Motorola Moto E Hands-On: Surprisingly Good for $150
When you’ve only $150 sitting in your pocket, you have to measure your expectations if you’re looking to spend it on a phone. That sort of price bracket used to be the reserve of the cheap, plasticky feature phone, but today’s launch of Motorola’s Moto E puts a capable Android smartphone at your disposal for…
8 Bizarre and Painful Highlights From Two Centuries of Beauty Tech
Humans have been pursuing this elusive quality known as “beauty” long before the miracles of modern medicine. Inventors were always coming up with tools meant to help women—and men—achieve the wide-held physical ideals of their era. Eager test subjects would get hooked up to devices that looked like torture machines, or they would employ products…
When Aluminum Cost More Than Gold
Aluminum is literally one of the most common elements on Earth. So how did it come to be that aluminum once cost more than gold? Was it similar to how the relatively common and easily acquired mined diamond came to be seen as valuable in the last century due to strict control of supply to…