Eric Limer

White House: You Should Be Able to Unlock Your Phone If You Own It

The White House has responded to a 100,000+ signature petition opposing the recent decision by the Librarian of Congress to remove DMCA exemptions for unlocking cellphones. The official response? You should be able to unlock your phone with no legal penalty. So long as you own your phone. https://gizmodo.com/unlocking-your-phone-is-illegal-starting-tomorrow-5978982 Unlocking your phone for use on…

This Is Where Dysons Are Born

Dyson makes some of the prettiest vacuums, hand-driers, and air blower/suckers out there, so it should come as no surprise that the factory where they are born is as mesmerizing as its products. A new video from the Dyson team gives a little glimpse into the calculated insanity of swirling arms that puts Dysons together.…

Bring the Drive-Thru to Your Kitchen with this Instant Breakfast Sandwich Tower

Breakfast sandwiches are one of the best ways you can start the day (taste-wise, at least). But they tend to be logistically difficult. Either you’ve got to take the time to carefully assemble one, or pay some scruffy, minimum-wage employee to make one for you. Hamilton Beach’s Breakfast Sandwich Maker merges the best of both…

Got a Galaxy Note II? Ne’er-do-wells can use this trick to peek past your lockscreen for a second, but not much else.

How To Turn Fruits And Vegetables Into a Delicious Musical Instrument

If you wanted to learn an unconventional instrument, maybe you’d opt for the accordion or the glockenspiel. J.viewz decided to build his own. Out of fruits and vegetables. Sure, he didn’t have to use fruits and vegetables to create the effect, but it just wouldn’t be the same without them. Song’s not half bad either.…

Modest Mouse: Polar Opposites

You can take your “Float On” and put it right back on the shelf, because the real meat of Modest Mouse lies a bit further back in the catalogue. “Polar Opposites” is a prime example. Off Modest Mouse’s classic 1997 sophomore album The Lonesome Crowded West—home of other fantastic songs like “Trailer Trash“, and “Doin’…

Pantone Food Pairings Are The Perfect Snacks for Designers

Art nerds will know their complimentary colors, but for the rest of us, food pairings are far more interesting/important. Minneapolis-based graphic designer and illustrator David Schwen, but together this clever little collection of “pantone pairings” as little Instagram art project. And while you’d be hard-pressed to find a bucket of “pantone cookie” for your walls,…

A Baby Has Been Cured of HIV

It may sound hard to believe, but doctors from Mississippi are saying that for the first time, an infant has been cured of an HIV infection. The New York Times relays reports from doctors who say the infant had tested positive for HIV on five separate occasions and now, at age two and a half…

The Next Big Windows Phone Update Is (Probably) Coming For Christmas

Microsoft has been pretty quiet about their long term plans for the Windows 8 ecosystem, but its job board has been pretty loud-mouthed. First, it hinted at the plan for Windows Blue, and now a new posting indicated that the next big thing for Windows Phone is probably going to show up at the end…

Send Some Dangerous Airmail With These Weaponized Paper Planes

We’ve all done our fair share of chucking paper airplanes at friends. And maybe, if you’re a real engineer, you’ve made some clever, paper-folding modifications that let your plane do a loop—or better yet actually land on target. Joerg Sparve has turned his eye towards those paper aircraft, and needless to say, the outcome can…

How Many Unread Emails Are Hanging Out In Your Inbox?

It seems that either you can’t fathom how inbox zero could ever be possible, or you can’t imagine how anyone could get by anything but. Which camp do you fall into? Have you got 4 or 5 weekend emails stacked up in there, waiting to be cleared out come Monday? Or do you have 4…

Watch 15,000 Volts of Raw Power Burn Lightning Strikes into Wood

When lightning flashes across the sky, you only get a chance to glimpse its fractal form for a split second. But when you send 15,000 volts coursing through plywood, you get a much better look at how it grows. Melanie Hoff, a student at the Pratt Institute in New York City did just that, and…

Check Out These Cameras Posing for Their X-Ray Portraits

Bored with simply taking pictures with cameras, photographer and X-ray technician Blake Billings resorted to taking some pictures of cameras, using his local X-ray machine. Up to, you’ll see a Nikon D60 Some of the cameras’ innards are packed in there a little too tight to get a really nice look at their guts, but…

Astronauts Traveling To Mars Could Be Protected By a Poop Shield

There are all kinds of dangers on a trip to Mars. Muscle atrophy, cramped quarters, social/isolation stress, being in space. Take your pick. One of the biggest though, is being exposed to all manner of radiation and cosmic rays without an o-zone layer to keep you safe. The solution? An O-zone layer of poop. Basically.…

Meet the F-22 That Thinks It’s a Rocket

The F-22 has had more than its fair share of problems, but when it isn’t crashing or suffocating its pilots it’s a sight to behold. Here’s some footage of one at today’s Melborne Air Show going for a vertical climb that makes it look like it had wanted to be a rocket when it grew…

Watch This Biker Fly Downhill With His Gigantic Balls of Steel

Biking down to the store to pick up a two liter of soda is one thing. Bombing down a steep street at full speed, throwing all caution to the wind is another, and Marcelo Gutierrez is a pro at it. This is is winning run from the recent Valparaiso Urban Downhill competition, and it’s enough…

Mogwai: Yes! I Am a Long Way From Home

Some people just have to have lyrics in their music. Those people are suckers. Mogwai is for non-suckers, and for post-rock newbies “Yes! I Am a Long Way From Home” is fantastic way to start. And in general it’s just a great jam. Off the Scottish band’s critically acclaimed debut Young Team, “Yes! I Am…

Amazon Blocks The Sale of Gross, Auto-Generated “Keep Calm and Rape Her” Shirts

The whole “Keep Calm and [X]” trend has been a fun little meme for merchandisers everywhere, ever since the now-public domain WWII slogan was rediscovered. But a seller on Amazon might have taken the opportunity too far. So far, in fact, that Amazon found itself having to take down some offers for a “Keep Calm…

The DRM on This Chair Makes It Melt Down After Eight Uses

Nobody likes DRM. Well, The Man likes DRM, but none of us little people. It just hamstrings use for honest folk and makes things infinitesimally more difficult for pirates. It’s the kind of thing that only “makes sense” for digital goods, hence the name. But the folks over at ECAL decided to show off how…

IBM’s Watson Got a Job as a Pastry Chef

Super computer Watson can crush puny humans at Jeopardy. It can do a pretty bang-up job as a doctor. It can swear up a storm. Two of those aren’t easy for a normal person, but that’s not enough for IBM. IBM wants more. And part of it’s plan to push Watson to its limits should…