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The Electronic Talking View-Master Was the Original Oculus Rift

Almost 30 years before the original Oculus Rift DK1 hit Kickstarter, View-Master was already dabbling in virtual reality—albeit a tamer version—with an electronic viewer that mixed 3D images and audio into what was probably a revolutionary experience back then. Seen here in an ad dating back to February of 1983, the Electronic Talking View-Master used…

There Are No Accidents

Earlier this week morning commuters witnessed a gruesome scene at a busy Brooklyn intersection. An SUV struck several vehicles then hit a cyclist, tangling the bike’s frame in its tires. The cyclist died immediately, his body covered in a white sheet in the middle of the road. Still, many news outlets reported what happened as…

Infographic: What’s the fastest ship in sci-fi history?

It took a little bit for us to reach Pluto but what if we had the power of our imaginations in our real life spaceships? Fat Wallet came up with this neat infographic showing which ships from popular sci-fi movies, TV shows and video games (plus real life NASA ships) to show which ship moves…

Tell Us a Six-Word Story About Your Technology Problems

Yeah, you could write a 1,000-word essay about your technological anxieties, hopes, oddities, and recurring problems. But, hey, how are you going to text someone all that? Tell us about it in just six words. Maybe you want to catalogue the stresses of the accidental autocorrect, or muse about how you became your family’s de…

NECA’s First Ever Sarah Connor Figure Is Totally Badass

NECA have had the license to make Terminator toys for so long, it’s bizarre to think that we’re only just getting a Sarah Connor figure from them. It looks like it’s worth the wait though, because this is pretty much the ultimate badass Linda Hamilton figure you could ever want. The figure was revealed at…

Neil Young Continues His Crusade Against Reason by Screwing His Fans

Neil Young took to Facebook today to announce that “streaming has ended for me.” Oh brother. Neil Young’s music is still on Spotify and Apple Music right this moment, but we’re meant to understand that the Canadian crooner will be removing his music from these services in the near future. The reason? It’s not the…

Here’s Why Taking Niacin Turns People Lobster Red

Some of you have tried, for various reasons, taking niacin. Some have also shortly after experienced a sensation of sudden, all-encompassing, prickly heat and looked in a mirror to find yourself lobster red. Here’s why that happens. I was first told to take niacin because I had a slight ringing in my ears. I got…

That Rumored Huawei Nexus Smartphone Sounds Pretty Amazing, Actually

We started hearing whispers about two months ago that Google would pull a first with its smartphones and tap Chinese company Huawei to churn out its new Nexus device. And now, with the familiar late-October release date for Nexuses approaching, rumors are starting to reach critical mass. Technology is filled with all kinds of rumors…

Stephen Amell Explains His Heroic Arc In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2

The Flash casts a villain’s father—and films a new villain. The next season of Supernatural will have a car-bound bottle episode. A comic about a time traveling Nikola Tesla is heading to TV. Plus, new footage from both Ant-Man and Fantastic Four, Bill Prady talks Muppets, and more. Spoilers Get! Resident Evil: The Final Chapter…

The Cheapest Fitness Tracker Yet

There’s no screen to display your burned calories, no flashing LEDs to keep you motivated, and no way to strap it to your wrist. But Misfit’s new Flash Link fitness tracker has a killer feature that others to date do not: a cheap $20 price tag. Available now on Misfit’s online store, the Flash Link…

A Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Mug With a Naughty and Nice Side

You can’t have hot chocolate without a mountain of marshmallows on top, and from this day forth you won’t want hot chocolate unless it’s served in this two-sided Ghostbusters Stay Puft Marshmallow Man mug. On one side of the mug Stay Puft has a big happy smile on his face, but on the other he’s…

Qualcomm Under EU Scrutiny for Possible Chip Sale Market Abuse

Qualcomm is in the early stages of an EU anti-trust investigation because… it’s better at what it does than everyone else? Although, according to the EU, Qualcomm is suspected of the more serious crime of using its dominant market position to offer pricing incentives to manufacturers, effectively freezing out possible competitors. The EU says it’s…

Why Does Asking Siri to Charge Your Phone Call the Cops?

Utter the words—and we don’t suggest you do—“charge my phone 100 percent” to Siri, and your iPhone will try and call the emergency services, after a five-second grace period in which you can cancel it. But why? It might be a bug. Or, as The Verge suggests, it could be a feature that allows you…

Intel’s 2016 Chip Line-Up Will Put Moore’s Law on Hold

Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles every two years—a phenomenon that Intel has been upholding for decades. But with Intel’s announcement of its 2016 silicon, the law stutters. The dramatic increase in the number of transistors aboard integrated circuitry is made possible by shrinking them using new manufacturing…

3D White Graphene Could Make Tunable Fan-Free Cooling for Electronics

Fans, on numerous levels, suck: they’re noisy and use up power. But a 3D form of the material known as white graphene could help cool small electronic devices by itself. Researchers from Rice University have carried out simulations of heat flows through a 3D structure made of boron nitride, also known as white graphene. In…

Experience Every Possible Sky Phenomena In This Time Lapse Video

Clouds, tornadoes, lightning, aurorae, and stars all take over the sky in Jeff Boyce’s “Edge of Stability.” It’s both beautiful and awesome — in the original sense of that word. In other words, I’m pretty frightened of the sky now. [Daily Picks and Flicks via Laughing Squid] Contact the author at [email protected].

What’s the Point of a Fly-By When We Have the Tech to Go Into Orbit?

New Horizons’ fly-by of Pluto and its moons is the latest in a historic string of missions to objects in the solar system. But given that a fly-by lasts for just a short time, how much can we really get out of it? There’s no doubt that the mission will yield a great deal of…

Facebook’s Testing Online Shops Embedded Into Business Pages

Forget the Like button: Facebook wants you to hit the Buy button instead. Buzzfeed reports that Zuckerberg & C0. is testing new, miniature e-commerce sites that are embedded within the Facebook pages of retailers. While they’re currently in the testing phase, the idea is to conduct the entire shopping experience within Facebook. There, “buy” buttons…

What happened to Kerry and Kevin Conran, the brothers behind Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow? Olly Richards at The Telegraph traces what went wrong with the movie, its continuing influence on Hollywood, and where the two retreated to in the aftermath. [via Metafilter]

Constantine May Be Resurrected By an Appearance on Arrow

Here we go: It sounds like the Constantine could live on post-cancellation on the CW. Arrow’s working hard to make it happen, cementing themselves as the premiere home of live-action comic book characters on TV. Executive producer Wendy Mericle told IGN: Yeah, we really want to do it. It’s something we’ve been talking to DC…