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3M LED Advanced Light Review: The Lightbulb That Will Outlast Your House

By 2014, the Energy Independence and Security Act will effectively ban incandescent light bulbs from US households. And no matter how many bulbs you’re hoarding, the stockpile will eventually burn out. So the industry has high hopes for light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which are comparable in efficiency to compact fluorescents, but without the harsh light and…

Report: Apple Might Ditch Intel Chips for Its Own

According to a report form Bloomberg News, Apple is considering switching away from the Intel chips that have been powering Mac computers for years, in favor of chips designed in-house, like the A6 and A6X powering the new iPhone 5 and iPad 4. Apple’s shown a renewed interest in chip building recently. In September, it…

Foursquare now shows a 1-10 rating for places in its newly updated iOS app. Your move, Yelp.

How to Make a Sandy Disaster Image Look Even Worse

I thought there was not way you could make a Sandy disaster image look even worse that what they normally are but, as it turns out, it is possible. Just add a freaking puppet to it. Reader Josef Abramov sent this image to us today: I walked out of my house in Rockaway (one of…

How To Vote (Updated)

The right to elect one’s public representatives is the foundation upon which our democracy is built. So if you think Hurricane Sandy is going to stop Americans from choosing the next leader of the free world, demand a recount. Here’s a look at the technology everyone over 18 can expect to find in a voting…

Recapping ‘The Jetsons’: Episode 07 – The Flying Suit

This is the seventh in a 24-part series looking at every episode of “The Jetsons” TV show from the original 1962-63 season. The seventh episode of “The Jetsons” premiered on American television November 4, 1962, and was titled “The Flying Suit.” In this episode we’re introduced to Mr. Cogswell (we don’t learn until the 1980s…

This Contraption Pops Just a Single Piece of Popcorn

Popcorn is already considered a healthy low-cal snack for dieters, but when you seriously need to shed the pounds, you’ll want to replace your hot air popper with the Oncle Sam. It makes just a single piece of popcorn at a time, providing a four calorie snack that won’t leave you feeling guilty at your…

New dinosaur named after Sauron from Lord of the Rings

Earlier this year a team of palaeontologists came into the possession of what appeared to be a 95 million-year-old skull cap from a previously unknown dinosaur. Further analysis showed that the bone likely belonged to a carcharodontosaurid – an offshoot of the familiar Allosaurus. Given its unique domed skull, the researchers concluded that it was…

Battlestar Galactica prequel Blood & Chrome will launch this Friday, online!

The long awaited Battlestar Galactica prequel, featuring Young Will Adama fighting the Cylon Wars, will finally get a very unceremonious release. Just today, Entertainment Weekly announced that Blood & Chrome will be airing as a webseries starting Friday November 9th. So this totally badass-looking series (judging from the above trailer) will air on Friday night…

The Ultimate Gallery of Flooded New York

We saw it in countless movies, but the reality is grittier and more miserable than any overblown disaster flick. Smudge everywhere, small hills of dead rats, stairs that descent into tunnels full of filthy water… New York City flooded after Sandy is a dreadful place. South Ferry & Whitehall Street subway station flooded Another photo…

Concept Art of the Original Monster Versions of Wreck-It Ralph

Now that Wreck-It Ralph has totally smashed the box office, it’s fascinating to stop and realize how different the movie’s video game villain could have looked. The other day, we posted an interview with star John C. Reilly, who explained that at various points, Ralph was going to be a caveman or a weird-looking alien…

This Surge Protector Is Your Power-To-The-People Deal of the Day

Who would’ve guessed that the hero gadget of Hurricane Sandy would’ve been the lowly power strip? Connected Manhattanites, lacking power for their phones and laptops (or streetlights), staggered uptown to find a place to charge up, only to find any free outlet already taken. But good samaritans plugged in power strips, and brought the power…

Dell XPS 12 Review: Beautiful Screen, Flimsy Frame

Among all the Windows 8 convertibles coming out, the Dell XPS is unique. Because it’s insane. It’s a full-on, regular laptop, with a trapeze artist screen that flips on an axis to convert into a slate. Is that something you’d actually want? What Is It? A 12.5-inch touchscreen laptop that converts into a slate tablet.…

Roberto Orci confirms the Locke & Key movie trilogy!

Earlier last week, rumors were circulating that the cancelled TV series based off Joe Hill’s Locke & Key comics, would be resurrected as a movie Trilogy. Today Bob Orci (producer behind that comic adaptation) seems to be confirming via his Twitter account that said trilogy WILL be happening. Hell yeah!

Holograms of Dead Famous People: Yay or Nay?

Tupac performed as a hologram alongside Snoop Dogg Lion at Coachella. The Republican party has created a Reagan hologram. And now TLC wants to resurrect the late Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes in hologram form for a reunion tour. Okay, so it was weirdly realistic and unbelievably hilarious with Tupac, but really? Is this super exploitative…

Noam Chomsky explains why we still don’t have artificial intelligence

Famed linguist and cognitive scientist Noam Chomsky has suddenly found himself embroiled in a debate about the ongoing quest to develop AI. It all started last year when he spoke at MIT’s “Brains, Minds and Machines” symposium when he critiqued AI theorists for adopting an approach more akin to behaviorism. His talk was later countered…

The scientist who came up with a wave theory for coincidences

Ever thought of a friend you haven’t seen in years and then picked up the phone and found that they were calling you? Paul Kammerer would like to hear about it. One of the weirdest (and some would say crookedest) scientists in history, he came up with a theory of coincidences called Seriality. Paul Kammerer…

This Ridiculous Adult Pacifier Gives Your Tongue a Creepy Workout

If you prefer your exercise routines to be incredibly brief and awkward, Japan once again delivers with a contraption designed to tighten cheeks and eliminate double chins. The Kuwaete Sukkiri actually works out just your tongue, but you’ll be hard-pressed to find a machine at your gym that can tighten facial muscles with just a…

Zombie King Kong, Giant Squids and Hordes of Zombies in New Goon Concept Art

There are only five days left to make a movie of Eric Powell’s fantastic comic book The Goon. That’s how long remains to the movie’s Kickstarter campaign. Only five days! And David Fincher and the folks from Blur Studios are so close to getting the funds needed to finish off their R-rated story reel, that…

Web-Based Instagram Profiles Are Here and They’re VERY Facebook-esque

Up until now, Instagram profiles have only been viewable from the app (or through some sort of a third-party site/client). But AllThingsD reports that you’ll now be able to fire up any web browser and have access to any public Instagram account, making it approximately 1000000% easier to stalk people using the service. Oh, and…