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How These Microscopic Diamonds Are Going to Shape the Future

No doubt you’re already familiar with the many ways graphene promises to save us all, but there’s another (so-called) miracle material out there vying for your attention—and it’s sparkly, to boot. Say hello to the latest and greatest substance to kick science’s ass straight into the future: the nanodiamond. Of course, you can’t actually see…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Casting Molten Metal On Wood With a Hungarian Design Master

When you see and touch the massive furniture of David Kiss, you feel something sensational, something deeply ancient and radiantly modern at the same time. I recently joined the Hungarian product designer and sculptor for a day, to watch his process—which verges on alchemy. This week, David is presenting his work at the Salone Satellite…

Tech News Attila Nagy

Samsung Gear 2 Teardown: Surprisingly Repairable For a Smartwatch

If you’ve been wondering how Samsung manages to cram everything into its Gear 2 smartwatch, then wonder no longer: iFixit has torn the thing apart to see what they’ve crammed into its tiny frame. OK, maybe its frame isn’t that tiny, but there still ain’t much space to squeeze everything in. Here are some of…

Gadgets Jamie Condliffe

The 10 Best Houses of the Year

It’s architecture awards seasons right now, with honors and medals being doled out with what seems like daily regularity. Thankfully, the AIA’s 2014 Housing Awards breaks up the march of zillion-dollar projects with something a little more real: Places where normal humans actually live. The following ten houses are home to an incredible range of…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

An Augmented Reality Transparent Hood Could Keep You Out of Potholes

Aside from the sleek body designs and supercharged engines, part of the appeal of a sports car is feeling close to the ground, hurtling along with such close proximity to the roads as to feel a tangible connection to the street or circuit beneath you. But as Jaguar Land Rover’s Transparent Bonnet concept shows, augmented…

Tech News Gerald Lynch - Gizmodo UK

Garmin’s Edge 1000 May Be the Smartest Bike Computer Yet

While the phones in our pockets have been getting smarter and smarter at an alarming rate, bike computers (despite having the word “computer” right in their name) have been lagging way behind. But as sensors, radios, and chips have shrunk smaller and smaller, we’ve seen more and more intelligence come to the handlebars. The new…

Tech News Brent Rose

Even If Heartbleed Loses Your Data, You Still Have Your Thoughts

Heartbleed may be one of the biggest internet security flaws to date, and it may see you lose your emails, identity, passwords and who knows what else. But hey! At least you’ll always have your memories. And your paper records. And perhaps even those clay tablets you keep in case of emergency. This may be…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Logitech’s New Auto-Dimming Keyboard Is Perfect For Movie Night

In the good ol’ days, finding the buttons on your remote in the dark was hard enough—but now, finding the keys of you keyboard is a living hell. Enter Logitech’s neat little auto-dimming keyboard, which seems just perfect for movie night. The new wireless, backlit keyboard —K830 to its chums—auto-dims based on ambient light, and…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

How Apple Decided It Wanted to Sue Samsung for $2.19 Billion

If you’ve ever wondered how companies like Apple settle on a figure for which to sue their competitors in the many and varied legal trials you hear about, you’re in luck. Court filings have revealed how Apple came to the $2.19 billion sum it’s currently pursuing Samsung for. Apple is currently seeking payment from Samsung…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Simple Secruity Measure That Could’ve Stopped Heartbleed Dead

We learned yesterday of a catastrophic bug, nicknamed “Heartbleed,” that has critically threatened the security of some HTTPS sites since 2011. By some estimates, Heartbleed affects 2 out of 3 web servers on the Internet. Heartbleed isn’t a bug in the design of HTTPS itself but rather the result of a simple programming error in…

Privacy & Security Yan Zhu - EFF

Why Truckstop Romances Never Work Out the Way We Hope

As a wise Mon Calamari once said, “It’s a trap!” Unfortunately that valuable life lesson comes just a little too late for one lovestruck fool. And it comes at the cost of both his pride and his ride. Simon Landrein produced and animated this titillating animated short with music from Dharma, Mcbaise, and John Maus.

