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The Brilliant Glassblowers Who Are Crafting Tomorrow’s Bongs

Whether you agree with the practice or not, cannabis culture in America has quickly outgrown its Summer of Love stigma and gone mainstream. And with that normalization has come an insatiable demand for upscale smoking apparatuses—a demand being met by a new generation of uncannily talented glass blowers from around the country and around the…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

BioSport Earbuds: Finally, A Fitness Tracker You Never Have to Charge

As we reported earlier, 50 Cent and SMS Audio announced a new partnership with Intel this evening. It’s a plan to bring the joys of fitness tracking to both the flakey workout amateur and the finely sculpted sports pro in the form of earbuds. The BioSport In-Ear headphones can track your heart rate—no batteries needed.…

Tech News Darren Orf

Bungee jumping in a F1 car seems like a crazy thing to do

Here’s video from Top Gear showing the Stig making a 300 foot bungee jump while strapped inside a F1 car. It’s exhilarating and completely nuts but must have been so ridiculously fun to do. Sometimes, just bungee jumping or just driving an F1 car isn’t enough. You gotta do both at the same time. SPLOID…

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Please Don’t Let Ariana Grande Protect Us From Killer Aliens

Ariana Grande’s new music video is billed as an “inconceivable outer space adventure.” Well, “Break Free” is an adventure alright. But is it an adventure you’d like to embark upon? That depends on your confidence in Ariana Grande as an interstellar space warrior. I, for one, have very little confidence in Ariana Grande’s ability to…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Samsung Wants to Control Your Smart Home, Too

Re/Code’s ever reliable Kara Swisher is reporting that Samsung just bought the smart home startup SmartThings for $200 million. The news comes almost exactly one month after a rumor emerged that the Korean electronics company was making the move. But now that it’s made, things could get interesting. SmartThings actually started out as a Kickstarter…

Gadgets Adam Clark Estes

Microsoft Thought About Renaming Internet Explorer to Escape Its Bad Rep

What do you think of when you think of Internet Explorer? Unsupported error messages, crashing, grandparents, death’s sweet embrace—generally not-great things. And the people who brought you IE know that, which is why they actually considered changing its name to something—anything—else. During today’s Reddit AMA, Microsoft’s IE platform team bravely stepped up to the plate…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

This Sponge Could Help Fill Gaps Where Bone Can’t Regrow Itself

Your bones are masterful self-healers, but certain injuries and defects can leave a gap too wide for new bone cells to fill in. Texas A&M’s Dr. Melissa Grunlan and team have come up with a solution, a biodegradable polymer sponge that supports new bone cell growth, then disappears as it’s replaced by solid bone. There…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

This Elegant Trash Bin Swings Open Without Screws, Gears, or Wires

The Swing Bin is composed of exactly two pieces: a cylinder and an oval, precisely cut so that lid swings open and shut ever so gently. A prototype of the elegant Swing Bin first light up design circles four years ago, and now designer Shigeichiro Takeuchi has finally decided to make Swing Bin a reality.…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

World Trade Center’s $3.57 Million Branding Has an Impossible Job

Yesterday, a new logo appeared on fencing around World Trade Center construction site. To design it, developers hired one of the world’s top agencies to try to create branding that’s never going to be sufficient. The very expensive and almost impossible task of creating a symbol to represent a space that will always be haunted…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

A Thousand Tiny Robots Swarming Into Shapes Like Intelligent Insects

Since the first crude automatons running on clockwork mechanisms, mankind has been working to build the perfect artificial copy of ourselves for centuries. But what’s a more accurate recreation of a human? A robot made of various components and wires all cobbled together? Or one made of billions of tiny robots all working together like…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

These Typefaces Are Tiny Math Puzzles Made by MIT Scientists

When quickly sending an email, creating a company logo, or writing a post about mathematical typefaces, hundreds of thousands of fonts exist to help express a specific mood or feeling though we rarely escape the realm of a well-known few. Although it’s well-documented that creating fonts can be an art, two mathematicians show that it…

Tech News Darren Orf

Shooting Challenge: Summer Vacation

I didn’t get away this summer, but maybe you did. So for this week’s Shooting Challenge, make the office-dwellers jealous. Send us your best summer vacation photos. (Taken this week, or any time this season!) The Challenge Take a photo that makes us all jealous of your amazing vacation. The Technique When I think summer…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Microsoft’s Newest Trick Turns Ordinary Cameras Into Baby Kinects

