Casey Chan

Idiot Fugitive Taunts Police Over Facebook to Catch Him if They Can. Guess What Happens?

Wanted by police in upstate New York, Victor Burgos was hiding out in Brooklyn. Starting to feel untouchable, he taunted the police with a Facebook message: ‘Catch me if you can. I’m in Brooklyn’. Well, they caught him. Burgos, a 29-year-old rap music promoter, had floating arrest warrants in Utica, New York dealing with domestic…

A Canoe That Can Fit Inside a Backpack

Ori Levin designed a full sized canoe that’s completely collapsable and can be stored in a bag that’s only 5 x 9 x 28 inches big. Basically, you can have a boat in your backpack. Called the Adhoc Canoe, it only weighs 9 pounds and takes 5 minutes to assemble. The frame of the canoe…

The Polaroid Z340 Looks Like the Lovechild of the Polaroid One and a Point and Shoot

Polaroid might’ve ditched the instant film business but it doesn’t mean they can’t make digital equivalents. The Polaroid Z340 looks like a great digital compromise: classic body, digicam innards like 14 megapixels, flip-up LCD, etc. and ink-free prints. https://gizmodo.com/polaroid-instant-film-killed-by-the-21st-century-354567 The Polaroid Z340’s built-in printer uses the Zink (Zero Ink) technology so there’s no need for…

Artificial Intelligence Created Using Human DNA

A team at Caltech has developed an artificial neural network from human DNA molecules. Yup, we used a bit of ourselves to create artificial intelligence. I think I know how this story ends. More seriously, the Caltech researchers used DNA molecules to build their artificial neural network (which is the beginnings of a brain) because…

JetBlue Is Offering All You Can Jet Deal for 3 Months with BluePass

JetBlue has offered unlimited travel deals in the past with their All You Can Jet package, but this time they’re giving you even more time to travel. You can fly anywhere, as much as you want for three freaking months! https://gizmodo.com/jetblue-brings-back-all-you-can-jet-deal-5614813 Sadly, as awesome as three months of unlimited travel sounds, it’s a bit more…

Mad Scientists Have Created a Glow in the Dark Dog

For some reason, crazy scientists from South Korea have created a dog that glows in the dark. Seriously. The beagle, named Tegon, was cloned and genetically modified so it lights up when you put it under ultraviolet light. It sounds completely gimmicky and terrible but the South Korean scientists said building the glowing dog could…

A Mom Tried to Light a Cigarette with a Gun But Accidentally Shot Her Daughter Instead

Guns, cigarettes, shootings…it’s your everyday gangster movie! Except sadly um, this is real life. Rachel Avila, a 30-year-old mother, tried to light her cigarette with a gun but instead, had the bullet ricochet off the ground and hit her daughter. To be fair, because the gun, a derringer style .22, was so small, Avila thought…

Why Newspapers Suck at the Internet

Seriously guys. We like you, we’ll even pay you. This internet thing isn’t that hard! [Brad Colbow] Click to embiggen. You can keep up with Casey Chan, the author of this post, on Twitter or Facebook.

A Wall of 250 Canon Cameras Flashing Their Lights Is a Seizure Waiting to Happen

Japan musicians Androp built a backdrop of 250 Canon cameras and programmed all their flashes to fire off in a sort of digital stop-motion screen. Watch it, though I can’t guarantee the video won’t blind you and give you a seizure. They programmed the 250 Canon cameras with Arduino, openFrameworks and Flash. There wasn’t any…

Wreck This for iPhone and iPad Lets You Kill Time By Scribbling Like a Sloppy Kid Again

At its heart, the iPad is supposed to be fun. Hell, life is supposed to be fun! Wreck This is an app that gives you silly tasks to accomplish on the iPad screen with nary a reason why. Sure I’ll scribble all over this What’s it do? Wreck This is a wonderful time killer. Imagine…

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Air Force Pilots Have Anti-Freeze in Their Blood and the Air Force Doesn’t Know Why

The Air Force recently noticed that some of their F-22 Raptor fighter pilots were acting erratically, specifically, they were acting drunk. But sozzled they weren’t, instead it’s been revealed that anti-freeze, oil fumes and propane invaded their blood. Whaaaat? https://jalopnik.com/grounded-stealth-fighter-fleet-ko-d-by-oxygen-woes-5799273 It’s amazing, some of the pilots forgot simple things like how to operate the radio…

The Easiest Way to Tie a Water Balloon

Tying a water balloon is infinitely less fun than throwing a water ballon. Turns out slippery wet latex doesn’t make for good grip! Enter Tie Not. It’s an impossibly crafty nozzle that practically does the tying for you. Watch. It’s been around for a while now but if you’re getting serious about water fights, equipping…

Possible iPhone 5 Case Suggests That the Next iPhone Will Have a Big Honking Screen, Big Honking Home Button and a Curved Back

It’s about damn time for some more iPhone 5 speculation! The latest? An iPhone case model that shows the next iPhone having an edge-to-edge screen, a wider home screen button (for possible gestures!) and an iPad 2-esque curved back. 9to5Mac says these case designs are being shopped around to Asian case manufacturers for production and…

BinderPad Hides Your iPad Inside a 3 Ring Binder So You Can Secretly Use It in Class

BinderPad is an iPad case that can fit inside a 3 ring binder. What’s so special about that? For the kids man! It’s completely stealth so students can hide it in their binders and look like they’re studying when they’re actually on their iPad. Ignore your teacher, don’t pay attention in class and spend all…

OK Go’s Latest Music Video Is a Kaleidoscope of Skin Tight Body Suits

OK Go, the mastermind musicians behind the awesomest music videos, recently revealed their latest creation: All Is Not Lost. It puts the camera underneath a glass panel to get a trippytastic and revealing view of people in skin-tight body suits. Yes, the feet and butts are in your face but the kaleidoscope effect is perfectly…

Is Technology Killing Sign Language?

A byproduct of innovation and technology is that it makes once useful things obsolete. Laserdiscs, tape decks, AOL, Dreamcast and more have all been killed off with better technology. Could that happen to sign language? Some people think so. The NY Times has an interesting report on technology and sign language and it’s actually becoming…

A Universal Flu Vaccine Is Coming Soon

The thing about the flu is that there’s a lot of different strains. One flu season is different from the other and each one requires a new shot. That could change! Doctors believe we’ll develop a universal vaccine soon enough. Specifically, Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, believes that in the…

A Future for Print: This Store Was Made with 1,800 Copies of the NY Times

Newspapers! They’ve finally found their purpose in our digital age! And it’s to be…building bricks for retail kiosks. 1,800 issues of the New York Times will clad this kiosk located in Grand Central Terminal in New York City. The kiosk was designed by Aesop, a skin-care company, and I’m guessing the sight of raggedly grey…

Google Shopper App Makes Room for Google Offers

Google Shopper has added two new features: you can see the latest offers local businesses put up in a list or map and keep track and redeem the ‘Google Offer’ deals you buy from the googs. More savings, less problems. [iTunes, Android Market via Google]