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Shot using a DJI Osmo stabilized camera to ensure buttery smooth footage, Rufus Blackwell’s hyperlapse video of Saigon, Vietnam, somehow makes the city more beautiful even though you feel as if you’re racing through it at the speed of sound. If all vacation videos looked this captivating, you’d be happy to visit your friends after…
Hockey pucks get put through a lot in the name of internet views. We’ve seen then burned, frozen, and shot at, and they manage to survive unscathed. But the indestructible puck has finally met its match under a hydraulic press. The vulcanized rubber disc starts looking like a thumbprint cookie pretty quickly, and just as…
Salim PK, a police officer in Delhi, India, was captured on video while allegedly drunk on a metro train. Video of him staggering and falling over went viral. But doctors have confirmed what he insisted all along: He was actually having a stroke. Salim was videotaped on the train back in August of 2015, where…
Nuclear bombs are the deadliest weapons we’ve ever created because of the destruction they’ve caused to human life and the damage they leave with radiation and the sheer magnitude of their explosions. The arms race led to more and more testing of bigger and bigger bombs. Here are the largest nuclear explosions in history. SPLOID…
Apple announced a “new” four-inch iPhone SE today, and it killed the iPhone 5S. This was a shrewd marketing strategy and a dirty trick. The iPhone SE is not a new phone. It is the iPhone 5S. You know, I don’t like being tricked. You can’t buy the iPhone 5S anymore, but don’t pour out…
September 19, 2014 was a dark day. It was a little rainy, my mother was in town and stealing my weekend, and a whole lot of iPhone 6 and 6 Pluses were coming into the office for benchmarking and review. The one bright spot was that my own iPhone would be arriving that same day,…
Lets clear up a couple of things: Yes, I know they’re called chakram, and that they’re real weapons that come from India. I also know they don’t fly back to you when thrown, or separate into weird knives. Xena gets a pass because she’s superhuman and all that, but the guys of Man at Arms…
The new Apple iOS 9.3 is here, and it’s full of tiny enhancements that will make life on an iPhone (or iPad) much easier. It’s important to note that Apple’s latest update to its mobile operating system is iterative (up from 9.2 to 9.3), so there won’t be any drastic changes. Nonetheless, Apple has added…
The 9.7-inch iPad, the Apple tablet snuggled between the smaller mini and the big boy Pro, hasn’t been updated since 2014 with the iPad Air 2. So as some kind of mea culpa, Apple just blew up the Air line altogether with a “new” and “improved” 9.7-inch iPad Pro. Except it’s really not very new…
After a few years of big phone mania, Apple’s finally giving us a phone that will fit comfortably in a woman’s pocket. It’s got the same guts as an iPhone 6s, minus the size, and it looks an awful lot like the iPhone 5s—to the point that all the comparisons in the announcement were to…
It’s been almost a year since the first Apple Watch was released, and following its poor sales numbers, we were hoping that we might get some much-needed love at Apple’s special press event today. Unfortunately, the geniuses at Apple have not found a way to add any meaningful updates to the overpriced wearable device. In…
Who would have though a column of fire slowly moving in your direction could be in any way calming? The sound this massive match bomb makes is kind of a wind-through-the-trees thing, mixed with one of those Calming Ocean Sounds™ relaxation tapes, and the white noise machine in your therapist’s office. Mmmm, just like a…
Lego has dabbled in wearable accessories in the past, but it looks like the company is finally moving past just watches and keychains by teaming up with Uniqlo for a new line of t-shirts available in both kids and adult sizes and designs. The adult versions, available now in the Uniqlo UK online store, feature…
If you’ve ever fantasized about stomping on Goombas, or rescuing Princess Zelda, you’re going to want this 8-bit Nintendo (or, Cleantendo) shower curtain from ThinkGeek that makes your morning routine feel more like a retro video game. It’s $25, including plastic rings, and features classic 8-bit graphics plus a clear window that makes whoever’s taking…
It’s no secret that professional model makers often use the same plastic model kits you can buy at a hobby shop, they’re just highly skilled at painting them to look incredibly realistic. Tristan Elliott instead started with Hasbro’s Battle Action Millennium Falcon toy, and with a little extra paint, turned it into a near-flawless film…
As it often does in the springtime, Apple is hosting a splashy event today, where everyone expects to see some new products. The most intriguing rumored new member of the family will be a 4-inch iPhone SE for people with tiny hands as well as a smaller iPad Pro for pretty much anyone with hands.…
The electronics powering the Atari 2600 were even simpler than those found in the original Game Boy. So why are recreations like the Atari Flashback 2.0 so big? There’s no reason they have to be, as lovablechevy proved by squeezing them into a old Atari video game cartridge. Her mod started by first clearing out…
Very few animals are capable of recognizing themselves in the mirror. New research suggests that manta rays are capable of this unique cognitive feat—a possible sign that these fish are self-aware. As children, many of us enjoyed playing in front of the mirror. We’d stick our tongues out at ourselves, make funny faces, or try…
It’s been five years since Japan’s Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Fukushima—and some consumers are still wary of produce grown in the region. That’s why some farmers aren’t growing plants in soil that might be contaminated—they’re growing plants in polyester instead. Farmers in Kawamata, a town in Fukushima prefecture that’s about 30 miles…
Exactly 10 years ago, Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey—whose body at the time was woefully unaccustomed to Prada suits, Rolex watches, and Shaker benches—sent the platform’s very first message: “just setting up my twttr.” Back then, Twitter was barely a twinkle in Silicon Valley’s dead eyes. Today, however, the company is… well, it’s shedding…
