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This Enormous Car-Boat Probably Needed Oceans of Oil to Run

Life for Americans after World War II was supposed to be filled with open roads and open waters. The roads, more often than not, were for getting to work. And the water? That was pure leisure time. This “water-mobile” of 1947 was imagined to provide the best of both, with an enormous (and, one imagines,…

Tech News Matt Novak

“Spot” Is a Smaller (More Kickable) Version of Boston Dynamic’s Big Dog

We haven’t seen much of Boston Dynamic’s four-legged self-balancing Big Dog robot since it was last spotted hurling cinder blocks in a lab. And that’s maybe because the company’s robotic geniuses have been hard at work building a smaller more agile version called Spot that weighs just 160 pounds so it can safely operate both…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Every Smartphone Should Come With Free VR Goggles

LG just announced that people who buy a new G3 smartphone will get a free VR headset to match. That’s an idea we can get behind. This new, cheap VR for G3 hardware is closer to Google Cardboard than Samsung Gear VR, but fits somewhere between the two. The headset is based on the Google…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Raspberry Pi 2 Loses Its Shit When You Blast It With a Camera Flash

One user of the newly available Raspberry Pi 2 computer has discovered a pretty weird flaw with the new hardware: If you shoot the cheapy computer with a camera flash, it shuts right the hell down. In a blog post, Raspberry Pi communications director Liz Upton explains that in the company’s testing, there is indeed…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Isostatic Rebound Is Why Local Sea Level Drops As Global Sea Level Rises

Geology is usually so intuitive, it’s rare to find something that goes against your instincts. But isostatic rebound creates a moment of exactly that: the more landlocked glaciers melt, the lower the local sea levels drop. Here’s how. Jacobsen Glacier is one of the few remaining chunks of ice from the vast Cordilleran ice fields…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

The AI Revolution: How Far Away Are Our Robot Overlords?

Imagine taking a time machine back to 1750—a time when the world was in a permanent power outage, long-distance communication meant either yelling loudly or firing a cannon in the air, and all transportation ran on hay. When you get there, you retrieve a dude, bring him to 2015, and then walk him around and…

Artificial Intelligence Tim Urban - Wait But Why

Sony 4K Action Cam Hands-On: Giving GoPro a Run for Its Money

It’s been a hard fight for Sony (and everyone else) who is trying to get a slice of that action camera pie GoPro is so effectively hogging. Sony has had some solid cams that offered best-in-class audio, but they’ve always fallen just a bit short beating GoPro on image quality and ease of use. This…

Tech News Brent Rose

This Spherical Rescue Drone Is Straight Out of Star Wars

Flying drones inside burning buildings while looking for disaster survivors is incredibly hard, but it’s also one of the most promising applications of the machines. That’s why the Gimball search and rescue drone, billed as the world’s first collision-proof drone, was just awarded $1 million in the United Arab Emirates’ Drones for Good competition. The…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Mirrors Are Going Extinct

I’m willing to bet that in the near future, we will live in a world without mirrors. Yes, it sounds absurd. But hear me out. When I change lanes, I no longer use my right-hand mirror to check if I’m about to smash into a passing vehicle. Most of the time, I don’t look out…

Tech News Sean Hollister

Despite the Movie, This Mech From The Matrix Revolutions Is Marvelous

It’s pretty clear those Wachowskis didn’t have much of a storyline gameplan for Neo and company after the first Matrix film, but one good thing to come from those two forgettable sequels is threezero’s wonderfully-detailed miniature version of the Armored Personnel Units—or APU for short—from The Matrix Revolutions. You’re going to need to be a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Nenodroid Stormtrooper Will Melt The Heart Of Even The Most Ardent Rebel

Sure, he might have a head big enough to thwack against every single blast door in the Death Star, but for a faceless soldier in the massive army of a ruthless empire, this lil’ Stormie is just so darn cute. What Rebel Scum wouldn’t stop if they were cornered by this chap? Good Smile Company…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Deep Web Search Engine Memex Fights Crime a Bit Like Minority Report

Exactly one year ago, DARPA announced a characteristically scifi-inspired mission: to create a search engine that could find things on the deep web that Google’s crawlers would miss. The so-called Memex project is now well underway, and for the first time we’re getting a look at the crime-fighting search engine in action. Pardon the clichéd…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

What Came First, the Chicken, Egg, or These Transforming Star Wars Toys?

