Girls

The Best All-Purpose Hiking Boots For Women

Time to hit the trail? I’m a field geologist, so that’s my job. I wanted to find the best hiking boots for general outdoors activities, so spent months testing these at work. And I think we found a winner. These aren’t boots dedicated to mountaineering, heavyweight backpacking, ice climbing or trail running. Instead, we wanted…

Tinder Around The World

Traveling around the world? Tinder can help you meet people. Obviously. But its easy intimacy can also help plug you into adventure. Here’s how it worked for us, along with some of the people we met through it during our travels. I arrived in Oslo, Norway from Copenhagen via bus on a cold, stormy September…

This Sweet Connected Toy Is Designed To Teach Kids How to Program

Last week we were given a stark reminder of just how far the toy industry has to go in making great toys for girls that promote engineering, in the form of this Barbie travesty. Here’s a nice antidote from a UX design firm called Slice of Lime: Nübi, a connected toy prototype that aims to…

Scary punk magically transforms into posh girl—but what’s better?

Well that was unexpected. Meet Mel. She’s an intimidating punk rocker who has a hot pink mohawk, more piercings than she can count and has never found a studded leather jacket she’s never worn before. And then meet Mel again after her made for TV makeover. Who is the better Mel? The makeover was done…

Which TV star used to say “I’m just so beautiful” to the mirror?

This American filmmaker and actress created a famous HBO show that narrates the inconsequential problems of a group of twenty-something friends living in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. https://jezebel.com/lena-dunham-used-to-look-in-the-mirror-and-say-im-jus-1226434042

The Doubleclicks: Nothing to Prove (Girls Can Be Geeks Too)

Geeks come in all shapes, sizes, forms, kinds, heights, hair colors, ethnicities and yes, even gender. This lovely little music video by The Doubleclicks shows off geek girls who have “Nothing to Prove” about their geekiness. Geek girls are constantly and wrongfully tested about their geekiness because us dimwitted males can’t believe they exist. They…

Which mainstream shows are scifi and fantasy in disguise?

As much as we love science fiction and fantasy here, we have to admit they have a limited range. Or do they? Mainstream shows don’t have aliens or gnomes, but sometimes they capture the feelings of otherworldliness and outrageousness better than scifi and fantasy. What are your favorite stealth genre shows? It’s a good time…

How Every Guy Will Use Google Glass

Though you may look like a complete dork wearing Google Glass, it’s the capital-F future realized in the most overtly futuristic way possible. That means people are going to be interested in this thing. That means once guys realize what they can do with it, they’ll just use it in any way possible to get…

Good news Girls enthusiasts—HBO Go is finally getting AirPlay support starting today, and so is Showtime!

Finally, a TV show about what it’s really like to be a sexy 20-something robot in NYC

Having conquered the female woman lady audience with Lena Dunham’s award-winning Girls TV series, HBO has gone back to the well — the exact same well — probably the exact same bucket, too — and brought us Robots, a show about young robots living in Brooklyn, having sexy times, yelling about things, and basically living…

This Sexy Underwear Won’t Get Ruined If You Pee on Them

Like the decidedly unsexy Depends underwear, Dear Kate underwear can hold lady liquid without getting ruined. The secret sauce is the thin wicking material that it’s made of that can withstand three teaspoons. But unlike Depends, you won’t be embarrassed when you strip to your skivvies. Dear Kate, which is made by 25-year-old chemical engineering…

An Iron and Steel Mill Company Decided to Make a Calendar Filled with Naked Girls and Melted Metal

For some reason, a Belarusian iron and steel mill made a calendar using its naked women workers. That’s sort of normal, I guess. But the iron and steel mill wanted to make sure anyone who saw this calendar knew it was theirs by superimposing images of melting metal, wire looms, burning steel, cables, fences and…

Facebook Took Down This Picture Because It Was Too Demeaning

Facebook, which recently took down the elbow boobs picture, also took down this picture by men’s magazine Zoo Weekly. The crass post asks Facebook users if they’re a boobs or butt guy, with a “clever” picture. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-took-down-this-picture-because-it-thinks-elbow-5963326 The reason the picture was taken down, as explained by Australia’s ad watchdog, the Advertising Standards Bureau: “The…

How Guys Talk to Cute Girls on OKCupid

Online dating, like real life dating, can get a little skeevy because people are lame and pervy and also, lame and pervy. So to see the type of lame and pervy responses that a cute girl would get while on a dating service like OKCupid, a guy created a fake profile with a picture of…

These Girls Are Wearing Nothing But Light

Light painting is one of those magical photography techniques that never gets old. Batman logos! Fancy effects! And even… dresses? Mmhmm. Atton Conrad, an advertising and art photographer, used light painting to dress his beautiful models to make them look even more gorgeous. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-body-light-painting-5587069 It’s lovely. The models are only wearing light! And it’s super…

Hey Anti-Lego Feminists, “Lego for Girls” Actually Kicks Ass

The cool space fighter above was created with bricks from Lego Friends’ Butterfly Beauty Shop, Olivia’s Invention Workshop, Stephanie’s Cool Convertible, and Emma’s Fashion Design Studio. It proves one thing: feminists criticizing the new Lego Friends sets just don’t get it. When I first saw the new and controversial Lego Friends I hated it too.…

A Trip Through Space for Boys and Girls (1954)

While flipping through the 1954 book A Trip Through Space I was struck by one aspect of the interstellar story that I’ve never noticed in a pre-Apollo book… a girl in space! Here at Paleofuture we’ve looked at quite a few books that told children of the 1950s and 60s about the wondrous world of…

Bikinis Made from 3D-Printers Are Custom Fit for Each Woman’s Curve

This bikini, called the N12, is the world’s first 3D-printed bikini. It’s a sexy design that uses small discs held together by springs. The cool thing is that the designerss want to use women’s body scans to create perfect fitting bikinis. Designed by Jenna Fizel and Mary Haung of Continuum Fashion, it’s the first 3D-printed,…

Gender Stereotypes Revealed Anew In Toy Commercials Word Cloud

This is one of those things that won’t surprise, but it’s still certainly interesting. What you’re seeing in the image below is a word cloud, modeled after commercials for boy’s and girl’s toys. Stark differences laid bare, and all that. I imagine many of the commercials that Crystal over at Boys, Masculinity, and Gender Stereotypes…

A Dating Site That Hooks You Up with Someone Who Looks Like You

Findyourfacemate.com is a new dating site (that launches sometime this month) that tries to hook up people who look alike. Seriously! It uses facial-recognition technology (from Face.com) that tracks nine points on each user’s face-eyes, ears, nose, chin, and corners and center of the mouth-to find their match. The site is the brainchild of Christina…