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What Is This?

This ragged cloud of color looks messy and unstructured—but in fact it’s a rare and unusual view of one of the most fundamental things in science. Can you work out what it is? Sadly for you, we’re going to let you puzzle over the answer for a little while. To stop you all going round…

Forget Pantone, Here’s Beertone

Who cares what color the walls are when there’s beer in front of you? That’s exactly what the guys between Beertone thought, when they decided to put together a color chart that takes you on a journey through the entire spectrum of beer. Beertone explains: The bright beers will start the guide ending with the…

WSJ: Schmidt Is Giving North Korea What For

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Eric Schmidt isn’t being backward at coming forward during his trip to North Korea. In fact, he’s been challenging officials over global Internet access, nuclear-development, and US detainees. https://gizmodo.com/eric-schmidt-actually-landed-in-north-korea-now-what-5973865 The Journal reports that Schmidt was keen to point out the economic disadvantages that a censored internet brings: “As…

Polaroid’s New Android Tablets Might Give Nexus Some Stiff Competition

Polaroid has announced a new pair of Android tablets at CES. Their most obvious selling point is super-low pricing—but will their performance be able to stand up to the competition? There are two new tablets—predictably, a 7-incher (M7) and a 10-incher (M10)—and when we say price is a big draw here, we really mean it.…

Netflix has confirmed that there will be 14 new Arrested Development episodes, which will start airing in May. [Netflix]

This Picture Makes Manhattan Look Like a Video Game

This isn’t a computer simulation of New York. In fact, it’s a 3D panorama that was stitched together from multiple shots taken during a helicopter ride—and the result is beautiful. So beautiful, in fact, that when photographer Sergey Semonov submitted the image to the Epson International Photographic Pano Awards, it took first prize in the…

Apple Cuts the Price of Thunderbolt Cables

Apple has decided to cut the price of its exorbitantly priced Thunderbolt cables. Its 2-meter cable has fallen in price from a painful $50 to an only-slightly-more-palatable $40. It has also started selling a new, shorter Thunderbolt cable—measuring 0.5 meters—which costs $30. Less reason to buy those cheap knock-off cables, at least. [9to5mac]

Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile will all offer RIM’s new BB10 devices—the first of which will be announced January 30th.

Morrissey Being a Dick, Fun Facts about Sloths, and the Science of Color Vision

Slam Dunk Supertramp Style Who needs athletic ability when you’ve got a giant trampoline? True Facts About Sloths(es) You know you hate them, don’t lie. That Time Morrissey Was a Total Dick to John Cho To be fair, Morrissey obviously didn’t recognize John Cho at the time. [The Awesomer] The Hows and Whys of Our…

This Amazing Quick-Draw iPhone Sleeve Will Stop You from Ever Missing a Call

Inspired by Taxi Driver, no doubt, a Japanese man chose to make a quick-draw sleeve gun-type system for his iPhone. It guarantees quick access to his iPhone—phone calls would never ever be missed. Hell, phone calls might not even need to ring before he picks it up. I love how he had so many different…

Give Your iPhone 5 a Pro-Quality Mic with the Zoom iQ5

The iPhone 5’s capable of capturing really impressive video with its 8MP camera but the accompanying sound quality isn’t all that great. But with this new add-on mic from Zoom, your iPhone 5 videos will finally have the audio they deserve. The iQ5 is a Mid-Side stereo mic compatible with iOS 6.0 and above, connecting…

Here’s Your First Look At Monoprice’s Insanely Cheap Action Camera

So this is crazy. Monoprice is coming out with a $100 action camera next month. Yeah, the company best known for their ridiculously cheap and awesome HDMI cables sells a bunch of other super high quality gear, like the MHD Action Camera. The ruggedized barrel shaped camera shoots full HD (1920×1080) video at 30 fps…

Going Inside the DayGlo Factory Is a Mind Bending Colorful Trip

Byte Size Science took a tour inside the DayGlo Pigment Plant to show how DayGlo makes all of its fluorescent colors. It’s pretty fascinating—the color becomes taffy textured and then solidified by cooling and then ground up to be like sand and then ground up again to be between 3-5 microns in diamater. And it’s…

Apophis Asteroid May Destroy Some Satellites In 2029

The deadly asteroid Apophis is safely passing by Earth today, more than 9 million miles (14.5 million kilometers) from our home planet. Next time we won’t be so lucky. On April 13, 2029, Apophis will come so close that it may destroy satellites in orbit. The European Space Agency’s Herschel space observatory has acquired new…

It’s Okay To Lust After Hex’s Snakeskin Headphones

The invitation to CES could say “please join us to look at infinite stupid iPad cases and ugly headphones,” and it wouldn’t be misleading. But amidst all the crap are some beautiful things like Hex’s newest line of headphones. These snake skin cans have 40mm drivers, 20Hz – 20,000Hz frequency response, and all around they’re…

Microsoft Surface Pro Hands-On: This Is What It Should Have Been All Along

Surface RT was an enormous letdown—not because it was bad, but because it could have been so, so good. But Microsoft brought the Pro version to Vegas and let us play—and I couldn’t be happier. To be blunt, Surface Pro makes RT look like a mistake. Surface RT was a mistake—but fortunately for Microsoft (and…

This is how the primordial Earth looked — right after the mega-collision that formed the Moon

This stunning, lava-saturated painting by science artist Richard Bizley is a portrait of one of the most devastating disasters ever to befall planet Earth (click to enlarge). During the early days of our solar system, astronomers speculate that a protoplanet about the size of Mars smashed into the Earth, launching so much debris into space…

PornEdits Transforms Porn Scenes into Ridiculous Comics with MS Paint

I don’t know what it is about MS Paint but it instantly lightens up any picture. It works like magic! Just take a look at PornEdits, a website that takes porn scenes and transforms them into hilarious comics with the (lack of) power of MS Paint. I can’t get enough of it. Surprisingly, it’s not…

Big Bird Will Teach Your Kid To Read Using Qualcomm’s Augmented Reality Tech

Were American children just totally illiterate before Sesame Street? Because the creators of the children’s show have great tools for teaching kids how to read—like an upcoming augmented reality app called Big Bird’s Words. Our yellow feathered friend’s app is powered by a Qualcomm text recognition technology called Vuforia. It works like a game, challenges…

Celestron’s Virtuoso Telescope Mount Captures the Stars Above or Gigapixel Images Here On Earth

Celestron has taken its expertise in designing telescope mounts that can track and pan with the motion of the stars and created a cheaper, lightweight version called the Virtuoso that can also be used with a camera to capture massive multi-shot images. The company is basically muscling its way into GigaPan’s turf providing photographers who…