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Ride Apart‘s Wes Siler argues that the $59,000 Mission RS electric bike has “a superior performance motorcycle to any yet made. Period.” Maybe that’s true, maybe not, but it should be the best ever because it sounds like an Imperial TIE Fighter. Listen. It’s the same noise as the Mission R above, says Wes. Both…
A while back we asked you all to tell us which keyboard shortcuts you found most useful—we wanted to know about keystrokes that went above and beyond the basics. Here’s the best of what you had to say, culled from some 200 responses. Are you ready to get your motherfraking optimize on? From your desktop……
Later this month, Google will be releasing a new Android Device Manager to help you find your lost Android phone. Yes, it took Google this long to release its own app to locate your lost Android device. Not only will you be able to locate your lost phone on a viewable map, the updated ADM…
Last night, two F-16 fighter jets collided during a training mission off the coast of Chincoteague, Virginia. One pilot had to eject into the sea at about 10:30PM. Here’s the captivating raw footage the Coast Guard pulling him out of the water to safety. The downed pilot was retrieved by a Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk.…
The latest Lego Mindstorms set is totally mind-blowing. You can command 5 different model robots with WiFi, bluetooth or smartphone. The programming capabilities are endless. We’ve reached out to Lego, but so far no official statement on whether the EV3 comes preprogrammed to obey Asimov’s Laws of Robotics. Lego Mindstorms are toolkits that allow you…
Can we all agree that rooting a phone is not for everyone? That’s kind of important, because these days, Android actually is a platform for most people. I was kind of excited yesterday when I realized that 1. the Moto X is awesome and 2. I can get it on Verizon with something resembling stock…
Fascist Russia is actively oppressing gay people and systematically ignoring human rights in general. So, instead of just demanding that gay athletes and tourists are not persecuted, why don’t we just cancel the Winter Olympics altogether? Short answer: because the International Olympic Commitee is a bunch of corrupt fat cats who want to keep sucking…
Ikea’s messed around with augmented reality before, but this year they’ve really outdone themselves. With just a phone and a copy of the catalog, you can now call up a digital version of any piece of furniture and put it anywhere in your home. All you have to do is throw the catalog on the…
Only a handful of individuals have succeeded in making the GIF into something artful. We can definitely add artist and designer Guillaume Kurkdjian to that list, because his collection of lovely, child-like animations are dioramas of whimsical delight. Scrolling through Kurkdjian’s tumblr of GIFs is a lot of fun. Each one is carefully crafted with…
There’s fate, and then there’s science. But sometimes—just sometimes—the two will join in an unholy union, spawning a monster bearing the worst qualities of both. And that is where cosmetic, surgical palm line adjustment comes in. Because occasionally destiny needs a little shove in the right direction. With a scalpel. In Japan, palm reading is…
After a U.S. District Court judged found Apple guilty of colluding with book publishers to fix the prices of e-books last month, it was unclear what the actual consequences would be for the iPad-maker. Well with little pomp or circumstance, the Department of Justice has just cleared that up, and it’s not good for Apple.…
If you want to get a good shot of lightning, it helps to have an amazing sense of timing. Barring that, you could just fake it by creating an entire miniature lightning storm that looks impossibly real, and shooting that instead. Same difference. Artist and photographer Matthew Albanese has been inventing tiny, mesmerizing worlds for…
In conventional combat aircraft, the target generally needs to be in both the pilot’s field of vision and within the sights of the plane itself. That is, the plane needed to be pointed in the general direction of whatever you’re shooting at. But in the case of the new Eurofighter Typhoon, pilots can squeeze off…
His wife, Karen Elson, has filed a restraining order against him, claiming he’s harassing her and throwing violent tantrums because she went to the wedding of a rival musician who—he says—”ripped off” his music.
If you don’t pay regular visits to the Apple Store iOS app, maybe it’s time to start. In an effort to get you to fire the app up and possibly buy other stuff, Apple has started giving away free apps, songs, and ebooks from the app. Free is cool. 9to5Mac reports that Apple has started…
Long ago and far away in a place called the 1980s, a man with a dream and a uniquely excellent knowledge of fluid dynamics decided to quit his day job designing rocket ships and design the world’s best ever water gun instead. For that, we thank you Lonnie Johnson. In this weekend’s issue, The New…
Can you possibly imagine what could have made this 18-wheeler truck fly over a highway overpass and then explode in pink flames? I’d say the Hulk or the A-Team.
We’ve had a quite a bit of fun covering anything we could get our hands on with water-repelling magic, but the folks over at Adafruit took it a step further and risked a little electrocution. But the result—submersible circuit boards—is definitely cool enough to be worth the trouble. The wonderful promise or waterproof everything has…
Turns out diamonds have powers beyond bringing bling-happy jewelry enthusiasts and hopeful lovers to their knees. Harvard researchers have figured out how to make the shiny little pebbles into the world’s tiniest thermometers. How tiny? Small enough totake the temperature of an individual cell. While you might call it “ice” (and please, if you do,…
Jump in and peek into every single window of every single building in sight on this awesome zoomable panorama of Tokyo, the largest photo ever taken of the Japanese capital.
