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What happens when the lights go out in a Williamsburg gallery? All kinds of cool stuff. Brooklyn- and Barcelona-based graphic designer Alex Trochut has adorned Kinfolk 94 with a series of his trippy glow-in-the-dark art, and the results are pretty awesome. Trochut picked pics for his Binary Prints based on a kind of “city lifestyle”…
Bungee jumping seems like a much safer alternative when you’re comparing it to the ancient tradition of land diving (or nagol). National Geographic shows how villagers in the South Pacific jump off a rickety 100 foot tower toward the ground with only vines attached to their ankles. Crazy. And even if you can get over…
All romantic comedies are the same—couple falls in love, couple falls out of love, couple eventually lives happily ever after, probably in New York City. They Came Together is a perfect parody that has the genre pegged. The movie stars Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd as a couple whose story of how they met is…
Earbuds in. Volume up. It’s time to blast the living daylights out of “Hold on Tight.” The classic tune was recorded by the Jeff Lynne-led Electric Light Orchestra in 1981. It is unabashedly rah-rah. It is a sure-fire mood lifter. It’s just the thing when you just need to shake it all out, when getting…
As you may have heard, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer isnow the official ownerof the Los Angeles Clippers. And considering he paid a whopping $2 billion for the team, we want to make sure he’s getting his money’s worth. Let’s give Steve a logo he can be proud of. Does that mean inserting Ballmer himself?…
Meet the closest thing we have to a real life Spider-Man: rock climber Alex Honnold. After scaling mountains and rock walls as high as 1500 feet in nature, Honnold has finally decided that with great power comes great responsibility and has taken in his talents to the city. Watch him climb urban buildings with ease.…
The Verge reports that the boxy set of goggles with a controller above is the rumored VR rig that Samsung’s supposedly been prepping. If so, it looks way more serious than the leaked schematics we’d seen before. Looks like its primed to fit the rumored Samsung Galaxy Note 4. According to The Verge, the headset…
Even if you’re working with a team of carpenters, Festool’s new CT Wings accessory seems like it could be the next must-have tool for every workshop or jobsite. It’s designed to attach to the end of the hose on of one of Festool’s shop vacuums and then securely suction itself to a wall so that…
Put that dollar away, the future is already upon us. Aloft Hotels, a swanky hotel in Silicon Valley is about to debut the world’s first robotic bellhop, a speedy automaton built to fulfill your every wish, or at least bring you a midnight snack. Dubbed the Botlr, this fleet-wheeled robot will serve a variety of…
Josephine Daskam Bacon was an author known for her adventure serials that featured female protagonists. But in 1929, she took a break from her regular fiction writing and slipped on her futurist goggles for an article in Century magazine titled “In Nineteen Seventy-Nine.” Bacon imagined just how much progress women will have made fifty years…
They might make it slightly cheaper to produce your own carbonated beverages at home, but those SodaStream machines aren’t exactly the loveliest things you can put on your kitchen counter. Thankfully, the company has teamed up with KitchenAid who’s given the machines a retro makeover and an all-metal design so they’ll survive years of making…
For years, the Secret Service has been tracking down the legendary “Russian-Israeli Note,” one of the most sophisticated and common fake Benjamins ever made. This high-tech international ring was finally busted and indicted this week, thanks to years of good old-fashioned surveillance and legwork. The lucky break in the case came back in May 2012,…
Tech companies have a pretty awful track record where talking to women is concerned. But after running damage control on horrible campaign after horrible campaign, you’d think they’d try to avoid making the same mistakes again. And you would be wrong. EnterOnePlus’ new lovely-ladies-only invite giveaway. Because, as they say, “chivalry is not dead.” First,…
“To everyone sitting on their couches watching Shark Week: that’s cool I guess. I prefer to go out, jump in and ride them like a horse.” Steve Fernandez did just that with a 20,000lbs whale shark off the coast of New York City. Whale Sharks are the largest fish in the ocean, growing up to…
Pittsburgh International Airport has seen better days. Saddled with debt from building now unused gates, the troubled airport is expanding into a completely different business: fracking. The airport will stay open as drillers tap the gas reserves underneath, thanks to a technique called horizontal drilling. Horizontal drilling was first developed decades ago, but it’s come…
Tesla is planning a so-called Gigafactory, an enormous battery plant to supply the company’s upcoming high-volume Model 3. California wants that factory bad, offering to waive its environmental regulations to win it. That’s bad news—for Tesla, for California, for you and me, and for the future of electric cars. The offer on the table would…
The FuelBand is dead but who cares, really. Because who needs a fitness tracker that tells you how much you already ran? Now, thanks to The Onion, we have Nike’s new +Runlogic, which can tell you exactly what you’re running to escape. Why do we run? Is it a loveless marriage? A disappointed father? No…
Bluetooth speakers are ubiquitous these days, so it’s no surprise to see some companies going out on a limb to set themselves apart. OM Audio, however, is venturing beyond that limb into thin air with its new OM/One floating speaker. Not only is levitation a neat gimmick, but it supposedly also helps the sound travel…
The Slinky? A Rubik’s Cube? Newton’s Cradle? None of those tried-and-true office time-wasters can even begin to compare with the awesomeness that is this ultrasonic levitation machine that can actually defy gravity and make tiny objects float at your desk. We’re not talking a flying hoverboard here, but you’ll finally have a great use for…
We love travel routers, wireless storage, and external chargers; now you can get all three in one convenient package for just $30. [LOFTEK Wireless Travel Router with Wireless Storage and 5200mAh External USB Charger, $30 with code QZTNT4IX] USB 3.0 hubs for under $10 are always notable. You can get this one for $9 today,…
