Eric Limer

How to Escape Comcast and Get Your Internet Elsewhere

Comcast has confirmed that it’s going to buy Time Warner Cable to form a huge, tangled monster of awfulness. Hooray! You want out? Lucky for you there are some alternatives to doing business with your monopolistic cable-internet master if you try hard enough. Here are your options, and good luck making your escape.

How Much of Your Phone Is Actually Screen?

Sure, you think about how big a phone’s screen is all the time, but how much of a phone’s screen is actually screen? This handy visualization from Post PC shows exactly how your handset stacks up against the rest of the world in screen-to-bezel ratio. The results might surprise you. [@somospostpc via Reddit]

Imagining Life With the iWatch

Apple’s making a smartwatch. By now that’s a foregone conclusion. What we don’t know, though, is what an iWatch will be. Although thepeople who are making it might offer us some clues. Stay in shape It’s Monday morning. Time to get up for work. But there are no ear-splitting klaxons in your room to usher…

All of Earth’s Water Comes From Space

If there’s one thing that makes our home planet special—other than the presence of you and me—it’s water. This is The Blue Marble after all. But for something that’s so characteristically Earth-y, its origins are positively extra-terrestrial. As MinuteEarth explains, the question isn’t so much whether our water came from space, but rather how it…

Insane people walk a line between hot air balloons above the clouds

Tight rope walking is terrifying on its own. If the tightrope is between hot air balloons, itgets mind-bendingly nuts. Just watch The Skyliners do it and you’ll see what I mean. This is totally safe because everyone involved is wearing a parachute, but whenever you see one of these well-balanced badasses fall despite their best…

Why Can’t They Make the MacBook Power Brick Any Smaller?

When you stop to think about it, it’s pretty crazy what technology lets us do everyday. We all have tiny super computers in our pockets. We send people to do crazy science in space like it ain’t no thang. So why can’t we just make MacBook power adapters a little bit smaller. It’s a question…

This Incredible Star Wars-Style Bionic Hand Let an Amputee Feel Again

We geeks all have the same platonic prosthesis ideal: Luke Skywalker’s badass Star Wars mech-hand. We’re getting there, bit by bit. Dennis Aabo Sørensen’s new hand is almost there; it let him feel again. The hand is the subject of an in-depth paper published in the journal Science Translational Medicine today, and has been tested…

Crazy Oculus Rift Rig Turns Any Room Into a Holodeck Full of Zombies

The Oculus Rift is already great when you’re just sitting down, but it’s easy to imagine an awesome future where you walk around with it on. A holodeck on your face. Well, that future’s already here. Meet the Inversion VR system from Zero Latency. Unlike a holodeck, you can’t just walk in though. To get…

Whining About Instant Video Might Get You an Amazon Prime Discount

Isn’t it a total drag how you can’t stream Amazon Prime videos on Android? And don’t you wish you could get a discount on Prime if you’re not actually watching any of that video? Well, Eric Neuman actually got one. And all he had to do was ask. It wasn’t even hard. Eric explains it…

The Best Chromecast App Is Back in Action

Now that Google has finally opened up the Chromecast for developers, AllCast—pretty much the best Chromecast app you could ask for—is back in the game. Developer Koushik Duttapushed out an update early this morning that will let you push pictures and videos from your phone to your Chromecast with the greatest of ease. There are…

What Microsoft’s New CEO Means for You

Ballmer’s out, Satya Nadella is in. The search for Microsoft’s third CEO is over. Thousands of people have a brand new boss, but what does that mean for you? You can read Microsoft’s official announcement here, but you won’t find much more than the usual press release cheerleading. Which makes sense; if the board didn’t…

Amazing video puts actor into six iconic scenes in one brilliant shot

Movie magic makes fantasy worlds feel real everyday, but this short film called “Icons” takes it to a whole other level by transforming one actor over and over again, putting him in multiple iconic scenes and works of art in a single incredible shot. From the Thinker to Mad Men to Reservoir Dogs to Daft…

Chromecast Is Finally Going to Get the Awesome Apps It Deserves

Chromecast has always been great at what it does, but up until now it’s done fairly little. Compatible apps have been just trickling in, largely because Google has been hand-picking what devs even get to play with the $35 wonderstick. No more! Google’s opened up the Chromecast to developers everywhere. Finally, it should start getting…

Scientists Are Going to Create the Coldest Spot in the Known Universe

The universe is freezing. In spots like the Boomerang Nebula the temperature drops all the way down to one degree Kelvin. But if NASA scientists have their way, the known universe will have a new coldest place, and it’s going to be inside the International Space Station. The Cold Atom Lab will be an atomic…

Can Motorola Still Be Awesome Without Google?

You can make all kinds of guesses about why Google sold Motorola. Did it only want the patents all along? Is it making nice with Samsung? But a more pressing question has been weighing on our minds: “So uh… what about the Moto X?” In a year where more and more manufacturers surrendered to stock…

The rumors are true: Google’s bringing Chrome apps to iOS and Android. Well, it’s providing the tools developers need in order to do so. The toolkit is only in a beta form at the moment, but it holds the promise turning Chrome apps into cross-platform suckers for your phone. If it turns out to be…

Why Google Might Just Kill the Nexus Dead

Since its inception, Google’s Nexus line has been a showcase for pure, untouched Android in some of the finest hardware available. It’s produced probably the best Android phone yet. And Google would be crazy not to kill it. Yesterday, Russian blogger Eldar Murdazin sparked a rumor that the Nexus line will in fact die out…

Is the New Google Glass Actually Any Less Awkward?

Google Glass has a new style. In fact you might say, it has “style” for the first time ever. But does the new look really make Glass look any less absurd? The original Glass was so held back by its crazy spaceman look that this update to real frames is definitely an improvement. But it…

Bitcoin Exchange CEO Arrested for Money Laundering

The Justice Department has formally charged the CEO of Bitcoin exchange Bitinstant.com with running an illegal wire service, and according to reports by the New York Post’s Kaja Whitehouse, he’s just been arrested at JFK. Uh oh. The charges against Bitinstant’s 24-year old CEO Charlie Shrem are more sophisticated than just “running a Bitcoin exchange.”…

Watch Cosmonauts Install a Livestreaming HD Camera on the ISS Right Now

Everybody loves some good Earth porn, and if the mission currently in progress goes off without a hitch, we’ll all be in for a lot more of it. A pair of cosmonauts are currently on a spacewalk to install an Earth-facing Ultra HD camera on the ISS that will eventually livestream our blue marble to…