Eric Limer

Catch 22: Walking Away

We all have that handful of bands that really blew us away in highschool, but only a few of them can stand the test of time. Catch 22 is pretty high up there on my list. The whole album Keasbey Nights is fantastic (but the post-Keasbey Nights stuff is more meh) and “Walking Away” is…

Google’s Working To Remove Its Redirect and Bring Its Maps Back to Windows Phone

After a bit of craziness yesterday when the mobile version of Google Maps stopped working on Windows Phone 8, Google has clarified/changed its story. According to reports by The Next Web, Google Maps mobile is coming back after all. https://gizmodo.com/google-maps-has-never-been-accessible-on-internet-explo-5973295 Initially, Google explained the absence of the mobile app on Windows Phone 8 by saying…

Weird Revolving Doors Like These Could Save Your Life Someday

Doors are some seriously ancient tech but they have this problem where they can only keep people out if they’re closed. This bizarre but clever take on the “revolving door” by a company called Barbecan, on the other hand, aims to get you inside, but simultaenously keep any ne’er-do-wells out. Specifically ne’er-do-wells with bombs and…

This Electrified Brain Is Made of Thousands and Thousands of Drops of Solder

The brain is all about connections. Little jolts of electricity jumping from between thousands of interconnected neurons to send a message. It’s a crazy house up there. This brain is sort of the same way, made with hardly anything but thousands of drops of solder—metal neurons, if you will—and coursing with the energy to light…

Would You Wear a Google Smartwatch That Looked Like This?

Whatever your opinion on the whole smartwatch thing is, don’t worry/get excited; this isn’t real. This is just a concept design called “Google Time” by Adrian Maciburko. That said, they look kind of, well, nice. Of course for a smartwatch to be any good it’d also have to work well, unlike some others we’ve seen.…

Confessions of an iOS Turncoat, What Hangovers Are, Majestically Mammoth Aeroscrafts, and More

2013 is off to a running start. We’re in a dead sprint toward CES, but there’s still plenty of goodness to go around. An iPhone-r gives it over to Android, NASA’s thinking about giving the moon a moon, the future of television may be scary, helicopters are crashing, aeroscrafts are rising, and we dive into…

A Ball of Super Hot Metal Is an Awesomely Noisy Way to Heat Your Water

Microwaves are a fine way to warm water. So are stoves. But neither of them quite compare to dropping in a sphere of red-hot nickel to do the trick. Thanks to a little something called the Leidenfrost effect, the ball actually surrounds itself with a blanket of steam that keeps the rest of the water…

The USPTO Is Asking Developers For Some Pointers on Fixing Software Patents

The world of software patents is a strange, confusing, inefficient place. There’s a pretty serious question as to whether or not software patents should really even exist. Now, the USPTO is making moves to at least step in a better direction by calling out to software developers anywhere and everywhere for advice on fixing the…

Need Some Old Space Shuttle Facilities? NASA’s Got a Deal for You

Ever since NASA started wrapping up its space shuttle program, it’s had a lot of extra gear on its hands. The shuttles were sent off to retirement and other assorted equipment was cleaned out of the garage. Now NASA’s game to lease or sell some of the infrastructure that’s still hanging around at the Kennedy…

Watch This Crazy Robot Band Rock Out Like Total Machines

When you think of robot music, your mind probably drifts to something like dubstep, but this robot band rocks out in a far more traditional sense. This is Compressorhead at practice, jamming out to Ace of Spades. They’ll be playing at Big Day Out 2013, but before then they’ve got to practice, though it looks…

It’s Super Easy To Lock People Out of Their Facebook Accounts by Claiming They’re Dead (Updated)

In this new world of social media, plenty of your accounts are going to soldier on after you die. Get ready. But in the meantime, it’s easy—too easy—to convince Facebook just about anyone is dead, at which point the site will lock down the account as a memorial until the supposed corpse argues otherwise. The…

Genius Uses OkCupid To Get a “Date” With the Scumbag That Stole His Phone

What do you do when your iPhone is stolen? Cry? Get a new one? Scream at the sky? How about tracking down the thief by luring him to a sexy date over OkCupid and then threatening him with a hammer so he gives it back? That last one worked out pretty well for Nadav Nirenberg.…

The Weirdest Google Bug: Giraffes Praise the iPad

Normally bugs just annoy you by preventing something from working, but occasionally they’ll do something totally bizarre. A weird issue with Google’s text-to-speech functionality tells you that giraffes are now praising the iPad. Literally. Explained in an item on the Android bug tracker that was dug up by One Foot Tsunami, if you ask Google…

The Library of Congress Can’t Quite Handle That Massive Tweet Archive It Was Trying to Build

A few years ago, the Library of Congress announced its plans to create an archive of every public tweet ever. If you thought that sounded a little bit optimistic, you’d be right; the Library of Congress released a white paper today explaining why they can’t quite pull it off. https://gizmodo.com/your-past-and-future-tweets-will-be-archived-at-the-lib-5517180 It’s not all bad. The…

Forget the upcoming CES for a minute and take a look back into its past with these photos of CESes gone-by. [The Verge]

Amazon Prime will get Pawn Stars, Dance Moms, and other fine programming, thanks to a new deal with A&E. [BusinessWire]

Jimi Hendrix: Auld Lang Syne

As we charge into the future (at least here on the East Coast), maybe take a few minutes to travel back to the past for a spectacular version of that classic New Years song that’s playing practically everywhere tonight. There’s not much to be said about Jimi Hendrix’s Auld Lang Syne that isn’t summed up…

This Is What The New Year Looked Like in 1957

A lot of things have changed in the past 56 years, but some things will always be pretty much the same. Take a look at this footage of Times Square on New Years Eve from 1957, for example. No one is carrying portable, cellular phones or updating their statuses on any so-called “networks of sociability”,…

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Has a Special Message for You This New Year

It’s New Years. Balls will be dropped. Kisses will be kissed. Bubbly will be drunk drank drunken dranked consumed. But that’s all normal. This year there’s something different: a message from Mars, apparently. Will it be about aliens? Probably not. Will it be Curiosity mocking Time Square revelers about how much better it is to…

Watch The New Year Roll In By Creeping On Strangers’ Instagram Pictures

Thanks to our planet’s roundness and the timezones we have to cope with it, the “New Year” isn’t just one moment; it’s a whole bunch of them. And with Instagram’s New Years collection you can watch 29 of them pop off in all their filtered glory. With this nifty webpage, you can peek at the…