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Dremel’s New Rotary Tool Is Cheap Because It’s Powered by Your Vacuum Cleaner

They normally sell for $100 and up, but Dremel has found a way to make its rotary multi-tools a lot cheaper for anyone who already has a workshop full of equipment. Instead of having its own motor inside, the company’s new VRT1 is powered by the suction from a vacuum. Available for just $30 including…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

This painting of an egg looks like it actually cracks when an artist draws over it

I can only accept two reasons as for how this drawing of an egg—yes, a drawing—looks like it actually cracks as an artist continues drawing: our eyes are pitiful things that cannot be trusted at all or the artist is a magician. There is no in between. This is expert level artistry that is very…

Sploid Casey Chan

Amazing Time-Lapse Video Shows Britain’s Monstrous Warship Getting Her Radar Eye

BAE Systems’ high-tech 3D radar system called Artisan has been successfully installed to the Royal Navy’s future aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth. With the help of the cutting edge radar operators will be able to track up to 800 potential targets simultaneously and to detect objects as small as a tennis ball and traveling at…

Tech News Attila Nagy

Pandora Just Bought Ticketfly For Nearly Half a Billion Dollars

Your favorite internet radio service will soon make it easier to buy concert tickets. Pandorajust bought Ticketfly, a Ticketmaster competitor, for $450 million. Why? Because it’s a great idea. Pandora’s been scrambling to grow and diversify its offerings to music lovers for a while now. In the past year, the company’s bought created a data…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

A Princess’s Plan to Bring Light to the 620 Million Africans Without Power

Many people living in Africa need electricity, but don’t have it. Luckily, something of a solar power revolution is afoot in Africa, triggering a wave of innovation from solar energy entrepreneurs. One of them is a princess descended from an ancient Mossi warrior, who stresses that the best way to combat this problem is by…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

Every City Needs an Umbrella Sharing System

In what’s sure to be a blow to convenience store umbrella sales, a company in Vancouver has created the world’s first automated umbrella sharing service that lets members borrow one whenever it starts to unexpectedly rain outside. Like with bike sharing services that have seen limited success in cities around the world, UmbraCity first requires…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Breathtaking helicopter footage of cities around the world

This is behind the scenes footage from some commercial that Hyundai shot that basically toured the world. I have no idea what the final commercial looks like and I don’t really care because I’m totally obsessed with this truly spectacular footage they got of cities around the world from the vantage point of a helicopter.…

Sploid Casey Chan

The Magic: The Gathering Board Game Is Getting A New, Gigantic Monster To Play With

Arena of the Planeswalkers, Hasbro’s tabletop strategy takeon the world of Magic: The Gathering, is usually all about pitting Planeswalkers against each other in magical battles—but now they’re going to have to team up to take on a new threat: the game’s first colorless hero character, and a major part of the game’s new expansion.…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Interfaces That Curl, Wave, and Breathe Are Closer Than You Think

An iPad case that waves almost imperceptibly when you get an email. Screens that curl up when you leave a room, and ones that unfurl like flowers when you come back. These sound like William Gibson-esque technologies from the future, but they’re actually not so far off. A new video from MIT’s Tangible Media Group–which…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

This Year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry Honors the Discoverers of DNA Repair Mechanisms

Tomas Lindahl, Aziz Sancar, and Paul Modrich share this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for mapping out the mechanics of how cells repair damaged DNA. DNA is an unnervingly fragile molecule, considering its importance. Ultraviolet radiation from the Sun, or problems during cell division, cause changes in your genetic code, which can turn normal, healthy…

Tech News Kiona Smith-Strickland

This Is the Coolest Place to Control Your Body, Mind and Spirit

Beach yoga? Mountain yoga? River yoga? Dusk yoga? None of these can compete with… aircraft carrier sunrise yoga! Sept. 20, 2015: Sailors participate in a sunrise yoga class aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) as a part of Suicide Prevention Month. Theodore Roosevelt is deployed in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of…

Tech News Attila Nagy

The FAA Issued a $1.9 Million Fine to a Company for Illegal Drone Flights

The Federal Aviation Authority comes down on hard on illegal drone flights — and now it’s issued its biggest ever fine for the offence, demanding $1.9 million from the aerial photography company SkyPan International. The FAA claims the the company performed a total of 65 unauthorized commercial drone flights over New York City and Chicago…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Your Boarding Pass Barcode Can Reveal Your Future Flight Schedule

When you pick up a boarding pass, it has many of your personal details splashed all over it. But the innocuous-looking barcode contains an even richer seam of information about your travel plans and habits — and it may pay to keep it hidden away from prying eyes. Brian Krebs reports that one of his…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Be Afraid: Verizon’s Supercookies to Merge With AOL’s Ad-Tracking Network

