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Physics proves that no one really has blue eyes

Although some people have blue eyes, and many babies are born with particularly deep blue irises, no one actually has blue pigment in their irises. They’re just a trick of the light. With the news of Elizabeth Taylor’s death, many people’s thoughts have turned to eye color. It’s known that her famous violet eyes were…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Did You Miss Your Package Delivery AGAIN?

You know what really sucks? When you come home and find you missed a package delivery from USPS, UPS or FedEx. Or you come home and find that $1000 gadget you ordered sitting on your front stoop where anyone could snatch it. The worst, however, is when you are actually at home and they assume…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Carl Zeiss’ Bundle of Lenses Come With a Free Suitcase

Got $6,000 to spend on a pack of lenses for your Canon or Nikon? You’ll be wanting to protect them from bumps and scrapes, so Carl Zeiss has generously chucked in a suitcase, too. While there are five lenses in the set—a Distagon T* 2,8/21; Distagon T* 2/28; Distagon T* 2/35; Planar T* 1,4/50 and…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

An Interactive Map With Every War Ever Waged

Give peace a chance! Also, give this thingamajig a chance: Conflict History is an interactive Google Map and timeline packed with information on pretty much every war ever waged. I think I’ve learned more in the last 15 minutes than I did in all the semesters of World History I’ve ever taken combined. [Conflict History…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Fan Made X-Men First Class intro channels the old-school James Bond era

X-Men: First Class is set in the Swinging Sixties, but will it do justice to the era of Kennedy and the Rat Pack? If the film’s half as good as this fan-made intro, we could be in for a treat. We snagged a bunch of screengrabs from the intro — can you name each mutant?…

Movies Meredith Woerner

TEPCO Plugs Radioactive Water Leak

After the baby diaper and sawdust solution didn’t quite cut it, TEPCO’s finally stopped Fukushima’s contaminated water from flowing into the Pacific Ocean using around 1,500 gallons of chemicals. Phew! Let’s hope the measure holds up. [Kyodo News] https://gizmodo.com/diaper-like-material-unable-to-stop-fukushimas-radioact-5788408

Tech News Sam Biddle

Henry Cavill opens up about playing Superman. Plus Tron 3’s story begins to take shape!

Christopher Nolan chooses a key location for The Dark Knight Rises. An absurd Superman casting rumor is back, and sillier than ever. A Flight of the Conchords star returns to The Hobbit. Plus the most spoiler-y Fringe set photos ever! Spoilers from here on out! Top image from Real Steel. The Dark Knight Rises Christopher…

Television Alasdair Wilkins

Where Should the US Store Its Nuclear Waste?

A commission appointed by the US Department of Energy is studying different options for dealing with spent fuel from nuclear power plants. New Scientist weighs the pros and cons of each. Salt Beds of salt up to 1 kilometre thick lie within 1 or 2 kilometres of the surface across much of the US. They…

Tech News New Scientist

An Invisible Money Clip, Brought To You By a Pretty Mustachioed Lady

Bulky wallets are OUT. And actually so is cash, too, I guess? But if you do still like to carry a fold of greenbacks around with you, the All Cash Money Clip is kinda a clever way to do it. A magnet-laden sticker adheres directly to a dollar bill, effectively turning it into an invisible…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

DreamWorks is Making a Movie About the Dead Kodachrome Film

Fo’ real. You’d think making a movie about Julian Assange would keep them busy for a while, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they shelved that after the intense intimidation the movie execs would’ve felt watching him shake his ass-ange in an Icelandic nightclub. http://gawker.com/5787830/watch-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-do-the-funky-chicken But anyway! Back to Kodachrome—and the movie DreamWorks is making…

Movies Kat Hannaford

I’d Totally Have a Segway-Joust With Friends if I Won the Lottery, Too

Click to view Sure, it’s an ad—an ad for Washington’s Lottery—but who wouldn’t want to joust with a friend on a pair of Segways? Or play polo? Just let me know when you win the lottery, and I’ll be there to help you spend it. [Creativity-Online via CrunchGear]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Toys With Swappable Parts Use Augmented Reality For Different Personalities

These are so cute—much cuter than the Halfsies from a few years ago. The addition of augmented reality means each toy—or Suwappu, as they’ve been called—interacts with its environment differently, depending on which body part is attached. The head of the Suwappu has the personality, with the lower-half determining the environment. When viewed with an…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Break Off a Finger of Soap For Every Thorough Hand-Wash

