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We’ve covered Annie Leibovitz’s fantastical photoshoots before – but her latest starring Amy Adams and Tim Burton slide over the edge of fantasy into full blown creepiness. PUT THE BLUNT IMPLEMENT DOWN, TIM, OH GOD. As promotion for the duo’s collaboration in Big Eyes, Leibovitz developed the shoot for Vogue, offering a ‘re-imagining’ of Hans…
How pervasive has the internet become? Roughly 90 percent of American households have three or more devices connected to the internet. And about half have five or more. Recode reports on the latest findings from an Ericsson survey of technology in American homes. The internet has become an essential utility in modern America, not unlike…
Australia is home to some of the best surfing in the world, but at least a few surfer-slash-designers aren’t content to leave their city to find great waves—so they’re proposing an urban “surf park” right in the Melbourne’s harbor. The idea for the Docklands Surf Park came from a group of young Melbourne architects who…
Rocks are not eternal. Even the tallest mountain will eventually dissolve and disintegrate. Geologists call this process “weathering.” It sounds harmless enough, but weathering is one of the most destructive forces on the face of the planet. The repeated growth of salt crystals from evaporating brine have carved this stoney coastline along the Great Ocean…
For those who love Star Wars so much they’re willing to get really, really intimate with their collectibles, here’s a Han Solo shower curtain depicting the hero frozen in carbonite so you can be completely naked next to your favorite character while you shower, and he won’t see a thing. Made from 100 percent polyester…
Facebook’s Great Unbundling isn’t stopping anytime soon. And the latest little birdie pushed from the nest is none other than Groups. Because someone somewhere has to want a standalone Groups app somewhere. Probably? The good thing here, though, is that unlike Messenger (for iOS, at least), Groups is at least not disappearing from the Faceobook…
I know what you’re thinking. $98 for a garbage bin? But if you consider that thissimplehuman stainless steel kitchen trash can looks terrific, carries a Sweethome recommendation, and has a pedal rated for 20 steps/day for 20 years, it starts to look like a wise investment. [simplehuman Wide-Step Rectangular Step Trash Can, $98] Update: Amazon…
Ever think of a tweet someone sent weeks or months or years ago, but you just can’t find it? Now, according to Wired, Twitter will let you search for those forgotten 140-character messages, without going elsewhere. Until now, Twitter search has been lacking. If you want to search keywords or hashtags, okay, sure, no problem.…
Nobody expects the Dragon Age Inquisition! Or the other like, hojillion games out this week. Yes, the fall gaming season takes one last gasp with a bevy of titles this week – what are you picking up? Tell us in this week’s Inquisitive edition of Tuesday Game Room! What have you been playing this week?…
Michael Gale‘s train layout is one of the coolest we’ve seen. He moved the 15 x 10 foot display for an exhibition at Brickfête Ottawa last weekend. This relaxing video shows it in action. You’re reading Leg Godt, the blog with the latest Lego news and the best sets in the web. Follow us on…
A couple weeks ago, we were pleased to see the launch of Neato, a handy note-taking widget for iOS 8 that’s actually useful. Now, Apple has decided that Neato no longer fits within its App Store guidelines—despite the fact that it had been already been approved. Now Neato must become useless, or die. The trouble…
Thanks to the internet, there are now more ways than ever to get music. But this hasn’t allowed smaller artists to get a bigger share of the financial pie. In fact, the top 1 percent of artists now collect 77 percent of all revenue from recorded music. The Atlantic has a new story out about…
Not to be outdone by their ESA colleagues, NASA is sending a spacecraft to an asteroid to bring a piece of it back. Her name is OSIRIS-REx, and she will be visiting Bennu—great name for an outpost in a sci-fi movie—one of the primordial asteroids that have been orbiting the Sun for millions of years.…
Kindle Fires can be great tablets, but Fire OS has always lagged a little behind the Android framework it’s based on. Now, Amazon’s built-in Silk browser is finally getting a private-mode update that will make it way easier and safer to watch porn. Chrome and Safari have had their private browsing modes for ages, but…
I woke up in a strange place. The bed felt plush, and when I rolled over onto my side, there was water, an ocean full of it. I felt slightly sick. I’d just spent my first night on the world’s most advanced cruise ship, but a billion dollars worth of technology is no match for…
Impressive photo of the F-35C, the US Navy variant of the Joint Strike Fighter, about to take off from the USS Nimitz supercarrier at night for the first time ever. The aircraft launched at 6:01 p.m. (PST) and conducted a series of planned touch-and-go landings before making an arrested landing at 6:40 pm. Nimitz is…
The world’s fastest mag-lev train, the 311 mph Series Lo prototype from JR Tokai, made its first public run on Saturday. One hundred lucky passengers took part in a 27-mile trip between Uenohara and Fuefuki…which took just five minutes to complete once the train got up to speed. This, of course, is just the first…
The younger you are, the less affection you’re likely to have for Microsoft PowerPoint, which maybe why the Redmond firm has brought out a new, super-simple, mobile-friendly alternative called Sway. Here’s how it changes the process of putting together a slideshow. First of all, you’re going to need access—Sway is currently invite-only, although the signs…
Kate Knibbs over at our parent site shared this original article, which describes the way that artificial intelligence researchers at the OpenWorm project have recreated the way the brain of the nematode worm C. elegans works. They loaded software, which simulates firing neurons, to a Lego Mindstorms EV3 robot. Here are the results. You’re reading…
Google’s barebones note-taking service Keep is getting note sharing and real-time collaboration. It’s live on the web, and it’ll start rolling out to the Google Keep Android app today.