Verizon is merging its cellphone tracking supercookie with AOL’s ad tracking network to match users’ online habits with their offline details. Verizon is giving a new mission to its controversial hidden identifier that tracks users of mobile devices. Verizon said in a little-noticed announcement that it will soon begin sharing the profiles with AOL’s ad…

Privacy & Security Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson - ProPublica

VW’s Giant Diesel Recall of Shame Begins in January

VW is still in full damage-control mode over itscheating diesel cars, and slowly but surely, the pieces are falling into place: if everything goes to plan, the first cars in Europe will be recalled in January 2016, to be finished by the end of 2016. That’s a long time to use a rental. The details…

Tech News Chris Mills

For $40,000, This Bang & Olufsen Speaker Should Play Sound in 11 Dimensions

Bang & Olufsen will freely admit that its new BeoLab 90 speaker is ‘not for everyone’. Given that most people can’t blow $40,000 on a car, let alone speaker-systems-as-modern-art, that’s not surprising. But at least for the money, you should get a nice hi-fi. The 90 is being designed to celebrate the company’s 90th anniversary,…

Tech News Chris Mills

Reddit’s First Video AMA With Neil DeGrasse Tyson Is Just Another Celebrity Q&A

A new, post-Ellen Reddit is here, and it’s a different kind of beast, with high-quality video AMAs with big-name celebrities. Neil DeGrasse Tyson is the first, and although it’s a very good video, it also feels a little bit weird. Nothing about this video is Reddit. It opens with a Tyson monologue over black-and-white images…

Tech News Chris Mills

Watch a fighter jet land on the middle of a highway road

Here’s really cool footage of a Swedish Saab JAS-39 Gripen fighter jet landing on a road in Finland. The Aviationist says both Finnish and Swedish aircraft were conducting a military force exercise at the Rovaniemi Air Base and on the strip of road. There are also pictures of the planes taking off from the road…

Sploid Casey Chan

Proof that the sky is both a magical being and a terrifying force of nature

My favorite parts of Mike Olbinski’s Monsoon II isn’t the terrifying bits where the sky turns evil dark monster and decides to pour lightning and strike water down onto the ground but when it dances around like a balletic being and then notices that we’re watching and moves its clouds so it envelopes us all.…

Sploid Casey Chan

What’s The Best Outdoors Gear For Tall Women?

My girlfriend is 6 feet tall with a 36-inch inseam. Good: Legs! Bad: It’s impossible to find performance outerwear and base layers that go all the way up, while still fitting a slim waist and feminine proportions. What are your suggestions? This is the third in an irregular series — Ask IndefinitelyWild. In the first,…

Tech News Wes Siler

Dremel’s New Rotary Tool Is Cheap Because It’s Powered by Your Vacuum Cleaner

This painting of an egg looks like it actually cracks when an artist draws over it

Amazing Time-Lapse Video Shows Britain’s Monstrous Warship Getting Her Radar Eye

Pandora Just Bought Ticketfly For Nearly Half a Billion Dollars

A Princess’s Plan to Bring Light to the 620 Million Africans Without Power

Every City Needs an Umbrella Sharing System

Breathtaking helicopter footage of cities around the world

The Magic: The Gathering Board Game Is Getting A New, Gigantic Monster To Play With

Interfaces That Curl, Wave, and Breathe Are Closer Than You Think

This Year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry Honors the Discoverers of DNA Repair Mechanisms

This Is the Coolest Place to Control Your Body, Mind and Spirit

The FAA Issued a $1.9 Million Fine to a Company for Illegal Drone Flights

Your Boarding Pass Barcode Can Reveal Your Future Flight Schedule

Be Afraid: Verizon’s Supercookies to Merge With AOL’s Ad-Tracking Network

VW’s Giant Diesel Recall of Shame Begins in January

For $40,000, This Bang & Olufsen Speaker Should Play Sound in 11 Dimensions

Reddit’s First Video AMA With Neil DeGrasse Tyson Is Just Another Celebrity Q&A

Watch a fighter jet land on the middle of a highway road

Proof that the sky is both a magical being and a terrifying force of nature

What’s The Best Outdoors Gear For Tall Women?

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

The Best New Toys of March 2026

Judge Denies Liking LinkedIn Post Critical of Elon Musk But Reassigns His Cases Anyway

Amazon Slashes 50% Off Keurig K-Cup Pod Coffee Maker, Now a Budget Alternative to Breville and Nespresso Espresso Machines

Sun’s Latest Outburst Complicates Planned Launch of Artemis 2

Instagram Will Finally Let You Lurk to Your Heart’s Content—for a Price

Popular Sweetener Found in Protein Bars Tied to Stroke, Blood Clot Risk

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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