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I just bought the first car I’ve owned in 13 years and decided to break it in properly over the weekend. Ingredients for this adventure included: Death Valley, being naked around your friends and a bunch of crusty hippies, hot springs, Unimogs full of twinks, mushrooms and 125 miles of off-roading. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-turn-your-new-car-into-an-adventuremobile-1686163808
I just bought the first car I’ve owned in 13 years and decided to break it in properly over the weekend. Ingredients for this adventure included: Death Valley, being naked around your friends and a bunch of crusty hippies, hot springs, Unimogs full of twinks, mushrooms and 125 miles of off-roading. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-drive-off-road-1651459334 Me and car…
Occasionally I get one of those emails from somebody with an address like [email protected], asking me to enter my gmail password and bank information into an online form. And I wonder, Does anyone really fall for this? What’s the dumbest scam you’ve ever seen? Please include screenshots and links if you can, so we can…
Oliver Oettli says that he usually doesn’t do stuff like his Power Winds photo series but these photos became his most well known project. And rightly so. They feel magical, as if these women were supernatural beings. No digital tricks here: Photoshop was only used to adjust color and contrast. Oliver Oettli is a photographer…
Remember the 1983 movie WarGames? The film is about a computer “game” with the potential to start thermonuclear war. But strangely this scenario is more truth than fiction. Because in 1979 programmers at NORAD almost started World War III when they accidentally ran a computer simulation of a Soviet attack. In the early morning hours…
The thing about tattoos is they’re inked on your skin for life, unless you want to undergo an expensive, time-consuming, and potentially scarring laser-removal process. But now, a tattoo-removal cream could be the destroyer of a thousand unwanted lower-back butterflies and a saving grace for their owners. Alex Falkenham, a pathology researcher at Dalhousie University…
Halo deathmatches are about to get real. (Except the whole dying part.) Mattel is turning the hit video game’s iconic sci-fi weaponry into awesome toy dart guns. First up: The infamous Needler. Blaster Labs spotted this Needler at the 2015 New York Toy Fair, and our own Toy correspondent Andrew Liszewski can confirm that it…
The last time we left Kim Dotcom, he was busy poising himself as “Hilary’s worst nightmare in 2016” with a brand new pretend political party, the Internet Party. Now, our future President Dotcom is busy rambling to his eventual constituents on Twitter about starting his very own Internet. You know, just as soon as he…
In potentially the largest bank heist on record, an Eastern European hacker ring is stealing an estimated $1 billion from banks by infecting computers with malware and siphoning money. But how the hackers infiltrated these banks speaks to a much bigger problem: The current security standards (or lack thereof) at major financial institutions are so…
Lieutenant Chris Nigus sent us these series of spectacular photos taken while flying on missions during the last couple of years of his deployment in Japan. Above you can see him flying low level in Japan’s Orange Route. Some of them show weapons firing from his F/A-18E Super Hornet. F/A-18E Super Hornet’s M61A2 Vulcan nose…
The Favorites section of File Explorer is designed to hold the folders you use most often. It makes opening those frequently accessed parts of your drive that little bit easier. If there are new folders you want to add, or redundant ones you don’t want to see, making changes isn’t difficult (and the seconds you…
A consortium of tech companies adopted a new standard in December intended to usher in a more secure future without the hassle of passwords. On Friday, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 will incorporate those specifications, enabling new biometric identification features like fingerprints and eye-scans. Good job, Microsoft. This means the folks designing useful things like…
Wait, what? A forest fire may not sound like a great way to cool off, but Earth’s climate is a complicated beast. It turns out that some of the world’s fiercest blazes are actually lowering our planet’s temperatures. Top image: Wikimedia The remote boreal forests that blanket massive swaths of Canada and Alaska aren’t just…
The above Terminator-like weapon is Colt’s latest, greatest invention. Developed with Defense Research and Development Canada, (our northern neighbors’ version of DARPA) this is the smart gun Canada wants to fight the wars of the future. And it’s hard to look at this insane level of firearm innovation and not think about the birth of…
I didn’t know about this fun factoid: On April, 1970, the Grumman Aerospace Corporation—manufacturers of the Lunar Module—sent a $312,421.24 bill to North American Rockwell—who made the service module that malfunctioned in the Apollo 13 mission—for towing services. Why, you ask? Here’s the story. On April 14, 1970, 56 hours after its launch from the…
Ever since Square-Enix announced they’d gotten the Marvel license for their Play Arts Kai Variants line, I’ve been looking forward to what ridiculous designs they would create for Marvel’s finest heroes. But a few new figures were at Toy Fair, and while they’re cool, they’re lacking the wonderful absurdity. All images via Toyark. As well…
We’re surrounded by scores of gadgets so well-designed it’s almost impossible not to fall in love with some of them. I wanted to share some of my personal favorites. The following set of images serves as a confession for me; call me crazy, but I adore these objects so much, that simply to touch and…
Remember when timelapses first started hitting the internet? Simple sunsets over the word’s greatest cities were enough to enthrall. This over-the-top time lapse of Dubai is a perfect reflection of its very subject: opulent, excessive, awe-inducing. Just watch this three-minute tour-de-force by timelapse professional Rob Whitworth. The amount of production, effort, and indeed, time involved…
The Simpsons and The Jetsons are two of the greatest American cartoons ever created. So it was exciting to see those two worlds collide in last night’s new episode of The Simpsons. Too bad it was so uncomfortable. The whole thing plays out as you might expect, with Bart skipping school for a Spaceball game,…
The six astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station diligently document the wonder of living in orbit around our fragile planet. Are you ready to indulge in beauty from above? Between cracking references to the Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy, Expedition 42 recorded 42 timelapses for your vicarious pleasure. At least, it was 42 timelapses…
