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This N64 GoldenEye Watch Face Is the Best Reason To Buy the Moto 360

Apple Watch, Schmapple Watch. If you grew up playing GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64, the decision to strap a Moto 360 to your wrist was just made for you by a developer who’s created this amazing Android Wear watch face that looks like just the GoldenEye pause screen. As modeled by the folks at…

You Can Finally Buy the Design Manual That Defined the NYC Subway

Earlier this year we wrote about the unlikely story of three graphic designers who discovered a copy of the book that dictates every aspect of the subway system, forgotten in the basement of the design studio Pentagram. Now, the MTA has agreed to reprint the 44-year-old design bible for sale—but only for the next 30…

This Mixer Could Have Originally Been an Industrial Factory Robot

Mixing and kneading dough for bread can be a back-breaking process. It’s a chore best left to a grandparent who’s been doing it all their life—or a machine like Bosch’s new MaxxiMUM mixer, which actually looks like a robotic arm from an automotive factory that was laid off but has since found other work. With…

Philips’ New Headphones Connect Digitally To an iPhone’s Lightning Port

It was widely assumed that when Apple bought Beats a few months ago we’d soon see a set of Apple-branded headphones that connected directly to the iPhone or iPad’s digital Lightning port, instead of the analog headphone jack. But it seems like Philips has actually beaten Apple to the punch with its new Lightning-friendly Fidelio…

A Blu-ray Disc Player on Your Car’s GPS Is Probably Not a Good Idea

There’s just one thing that could make your drive to work less agonizing when the GPS is telling you there’s no way around the endless traffic: access to your Criterion Collection Blu-ray discs. Or at least that’s the scenario Panasonic is envisioning now that it’s including Blu-ray players on its satellite navigation units. To start…

14 Underground Structures That Expose the World Beneath Our Feet

From filthy punk clubs to pristine public transport, there’s a heck of a lot going on under our cities. Underground: The Spectacle of the Invisible at Zurich’s Museum of Design goes deep into the different types of urban infrastructure that have been built up down below, and the different reasons that being subterranean just makes…

These beautiful mountain views from inside a tent make me so jealous

Ukrainian-based photographer and mountain enthusiast OlegGrigoryev tooka picture of the view from his tent every morning of his trip to the Fann Mountains, Tajikistan. The resulting photographic reportage is beautiful—and it makes me terribly jealous. These photos were taken in August, 2014 at the Fann Mountains, Tajikistan. I love to travel, especially to the mountains.…

The New iPhones Aren’t Quite as Skinny as You Think They Are

The new, larger iPhones sure are lovely and their bigger screens are complemented by slimmer frames, too. But some of the images that Apple showed yesterday are a little deceiving: those new phones aren’t perhaps quite as skinny as you might think. The old iPhone is 7.6 millimeters thick, the iPhone 6 6.9 millimeters, and…

LaCie’s d2 Thunderbolt 2 Can Be Upgraded With Extra SSD Storage

Speed, size, and even aesthetics all come into play when it comes to choosing an external drive for a computer, but storage capacity is always the most important factor influencing a purchase decision. And with LaCie’s new d2 Thunderbolt 2 external drive, you can actually boost both the storage and transfer speeds with an optional…

This Universal Mount Will Let You Use Any Phone on Your Handlebars

Mounting your phone on your handlebars isn’t a new idea, but this little piece of silicon, known as Finn, is the neatest solution we’ve seen: it simply stretches over your bars and will hold a phone of pretty much any size. Made in Austria from what’s claimed to be ‘high-grade silicon’, the strip loops over…

When I first saw this photo of a Mastiff armoured vehicle being loaded onto a C-17 Globemaster, I thought: this is how a Transformer probably looks in its mother’s mechanical womb. The photo was taken on the 16th of July, 2014, when the British Army and Royal Air Force transported two Mastiff armoured vehicles from…

New Batmobile revealed? (spoiler: If it’s real, it’s pretty awesome)

According to Slashfilm, these areimages of the new Batmobile to be featured in Batman v Superman. They seem to match the teaser from director Zack Snyder, but they feel a bit computer generated to me. It may be the low light conditions of the shot, supposedly taken during film in in Detroit. Here’s the original…

Google Street View Now Lets You Explore Ancient Egypt

Remember the funny backpack full of cameras that Google uses to map stunning Street View imagery of mountains and canyons? Well, Google just took it to Egypt. Starting today, you will be able to explore the Pyramids of Giza, the necropolis of Saqqara, and the ancient city of Abu Mena on Street View right from…

This Prototype Building Changes Shape in the Heat

Imagine a building that expands to provide a more airy space in the warmth but contracts to reduce heating bills when it gets cold. Well, that’s almost what this prototype, called, Translated Geometries, is designed to do. A concept by Ece Tankal, Efilena Baseta and Ramin Shambayati at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya…

This is why Starbucks spells your name wrong

Baristas at Starbucks are widely known for being unable to spell names correctly. Why? Who knows. But New York City-based comedian Paul Gale has a funny theory about it. (Spoiler: They’re fucking with us.) SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

Hangouts on Air Will Now Let You Cheer Or Jeer In Real-Time

You can now let your Hangouts on Air host know exactly what you feel like. A new feature called “Applause” will let Hangouts viewers give a thumbs up or thumbs down during a live video broadcast. But that’s not all. Google will also track cheers and jeers over the duration of a Hangout and will…

The Internet Is on Go-Slow Today to Support Net Neutrality

Websites including Reddit, Pornhub, Twitter and Netflix are all slowing down today in support of net neutrality. In this article, the Electronic Frontier Foundation explains why—and how you can join in. You know the net neutrality conversation is breaking new ground when even the porn sites are weighing in. And that’s just what we’re seeing—major…

The World’s Biggest Hard Drive Is Now Ten TB, Not Eight

If you thought 8 TB was plenty, think again. Western Digitaljust announced that it has added a 10 TB hard drive to its HelioSeal product line. The drive, which hermetically seals helium in order to reduce internal friction and power use, runs about 5 degrees cooler than today’s 7,200 rpm drives. Sealing air out of…

Google Voice Is Finally Being Integrated Into Hangouts

Google Voice isn’t quite dead (yet); it’s finally being integrated into Hangouts, because God knows Hangouts needed to be even more confusing. You can enable Voice SMS and voicemail via a popup in the conversation list, so check the app. If you still don’t see it, hang on. It’s still rolling out. [Android Police]

Report: Apple May Buy Social Network Path

Let’s face it: Apple’s not so good at social. Path, the former “private” social network with not many users sucks at social too. Now, Apple is reportedly buying Path. It all makes so much sense. The news comes via PandoDaily, which quotes an anonymous “single well-placed source inside Apple’s engineering team” as saying: “It’s almost…