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The men’s style section of the New York Times just ran an article about city slickers carrying pocketknives. It’s a trend, apparently. Which knives do they feature and how do they perform? Let’s analyze it. Yes, that’s me up top. They sent a photographer over who asked me do some stuff with a knife and…
An Israeli company called Flash Network is fighting dirty against people who called it out for sneaky javascript injections. It’s a prime example how companies use copyright laws to threaten and intimidate anyone who criticizes them. When an Indian blogger named Thejesh GN noticed some suspicious javascript injected into the browsing sessions of popular telecom…
It’s impossible to count how many artists, designers, and Nintendo fans have been inspired by Shigeru Miyamoto’s work, but you can add the folks at Mr. Jones Watches to that list. Their latest timepiece is this Super Mario Bros.-inspired creation featuring the side-scrolling landscape from the original NES game. Appropriately called the Sun and Moon…
This week’s episode of Meanwhile in the Future gets very scary, very quickly. And we’re not going all that far into the future, either. We’re already starting to see the beginnings of an age without antibiotics. So what does a world without these drugs look like? Listen to find out. Over the past 85 years,…
Got a 2015 Samsung Smart TV? Enjoy PlayStation games? Sony’s PS Now service—which streams PS3 games over the internet—is now available on most of Samsung’s 4K sets and a few cheaper screens. There’s a free trial, then $20 monthly. It’s also coming to last year’s TVs. [Sony]
The Xbox 360 Wireless Gaming Receiver is one of the hidden gems of PC gaming—it lets you play loads of Windows PC games from the couch with controllers you already own. This fall, a $25 dongle will let you do the same with your Xbox One gamepads, too! Sure, you could already use Xbox One…
It’s difficult to watch the footage of an out-of-control police officer losing his shit while breaking up a pool party of adolescents in McKinney, Texas. It’s impossible to forget the moment he kneels on top of a young girl in a swimsuit while she cries for help. Artist @markusprimelives responded by flipping the incident on…
First, Ben Moon’s dog helped him survive a fight against cancer. Then, Denali succumbed to the disease himself. This film about their life together is incredibly moving. When Denali came into Ben Moon’s life in November 1999, Moon was 24 years old and had just moved west to Portland, Oregon. His girlfriend had convinced him…
The 2015 Licensing Expo just got under way in Las Vegas today, giving us our first good look at the redesigned Batmobile that Ben Affleck will be driving in the upcoming 2016 blockbuster, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. We’ve already gotten a few peeks at Batman’s newest ride, but these images, courtesy of Warner…
Meat glue is always going to be totally weird sounding but we’ve all eaten it before (if you eat at fast food restaurants, at least). It’s derived from blood and is a clotting agent that allows different types of meat to stick to each other, hence the name. You can do a lot of weird,…
The 1827 killing of Maria Marten came to be known as “the Red Barn Murder,” a crime so sensational that it spawned its own genre of art. And Red Barn Murder commemorations are still highly sought-after. Exhibit A: this charming ceramic rendering, which sold for nearly $20,000 in 2010. The auction house description gives more…
I asked you to photograph some doors. And you gave us a peek into the intricate, gorgeous, and sometimes flat-out depressing possibilities that await us all from across the globe. Tobacco Lunch This is an old door to what was a lunch counter in the American Tobacco Campus in Durham, NC. The door is less…
There is no permanent solution for Fukushima’s radioactive water, which has been leaking out of storage tanks again and again. Could the best option actually be just letting all into the ocean? Over at Nautilus, Eliza Strickland has a snappy summary of the problem with Fukushima’s radioactive water, which is at 620,000 gallons and counting.…
Sometimes, all it takes is a little digging in a website’s style sheets to find a vein of gold. In this case, an enterprising Reddit user discovered a set of gorgeous high-res images of the final Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and a never-before-mentioned game controller—two days before Oculus’s big reveal. Whoops! Oculus founder Palmer…
Vincent Bugliosi — who prosecuted Charles Manson and wrote the best-selling true crime classic, Helter Skelter, about the trial — has died at age 80. Despite a long, successful career, he lamented last year that “I can no more disassociate myself from [Manson] than I can jump away from my own shadow.”
Lego’s official Hulkbuster set left quite a lot to be desired in terms of size, detailing, and overall awesomeness. After all, Iron Man’s giant suit was the real star of that recent Avengers flick. So Raymond Chow took it upon himself to build a better version—a much better version—that you can now vote for over…
There were hints right away that yesterday’s WWDC keynote would be different. Tim Cook opened with an anedcote about an Apple-sponsored scholarship competition to engage students in technology careers, specifically mentioning that the winner was a 12-year-old girl from New York. Yes, there were more women onstage at an Apple WWDC keynote than in the…
Our friends at Studio Kippenberger are on the Isle of Man right now, following independent rider Tom McHale as he competes in the deadliest race on earth. Watch this trailer and you’ll see why we’re excited. IOM TT – Trailer from STUDIO KIPPENBERGER on Vimeo.
It’s the week before E3, and not many people want to put games out. But that doesn’t meant there aren’t any — the Elder Scrolls go online on consoles, and Lego life, uh, finds a way with the new Jurassic World tie in. Excited for E3? Come talk about it in this week’s Tuesday Game…
We finally have our first look at the World Trade Center’s skyscraper, thanks to a Wired exclusive today. But wasn’t this building already unveiled years ago? And wasn’t it designed by someone else? Wasn’t it under construction? Your memory serves. 2 World Trade Center was originally designed by the British architect Lord Norman Foster back…
