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This might not be the most aggressive black bear on Earth but these two bulldogs didn’t know that when they decided to confront him on a neighbour’s lawn. The footage, caught by a surveillance camera, shows the two dogs intimidating the bear right up to the point where he decides to run away. Good job…
Disquiet Junto Project 0123: All Tomorrow’s Domesticity Each Thursday at the Disquiet Junto group on SoundCloud.com a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have just over four days to upload a track in response to the assignment. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. Tracks by participants…
Today we learned that Ari Partinen, former Lumia Photography Lead over at Nokia, was hired away by Apple. The move could indicate that Apple is pouring resources into developing a next-generation iPhone camera. Partinen was with Nokia since 2007, through the rollout of the 41 megapixel 808 PureView camera and subsequent incorporation of the technology…
When you see somebody for the first time, your brain fires off so many synapses and your senses process so much information in an instant that you basically know whether you’re attracted to somebody in just seconds. Ted-Ed explains the science behind this and it all boils down to which mate has better reproductive qualities…
He had it all—loving wife, good job, a home out in the suburbs—no wonder this former prince had trouble wiping that grin away. But the American dream ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. When his shrink prescribes a dose of “shake it up a bit,” things get a little out of hand. And be…
I enjoyed this animated short called Johnny Express and written, directed and animated by Kyungmin Woo very, very much. Give it a watch. It’s about a lazy delivery man of the universe in the year 2150 who stumbles upon an alien world that he doesn’t quite understand. It’s cute and hilarious and oodles of fun.…
These ladies are ADAM, a Dutch electronic dance music band who had a great idea for their latest video: To sing their single Go to Go while using a vibrator, trying to keep a straight face, the pleasure building up until they reached climax. Brilliant concept, perfect execution. It’s great because this is actually what…
This is sad. Security camera footage shows a children’s playground in Tupelo, Mississippi being destroyed by a tornado. It’s not like the playground is some sort of impenetrable fortress but the winds of the twister monster pretty much levels it in minutes. NBC News says that it’s not just the playground that was damaged too,…
Twitter just added a third column to make it “more flexible for various screen sizes” and not at all to look more like Facebook, nope.
I’ve seen guitar strings filmed with a regular camera showing the sound waves they produce. It’s a trippy effect. This, however, is different: A violin string filmed in slow motion. To be honest, I never expected for the strings to deform so much on this instrument. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join…
According to the Financial Times, Apple is closing in on an acquisition of Beats, the headphone manufacturer turned streaming music service. The $3.2 billion deal would give Apple control over a powerful brand, but at the same time, it would be puzzling and uncharacteristic of Apple. The FT points out it would be Apple’s biggest…
We built these cities. All over the world, the crumbling ones, the glistening ones, the towering ones, the little ones—cities are built for people. So when you see one that’s empty, it’s usually eery. Somehow, however, Hungarian photographer Bence Bakonyi makes them beautiful. The 23-year-old’s “Urbanites” series depict various cityscapes in China. Bakonyi describes the…
That guy being thrown into a pool is a fully-equipped US Army cadet about to enter their final survival challenge. They call it Survival Gate #4 but they may as well call it The Gate of Hell, because that’s how it sounds like: Weighed down by heavy equipment, cadets must perform several tasks in a…
Why is it that, whenever someone announces a live-action adaptation of a previously animated story, I feel a nervous knot in the pit of my stomach? This question raised its ugly head with my realization that Disney’s Descendants — a Disney Channel original movie that sees the kids of all Disney’s heroes and villains going…
Google Maps is great for transit directions, but what if you want a gods-eye view of a city’s public transportation network in motion? Try TRAVIC. Developed by University of Freiburg grad student Patrick Brosi and geOps, TRAVIC (Transit Visualization Client) harvests public data feeds supplied by transit operators like L.A. County’s Metro to visualize the…
What if we lived in a future where our robotic explorers could automatically detect and avoid hazards? What if they could do this while flying around an alien world, picking out a safe place to land without our intervention? That future is creeping closer for the next generation of robotic explorers. Autonomous Landing and Hazard…
Sushi is a treacherous food to eat at a desk because of the potential splash factor—shirt-front soy sauce is not a good look. The good news: That will never be a problem with these adorable Nigiri notes! The bad news: You can’t eat them. 🙁 Each pack comes with four kinds of mini memos—tamago, salmon,…
It’s that time of year again! Every six months or so, the media rave about the latest advancements in flying car technology. They insist your flying car is ALMOST HERE! No, no it’s not. We’ve been waiting on flying cars since at least the 1920s. And countless companies of the 20th century tried to make…
If you’ve visited Vegas anytime since 2009, you’ve likely seen the empty hotel. It doesn’t have any signage; instead, it is often swaddled in ads, like the world’s priciest billboard—a bloated Cirque du Soleil-wrapped blue whale hovering over the Strip for four lonely years. Now a court ruling is finally putting the doomed hotel out…
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is no stranger to making generally awful (and excessive) patenting decisions, but that doesn’t make its latest grant any less absurd. Amazon has officially been granted a patent for its brilliant idea to… take photos on a white background. Whether it’s a testament to the skill of Amazon’s…
