate and operate over the Internet have managed to escape the law. Ruh Roh. The discussion of these prostitution…

The US Army Wants to Create a Nasal Spray That Prevents Suicide

Suicides are very sad but also, possibly, preventable and hopefully, treatable. The US Army is banking that they can develop a nasal spray that could prevent suicidal thoughts from ever occurring and are spending the next few years trying to combat suicide in soldiers with science. The Army has decided to put Dr. Michael Kubek,…