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Following a deluge of complaints about the lack of an offline maps button in the new Maps app for Android, Google engineers have brought it back. The update is being pushed out now.

This Is How a Transistor Works

Transistors are the magical electronic components that make your computer, smartphone and virtually every other gadget on the planet function—but how the hell do they work? One word: semiconductors. But if that means nothing to you, then you should watch this video—which offers up a great explanation of the science behind transistors. You’ll never have…

IFTTT’s New iOS App Mines and Automates Your Entire Phone

If This, Then That (IFTTT) is a pretty clever system for linking data flows between websites—but until now it’s only been available on the web. Now, it’s been made available for iOS, and it looks set to mine and automate your entire phone. The new app brings plenty of the web-based features to iPhone, allowing…

Humorous HTML Greeting Cards Are the Route to Any Geek’s Heart

If there’s a way to any geek’s heart, it’s through a dubious HTML-based joke—which is why these greeting cards are the perfect way to tell your loved ones exactly what you’re thinking. Put together by Athens-based designer Costas Papaconstantinou, these Coding Cards use strong colors and bold fonts to spell out their geeky messages. They…

A Guy Fawkes Mask for Every Skin Tone, Gender, Culture and More

The creeptastic Guy Fawkes mask has become synonymous with Anonymous, protesting and basically any group that is trying to fight against injustice. But why does a Guy Fawkes mask have to just be one white male face? Can’t it be represented in different genders and ethnicities and cultures? Maybe! ANIMAL came up with a bunch…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Offering Athena (NSFW)

La Fura dels Baus, the Monegros des Art festival, is billed asa the biggest rave in Spain. This 20-hour marathon party will host 40,000 people and include massive live theater acts as well as the oontz-oontz. As part of “Aphrodite and the Judgment of Paris,” a live performance wherein the audience observes the entire production…

LG’s World’s Slimmest 1080p Display Is Impossibly Thin

With everyone racing to become the thinnest, slimmest thing in technology, LG just showed off how skinny it has gotten. Millimeters matter man! LG’s new 1080p HD display is perfect for giganto smartphones at 5.2-inches big and just 2.2mm thin. On top of that, it only has a 2.3mm bezel which makes it practically floating…

How to Make Awesome Green Slime

Here’s a super quick and fun project you can make with your inner kid (or your real kid, if you have one): make perfectly green slime that oozes and gets gooey in all the right places. It’s Nickelodeon in a homemade toy. It’s realistic mutant plasma that makes you feel as if you’ve murdered an…

WSJ: Google Is Spending $500 Million to Advertise the Upcoming Moto X

The WSJ is reporting that Google is ready to dump half a billion dollars in marketing for the upcoming Moto X. That’s a huge chunk of change. Supposedly, the Moto X will be available on all four major carriers, free of most of those carriers crapware and will come in different colors. The flagship Moto…

The View Doesn’t Make Up for a 20-hour Shift in the Orbital Refinery

When you’re forging new molecules, there’s nothing better than working in space. That’s why MesoMaxx built this factory out here, at Lagrange 1, locked into a gravitational web spun by Earth and the Sun. It sounds fancy, but mostly we just work double shifts to knit carbon nanotube ribbons for new space elevators. This fantastic…

What Different Languages Think Different Animals Sound Like

Hello. Hola. Bonjour. Ni Hao. We all say things differently because each language has their own words. Like, duh. But what about how different languages think animals sound? We’re not exactly saying words as much as we are simply enunciating simple sounds and yet, different languages have their own take on each animal sound too.…

Before Online Education, These 15 TVs Were the Classroom of Tomorrow

On a muggy spring day in Manhattan during the throes of the Great Depression, about 200 New York University students shuffled into a room on the 62nd floor of the RCA Building. They were there for a lesson on the principles of photoelectricity, taught by their professor, Dr. C. C. Clark. But strangely, the professor…

Every Single Pair of Freaking Headphones Ends Up Like This

The timelapse of an untouched pair of headphones pretty much goes exactly like this comic. You set them aside totally mindful of the cables, carefully keeping them from each other. You ignore them until you need them again. And then when you pick them up, they’re a tangled mess. Every. Single. Time. Don’t even dare…

This Concrete-Recycling Robot Devours Entire Buildings

Demolishing a building is a big, messy pain in the neck. Dynamite is loud and dangerous. Wrecking balls are heavy and dangerous. Why not just get a robot to do the work? That’s exactly what Omer Haciomeroglu was thinking when he designed the ERO Concrete Recycling robot, one of the winners of IDSA’s International Design…

What the Biggest Pop Culture Experts Can’t Wait to See at Comic-Con

It’s just one week until San Diego Comic-Con, where fans of all the greatest movie, book, television — and, oh yeah, comic-book — series gather to pay homage and discover what’s new and shiny. We checked in with the biggest entertainment gurus on the net and found out what they’re most excited about seeing. Top…

Tiny Sticker-Like Sensors Will Let You Monitor Everything, Everywhere

Environmental sensors are used everywhere from heavy industry to UAVs hunting the troposphere for water vapor. The new postage-stamp sized, self-powered, flexible wireless sensor unveiled today by Japan’s Green Sensor Network Laboratories could make home applications a breeze, letting you measure the humidity of your greenhouse or make sure your pipes don’t burst in a…

The Ocotomask’s Built-In GoPro Mount Allows a Hands-Free Life Aquatic

In the world’s oceans, human divers are as mobile as a fish out of water. So, what, you think you’re going to fend off an inquisitive shark or lascivious dolphin while holding a GoPro? Not likely, but that’s where the Octomask comes in. Now anybody can be a modern Jacques Cousteau and keep their hands…

From the Onion: “Facebook: ‘We Will Make Our Product Worse, You Will Be Upset, And Then You Will Live With It’” Is it even satire if everyone’s pretty sure that someone at Menlo Park actually said that at some point?

This Cheap Plastic Insert Turns Your Jars Into Lunch Boxes

Remember Cuppow? It’s that genius attachment that turns any jar into a travel carafe. Now its creators have returned with the BNTO, an insert that for $7 turns your mason jars into lunch boxes. BNTO basically looks like a plastic jello container. You just stick it in the top of your jar and screw the…

If the Budget iPhone Is Real, We Hope It Looks Like This

Rumors of a “budget iPhone” feel like they’ve been swirling around the Internet for ages, but it’ll still be a while before we know if they’re real. If they are though, we hope they look as jaw-droppingly awesome as these renders. These hypothetical budget iPhones were whipped up by our good friend Martin Hajek, and…