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Squeegee Shower Hangers Keep You One Step Ahead of Soap Scum

Cleaning a neglected shower is just about the worst household chore there is. But if you can spare an extra minute after your daily shower, you can eliminate soap scum before it becomes stuck to tiles like super glue by simply wiping down the walls with this handy squeegee, designed to hang on your curtain…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Should We Really Be Tracking Our Children Like Wildlife?

Many New Yorkers are still mourning the news that the body of Avonte Oquendo, a non-verbal autistic boy, was found on the banks of the East River. To meet—and partially assuage—the grief, Senator Charles Schumer has an idea: let’s put tracking chips on autistic children. “Tracking chips” is just a loose term for describing the…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

This Gravity-Sensing Satellite Peeks Beneath the Earth’s Surface

The European Space Agency’s GOCE satellite has been on a quest to study the Earth’s interior, from space. Now the results are in, and a pioneering effort to map the Earth’s gravitational field in high detail, has just been published in the journal Nature Geoscience. It’s giving researchers an unprecedented look at our planet’s mantle.…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Watch this cruise ship get cut in half and remade 99 feet longer

As far as behemoth man-made objects, few things are more dwarfing than a cruise ship. That’s why it’s so incredible to see such a thing in the process of being taken apart. This striking timelapse video, posted at FStoppers, shows off the entire process. The ship is the Balmoral, a ship owned and operated by…

Sploid Michael Hession

Molten Magma Could Power Electric Plants of the Future

Good old geothermal plants generate power using water heated by hot rocks deep underground. But what if we could get energy directly from the seething magma down below? In Iceland, an accidental discovery let scientists actually stick a pipe into magma to test this idea—and the results of their experiment has just been published in…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

This book somehow opens up 6 different ways to reveal 6 hidden books

Done with this book? No need to get another one because you can just open it a different way to reveal another book. Done with that one? Well, just open it another way and you’ll have another story. And again. And again until you do it 6 times. Because you see, there are six books…

Sploid Casey Chan

This 1998 Video Sends You Inside The Web to Learn About Evil Cyberpunks

Websploitation videos of the 1990s had it all: sex, violence, and crudely animated viruses chasing you in a Tron-like hellscape from which you’ll never escape. This 1998 video, edited down to its most ridiculous bits by the folks over at the Found Footage Festival, mashes together every cyberphobia a parent could have. Think your daughter…

Tech News Matt Novak

A Spice Rack Full of Cylindrical Shakers That Let You Grab a Pinch

Cooking is rarely about using perfectly precise portions—so Umbra designed this clever spice rack with a set of six cylindrical containers, each with its own adjustable ring that lets you shake out as much seasoning as you need. Or, you can simply remove the cap to grab a tried-and-true pinch of whatever spice the recipe…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Tech Companies Can Now Reveal More About What They Tell The Government

The government has reached a deal with tech companies on how much they can tell you about the data they are collecting from you. Per the AP: The Justice Department announced the deal Monday with Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc., Facebook Inc. and LinkedIn Corp. Other companies are expected to participate once it’s approved…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Welcome to the Age of the Bionic Superbug

Like a silent bionic army, the era of the cyborg has crept upon us. Or so a group of reviewers said recently when they evaluated where the science of cyborgs has led. Is this era one of super-powered, tech-enhanced humans? If you look at it through one lens, yes—today we have medical enhancements that would,…

Tech News Emma Bryce - The Connectivist

Apple Increased Mac Sales For the First Time Since 2012

For the first time in two years, Apple has seen an increase in sales of its Mac computers. Not just an increase; a nearly 20 percent jump over a year ago. That’s… kind of nuts? If you’re following today’s earnings news, you’re probably paying more attention to the record-setting revenue ($57.6 billion) and quarterly gigundo…

Tech News Brian Barrett

If the Cable Guy in Porn Was From Time Warner (NSFW)

There’s a reason porn isn’t renowned for its gritty realism: Reality sucks. Lonely housewives are sadder/more covered in cat hair; pizza boys are pudgier; and the Time Warner guy is, well, just all around horrible. CollegeHumor has injected a healthy (if not mood-killing) dose of realism into one of pornography’s most classic archetypes, the renowned…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Russia’s Hiring Shamans to Make Sure the Winter Olympics Has Snow

