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Behind the Scenes at the San Francisco 49ers’ New High Tech Stadium

Candlestick’s out and Levi’s Stadium has been officially christened as the new home of the San Francisco 49ers. The brand-spanking-new site is all kinds of wired up and ready to receive upwards of 70,000 smartphone-wielding fans. I went behind the scenes to see how the tech has come together. Are you ready for some football?…

Google Glass Explorer Edition is now available in the U.S. Google Play store, along with its accessories. Right next to all the products you might actually want to buy. It’s still the same price ($1500) but Google is still throwing in a free pair of shades or frames. Glass was already available in the U.K.…

Apple Needs a Bug Bounty Program

Twitter just launched a bug bounty program. That’s a smart move, and it’s a move Apple should watch. Any big tech company that offers software should also offer a bug bounty program to protect it. Now is the perfect time to understand the value of giving hackers a reason to help. The creator of iBrute,…

Giant Ice Balls, Star Trek Catan, Dancing Groot, Cleaner Teeth [Deals]

We mentioned this later in the day yesterday, but it’s so good that it deserves to lead off today’s post. You can get an actual Apple-manufactured Lightning cable for $8 $12 today (assuming it lasts). Not an Apple-certified cable…an actual Apple cable. [Apple Lightning Cable, $8 $12] Update: They’ve raised the price since this post came out…

The Jetsons Amusement Park Ride That Never Was

Bruce Bushman was a designer whose name you may not know, but whose work you’ve almost certainly seen. He worked on everything from the design of the Disneyland castle to episodes of The Flintstones TV show. But there’s one project that Bushman worked on that sadly never became a reality: a Jetsons theme park ride.…

This Bike Frame Weighs Less Than Six Sticks of Butter

You’ll never see the SuperSix EVO Black Inc. on the street. You probably won’t even see it in a local road race. This is Cannondale’s chef d’œuvre, built with only the best components, top to bottom—it’s a $11,920 piece of carbon ridden by the fastest humans on Earth. This SuperSix is fully decked out with…

Crowdfund a 1970’s action movie RPG, Fandom Nail Art and more!

A table-top RPG set in an alternate sci-fi version of the 1970’s leads the charge in this weeks look at the coolest crowdfunding projects across the web – but that’s not all. There’s also nerdy nail wraps, a stop-motion film about one man’s journey through space, 3D puzzles of Dinosaur skeletons, and even more! Header…

Unbelievable video shows man getting into boiling volcano

Explorer Sam Cossman just uploaded this shocking video to Youtube showing his expedition to the bottom of the Marum Crater. An active and very dangerous volcano located in the Republic of Vanuatu, in the South Pacific Ocean. The images captured are both impressive and terrifying. According to the youtube description: Sam Cossman and George Kourounis…

I Don’t Want a Bigger Moto X. I Want a Better Moto X.

Last year’s Moto X is the best phone I’ve ever owned. It’s just the right size, it has just the right features. And by the time I’m ready to upgrade, it won’t exist anymore, because the way we make smartphones now is dumb. Overnight, Motorola announced its successor to the original Moto X, which while…

The Shaman 8×8 ATV Can Tackle any Vision Quest

Want to explore the muddiest and messiest of the marshlands, without getting stuck chest-deep in the mud screaming “Artax! No!“? This is the 21st century, so naturally there is an insane machine that will get the job done with obscene power and style. Let the Shaman take you on a vision quest. Designed and constructed…

12 Visions of Apple Products That Were Fantastically Wrong

With only four days to go before Apple unveils a handful of brand-new products, the rumor mill is churning at full speed. Now seems like a good time to recall the various dream concepts, predictions, and leaks we’ve seen over the years—all of which were more artful than accurate. The world of Apple concept designs…

The ATLAS Humanoid Robot Has Advanced To the Level Of a Lazy Teenager

The first videos we saw of DARPA’s advanced ATLAS robot it was just an infant, learning to walk and balance on its own. During the DARPA Robotics Challenge the humanoid robot handled itself like a capable child. And now almost a year later the folks at MIT are happy to announce that ATLAS has finally…

Intel’s Core M Might Finally Give Us True Laptop-Tablet Hybrids

The perfect in-between device—something that’s as thin as a dedicated tablet and as powerful as a dedicated laptop—is something we’ve been promised for years. Once, it looked like the answer might come when Intel’s Atom chips—Bay Trail chips, specifically—got potent enough to power highly mobile machines that could hold their own against real laptops. Atom…

What Would Happen to the Internet if Mankind Disappeared?

Parts of it would die within a couple of days; if your access to it remained operational, some of it might remain partially usable for a year or two. All large complex systems require constant maintenance by huge staffs of intelligent people, and the internet is no exception. Like you’ve seen in future-dystopian sci-fi movies,…

These stunning Star Wars posters can be yours this Weekend

Brooklyn’s Bottleneck Gallery is known for its sales of gorgeous art inspired by games, movies and pop culture – and how hard it is to nab said art before it sells out. Never fear though, as this wonderful new series of Star Wars posters by Matt Ferguson won’t – as long as you buy before…

Sweaty Synthetic Clothes Stink Worse, Says Science

If you’re doing sweaty athletics, your clothes are going to end up stinky. But have you noticed some clothes end up way smellier? You’re not crazy; science shows synthetic clothes create the perfect environment for the smelliest sweat bacteria to get funky. In what was likely one of the more pungent research papers submitted to…

There’s a Massive 26,000 mAh Battery Hidden Inside This Briefcase

The bigger a portable charger you carry, the longer your gadgets can run while away from a power outlet. But backup batteries are heavy, so it’s a tradeoff between capacity and what’s comfortable to stash in your pocket. Unless you throw a bag like the Phorce over your shoulder, which makes it easy to haul…

An Inside Peek at How Apple Will Scramble to Fix Early iPhone 6 Bugs

Every new piece of technology has a few bugs. The iPhone 6, when it comes out, will be no different. Apple has a stake in every step of its distribution chain, right up to the retail store. So when customers start returning faulty iPhone 6s, they’ll set off a complex chain of forensic troubleshooters. BloombergBusinessweek…

9 Awesome Features Smartphones Still Don’t Have

This last week we’ve seen so many phones. So. Many. Phones. From Samsung, HTC, Nokia, Sony, Motorola, and the most talked about smartphone release from Apple is still yet to come. But they’re all still missing a few features that would make them even better. These phones have been adorned with impressive screens, upgraded pixels,…

I wish I could talk to machines the same way this kid does

Imagine you could talk to machines the same way the kid from this GE commercial does. Manipulating any electronic device just with a beep from your mouth. BEEP…phone on. BEEP…buy first-class flight ticket to Tulum, Mexico. BEEP…phone off. The ad is cool, well shot and all that, but the idea doesn’t seem that original to…