Force choke. Force lightning. These are but a few of the more well-known Dark Side powers. Lesser known? Force transforming-into-an-egg, one of the many more obscure Sith tricks Vader never quite found a good excuse to use in any of the films. The new toys inexplicable egg-transforming toys, leaked by Toy People, are expected to…

Tech News Eric Limer

An Ode to the Design Legend Behind the Soy Sauce Bottle and Bullet Train

Odds are good that you’re familiar with the work of Kenji Ekuan, even if you don’t know his name. Ekuan, who died in Japan yesterday at the age of 85, was the force behind some of the most iconic industrial design of the 20th century—and he said he was inspired to do it after the…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

A Coffee Table Book That Turns Into a Coffee Table Isn’t the Worst Idea

We all laughed at Kramer’s transforming coffee table coffee table book on Seinfeld (or maybe it was just the laugh track), but it turns out it’s not actually a terrible idea. Or at least the version created by Mike Mak isn’t. Using a combination of traditional book-binding techniques and a paper honeycomb structure, the Bookniture…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

The Apple Watch Will Bring Glucose Tracking to Your Wrist

With Apple Watch quickly approaching its April release month, app developers are giving us a better sense of the wearable’s capabilities than the designers at Cupertino. For instance, we know how the watch will work with your car or draw up a to do list. Now its health merits are getting some attention. With help…

Tech News Darren Orf

This is how the dragons of Game of Thrones are made

Pixomondois one of the digital imaging companies working on Game of Thrones’stunning visual effects. Among other things, they are responsible for bringing Khaleesi’s terrifying dragons to life. Here’s how they do it. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

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How Do I Look in These Genes? The Science of DNA Dating

That sensation you feel when you meet someone you like—that visceral pull towards another human being—there’s biology behind that. And if there’s biology behind that, it can be measured, and controlled for, and used to help determine if two people will be attracted to each other before they ever even meet in person. That’s the…

Tech News Brendan O'Connor

Guy Totally Crashes Drone While Teaching Drone Safety on TV

It doesn’t take much to turn a drone from a gliding wonder-thing into a scourge of the sky—anyone’s dumb dad can get ahold of one and wreak havoc. Such is the lesson viewers of this

Tech News Michael Hession

And now a dancing owl and his cool owl friend because, owls

This Enormous Car-Boat Probably Needed Oceans of Oil to Run

“Spot” Is a Smaller (More Kickable) Version of Boston Dynamic’s Big Dog

Every Smartphone Should Come With Free VR Goggles

Raspberry Pi 2 Loses Its Shit When You Blast It With a Camera Flash

Isostatic Rebound Is Why Local Sea Level Drops As Global Sea Level Rises

The AI Revolution: How Far Away Are Our Robot Overlords?

Sony 4K Action Cam Hands-On: Giving GoPro a Run for Its Money

This Spherical Rescue Drone Is Straight Out of Star Wars

Mirrors Are Going Extinct

Despite the Movie, This Mech From The Matrix Revolutions Is Marvelous

Nenodroid Stormtrooper Will Melt The Heart Of Even The Most Ardent Rebel

Deep Web Search Engine Memex Fights Crime a Bit Like Minority Report

What Came First, the Chicken, Egg, or These Transforming Star Wars Toys?

An Ode to the Design Legend Behind the Soy Sauce Bottle and Bullet Train

A Coffee Table Book That Turns Into a Coffee Table Isn’t the Worst Idea

The Apple Watch Will Bring Glucose Tracking to Your Wrist

This is how the dragons of Game of Thrones are made

How Do I Look in These Genes? The Science of DNA Dating

Guy Totally Crashes Drone While Teaching Drone Safety on TV

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