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What it’s like to (illegally) climb London’s tallest building

When it’s completed next month, the Shard of Glass will be Western Europe’s tallest skyscraper, topping out at 1,017 feet. Even though this shimmering pyramid isn’t open to the public yet, that didn’t stop a group of urban explorers from ascending it and getting a Spider-Man’s-eye-view of the Thames. The folks at the website Silent…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar

Intel Studybook Hands-On: The Indestructible Education Tablet

Intel’s Classmate Convertibles have been a huge success: 7 million of these PCs are scattered across the globe in classrooms in more than 70 countries. Now Intel is introducing a new product to the Learning Series; a cheap, versatile, tough, education tablet. The new Intel Studybook tablet is a reference design: Intel won’t actually manufacturer…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Dream Machines Brings Your Vehicular Fantasies to Life

Meet Shanon and Mark Parker of Parker Brothers Concepts, the auto fabrication group that’s pushing the limits of automotive ingenuity. The car-building brothers have worked together for years at their shop in Melbourne, FL, designing and building custom motorcycles and cars inspired by the fantastic machines seen on TV and in film. Whether it’s a…

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Your iPhone Will Still Shatter If You Drop It From a Roof with This Super-Case

We’ve been impressed by G-Form’s ugly, abuse-proof iDevice cases before: an iPhone was used as a hockey puck, and we beat the living hell out of an iPad. But the newest case didn’t save my iPhone from horrific suicidal death. https://gizmodo.com/an-iphone-used-as-a-hockey-puck-at-82-mph-5883334 To be fair, G-Form doesn’t say you can go tossing your Extreme Grid-clad iPhone…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Explore a 4000-year-old Peruvian monster from the comfort of your home

Late last month, anthropologist Robert Benfer announced that he and his team of researchers had discovered several enormous, earth-formed animal shapes in Peru, including the orca-shaped mound you see up top. Now, thanks to some clever folks over at Google Earth Blog, you can actually explore two of these mounds for yourself. First, some background.…

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NASA’s Hypersonic Airbags Shield Spacecraft in a Mach 5 Plunge

Getting probes to distant celestial bodies is the easy part. Landing the multi-million dollar machines on the surface without going kaplooie is an entirely different matter. To prevent a plummet to the surface, NASA employs hypersonic airbags to cushion Mach 5 impacts. Known as Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerators (IADs), these devices are essentially inflatable heat shields.…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

In this week’s comics, it’s all monster hunters and surly spies

Like clockwork, here’s your Wednesday batch of comics for reading on a beautiful spring day. Or a crisp autumn day, if you’re reading this from the Southern Hemisphere. Or a day-less season-less day if you’re reading this from the International Space Station. Shall we? First Issues To kick things off, Mark Millar and Watchmen artist…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar

Secretly Track Anyone Using This Fully-Functional GPS Unit

By all accounts the LiveWire NavGenius is your typical gray-market GPS navigation device, with touchscreen functionality and basic mapping software. But tucked away inside is an extra bit of hardware that lets the unit remotely tattle on its location. The NavGenius is supposed to be used by employers who want to keep tabs on the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Dear Android Tablets: Stay Crazy

Nearly a year and a half ago, I sat down with a representative from a prominent hardware manufacturer. CES was winding down, a show in which 80 tablets entered the world to a massive shrug. He walked me through his company’s three or four offerings, which varied in price and size and finish and sheen.…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Hacking a BMX Bike to Spin Sick Beats

COGOO, a Japanese bike-sharing service has invented the most face-melting way to ride on a pair of wheels. It took a BMX bike and turned it into a DJ toolkit, so jumps and tricks become fresh beats. Different pieces of the rider become emcee essentials: The wheels become jog wheels; brakes do double duty as…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Texting on the Go? Beware of Bears!

Texting while walking down the street holds many dangerous pitfalls: telephone poles, fellow pedestrians, pot-holes. Now you can add bears to the list of hazards. Residents of La Crescenta, California have been on the lookout for a 500 pound black bear that has been lurking around town since yesterday. This particular bear enjoys scaring the…

Biology Michael Hession

Zombie survival Google Map allows you to find food and guns for the undead apocalypse

Did you forget to stock up on crossbows and canned beef stew for the inevitable zombie uprising? For shame! Fortunately for those of you who fell asleep during The Ant and the Grasshopper, there’s this handy Map of the Dead, which allows you to plot out the hospitals, gun stores, and grocery stores (among many…

