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Apple has posted an ‘official’ workaround to the iOS 8 screwing-over-your-cell-connection update, and it’s similar to all the versions that’ve been floating around today: backup your phone, then restore to the earlier version of iOS 8, using iTunes. And no, they still haven’t said sorry. [Apple]
This underwater video is impossibly surreal but the makers of the video, Francisco and Armando del Rosario and Armiche Ramos, say that no computer special effects were used in the video, just some camera tricks to make it look like the ocean world can be sideways and water can be walked upside down on. It’s…
TV shows like The Walking Dead make the zombie apocalypse look like a soul evaporating place because the characters enjoy making dumb decisions. Zombie movies like 28 Days Later make it look terrifying because of the constant state of panic. But what if the zombie apocalypse was actually… fun? Don’t get me wrong, the zombie…
More (slightly) bad security news for Apple, on what’s already been a pretty bad day for iOS: Craig Hockenberry, one of the devs behind Twitterific, has revealed in a blog post that in-app browsers are capable of logging your keyboard. The point is that anything you enter into an in-app browser — even your password,…
Water isn’t supposed to float on top of water because well, water is water. So how are these droplets of water suspended on the surface of the water? Sound. The water is actually on top of a speaker and the acoustic vibrations allows the water drops to stay as drops on top of water. It’s…
HTC’s just released a new, deliberately mysterious video that’s teasing some kind of waterproof, slo-mo capable camera, to be released on October 8th. Should GoPro be worried? In the movie, we get a couple of casual real-world events captured by the mystery HTC device: underwater footage of girls swimming! Girls playing slo-mo soccer! Hipsters street-jamming…
According to 9to5Google, this is the next Nexus device: a Motorola-made, 5.92-inch behemoth. In other words, the next Nexus could be the mother of all phablets. 9to5Google claims to have sources ‘directly familiar’ with the upcoming device, set to be launched in mid-October for a November release. The specs they’ve been leaked include a hand-torturing…
Because dropping the iPhone 6 on the sidewalk is not enough and because soaking it in liquid nitrogen to shatter it and shooting it with a .50 cal is a little too unfair, RatedRR decided to do the ultimate drop test for the new iPhone: dropping it while skydiving in a wingsuit thousands of feet…
Good news for fans of sketch comedy and laughing: Key and Peele comes back for its fourth season tonight, and the first episode is stellar. Key and Peele was always good, but the third season was especially smart and silly, and if this season is as strong as its opening episode, we’re gonna have a…
By 2025, the biggest cities in the world will not only be bigger, but exceptionally denser. According to a new study, Hong Kong will be the densest megacity on the planet, almost twice as crowded as the runner up. And here in the U.S.—and this might be a real shocker—Los Angeles may be more dense…
I spend most of my weekdays on my sofa sitting in front of a computer screen. I’m guessing a lot of you spend most of your weekdays in some kind of indoor office environment, also sitting in front of a computer screen. Wanna close your eyes with me and take a sonic journey to Botswana’s…
Everybody uses Facebook even if you don’t. Artist Pawel Kuczynski played on the idea of our obsession with the social network and people’s behavior while using it and how Facebook treats its users in these perfectly on point satirical illustrations. They take Facebook’s logo and twist it into something else. The illustrations are clever! Facebook…
Everybody loves Winnie the Pooh and his adorable addiction to honey. It’s often believed that the children’s book character is based on a teddy bear that the author, A.A. Milne, gave to his son Christopher Robin Milne. But this is only partially true. In fact, Christopher Robin named his stuffed bear after a real bear…
Do you love architecture? Like, really, really love it? The Schematic of Structures is the latest poster by the chronic catalogers at Popchartlab, showing bitty, blueprint-esque icons of famous constructions from Stonehenge to the Burj Khalifa. Owning one and hanging it on your wall would be a great way to publicly show your appreciation for…
We live in a world of vehicles and machinery made up of a million different moving parts and hyper-specialized tech guts. Using nothing more than a modified moped motor, Gaspard Tiné-Berès and Tristan Kopp of Re-Do Studio imagined a future where a single modular Engine Block can be used to power everything from a small…
A software developer is accusing Apple of brushing off a serious iCloud security flaw that he alerted the company to six months before the recent iCloud celebrity nude photo stealing scandal. The Daily Dot says Ibrahim Balic informed Apple that he found a way to breach individual iCloud accounts back in March of this year,…
We usually measure the time it takes for a planet in our solar system to orbit the sun in months and years. But given the compact scale of this desktop solar system, the anodized aluminium balls can instead be used to measure seconds, minutes, and hours. The balls appear to magically circle the central gold…
NECA have finally got their hands on the Halo franchise – and the first product born of that line is this gorgeous, 18″ scaled figure of the Master Chief. Be still, my beating heart. The figure is directly sculpted off the digital model 343 Industries made for Halo 4, which gave Master Chief an updated…
Canon recently released its 16-35mm f/4 IS lens for full-frame bodies. When I got the chance to document the last leg of NYC’s High Line park, I thought it would be a great chance to bring along this newbie piece of glass and see how she did. The 16-35m f/4 is supremely designed and fun…
If there’s one souvenir you don’t want to return from a trip with, it’s bed bugs. Those little pests are a nightmare to eradicate, so someone has created the perfect luggage for travelers who frequent seedy hotels. The ThermalStrike suitcase heats up inside once you get home, ensuring your clothes are bed bug-free when you…
