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If you live in a big city without a car, it’s probably easier to just do all your shopping on Amazon. If you drive everywhere and have a Costco membership, it might make sense to do all your shopping there. If you drive sometimes but like getting packages, maybe you combine the best of both…
One thing I love about the old Jack Kirby’s Captain America comic books—the best ever made—is the mind-blowing machinery that The King came up with to match his insane dark conspiracy stories. He wouldn’t have been disappointed with the new Captain America 2. still images in this s trailer analysis. Of course, he would have…
Though most of us probably think time travel only works inside a DeLorean, much smarter folks out there can explain it slightly better than Doc Brown. Like this TED-Ed animation narrated by Colin Stuart. It reveals how time travel is possible, who has time traveled the longest, the history of time travel and the hopeful…
The entire Internet would very much appreciate it if HBO offered an HBO Go subscription without the need to have cable. We want to pay for HBO Go like we pay for Netflix. But that hasn’t happened… yet. But people are trying! Even cable companies. Comcast has come up with a new package that’s probably…
How do you revive the Shit Girls Say meme that’s dead not only because we all grew tired of it but because YouTube productivity assassins (aka movie makers) simply ran out of different types of people to make fun of? You reverse it and switch it into shit people would NEVER say. Like nerds thinking…
The new Super Mario 3D World game really looks like fun. Probably not as fun as the original Mario games, but _a lot. _Enough to make me want to buy a Nintendo and play it. https://kotaku.com/the-next-great-mario-game-1451431985
The new Tweetbot 3.0 app is completely revamped for iOS 7 and few apps look as good as the new light freshness of Tweetbot. Little animations like bouncing buttons, little details like blurred backgrounds and so forth make it absolutely delightful for diehard tweeters. $3 [iTunes]
As wind energy has expanded over the years, engineers have raced to build larger and larger turbines—designed to take advantage of as much wind as possible. But the architect Renzo Piano and an energy company in Italy are trying to make a smaller turbine—one that’s suitable for the average yard. First of all: Why smaller?…
Quads are dumb motorcycles with four wheels that serve no other purpose but to kill or injure douchebags. This Ferrari-powered quad, however, could be part of a Batman movie. A movie in which Batman is a douchebag who likes to ride dumb motorcycles with four wheels. https://jalopnik.com/this-ferrari-engined-french-quad-is-deeply-crazy-and-pr-1451694946
Earlier today, we got our first look at what Instagram ads will look like when they start popping up in our feeds a few weeks from now. The sample Instagram showed off was innocuous enough, but the only thing this one was selling was the promise of subtlety. When the real deal hits, you can…
Russia’s naval special forces, like our Navy SEALs, spend about as much time underwater as they do above it. As such, these aqueous commandos typically are required to carry at least two firearms, one for land assaults and a second outfitted for underwater combat. But this amphibious rifle is equally effective in both environments. The…
There are two approaches when it comes to stocking a kitchen: You can find yourself the best multi-purpose tools, appliances, and other accessories that might cost a little more, but promise to keep your drawers and counters free of clutter. Or, you can embrace every single cheap novelty gadget and knick-knack that are primarily designed…
Not only are they out there keeping fish populations under control and occasionally leading lost boaters to land, dolphins’ unique hunting techniques have also recently inspired a new kind of radar that’s able to pinpoint hidden electronics like bomb triggers and surveillance devices. Move over dogs, man’s officially found its new best friend. Developed by…
In recent years, we’ve watched with wonder as boring old yellow halogen car headlights have been replaced with futuristic, Tron-like LEDs. Now, that transition is about to take place on the city scale, as New York City prepares to replace its street lamps—all 250,000 of them—with LEDs. Mayor Bloomberg announced the massive project on Thursday,…
It seems like something out of Halo, but this new futuristic soldier helmet discovered by KitUp! is now being tested by the US Army. Called the Helmet Electronics and Display System-Upgradeable Protection, it’s a modular variation of the current head gear, with face-protective 9mm plating and Heads Up Display powered by an Android phone. Created…
The folks over at Gear Junkie got a chance to visit the product development lab at North Face’s new headquarters in Alameda, California, and one of the many new innovations they were shown was this wonderful runner’s jacket that uses a clever ventilation system to cool you down. Tugging on a pair of elastics on…
Think Apple’s forthcoming Cupertino headquarters is the first corporate space ship to touch down in America? Not so: In 1962 the legendary R&D hub, Bell Labs, opened a glittering, 500-acre headquarters in semi-rural New Jersey. Today, it’s the focus of an ambitious reuse scheme that could turn it into a commercial hub, complete with a…
Scientists have found a perfect bacteria filter right in the gardens and parks around MIT, contained in every tree and plant. Called xylem, this vegetal tissue uses tiny capillaries to filter particles as small as 100 nanometers. As a result, when you fasten it to a tube, it can clean water out of any bacteria.…
Instagram seems to be fully aware of the potential backlash to come with ad integration, so they’re easing users in as slowly as possible. A few weeks ago we were told that ads were coming, and now, users in the United States actually get to see them in the proverbial flesh. https://gizmodo.com/your-instagram-feed-just-got-ads-1440825058 The photo you…
Piracy is a dangerous game. You never know if the hosts are out to get money, or maybe just out to get you. Turns out the guy who ran a pirate haven called Uploader Talk was the latter. Now, after a year of stealing uploader’s info from deep cover, the jig is up. https://gizmodo.com/how-an-illegal-streaming-kingpin-makes-a-living-off-pir-1448487940 Known…
