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With a little bit of luck, SpaceX just might make history today. After trying—and failing—twice. Update: Delayed agaaaaain. The launch has been rescheduled for tomorrow at 6:03 EST. After the spectacular failure of SpaceX’s first first drone-barge landing, the company tried again on Sunday, only to have the launch scrubbed for the day because of…
Unless you’re heading out to shoot for National Geographic, you don’t want to leave the house with a giant over-stuffed camera bag hanging off your shoulder. Everything you bring has to play a crucial role for your photography outing. Or, better yet, two crucial roles like this padded camera bag divider with a 3,000 mAh…
You know you need to filter, treat or boil water you find in the wilderness. But why? Well, there’s a number of answers, starting with words like E. Coli, Hepatitis A, Giardia and Cryptosporidiosis.
You know you need to filter, treat or boil water you find in the wilderness. But why? Well, there’s a number of answers, starting with words like E. Coli, Hepatitis A, Giardia and Cryptosporidiosis. Let’s look at some common sources of waterborne diseases/infections/stuff that will give you the shits, examine what they are, what they…
When Flipboard launched for iPad back in 2010, it was like the Seinfeld of digital magazines, a publication about nothing. A year later the app brought its fluid, touch-based reader to smartphones. Now, Flipboard is finally showing desktops some love. Of course, Flipboard was designed with touch in mind, so the team had to go…
Where do spies meet when they plan their secret missions? Often, they gather in buildings that look like giant fortresses that are anything but covert. Here are some of the most incredible spy palaces from around the world. At least — these are the ones we know about. The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is one…
Cryptozoic Entertainment are turning Ghostbusters into an episodic, co-operative tabletop game, and have taken to Kickstarter to secure funding for it. And honestly, although the idea of A Ghostbusters game on paper doesn’t sound like it could be all that interesting, it looks pretty rad. Weirdly enough, instead of just getting a straight release, the…
Delta, Delta, Delta. The Jan Brady of airlines has fucked up again. Someone has hacked Delta’s Facebook page and is posting about blowjobs and worms. (No word yet on whether the hacker is a group of 13-year-old boys at a sleepover.) Just like its flights, its social media hack is gross, unpleasant, and amateur. IF…
So bright. I…just…can’t…look…away. Here are your entries to this week’s Shooting Challenge, lighting edition. Winner: Aspiration Used a 5DMarkII with a 50mm prime lens to take this shot, intending to show a thoughtful symbiosis between nature and technology. Jordan Pirch Lasers I recently received the Wicked Lasers EVO for a Christmas gift. My thought was…
I love old slang. And today I came across my new favorite phrase from the beforetimes. It dates back to the late 19th century, yet anybody from the early 21st century can easily figure out what it means: Got the morbs. Not only does it sound like it’d be right at home in our truncation-obsessed…
After tracking issues scrubbed the Sunday launch and bad weather blocked the Monday attempty, SpaceX is counting down to its first deep-space mission and second attempt at landing their Falcon 9 rocket on a barge. Watch it live here! Update: The Tuesday launch attempt is a NO-GO due to strong winds in the upper atmosphere.…
After over a decade helping people download movies, music and other files, popular file-sharing service RapidShare will shut down next month, by choice. The site is advising people who use it to secure their data before it gets deleted March 31, 2015. Don’t know RapidShare? You might remember these icons from your Kazaa days: Switzerland-based…
This new Aperture from Boreas offers all-round protection for your camera gear in an internal frame backpack suitable for long-distance outdoors adventure. It promises to be more versatile and more comfortable than anything else out there. San Francisco-based Boreas has been shaking up the backpacking backpack market over the last few years with radically simple,…
If you’re hoping to quench your spelling lust while away from home, there are countless app versions of Scrabble you can download for smartphones and tablets. But Hasbro knows that part of the fun of board games is playing with others in the same room, so it’s created an electronic portable version of the game…
It’s a pretty exciting week in games, what with the release of not only Evolve, the new monster based competitive co-op game and new Nintendo hardware. What are you playing this week? Picking something new up? Come tell us in this week’s edition of Tuesday Game Room! What have you been playing this week? Aside…
Senator Ed Markey recently asked all of the major car companies for information about how they protect drivers’ security and privacy in cars with wireless technology. The answers were not good. The senator’s report found that anti-hacker measures in nearly every single one of these cars were “inconsistent and haphazard.” That’s putting it lightly. Long…
Back in the 1970s, hobbyists like Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak built homebrew computers that eventually fueled the lucrative PC revolution. Now, a new movement of hobbyists is trying to imitate this DIY strategy to jumpstart the drone industry. But can today’s calculated drone entrepreneurialism really be considered “DIY” at all? Chris Anderson has a hobby.…
An aquarium full of fish is basically just a nature-powered screensaver that you need to feed once a day. Wouldn’t it be more exciting if there was more interaction than just tapping on the glass? With Hexbug’s new Angelfish Aquabot, you can finally take control of your robotic underwater pet, and make it do more…
3D printers are well on their way to eventually creating perfect replicas of almost any object we can imagine, as long as they don’t rely on any electronics inside to function. But devices like the new Voltera, a printer that churns out prototypes of complex dual-layer circuit boards, is a sign that this won’t always…
I don’t want to spoil this brilliant short film by freelance London director Toby Meakins—starring Josef Altin, Pypar in Game of Thrones—so please watch it and try not to hold your breath. You won’t regret it. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