Depth cameras aren’t new technology, but shrinking them down to the size of a smartphone so that it can see in 3D the way a Kinect can remains a challenge. New work by researchers at Microsoft illustrates how any old smartphone could be used to sense 3D space. Technology Review reports the new research which…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

This Pencil Lamp’s Power Cord Leaves Doodles Around Your Home

Here’s a clever way to rid your home of unsightly cables: just hide them in plain sight. Designers Michael & George created the HB Lamps featuring a glowing eraser that can illuminate a room, and a black power cable protruding from the pencil tip that looks like doodles left by the pencil instead of an…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Is What American Police of the Future Were Supposed to Look Like

The 1981 kids’ book Future War and Weapons by Neil Ardley is filled with the bleaker side of futurism. It’s chock full of colorful illustrations of robot armies, war in space, and fallout shelters. But we also get a brief look at the police of tomorrow — police that, while certainly armed, don’t look quite…

Tech News Matt Novak

Come Chat with America’s Greatest Convicted Counterfeiter

This week, the Secret Service busted the counterfeit ring behind some $77 million in fake bills. Makes you think. How on Earth could anyone print that much paper? And how did they make the money so convincing? Arthur Williams, Jr. has a pretty good idea. Williams is a master counterfeiter who was recently released from…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

The Super-Imaging Satellite That Will Double Google Maps Resolution

The quality of commercial space-based imagery is about to take a quantum leap forward with yesterday’s successful launch of the Worldview-3 satellite. It’s powerful enough to count chickens from orbit. It’s a true monster machine. https://gizmodo.com/first-satellite-to-capture-high-res-public-images-is-re-1618956509 The commercial satellite imaging market is a sparsely populated but extremely lucrative market. It’s worth an estimated $400 million…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Why the Ferguson Police Force Looks Like a Military Unit

You’ve probably seen photos and video of overarmed police officers facing off against unarmed protestors in Ferguson, Missouri . The view of soldier-cops with assault rifles riding on top of mineproof tanks is certainly excessive, but also surprisingly common. How did we get here? The revelation that police officers look more and more like soldiers…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

The Bizarre Story of How the Original Poster For Jaws Went Missing

The first pages of Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel, “Jaws,” as well as the opening minutes of Steven Spielberg’s 1975 blockbuster, begin with the attack of a young, late-night skinny dipper named Chrissie Watkins, who’s dragged to her watery doom by a great white shark, feeding in the waters off the seaside vacation town of Amity.…

Tech News Ben Marks - Collector's Weekly

Daredevil skateboarders descend a curvy road in the Alps at full speed

Byron Essert and Alex Tongue are professional descent skateboarders. Only someone who devotes his life to this sport could have the skills—and probably the balls—to successfully get to the end of this crazy road in the Alps, in one piece. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

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The Brilliant Glassblowers Who Are Crafting Tomorrow’s Bongs

BioSport Earbuds: Finally, A Fitness Tracker You Never Have to Charge

Bungee jumping in a F1 car seems like a crazy thing to do

Please Don’t Let Ariana Grande Protect Us From Killer Aliens

Samsung Wants to Control Your Smart Home, Too

Microsoft Thought About Renaming Internet Explorer to Escape Its Bad Rep

This Sponge Could Help Fill Gaps Where Bone Can’t Regrow Itself

This Elegant Trash Bin Swings Open Without Screws, Gears, or Wires

World Trade Center’s $3.57 Million Branding Has an Impossible Job

A Thousand Tiny Robots Swarming Into Shapes Like Intelligent Insects

These Typefaces Are Tiny Math Puzzles Made by MIT Scientists

Shooting Challenge: Summer Vacation

Microsoft’s Newest Trick Turns Ordinary Cameras Into Baby Kinects

This Pencil Lamp’s Power Cord Leaves Doodles Around Your Home

This Is What American Police of the Future Were Supposed to Look Like

Come Chat with America’s Greatest Convicted Counterfeiter

The Super-Imaging Satellite That Will Double Google Maps Resolution

Why the Ferguson Police Force Looks Like a Military Unit

The Bizarre Story of How the Original Poster For Jaws Went Missing

Daredevil skateboarders descend a curvy road in the Alps at full speed

Apple Offers Rare Olive Branch to Liquid Glass Haters

Mamdani Lifts NYC TikTok Ban for City Employees, but with Some Unusual Restrictions

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