Google Has Turned on Its US-Japan Undersea CableÂ
People of the West Coast, get ready for faster internet. After two years of building, the undersea cable Google built…
Facebook and Microsoft Will Run the Most Badass Undersea Cable in History
Investing in undersea internet cables has been a big part of data strategy plans for tech giants in recent years. Now…
Here's What the First Full-Scale Test of the Hyperloop Will Look Like
Wednesday morning, in the Nevada desert, one of the companies working to develop a hyperloop will deliver a proof of…
Pneumatic Tubes Are Working Their Way Back Into the Pipeline
You might think of pneumatic tubes as an arcane means of pushing letters around big buildings—but there's a quiet…
Dress Your Lady in Tubes and Neon Water
You could describe Charlie Bucket's Fluid Dress as "flowing," but not in the usual sense—it's a garment made from six…
Are You Ready For Tube-Free Toilet Paper?
On Monday, Scott Naturals Tube-Free toilet paper will go on sale in Walmarts and Sam's Clubs across the Northeast…
Here's What People Used Before LCDs
In the 1950s folks didn't have snazzy LCD displays, but they did have cold cathode neon readout tubes. Let's take a…
"Vacuum Gang" Sucks Up $800,000 From Safeboxes
France really does have the best thieves. This time, a group of bandits known as the "vacuum gang" has on a 15-store…
Roosevelt Island, Where Trash Is Collected At 60MPH
On Roosevelt Island, a narrow strip of land in New York's East River, no one takes their trash to the curb. They just…
Remainders - The Good, Bad and Ugly Things We Didn't Post (and Why)
In today's remainders, the big and the little. A big quantum computer simulates a little molecule. A big series of…
Newly Discovered Hole On Moon Leads To Network Of Tubes
Images have revealed a hole on the Moon's surface that is at least 260 feet deep and may lead to an underground tunnel…
How Vaccuum Tubes Are Made and Used, Explained in 1942
And, also, forget Twitter—I need the narrator of these videos to just follow me around and annotate the minutiae of my…
Roth MC4 Music Cocoon iPod Dock is a Series of Real Tubes
We're getting bored with iPod docks, but not with this MC4 Music Cocoon from Roth Audio. Look at that blend of the old…
Swatch Concept: Air Tube Design Has Us Pumped
Wish we could say this is the latest Swatch that's on sale now, but not yet. It's a concept by British designer…
Zvex Nano Head: Tiny Tube Amp Packs Punch
The Zvex Nano Head is the world's smallest tube guitar amplifier, bound to be a favorite of electric git-box pickers…
Undersound: A Music-based MySpace For the Subway
We don't get much subway entertainment (aside from that homeless guy who always plays the accordion for us) so our…
All-Tube Digital Clock
Nixie tubes, otherwise known as numicators, were hawt stuff back in the pre-LED/LCD 60s if you wanted to display…