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Twitter’s adding new search features for web users: filter results by videos, photos, news, or people. You can also filter only results from those you follow. [Twitter via The Verge]

Apple’s Touch-Friendly, Solar-Powered Laptop Would Be Insane

Hey you, Apple user. Have you been waiting—and waiting and waiting—for Apple to make some face-melting upgrades to the MacBook instead of just bumping the specs every few months? Well, this is it. Maybe. With a capital “M.” Those crazy Cupertino kids were just granted a patent for a touch-friendly, solar-powered laptop from the future.…

Report: Samsung Will Stop Screwing Up Android

Samsung’s super Android phones, and its Android devices in general, have long been hindered by the terribleness of the proprietary UI and apps the company insists on bundling with its hardware. Re/Code reports that Samsung’s gonna cut it out. Let’s hope so. According to the report, Google is fed up with Samsung’s meddling, and has…

Carapace EXO1 Wetsuit Review: Pure Custom Fit Goodness

I don’t know if I’m just weirdly shaped or what, but I’ve never found a wetsuit that fits perfectly. Sometimes it’s just a nitpick—as in it’s just a bit too tight one place, or a little baggy somewhere else—and sometimes I’m right in between sizes for a brand and can’t wear any of their suits…

Intel Coined the Term iPad Back in 1994

Apple is notoriously protective of their intellectual property. Even going so far as suing Samsung in a high-profile fight over the iPhone and iPad designs. But what if Apple didn’t coin the name for one of their most celebrated products? Namely, the iPad. Predictions for iPad-like gadgets predate Apple’s device by decades. Stanley Kubrick’s 1968…

Kurt Vonnegut’s Bizarre TV Movie, Between Time and Timbuktu

Check out a super-psychedelic clip from Between Time and Timbuktu, or Prometheus-5: A Space Fantasy, a 1972 PBS special written and created by Kurt Vonnegut. In which we experience the weirdness of the “Chrono-Synclastic Infundibulum.” Whoa. This was Vonnegut’s third and final film project, after the successful movie of Slaughterhouse-5 and the unsuccessful movie of…

Belkin Everything, Tablets, Razer Edge, Dyson, Chromecast [Deals]

We’re unabashed fans of Belkin’s iconic swiveling travel surge protector, and Amazon has the 2.1 Amp model (which is the one you want if you own a tablet) today for an all-time low price. Belkin SurgePlus 3-Outlet Mini Travel Swivel Surge Protector | $19 Staples has brought back their popular $30 tablet discount, allowing you…

How Bioelectronics Promise A Future Cure For Cancer

When you think of cyborgs becoming a reality, you probably picture Arnold Schwarzenegger’s glowing red eye from Terminator or the steely, tight-lipped stare of Robocop. But the future where man and machine converge won’t just be built with nuts and bolts. It will be built with biology. Self-avowed cyborg expert Tim Maly said as much…

This Machine Perfectly Filets and De-Bones Fish with X-Rays and Water

Machines that can accurately and efficiently filet a fish have been used for years now to speed up processing plants—though only with farmed fish that are all the same size and weight. Fish caught in the wild usually have to be processed by hand given they vary in size, but a new machine that employs…

This Insanely Loud Sound System Can Actually Kill You

Being shot into space puts spacecraft under extreme stress—but did you know that the sound of the rocket launch can damage a craft? Inside the Large European Acoustic Facility, engineers recreate the incredible noise of a launch to make sure satellites can survive it. According to the ESA, “no human could survive” the sound. First…

Sleepy Hollow hires John Noble full-time, because they are not stupid

Good news, Sleepy heads (Is that what Sleepy Hollow fans call each other? If they don’t, shouldn’t they?) The show has added John Noble as a full-time cast member for season two, along with Lyndie Greenwood, who plays Abby’s sister Jenny. I don’t really know why Greenwood wasn’t a full-time cast member for season one…

Skype Exorcists are Scam Artists, Say Traditional Exorcists

The internet is no stranger to long-distance religious rites, and Skype in particular has been a haven to those looking for a blessing from out-of-state (or across the globe, at that). Still, online spirituality does have its limits, which is unfortunate for Evangelical Christian Reverend Bob Larson. Because according to the religious powers that be,…

First clip of Nic Cage from the Christian Apocalypse Movie Left Behind

Left Behind the book series (and Kirk Cameron relevance generator) is getting a full-blown feature film (sans Kirk Cameron). Instead, it features Nic Cage as the pilot whose wife leaves him for Jesus, and here is your first clip. The official synopsis has this picture centered around “a small group of survivors are left behind…

Why the South Fell Apart in the Snow

I get it. Two inches of snow shuts down major metropolitan areas (not just Atlanta). It’s funny! It’s funny because when it snows two inches where you live, it’s nothing, you might as well be in West Palm Beach. Southerners lose their shit, though! Hilarious. It’s fine if that’s how you want to process what…

This space fly proves that humans aren’t cut for interplanetary travel

If this fly looks weird to you it’s because it’s dead—covered in the fungus that killed it. It’s a very special type of Drosophila—one born and raised in space—and it proves that interplanetary travel could be really bad for the human immune system. So bad that we may end up dead, killed by some stupid…

Merging galaxies can contain multiple active supermassive black holes

Japanese astronomers have learned that merging galaxies can contain at least a pair of active and luminous supermassive black holes. Typically, only one of the two black holes are activated like this, leading the astronomers to speculate that something unique is happening in the environment to get them going. Astronomers theorize that collisions and mergers…

How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

I had a rare Twitter username, @N. Yep, just one letter. I’ve been offered as much as $50,000 for it. People have tried to steal it. Password reset instructions are a regular sight in my email inbox. As of today, I no longer control @N. I was extorted into giving it up. While eating lunch…

Red mercury is the coolest substance that never existed

We know that red mercury makes the manufacturing of nuclear bombs much, much easier. We don’t exactly know how it manages to do this, but that’s only because red mercury, as far as we know, doesn’t exist. In the swinging 1970s, the design for nuclear bombs at the time required two explosions. A primary explosion…

You Can Cradle This 3-Cylinder Engine Like an 88-Pound, 400 HP Baby

An engine this small should, by conventional logic, not be this powerful. But, somehow, it is. And at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, Nissan plans to see just how well its under-sized, over-powered hybrid engine prototype handles auto racings’s most grueling challenge. The minuscule engine is known as the DIG-T R. It’s an…

Obama: “The debate [over climate change] is settled”

“The shift to a cleaner energy economy won’t happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way,” said President Obama last night in his State of the Union Address.”But the debate is settled,” he added emphatically. “Climate change is a fact.” “When our children’s children look us in the eye and ask if…