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Nike’s Latest Bag Is Hot Off the 3D Printer

Nothing can escape the gaze of the 3D printer’s nozzle these days—including the humble duffle bag. Nike’s latest luggage uses a combination of fine traditional leather and intricate 3D printing to carry its owner’s kit. Designed and manufactured especially for Brazil’s 2014 FIFA World Cup, the Rebento Duffel is Nike Football’s first 3D-printed sports bag.…

This Is Samsung’s First Tizen Phone

Samsung’s been playing with its Tizen operating system for some time now, looking for a way to break free of the Google ties it relies on for its Android Galaxy smartphone successes. The OS recentlywormed its way into the Samsung Gear 2 smartwatch, and now, after a long development period, there’s a Tizen phone too…

The World’s Most Sensitive Thermometer Is Made From Light

A team of researchers has made the world’s most sensitive thermometer at room temperature, which is three times more precise than any to go before it—and it’s made of light. The researchers claim that their new thermometer is able to measure temperature with a staggering precision of 30 billionths of a degree. While it’s possible…

The really rather good RSS client Reeder has just received its first update for Mac since Google Reader got axed. It’s available on the Mac App Store for $10.

Asus Transformer Book V: A 5-in-1, Android-Windows Phone, Tablet and PC

ASUS has just announced one of its most unusual products yet: a 5-in-1 device that’s a phone, tablet and PC, which runs both Windows and Android. No, really. At its fullest, the Transformer Book V is a 12.5-inch Windows laptop. Detach the keyboard, and it turns into a Windows tablet. Tug on the odd bulge…

Rumor: Leaked OS X Images Could Reveal the iOS-Like Future of the Mac

Ahead of today’s WWDC keynote, where Apple will reveal its latest and greatest offerings, a set of leaked OS X images purport to show what we can expect from Apple’s desktop OS update. We’ve been expecting OS X to see a large-scale aesthetic reboot overseen by Apple design chief Jony Ive. Late yesterday, a thread…

Reckless biker escapes death five times in just a few seconds

Those Russian kids may be crazy but, if they fall from the top of those buildings and towers, it will be their problem. One day, they may make a mistake, fall, splat against the ground, and that would be it. This reckless biker, however, is playing with his life and the life of others, at…

Goodbye, Hello, and Thank You!

In May, you spent 11,575,989 minutes ogling astronomy and physics, learning about disasters and planetary science, and otherwise indulging in the eclectic topics of the Space site. My 90 days as a Recruit have been intense and fun, but are over. But I’m not leaving; I’m just changing job titles. Here, check out Supernova 1006!…

Crazy spinning giant Thai rocket is the awesomest thing

I don’t really know what’s going on in this video: It starts out with a group of people gathered around an object which then cuts to people fleeing the circle because mad men are lighting the object which then turns into a thick smoke monster threatening Earth and then out pops the coolest rocket thing…

666 Park Avenue Is A Modern-Day Rosemary’s Baby

I watch all my TV online, so I completely missed 666 Park Avenue when it aired on ABC from September 2012 to July 2013. I only stumbled across it recently when I was trawling the bottomless pit of B-grade horror that Netflix has. To my surprise, the show wasn’t complete garbage. In fact, it was…

Michael Jackson: Slave To The Rhythm

Until recently, I was one of those people who refused to believe that Michael Jackson was really dead. I know, I know, I’m probably crazy, but look, I grew up on the guy’s music, OK? Michael recently made a comeback with Xscape, a posthumous album containing previously unreleased material that’s about a gazillion times better…

The F-35 Fighter Plane Is Even More of a Mess Than You Thought

The US military’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft is proving to be a pain in the neck in more ways than one. Not only did the Pentagon spend almost $400 billion to buy 2,400 aircraft—about twice as much as it cost to put a man on the moon—the F-35 program is 7 years behind schedule…

Three Lost Dyson Inventions, Including a Google Glass That Never Was

Dyson’s first cyclonic vacuum cleaner was launched 21 years ago, but before it made it into consumer’s hands, the company’s research and development team went through 5,127 prototypes to perfect its design. Since then the company’s R&D lab has been responsible for some amazing products—including a few that have never seen the light of day…

“Mind-Controlled” Airplanes Might Just Be A Thing

A mind-controlled iPhone? Sure, we’ll take it. A mind-controlled Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1? Why not? A mind-controlled airplane powered by the pilot’s brainwaves? Hold on for a moment while we look for the nearest emergency exit. Using your mind to control an airplane sounds bonkers, but according to this CNET report, researchers are working on…

This edited version of Star Wars includes all its influences

Michael Heilemann made a visually annotated version of Star Wars—and a much-deeper text commentary—attaching footage from other films and series that he believes influenced George Lucas’ space opera. Some of them are well documented, some may surprise you, yet others feel too much like wishful thinking. While some of the visual references are interesting, they…

4K Is Officially the Next Dumb Format War

If your bank account has left you unaware of the state of the 4K movement, here’s a fun surprise: if you buy a 4K movie from Sony, you’ll need a Sony television to play it back. If you buy one from Samsung, you’ll need a Samsung TV to view it. Which means that what should…

This is the rocket that will make SpaceX’s Dragon V2 land anywhere

This is the SuperDraco thruster. According to SpaceX, eight of these engines will allow the Dragon V2 spaceship to land anywhere in the planet with the same accuracy of an helicopter. Here you can see it in action, during the last test of its final certification. https://gizmodo.com/first-look-at-dragon-v2-the-first-manned-spaceship-by-1583376826 During its presentation, Elon Musk said that the…

WWDC: What Are You Looking Forward To Most?

Just when we’re finally getting used to iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks, it’s time for Apple to reveal what’s next in the future of these platforms. WWDC 2014, Apple’s annual developer conference is happening in San Francisco’s Moscone West in less than 24 hours and we’ve got many, many things on our iOS 8…

Scientists Can Now 3D Print Human Blood Vessels

Sure, we can now 3D print stem cells and even whole organs like kidneys, heart, liver and lungs. But 3D printing blood vessels? Now that was a challenge. A team from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston has managed to successfully fabricate blood vessels using a three-dimensional bioprinting technique, Phys.org reports. Here’s how they did…

Naming Hurricanes is Weirdly Complicated

Between retiring names from traumatic storms, objecting to names ever being given to storms, mixed-up pronouns, exhausting the set name-list, and figuring out what to do when a storm dies down then builds back up, hurricane naming conventions are anything but simple. http://thevane.gawker.com/politics-of-hurricanes-hitler-israel-and-the-worlds-1581526281