It might seem strange for Russia to be concerned about its snow stock considering the country’s reputation as a frozen, subarctic tundra. But the country also just so happens to be hosting the upcoming Winter Olympics in one of its sole subtropical destinations, Sochi. So what’s this Florida-of-the-North to do? Send in the shamans, naturally.…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

Ask The Guy Who Built a 207 MPG Car in His Barn Anything You Want

Last week, we showed you the Illuminati Motor Works Seven, a home-built electric car and Automotive X Prize competitor that gets an utterly astounding 207 MPGe. Today, we’re hosting a live Q&A with Kevin Smith, who built the car, and journalist Jason Fagone, whose book Ingenious tells the engrossing story of the X Prize and…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

Mad people test a tank’s brakes in the most dangerous way possible

Step 1: Line up 23 Dutch lunatics in the middle of a road. Step 2: Get someone to drive a 62.3-ton Leopard tank at full speed on that road only to activate the emergency brakes just a few meters from the 23 lunatics. There’s no step 3. Just pray that you don’t end up with…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

RumbleRail Boombox Plays Any Midi Tune on Old Disk Drives

YouTube is about to hit peak saturation on those ‘old computer hardware plays random song‘ videos thanks to Simon Schoar’s RumbleRail. Instead of random components all hastily hacked together, it lets anyone build a rather elegant-looking floppy disk jukebox that plays any MIDI file from an SD card. https://gizmodo.com/sonic-3s-ice-cap-zone-theme-played-on-floppy-drives-is-1444564787 All of the necessary plans, schematics,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

How to Conserve Water During a Drought

California is facing “perhaps the worst drought that [it] has ever seen since records (began) about 100 years ago,” announced Governor Jerry Brown in a recent press conference after declaring a drought emergency for the state. Here are four easy ways to minimize your water usage until the rains come again. Go Low Flow Reducing…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The dream of invisibility and how we are going to make it real

Humans have always dreamed about being invisible, especially the military, who have been trying to get the perfect camouflage since the beginning of war. This is the story of that quest and a look at where we are headed. https://gizmodo.com/the-history-of-invisibility-and-the-future-of-camouflag-1487381235

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Why the Statue of Liberty’s Arm Lived In a NYC Park For Six Years

It took a very long time for the Statue of Liberty to find a home on Liberty Island. In fact, for several years, her creators showed off pieces of her body in NYC and Philadelphia in an effort to drum up funds to finance the statue’s completion. The picture above is from New York City’s…

Tech News Leslie Horn

What Time Is the Zero-Gravity Super Bowl?

Football and jetpacks have a long history together. But what if you actually strapped the jetpacks on the players? That was the idea in this illustration from a 1981 kids’ book that promised “zero-gravity” football played in space colonies of the future. https://gizmodo.com/the-super-bowls-love-affair-with-jetpacks-512620603 Back in the 1970s and ‘80s there was a sense that as…

Tech News Matt Novak

Squeegee Shower Hangers Keep You One Step Ahead of Soap Scum

Should We Really Be Tracking Our Children Like Wildlife?

This Gravity-Sensing Satellite Peeks Beneath the Earth’s Surface

Watch this cruise ship get cut in half and remade 99 feet longer

Molten Magma Could Power Electric Plants of the Future

This book somehow opens up 6 different ways to reveal 6 hidden books

This 1998 Video Sends You Inside The Web to Learn About Evil Cyberpunks

A Spice Rack Full of Cylindrical Shakers That Let You Grab a Pinch

Tech Companies Can Now Reveal More About What They Tell The Government

Welcome to the Age of the Bionic Superbug

Apple Increased Mac Sales For the First Time Since 2012

If the Cable Guy in Porn Was From Time Warner (NSFW)

Russia’s Hiring Shamans to Make Sure the Winter Olympics Has Snow

Ask The Guy Who Built a 207 MPG Car in His Barn Anything You Want

Mad people test a tank’s brakes in the most dangerous way possible

RumbleRail Boombox Plays Any Midi Tune on Old Disk Drives

How to Conserve Water During a Drought

The dream of invisibility and how we are going to make it real

Why the Statue of Liberty’s Arm Lived In a NYC Park For Six Years

What Time Is the Zero-Gravity Super Bowl?

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Lego Is Bringing Bionicle Back, But Not in the Way You’d Want

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