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Playstation Now, the service that will let you stream old Playstation games on your new Playstation (and pretty damn well) will be going into open beta on July 31st. It’ll come to PS4 first, but later PS3, Vita, and select Sony smart TVs (Dual Shock 3 controller required).
Even while you can only see a few glimpses of the in-game engine of Star Wars Battlefront, the new game by Swedish studio DICE seems impossibly good. They say they are making the game that, as Star Wars fans, they always wanted to play. I think they may succeed. Just look at the motion, the…
It’s always fun to play a trick on your eyes. They’re so easily fooled! Take this illusion, for example. It’s an old favorite. If you stare at the image long enough, the colors in the picture start fading away and eventually disappear. The colorful blobs shrink like evaporating water puddles Just focus on the middle…
“Well, my mom works at Apple. And my dad? He, like, started his own company. But I think he like doesn’t really want to do it anymore.” That’s one quote from a short film by Mike Mills where he talks to children of Silicon Valley employees about changes in technology and how it will affect…
This dude is flying a Schulgleiter SG38 over Baden-Württemberg, in Germany, an extremely rare glider built in 1938 for the National Socialist Flyers Corps, a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. 10,000 of them were made, and many of the pilots who learn to fly on it became Luftwaffe pilots. In fact, according to the…
It’s only June and 2014 is already a record fire year out west. We asked a wildfire fighter how fires are fought, what causes them and what you can do if you find yourself in their path. IndefinitelyWild: Who are you and what do you know about fighting fires? Jake Novitsky: I graduated from Penn…
So this is awkward. Last Friday, the Seattle Symphony teamed up with Sir Mix-a-Lot to perform his number one hit “Baby Got Back.” It’s not so much the idea of rapping over an orchestra that’s awkward, though. It’s the dancing. However, the arrangement of “Baby Got Back” by Gabriel Prokofiev is very good. The London-based…
His is Technical Sergeant Edilberto Malave, ‘from the 8th Special Operations Squadron flight engineer, conducting a preflight inspection of a CV-22 Osprey on Hurlburt Field, Florida.’ But if you tell me it’s Vin Diesel entering the set for a new Aliens movie, I will believe you. What an awesome cable mess. The Bell Boeing V-22…
Some years ago, soap companies began putting plastic exfoliating beads into body wash in hopes of greater profits and smoother skin. Since then, billions of plastic beads have polluted our waterways and poisoned fish. Illinois has become now the first state to take a stand against the beads. The Illinois bill, signed into law Sunday,…
Don’t let this little red robot’s humble beginnings as a pencil-pusher fool you. He has ambition, and no one else is going to stand in the way of that. But when a small parade of other robots start showing off their nifty tricks, little red gets a little jealous. Watch what happens to him in…
The guy with the big hair and the titanium gonads is Sebastián Álvarez, who decided it was a great ice to jump over the safety railing of the Amonalas Viaduct, in Coquimbo, Chile, into a 328-foot (100 meter) deep. He only had a couple second before he could open his parachute—or die. SPLOID is a…
The breezy dark corridors between a city’s tallest buildings seem like shady respites from the blistering summer sun. But it turns out those shadowy urban canyons are actually making your city more hell-like. NASA released some images today shot from the International Space Station which help to illustrate why. The photos show the shadows created…
There’s only one way to properly celebrate Tetris’ recent 30th birthday, and it doesn’t involve breaking out your original Game Boy. Instead, wherever possible, you should replace anything and everything you own with Tetris-themed alternatives, starting with swapping your Moleskine notebook for this tetromino-ic alternative. Like with those old-school address books that featured alphabetical tabs…
Sometimes experience is the best way to learn, but when it comes to driver safety, it’s not like you can have a deadly accident more than once. But you can come close, as Volkswagen demonstrated with this highly effective interactive PSA it revealed to unsuspecting moviegoers in Hong Kong. Instead of movie trailers playing when…
Relax, it’s not a real armadillo. The hulking silver structure that now fills the inside of a city block in Paris is the new home to the Pathé Foundation. But this glisteningk, sinuous roofline sure makes it seem as though the structure’s architects, the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, just dropped a huge creature in the…
A couple of crafty 14-year-old kids from Winnipeg figured out how to get past the security on a a Bank of Montreal ATM. Crazy as it might sound, the “hack” didn’t require any advanced computer hacking at all—these kids just looked up the ATM manual on the internet. The Edmonton Journal reports that Matthew Hewlett…
Adding to Facebook’s ever increasing lineup of standalone apps, Slingshot is the social media giant’s latest attempt to take on Snapchat. Hey—it can’t be any worse than Poke. Just like Snapchat, Slingshot lets you annotate and draw all over self-destructing images. Unlike Snapchat, it seems that your friends won’t actually be able to see the…
An app developer says he’s found code in iOS 8’s SpringBoard, the hidden app that manages the homescreen, that offers the ability to run two apps side-by-side. Not only does the code let you split the screen in two with an app on each side, but you can also go 1/4- or 3/4-size allowing for…
As America’s wars wind down, the troops are coming home and so are the M-16 rifles. Armored cars, land mine detectors, silencers, aircraft, and other leftover military equipment are flowing to police departments big and small. Free stuff is tough to turn down, but does a small Wisconsin city that hasn’t seen a homicide in…
Chilean newspaper Publimetro(in Spanish) reports on the terrible accident suffered by 30-year-old José Vergara: A malfunctioning elevator launched him across an entire building and into the roof, going through 34 stories in just 15 seconds. Reportedly, he suffered major fractures on his back and hips. It happened last Friday, when Vergara got into one of…
