Eric Limer

Anyone Can Be a Pool Shark When This Projector Calls the Shots

Pool is simple if you know your geometry. And physics. And have good hand-eye coordination. And while none of those seem that hard on their own, they can be a little tough to put together. But with a little help from tech, it becomes as easy as just keeping your eyes open. PoolLiveAid is a…

Would You Watch a Stream Of Pure Ads To Earn Free Streaming Movies?

Free streaming is supported by ads. It’s just a feature of the form. You see it in Spotify, Pandora, Hulu, even YouTube. But you usually don’t get the chance to separate the two and control your ad-seeing power. HitBliss is looking to change that. By signing up for the HitBliss service and offering up your…

Lost Continents, How Space Will Kill You To Death, The Most Civilized Flights Ever, And More

Even with Mobile World Congress in full swing, it’s been a quiet week, but we’ve picked out the high points for your binge-style enjoyment. Taste the smooth flavors of a lost continent, mixed with just a pinch of weird iPod engravings, a dash of Galaxy S IV rumors, $2,500 worth of in-app purchases, four kinds…

Meet The Collector: Man of 1,000 Cameras

Plenty of people are collectors, but only some take it all the way to the extreme and wrap it into their every day life. The Collector, as he is known, owner of over 1,000 different cameras, is part of that second group. Green Renaissance met the man while he was browsing for old Nikon lenses…

Evernote Was Hacked And Your (Encrypted) Passwords Got Stolen

If you go to log in to Evernote, you’ll find that you have to reset your password. Why? Well according to a post on the official Evernote blog, they were hacked, and while no personal information was snatched, emails, usernames, and passwords were. Luckily, those passwords were encrypted, but better safe than sorry. From the…

Yahoo’s giving up on a bunch of its projects so it can refocus its energy. Bye bye Blackberry app. [The Guardian]

Preeminent Cyborg Afraid Google’s Glass Design Might Be Wack

Google’s been pushing its Project Glass hard lately, with Sergey Brin wearing a pair everywhere, and going so far as to call smartphones “emasculating.” The space-age specs do seem pretty cool, but everyone’s favorite Canadian cyborg Steve Mann told IEEE Specturm that he’s concerned about its design. And he would know. Professor Steve Mann, of…

Watch This Bartending Robot Pee Ingredients Into the Perfect Cocktail

It’s one thing to have a robot make drinks for you. It’s another to have a robot make drinks for you in style. “Shake” does the latter, though maybe it’s style isn’t quite up your alley. But however you feel about its trio of peeing statues, you have to admit the automatic shaker and coiled…

Find Out Where That Internet On Your Computer Really Came From

The Internet is an ethereal thing. It’s everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Sure, it’s “on” your computer (or your phone), but it came from somewhere, and this art installation shows you where. Exactly. The Data Centers Grand Tour, by Silvio Lorusso, an e-Permanent exhibition with one, simple goal: to show you the data…

The First Images of the Ocean Beneath Antarctica

NASA’s got all kinds of cred when it comes to space, but the very depths of our own planet’s oceans aren’t that much different. So who better to take a deep dive and drudge up the first images of the watery world beneath Antarctica’s ancient glaciers? The Micro-Submersible Lake Exploration Device is a small, tubular…

Don’t Freak Out, But Mars Rover Curiosity Is Having Its First Big Problem

Considering what it’s involved, Mars Rover Curiosity’s mission has been going really well. Staggeringly well. But that couldn’t last forever. The rover has hit its first real road bump with a gnarly computer failure that’s going to delay all the science-ing for at least a week. https://gizmodo.com/why-nasas-mars-curiosity-rover-landing-will-be-seven-mi-5920588 On Wednesday of this week, one of Curiosity’s…

YouTube Puts the Final Meta Nail in the Harlem Shake’s Coffin

If you somehow haven’t had quite enough of the Harlem Shake yet, you might be inclined to surf on over to YouTube and type in “Do The Harlem Shake.” And if you were to do that, YouTube’ll interpret it as a direct order, and unleash a meta-jig of its own. Can this be the final,…

A Horrifying 100-Foot Sinkhole Swallowed a Florida Man in His Bed

Last night a Florida man awoke to a very real nightmare as the floor of his bedroom collapsed out from under him. The sinkhole that spawned beneath his home late Thursday simply enveloped the room—and its sole occupant—with no warning, leaving almost nothing behind. http://gawker.com/5987806/100+foot-sinkhole-opens-in-florida-bedroom-swallowing-and-killing-man The man’s brother, elsewhere in the house, rushed to the…

BB10 just got a software update. Improved 3rd party app performance, camera updates, and assorted bug-fixes. Woo.

Reinforce Your Wardrobe With a Industrial-Strength Rebar Hanger

Is all your bad-ass clothing just too much for those flimsy, plastic, run-of-the-mill hangers. Do your pants or shirts, weighted as they are with pounds of pure awesomeness, need something more structurally sound to keep them in order? The “Man Hanger” suits your very strange needs. Made from real, industrial-grade rebar, hand-bent into shape (somehow),…

Thanks To HTML5 This Website Can Fill Your Whole Hard Drive with Cats

Sometimes a browser needs to leave a little data on your computer, just a little 5-10KB nibblit, a cookie. HTML5 is a hungrier beast than that which came before it though, and sometimes wants a little more. Maybe 5MB or so. But that’s where it should end. Thanks to a little HTML5 vulnerability, however, this…

Scientists Wire Two Rats’ Brains Together and Share a Thought Across the Internet

Telepathy isn’t real. You can’t read minds with nothing but the tools you were born with. But add a little bit of wiring and that starts to change. Scientists have now managed to get two lab rats to think in-sync with just a little augmentation. The experiment, documented in a recent issue of Scientific Reports,…

Meet the World’s Oldest Kindle: A Ferris Wheel for Books

It might be hard to imagine, but there was once a time where thousands upon thousands of books and arguably the sum totally of human knowledge was not readily available at your fingertips. And while it’s no Kindle, Agostino Ramelli’s 16th century bookwheel was a valiant attempt to make that happen. Initially designed in 1588,…

Conan Knows What You’re Really Using That iPad For

Apple’s new iPad commercial that aired during the Oscars would have you believe that there’s a lot of film-making going on with that device, and maybe there is. But there’s a lot more watching, and Conan’s gotten to the bottom of exactly what’s being watched. There’s no denying it: an iPad is a great for…

Google Had a Big Ol’ Hole In Its Two-Step Verification System

The coast is clear now, but for a while there, Google’s two-step verification system wasn’t keeping you as safe as you thought. In fact, it was providing an avenue for folks to get in. App-specific passwords were propping your door open. The exploit was found—and reported—by Duo Security, which is publishing its data now that…