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Gehry Crowns Hong Kong’s The Peak With Twisting Apartment Complex

Opus Hong Kong; Photos: Frank Gehry/Swire Properties Hong Kong can now claim a Frank Gehry of its own, joining the ranks of Los Angeles and New York, Prague and Bilbao–cosmopolitan cities privileged with a billowing bauble with which to launch a minor tourism or luxury apartment campaign. The Opus Hong Kong, a 12-story residential tower…

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This Huggable Vending Machine Will Never Love You

In Singapore, you can hug a vending machine and get a free Coca-Cola in return. Coke is, apparently, planning to roll the campaign out across Southeast Asia. Would you hug a machine? Coke is expressly asking people to show it affection and in return, it will reward them with something both enjoyable and at least…

Tech News Mat Honan

The Flying Ambulance of Tomorrow

In the 1920s, just as some imagined rooftop airports for the aeroplane commuter of the future, others figured there would soon be a market for flying automobiles. The Roaring Twenties brought Americans a new era of mass-produced goods and, with it, an emerging middle class clamoring for newly affordable automobiles. In 1925 you could buy…

Tech News Matt Novak

Watch 15,000 Temperature Records Get Stomped in March. Are You Surprised?

Bikinis felt more appropriate than wool sweaters last month, so it shouldn’t be too shocking that it was the warmest March across the contiguous U.S. since 1895. In fact, more than 15,000 temperature records were smashed in March, as shown in this video from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). As usual, it’s the…

Tech News Leslie Horn

The Space Shuttle Will Amaze and Terrify Washington DC with Low Flyover

Our capital is a little uptight—particularly after 9/11, it’s easy to send the calm city of lobbyists and think tank dweebs into a frenzy. Idea: let’s blast a Space Shuttle strapped to a 747 over everyone’s heads. The Hill reports the decommissioned Space Shuttle Discovery, on the way to its resting place with the Smithsonian,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

These Imbeciles Thought the Titanic Disaster Was Just a Movie

Titanic. Once the largest ship ever built, it sunk after colliding with an iceberg, spiraling down into the Atlantic and killing around 1500 people on April 15, 1912. Everyone knows this. Oh wait—no, these idiots thought it was just a movie: https://gizmodo.com/the-moon-and-a-mirage-may-be-the-ultimate-causes-of-the-5890968 Is it bad that I didn’t know the titanic was real? Always thought…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

New Avengers clip shows Nick Fury getting pissy with Maria Hill

There are plenty of other characters to get excited about in The Avengers besides the team of superheroes. We’re probably most excited to see the bad-ass Cobie Smulders play S.H.I.E.L.D agent Maria Hill. This latest clip, which premiered on The Late Show with David Letterman, demonstrates the tense relationship between Hill and her boss, Nick…

Movies Meredith Woerner

Awesomely Over-Engineered Extending Glass Table Will Outshine Any Meal

You could serve a thirty course feast prepared by the finest chefs in the land, but it will go completely unnoticed as long as your guests are sitting around this stunning Astrolab dining table from Roche Bobois. Its see-through glass surface provides an unobstructed view of the table’s polished gears which are used to automatically…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

What it’s like to (illegally) climb London’s tallest building

Intel Studybook Hands-On: The Indestructible Education Tablet

Dream Machines Brings Your Vehicular Fantasies to Life

Your iPhone Will Still Shatter If You Drop It From a Roof with This Super-Case

Explore a 4000-year-old Peruvian monster from the comfort of your home

NASA’s Hypersonic Airbags Shield Spacecraft in a Mach 5 Plunge

In this week’s comics, it’s all monster hunters and surly spies

Secretly Track Anyone Using This Fully-Functional GPS Unit

Dear Android Tablets: Stay Crazy

Hacking a BMX Bike to Spin Sick Beats

Texting on the Go? Beware of Bears!

Zombie survival Google Map allows you to find food and guns for the undead apocalypse

Gehry Crowns Hong Kong’s The Peak With Twisting Apartment Complex

This Huggable Vending Machine Will Never Love You

The Flying Ambulance of Tomorrow

Watch 15,000 Temperature Records Get Stomped in March. Are You Surprised?

The Space Shuttle Will Amaze and Terrify Washington DC with Low Flyover

These Imbeciles Thought the Titanic Disaster Was Just a Movie

New Avengers clip shows Nick Fury getting pissy with Maria Hill

Awesomely Over-Engineered Extending Glass Table Will Outshine Any Meal

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