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How to psychologically treat a walking corpse

People with Cotard’s Delusion believe they’re on the wrong side of The Walking Dead TV series, meaning they think they’re actually dead. How is it possible to treat them? Can you “prove” to a patient that they’re still alive? In 1880, Doctor Jules Cotard had the first of a series of what I can imagine…

Garmin’s Vívofit Fitness Band Will Remind You To Get Off the Couch

With its new Vívofit fitness tracker, Garmin’s entering a market that’s getting more and more crowded every day. But while other fitness bands allow motivated athletic types to set daily goals and strive to improve themselves, the Vívofit seems to cater to those of us who need a lot more encouragement to get off the…

Vizio’s New Bluetooth Speakers Have Android KitKat Tablets Built In

Bluetooth speakers are all the same right? You connect your phone to them to wirelessly beam bumping music. Not Vizio’s brand new Smart Audio speakers though. Vizio’s Bluetooth speakers also have a freaking Android tablet running Kit Kat built in. Yes, there are 7-inch and 4.7-inch tablets on speakers now. The idea for these speakers—other…

Dolby Vision Will Make Sure Your TV’s Colors and Brightness Are Right

From your home theater to the cineplex, Dolby has long been the industry standard for serious digital sound. If you’re not using Dolby’s proprietary tech, you’re playing games. With Dolby Vision tech, the company wants to do to make movies on your TV look as good as it makes them sound on your surround sound…

Vizio’s New Ultrabook: The Prettiest PC Just Got Power to Match

Ever since affordable-TV-mainstay Vizio entered the PC market two years ago, it’s been the proud producer of some of the best-looking laptops and all-in-ones this side of Cupertino. With its latest refresh, it may have finally found the function to match its form. Both the 15.6-inch Vizio Thin and Light and its 24-inch all-in-one cousin…

Vizio Reference Series: 120 Inches Of Ultra HD

Holy shit, giant TV. Vizio, TV upstart turned legit power, thinks it’s made the best ultra HD TV, or at least the best to own. Maybe it did. This is the 120-inch Vizio Reference series TV. It’s really impressive. The Reference has an 800-nit display (this is brightness; your laptop’s screen probably has somewhere between…

The Second World War claims yet another victim

It ended nearly 70 years ago, but World War II has taken yet another life. An undetonated bomb dropped by Allied planes exploded in a German town on Friday, killing the driver of an excavator and wounding another 13 people. The explosion happened in an industrial area of Euskirchen near Bonn. As The Guardian writes,…

Watch how America is getting frozen in this time-lapse from space

Hercules, Ion, evil polar vortexes and Disney movie marketing—the winter has come and United States is freezing. Scientists expect temperatures not recorded in two decades, as low as -30F (-34C). Here you can see it happening from space using NASA’s Aqua and Terrasatellites. The “deep freeze” situation is dangerous, with the National Weather Service describing…

It’s 2014 — does the term “geek” really have any meaning anymore?

Periodically you have to ask this question again. Geeks aren’t just running some of the world’s biggest companies — they’re also the heroes of mega-hit TV series like Big Bang Theory; and, in the post-Snowden world, they’re international political subversives. So what the hell is a geek anymore? Has the term “geek” just become a…

Garmin’s Tiny Dash Cam Never Forgets Where or What Happened In a Crash

Russia seems to corner the YouTube market when it comes to crazy dash cam videos. But that could soon change when Garmin’s new $250 Dash Cam hits the market in February. The tiny camera sits inside your windshield and records everything that’s happening in front of your vehicle through a wide angle lens. And in…

Why Jellyfish Sting (and Whether You Should Really Pee On Them)

It’s not uncommon to be on the receiving end of jellyfish’s sting when you go for a swim in the sea—but what is it that provides that numb feeling you get as a result? And should you really pee on it to make it better? In actual fact, the jellyfish shoots out a neurotoxic venom…

Game of Thrones inspires English town to rename itself Kings Landing

Come February 17th, the crown city of Westeros is coming to England. The village of the already similar-soundingKings Langley will take the name of the fictional city for a week as part of a promotion for the Game of Thrones season 3 DVD and Blu-ray sets. Via The Watford Observer: An executive producer of the…

Video of a crab trying to steal a camera is surprisingly funny

I don’t know why but I find this video of a crab trying to steal a GoPro camera so funny. I blame the overdose of anime in my young years and my subsequent inclination to anthropomorphize everything in sight. Just look at the little buddy pretending that nothing is going on and then trying to…

Who Invented the Rocketship?

The entire idea of traveling into space to other worlds can be given a specific date: January 7, 1610. It was on that evening Galileo Galilei first observed the satellites of Jupiter and realized that the planets were worlds just like our own. Until then, the heavens were thought to be no great distance from…

This Is (Possibly) What 5,500-Year-Old Man Looked Like

This handsome-looking chap doesn’t look a day over 40—but in fact he’s 5,500 years old. This is a startlingly life-like reconstruction of a prehistoric skull buried near the UK’s Stonehenge which is 5,500 years old. Brought to life by Swedish sculptor Oscar Nilsson, the remains of the body are a rare example of the Neolithic…

Is yet another major superhero joining the Man of Steel 2 cast?

An old Star Wars/Boba Fett rumor has gained new life. NBC’s made a questionable marketing decision for Revolution. Check out the first photo of the new actor who’s taking over a crucial role on Game of Thrones. Is the new show about The Flash featuring one of his most classic villains in its first episode?…

Ubuntu is going to add BitTorrent search capabilities directly into its Unity desktop. Which is neat.

A Bracelet to Keep You Safe From the Sun and Tell You What SPF to Use

Netatmo is slowly creating a reputation for itself of combining smart sensors with neat design, having recently teamed up with Philippe Starck to produce a sleek wireless thermostat. Now, it’s joined forces with Louis Vuitton to produce a bracelet that’ll keep you safe in the sun. The June bracelet—designed by Louis Vuitton and Harry Winston…

Nvidia took to the fields to help publicize its new Tegra K1 chip, its first with a staggering 192 CUDA cores. The result is this deliciously geeky crop circle, cut into a field two hours south of San Francisco. [Nvidia]

LG Will Power 70 Percent of Its New Smart TVs With WebOS

While LG is yet to take to the stage and deliver a big presentation at CES, its Korean wing has just announced the company’s new webOS smart TV plans . Resurrecting Palm’s ill-fated mobile OS, which never truly delivered on phones, LG’s new range of webOS-powered TVs will make up a staggering 70 percent of…