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Having trouble choosing which deal is the best is a problem we love to have. If you’re not in the market for a new laptop, then a $500GB portable hard drive for $40, the 1st gen. Nexus 7 at its lowest price ever, a $10 gaming mouse, or a great deal on a new plasma…
Breastfeeding! It’s how babies eat. But some people don’t like this idea of babies eating in public. After all, adults don’t eat in public, do they? Oh, right, turns out everyone is allowed to eat in public except for babies on the boob. One mom had enough of this garbage and laid waste to a…
You know all that sawdust you’re left with when hacking through a piece of lumber? It’s a minor inconvenience for carpenters, but a huge problem for electronics manufacturers cutting expensive materials like silicon wafers on the microscopic scale. So researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have found a way to make incredibly precise ultra-thin saws from…
Nothing is left to chance in Breaking Bad, one of the most popular series in TV history that is beginning its final run this Sunday. Not even the protagonists’ cars, which reveal many things about them. Jalopnik talked with Dennis Milliken, the guy who picks the car models for the series. https://jalopnik.com/how-one-man-picks-the-perfect-cars-for-breaking-bad-1070465236
Hell yes. The NYPL’s Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound is selling off 22,000 LPs at cut-rate prices this weekend. The LPs are all duplicates the library has received that it already has a copy of on file. So, they’re priced to move, with all the proceeds going to expanding the collection. Here are…
We’ve known for a while that drive-in theaters were doomed, but like anything American, they’ve persevered. by the end of this year, though, they could be out of lifelines, which is why Honda is launching Project Drive-In today, to help save a few. After this year, Hollywood is no longer shipping 35mm film to theaters,…
iPads, Lego, Nintendo 3DS, consoles, Minecraft—who cares about expensive toys. At the end of the day, it’s all about imagination. And watermelons, as this new craze taking over China demonstrates: kids wearing the sweet fruit, after eating it. Radishes are good for the imagination too: https://kotaku.com/these-are-chinas-watermelon-kids-1076489968
They can buy whatever they want and do anything they want, until the inevitable bankruptcies and arrests. So what are today’s sports superstars wearing? Baby pigs, from the look of 22-year-old soccer sensation Mario Balotelli’s crotch, pictured above. https://deadspin.com/mario-balotelli-searches-for-pigs-thing-1077033622
It’s no Real Steel, but damned if these tiny robots duking it out in the SupaRobotAttack fighting league aren’t incredibly entertaining to watch. Not only are they surprisingly nimble, articulated, and agile, they’re also all dressed up in kung-fu-movie-esque costumes which most certainly adds to their appeal. Best of all, if this is the cutting…
It’s not the most pleasant experience, but patients placed under general anesthesia who might not be able to easily breathe on their own are usually intubated, a procedure where a breathing tube is inserted down into their tracheas through their mouths. Usually a skilled doctor or nurse guides the tube in visually, but students at…
Bummed that you can’t make it to London in time for Kings of Leon’s concert tonight? YouTube’s got you covered. For the first time ever, YouTube’s concert live stream will include a viewer-controlled 360 degree camera, letting you take in the action from all sides, and the webcast will be directed by actor/comedian/music nerd Fred…
Today marks the eighth day of CBS and Time Warner Cable’s ongoing feud over cash money. It’s annoying. It’s frustrating and damn it, the PGA Championship is going on and there’s a new episode of Ray Donovan this Sunday! Here’s how to get around the blackout if you’re in an affected market. https://gizmodo.com/breaking-effective-5-00-pm-et-time-warner-cable-has-d-1005643729 Keep It…
A nation’s military does more than defend sovereignty. Most also act as first responders, delivering humanitarian aide to disaster victims. But, as Hurricane Katrina demonstrated in the US, getting supplies into areas affected by natural disasters (or even forward operating bases) is far easier said than done. That’s why a collaboration of European nations have…
The NSA, everybody’s favorite opaque government agency, would very much like for a leak like Edward Snowden’s to never happen again, so it’s firing all of the whistleblower’s old colleagues. Well, almost all. NSA chief Keith Alexander told a cybersecurity conference on Thursday that the agency was cutting 90 percent of its 1,000 or so…
Vine is a mobile app that allows people to post really short videos online. They are often inane and boring and dumb, but sometimes they can be pure gold. Someone got a ton of those gold moments and put them together in this compilation. The entire internet seems to be watching it now. https://gizmodo.com/i-never-want-to-stop-watching-this-incredible-vine-comp-1077310381
It’s hard to get excited about a printer these days, and while Canon’s new Océ ColorWave 900 is priced and targeted at high-end print shops, it’s still absolutely remarkable to see the thing in action. Capable of printing more than 12,000-square-feet per hour, the 900 can create 3.4 billion drops of ink every second. To…
Trudie Götz (right) is the owner of Trois Pommes, an expensive shop in Zurich, Switzerland. Oprah (left) is the owner of the entire world. But Trudie’s employees didn’t know that, so they declined to show her a $38,000 crocodile bag (center) because a black person can’t afford such accouterments. Poor Oprah. https://jezebel.com/oprah-gets-racist-pretty-woman-treatment-at-pricey-sw-1078513645
You’ve got a device in your hands that has a camera. But you’re not supposed to use it, because someone might laugh at you. How are you the dickhead in this situation? Show most of my friends a picture of a person taking a snapshot with an iPad or a tablet and they’ll laugh. Actually…
So here’s something strange. Syncing from iCloud seems to have changed a bit. And I honestly can’t tell if it’s a good thing or a bad thing. After installing the newest beta for iOS 7 and loading up a backup from iCloud, I noticed that my apps weren’t automatically downloading as they do in iOS…
There have been countless previous attempts to impress upon us the sheer, absurd mass of, well, things happening on the internet at any given moment. What with all the hundreds of millions of people online Facebooking and Skyping and blogging and Tumbling and Tweeting and god knows what else, it’s a pretty consistently impressive display.…
