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Brilliant Auto-Inflating Tires Pump Themselves Up As They Roll

There’s a long list of reasons why you should keep your vehicle’s tires properly inflated—from better mileage to safer handling. Goodyear has made this motorist’s chore extra easy with its new Air Maintenance Technology system, which automatically keeps a tire at the proper PSI using a self-contained passive pump. Auto-inflation systems for tires have existed…

Good morning, here is your life-affirming video of a dolphin giving birth

Because our day can’t truly begin until we’ve seen a cetacean go buck-wild on the miracle of life, here is Keo the dolphin giving birth to a female calf last Monday with a minimum of viscera. As the folks at Dolphin Quest explain: It’s the first baby for proud dolphin mom, 12-year-old Keo. Dolphin Quest…

You Don’t Need a F*cking Case for Your iPhone 5

I’ve never used a case for my iPhone 4. Not even after the back broke for the third time. I didn’t do it because, unlike my grandma, I don’t cover my sofas with plastic. Or unlike idiots, I don’t protect my car’s front with a bra. And while you and the other billion people who…

Here Are the iOS Apps Updated for the iPhone 5 (Updating)

The new iPhone 5 and its bigger screen is here. And to take advantage of all 4-inches of that taller screen, you need apps that are updated, optimized and ready to look bigger and better than ever. We got ’em all listed for you right here. Apps that aren’t updated for the iPhone 5 will…

Will the next Batman movie be an Arkham Asylum adaptation?

Bruce Willis drops some major Looper hints. Anthony Mackie discuss his character in the Captain America sequel, while Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige explains the plans for Thanos. Plus a Doctor Who clip and Amy Adams on Man of Steel! It’s spoilers all the way down! Top image from Looper. The Avengers 2 Now that…

Homer Simpson Discovers the Dangers Of Electronic Voting

It’s hard to believe The Simpsons have been on the air for almost a quarter of a century, but season 24 is just around the corner and Fox has just released this teaser for the season premiere airing September 30. It’s election time in Springfield and Homer has to decide between Barack Obama and Mitt…

Scientists Can Now Inkjet-Print Lasers

Scientists have developed a technique that uses an inkjet printer to make lasers—which could lead to a future filled with cheap laser-driven displays and smart surfaces. A team of scientists from the University of Cambridge has used liquid crystals in place of ink in order to print tiny dots onto a specially coated surface. Once…

London Underground Is Happy to Lend iOS 6 Users a Map

If you’ve upgraded to iOS 6, you’re probably—quite literally—lost. But the staff at Hackney Wick underground station in London have found a solution: iOS 6 users might be best off reverting to a good ol’ fashioned paper map. [Ben Mathis via Pocket-lint] Image via by Ben Mathis

BlackBerry email service is down in Europe, Middle East, and Africa. RIM is “working to resolve the issue”. [Sky News]

Why Didn’t High School Science Look This Beautiful?

Looking like something straight out of a sci-fi film, it might shock you to hear that these images aren’t taken from the set of a new Alien film, but are real photographs of scientific experiments. Captured by Pery Burge, artist-in-residence at Exeter University, UK, she refers to her work as “artistic flow visualization”. In other…

Scientists Develop Technique to Erase Your Fears

Fears are formed when we associate things with a strong, negative emotional response. Now, a team of scientists have developed a technique which lets them erase new emotional memories from the human brain—which could make it possible to wipe out your fears for good. When the brain learns something, a memory is created through a…

This Optical Trick Is Annoying the Hell Out of Me

So, here are some lines moving like crazy. Stop moving like crazy, you lines! Oh, here are some squares. “Hello lines, let’s all play nice together!” they say. Now everything makes sense. How did this happen? Eye witchcraft! Thank you for the squares, stupid!

Verizon: “Unlimited Is Just a Word”

If you’re very attached to your unlimited data plan, Verizon’s Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo knows better. Speaking at an investor conference Shammo has claimed that “unlimited is just a word”—and one that you don’t understand at that. Android Central has posted a direct quote from the call. Shammo explained: So what customers are understanding…

Salon has sold one of the web’s oldest online communities, The Well, to its own members. [The Well]

What’s the Most Shocking Thing You’ve Ever Learned Through Facebook?

Maybe you discovered a friend from high school recently had a baby. Maybe your girlfriend is in a few too many of some other guy’s recent photos. (You know what I’m saying?) Hopefully you’re not like this woman, who discovered through Facebook that her daughter had died. What’s the most shocking information you’ve ever gleaned…

The Stoner Channel: Ozzy Osbourne Speaks of the Devil, BBC Explains Metal, and NMA Breaks Down Prop 64

Marooned On Watango Island – Lluis Fuzzhound From the mind of Lluis Fuzzhound, the same Australian animator that did the video for Midnight Woolf’s “Skin You Alive,” comes a tale of shipwreck, survival, and drug-induced Tiki industry. [Laughing Squid] Marijuana legalization 2012: Colorado, Oregon and Washington vote Taiwanese absurdist animation studio NMA is back with…

Will the iPhone 5 Be As Ridiculous As This 1989 Transportable Phone in 20 years?

I was only a wee pup in 1989 so I totally don’t remember this ridiculously awesome Radio Shack “transportable” cellular phone. My first memory of cell phones were brick-sized, not car battery-sized like this one. But still! It was portable! You could use it in your car! I wonder if we’ll look back on the…

What Apps Do You Use Most on Your Smartphone?

The craziest thing about Apple switching out Google Maps for something so clearly subpar is that Maps is one of the apps people use the most on a smartphone. I mean other than checking e-mails and using a web browser, what other apps do you absolutely need more than Maps on a smartphone? I’m not…

YouTube Is Testing Out an Interactive Quiz Feature

A new feature being tested out by Youtube could add infinitely many new uses to the video-hosting service. TechCrunch reports that a user-customized quiz feature called “Video Questions Editor Beta” (first spotted by a Dutch tech site). Youtube describes the feature as a way for “multiple questions to be displayed on top of your video…

The Art of Web Design Explained

In PBS’ latest Off Book video, they examine the art of web design. We spend so much of our time on websites these days that when they’re good, we don’t even think about them anymore. But, of course, it wasn’t always like that. People had to build them bare before they could add some pizazz…