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Hey look a weird bright light was spotted on Mars

Do you see it? There’s a little beacon of light in the photograph of Mars above. It’s on the left side of the photo and it’s pretty darn bright. What could it be? More importantly, what do we want it to be? A Martian signal keeping track of the Curiosity rover? An alien laser beam?…

Sploid Casey Chan

I love it when Thunderbird F-16s fly crazy close to make a mirror image

It never gets old. My mind never stops being blown. The US Air Force pilots who somehow fly their Thunderbird F-16s so impossibly close like this will never become any less impressive. I wouldn’t even walk this close to another human, let alone touch tails in mid-air. The US Air Force says: Two U.S. Air…

Sploid Casey Chan

Ridiculous alphabet sandwich has a different ingredient for each letter

DudeFoods made a towering sandwich with 26 different ingredients, one for each letter of the alphabet, because, well, someone had to see what the alphabet in sandwich form would look like. There’s the ABC’s of sandwiches (also known as the the things that make any sandwich better) in avocado, bacon and cheese along with the…

Sploid Casey Chan

This May Be the First Photograph of Los Angeles

Widely considered the earliest photograph of Los Angeles, the origin story of this image remains something of a mystery. Who took the photo, and when? Though the image and the historical record offer clues, they provide no definitive answers. What we do know is that some day in the late 1850s or early 1860s, a…

Tech News Nathan Masters

Meet the guys who store humans at freezing temperatures for the future

We Will Live Again is a fascinating documentary on the Cryonics Institute, the place where 99 dead human bodies are stored at freezing temperatures in hopes that they’ll be able to be revived and live again in another life. It’s crazy and bizarre and eerie in all the right ways. Not only are humans stored…

Sploid Casey Chan

Why ketchup is so damn hard to pour—and how to pour it perfectly

Ketchup, that delicious nectar of a condiment, is more annoying than it should be to pour out and enjoy. Why? Partly because of the dumb bottle it’s in but mostly because it’s a non-newtonian fluid in more than one way. Watch TED-Ed explain why it’s so damn hard to pour out and what you should…

Sploid Casey Chan

Iconic album covers merged with their real locations in Google maps

The Guardian has a nice collection of album covers embedded in Google Streetview images. I’m surprised they didn’t make Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, but Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Beastie Boys will do it for me. Check out the rest here. SPLOID is a new blog about…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

This Pub Built With Concrete Pipes is Surprisingly Elegant and Cozy

Concrete pipes never looked so inviting. At the Prahran Hotel, a pub in Australia, stacks of pre-cast concrete tubes have been turned into cozy, wood-paneled booths for sharing a pint or two. From the outside, they look like kegs (get it?) or portholes—in any case, nothing remotely as dystopian as the phrase “concrete pipes” might…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Why Saying Animation Is Only For Kids Is Bullshit

“Aren’t you too old to be watching kid shows?” If you’re old enough to be in high school, there’s a good chance an adult has asked you this question before. The attitude that question carries with it is demeaning and judgmental, but the simplest way to describe it is bullshit. For whatever reason, some adults…

Tech News Jason Krell

How These Microscopic Diamonds Are Going to Shape the Future

Casting Molten Metal On Wood With a Hungarian Design Master

Samsung Gear 2 Teardown: Surprisingly Repairable For a Smartwatch

The 10 Best Houses of the Year

An Augmented Reality Transparent Hood Could Keep You Out of Potholes

Garmin’s Edge 1000 May Be the Smartest Bike Computer Yet

Even If Heartbleed Loses Your Data, You Still Have Your Thoughts

Logitech’s New Auto-Dimming Keyboard Is Perfect For Movie Night

How Apple Decided It Wanted to Sue Samsung for $2.19 Billion

The Simple Secruity Measure That Could’ve Stopped Heartbleed Dead

Why Truckstop Romances Never Work Out the Way We Hope

Hey look a weird bright light was spotted on Mars

I love it when Thunderbird F-16s fly crazy close to make a mirror image

Ridiculous alphabet sandwich has a different ingredient for each letter

This May Be the First Photograph of Los Angeles

Meet the guys who store humans at freezing temperatures for the future

Why ketchup is so damn hard to pour—and how to pour it perfectly

Iconic album covers merged with their real locations in Google maps

This Pub Built With Concrete Pipes is Surprisingly Elegant and Cozy

Why Saying Animation Is Only For Kids Is Bullshit

Chinese Startup Debuts Super-Bendy Robotic Arm for Orbital Repairs

Artemis 2 Live Updates: Countdown to the Moon 🔴

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