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Holy crap, this woman is flying hanging from two toy helicopters!

You’ve probably dreamt about flying. Who hasn’t? It seems awesome! But getting lifted into the air by two separate RC helicopters also seems more than a little bit scary. With one hand in each ring, attached by a cable to its own helicopter, this lady basically turns into an Olympic gymnast flying through the sky.…

Magnetic Wallpaper Lets You Redecorate Your Room Every Day

Designer Luis Pons may have just come up with the biggest innovation in home decorating since wall-to-wall carpeting. This large magnetic panel, which could be easily made to cover the walls of an entire room, is adorned with a metal mesh ‘fabric’ that can be rearranged, repositioned, and even completely replaced to match new decor.…

High-speed photos turn violent gun explosions into delicate stills

Herra Kuulapaa loves to take high-speed photos of firing guns, moved by a desire to see the unseen. His precise technique turns violent explosions into delicate spirals of flames and smoke. Here are a few examples. I’ve always been a scientific person fascinated by unseen phenomena especially too fast or slow. When we started doing…

What Apple CarPlay Looks Like in Action

While Apple showed off a few screengrabs of its CarPlay in-car iPhone and iPad integration system earlier, we finally have some actual video of it in action. Not surprisingly, it turns your car’s dashboard into a big ‘ol iPhone copilot. Many of the CarPlay screenshots released show it being used on a widescreen display similar…

Every Meal Time’s an Adventure With These Scenic Tables

If your meals lack a certain sense of stimulation, maybe you need one of these tables—each of which depict a beautiful outdoor landscape as if it were seen from far above. The TOP Tables are designed by Pension für Produkte, and each is made from pine plywood, onto which a beautiful aerial view is painted.…

5 Ideas To Make Roads Safer for Cars and Pedestrians

“Vision Zero,” New York mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to eliminate traffic deaths in the city, is audacious but not unprecedented. Like almost all good social policies, the Swedes did it first. And we could learn a thing or two from them. Sweden first introduced its own version of Vision Zero in 1997 as a…

Engineer Identifies Spot In Dam Before Utter Catastrophe

Today an engineer in Washington can be proud of doing a very good job. After noticing a crack and bowing in the structure, the engineer ordered the dam inspected and caught a problem before it catastrophically failed. Dear Engineer, Thank you for looking at that dam and thinking, “…that shouldn’t be bulging…” then taking the…

Relive Jurassic Park‘s Iconic Hacking Scene Right From Your Browser

For the most part, Jurassic Park isn’t the kind of movie you’d want a chance to live out, what with the mortal danger and velociraptors and all that. But thanks to the amazing Jurassic Systems website, you can experience of of Jurassic Park’s safer thrills first-hand: getting hacked by Dennis Nedry. Thanks to this little…

I Wish This Energy Drink-Delivering Drone Would Accompany My Workouts

Powerade has seemingly come up with an amazing way to dethrone Gatorade as the world’s most popular sports drink. It’s just too bad these tiny tanker planes full of hydrating blue energy drinks only exist in this clever commercial created by an ad agency called The Lift. And not only would a service like this…

11 Creative Interpretations Of The Golden Ratio’s Perfect Proportions

Although the Golden Ratio was devised way, way back by ancient Greek mathematicians, you might remember it from such modern implementations as the Apple logo and an early incarnation of Twitter. But, honestly, it can be a total mind-fuck for non-designers to wrap their heads around. Golden Meaning is a new book by GraphicDesign&, a…

Horizon, the clever camera app that forces your iPhone or iPad to only shoot horizontal videos no matter how they’re held, is now free on the iTunes App Store for a little while. So now you have no excuse for shooting vertical videos ever again. [iTunes App Store]

WSJ: Apple Is Hiring Engineers in Asia to Launch More Products, Faster

Good news, perhaps, for the impatient: the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is “hiring hundreds of new engineers and supply-chain managers” across Asia in an attempt to “speed up product development and launch a wider range of devices.” According to “people familiar with the matter,” Apple is poaching staff from HTC and other…

How the Time of Sunrise and Sunset Varies Around the Wrold

Time zones are strange old things, especially the way they prescribe one time to thousands of miles of land mass—so this visualization shows which parts of the world experience unusually early and late hours of daylight as a result. Areas in red see the sun rise and set late in the day; areas in green…

New HTC One Seemingly Leaked in This Detailed 12-Minute Video

Given we already seem to know so much about this year’s HTC One successor, you have to wonder what will be left for the struggling Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer to show off at its March 25th showcase event. Thanks to this lengthy video leak, they might as well box ’em up and get the phone down…

How the Data From Three US Rating Agencies Control the World’s Economy

Is it governments that control the economy? Banks, perhaps? Or maybe even the people? Nope, in fact, it’s rating agencies—and the there are three in the US that practically control the entire economy. These agencies rate everything—organizations, companies, currencies—and gives it a score. The knock-on effect is that bad ratings—which can sometime be fairly arbitrary—have…

Report: First Dual-Boot Windows and Android Phones Coming This Year

Recently there’s been a push to have PCs dual booting with Android and Windows, and it seems that may soon extend to phones. Reports suggest that the first Windows Phone-Android dual booting handsets are coming this year. The Times of India reports that Karbonn Mobiles has signed a licensing agreement with Microsoft and plans to…

Apple CarPlay: iOS on Your Dashboard

Apple has announced its new in-car iPhone integration system. Called CarPlay, it’s designed to be an eyes-free system which allows users to safely use their phone for information, entertainment and communication while at the wheel. Apple claims that it’s “designed from the ground up to provide drivers with an incredible experience using their iPhone in…

Ellen’s Oscars Selfie Has Scored the Most Retweets Ever

Ellen managed to break the record for most retweets ever by some margin at last night’s Oscars. Her selfie, shown above, has chalked up well over 2 million retweets and counting. The new tweet beatsPresident Obama’s previous record—achieved when he posted a picture of him and the First Lady when he won the 2012 presidential…

MtGox has set up a call center in Japan to handle the worried inquiries of newly hard-up Bitcoiners. That’ll help.

Ellen DeGeneres used an iPhone backstage instead of that Samsung

The Oscars 2014 feel like (are?) a commercial for Samsung, with Ellen DeGeneres flashing a Galaxy Note and taking selfies left right and center. It’s ridiculous. Backstage? She actually used her iPhone, of course. PR people will never learn. I really don’t know what were they thinking. DeGeneres is a well known iPhone fan.She even…