Considering I wasn’t the only one who thought yesterday’s “toepener” bathroom door handle was simply one of the greatest inventions ever, perhaps other similarly-OCD people will also like the look of Dave Hakkens’ Break Soap concept. https://gizmodo.com/i-implore-every-public-bathroom-to-install-these-toepen-5788976 The thinking behind the concept is that every time you wish to wash your hands, you simply break…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

These Bike Inner Tubes Wince When Punctured, and Then Self-Seal

Michelin’s developed new bike inner tube tech to cut down on the devastation a puncture brings when you’re out riding. The Protek Max tubes contain a sealant which sees punctures compress and then self-seal, meaning you can hop back on that bike instantly. The surface of the inner tube is actually visibly different to traditional…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Listen to the Pilot Who Joked Through an Emergency Landing

Jason Maloney is the 24-year-old pilot who had to land his single-engine airplane on Rockaway Beach on Monday night—a frightening ordeal that resulted in no injuries to any of the three people on board. Save your applause, however, as another Captain Sully this guy is most definitely not. In a startlingly casual exchange with air-traffic…

Tech News Seth Abramovitch

Marriage 100 Years From Now (1933)

In the year 1933 physician Ira S. Wile made some wild predictions about what marriage would look like 100 years in the future. And although it’s not yet 2033, we can still be thankful that his predictions for our world just 22 years from now were wildly off the mark. Dr. Wile imagined a bureau…

Tech News Matt Novak

LA Freerunning Academy is Like One Giant Donkey Kong Playground for Adults

The most action a typical blogger gets in day-to-day life is using Greader keyboard shortcuts when scrolling through RSS, but even I’m half-tempted to take up freerunning or parkour after watching Tempest Freerunning Academy’s video. California’s first indoor training ground just opened on the weekend. [Tempest via JWZ via Boing Boing]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Leak: HP webOS Phone Looks Like Pre 3 Without Keyboard

Take away Palm’s—sorry, HP’s—jelly-chiclit buttons, and whaddya have? Something that resembles this monstrous leaked phone, which is said to be like an an “EVO with webOS,” referring to HTC’s behemoth. PreCentral has looked at the leaked photo long enough to ascertain it has a screen res of around 480 x 800, and a front-facing camera—but…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Linux Claims Victory Over Microsoft

In Linux’s Eyes, their 20 years war against Microsoft has come to an end, and they’re the victor. Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin thinks that they’ve handily surpassed Microsoft in every product category…except one: “I think we just don’t care that much [about Microsoft] anymore,’ Zemlin said. ‘They used to be our big rival, but…

Tech News Adrian Covert

The great and powerful Rodney McKay shows SGU how it’s done

Last night Rodney McKay stepped through the Stargate once again. It was glorious. Now this is how you make a gritty Stargate series that connects with the original franchise. I only wish it had happened sooner. It’s well known that I’m a die hard Rodney McKay fan. He’s an intellectual snob with a lot of…

Television Meredith Woerner

Physics proves that no one really has blue eyes

Did You Miss Your Package Delivery AGAIN?

Carl Zeiss’ Bundle of Lenses Come With a Free Suitcase

An Interactive Map With Every War Ever Waged

Fan Made X-Men First Class intro channels the old-school James Bond era

TEPCO Plugs Radioactive Water Leak

Henry Cavill opens up about playing Superman. Plus Tron 3’s story begins to take shape!

Where Should the US Store Its Nuclear Waste?

An Invisible Money Clip, Brought To You By a Pretty Mustachioed Lady

DreamWorks is Making a Movie About the Dead Kodachrome Film

I’d Totally Have a Segway-Joust With Friends if I Won the Lottery, Too

Toys With Swappable Parts Use Augmented Reality For Different Personalities

Break Off a Finger of Soap For Every Thorough Hand-Wash

These Bike Inner Tubes Wince When Punctured, and Then Self-Seal

Listen to the Pilot Who Joked Through an Emergency Landing

Marriage 100 Years From Now (1933)

LA Freerunning Academy is Like One Giant Donkey Kong Playground for Adults

Leak: HP webOS Phone Looks Like Pre 3 Without Keyboard

Linux Claims Victory Over Microsoft

The great and powerful Rodney McKay shows SGU how it’s done

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