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Cancer sucks. Always. But it might be at its absolute suckiest when it strikes kids. Thank God for awesome doctors like these ones in Brazil. Instead of doling out regular chemotherapy medication, the doctors repackage the medication into a superhero formula complete with its own superhero case. It doesn’t stop there. It gets better. The…
We heard Nokia was planning on releasing a true, full-on PureView Windows Phone that would have a sensor as ridiculous as Nokia’s 41-megapixel 808. Only this time it would run Windows Phone. Could this be it? https://gizmodo.com/report-nokia-will-launch-a-full-on-pureview-windows-ph-5978234 Posted by ViziLeaks, these two images show a Nokia device with a PureView camera. Just look at this…
Time cloaks are so much cooler than invisibility cloaks because they use freaking time to hide things, not silly dumb vision tricks. This new method of using a time cloak is the first that can cloak data at rapid rates. It might change security altogether. The idea behind a time cloak is sort of simple…
If you’re studying for the algebra test tomorrow or thinking about how little you use math now after you failed it a million times in high school, here’s something to melt your brain with just a tad: math might not actually exist. It’s not an actual thing of the universe, it’s just something humans invented.…
We’re being watched. Or listened to. Or recorded. Probably all three. The National Security Agency is collecting the phone records of millions of US citizens on Verizon right now. It’s ongoing. It’s daily. It’s happening right now. How is that possible? A top secret court order forced Verizon to give up the call data. The…
What happens when some American hicks try to destroy a beautiful old tree with a chain and a 1980s Oldsmobile? The tree wins, even after a half-dozen horrific attempts to yank it out of the ground. https://jalopnik.com/slack-jawed-yokels-attempt-tree-removal-with-car-fail-511514154
Freaked out about the “always on” Xbox One creeping on your life? You probably shouldn’t be. But if you’re one of those people who’s afraid of connecting your Xbox to the Internet, love playing old and used games and hate having a Kinect, this is your hilarious fear of Xbox One: it’s HAL 9000. To…
Cuff links, multitools, and money clips are second only to vasectomies on the list of crap wants—some bacon to go along with the, um, cuff links, multitools, and money clips. The Oscar Mayer Original collection packages 18-20 slices of delicious porky goodness in a tasteful display box and includes one of three generic Father’s Day…
Depending on where you’re from and where you’ve lived in the United States, you probably say things a little differently than people from other parts of the country. You’ve experienced this, but you’ve never seen how the regional dialects of the United States break down quite so cleanly. Ph.D student Joshua Katz has applied some…
Waking up to an alarm clock is a much-loathed and just generally unpleasant experience. But Warmly for Android wants to help you start the day off right—and hungry. What does it do? Let’s you pick from a variety of mostly wonderful, friendly sounds to wake up to. Options include things like bacon, brewing coffee, or…
Google Keyboard is Google’s new keyboard replacement app that’s very similar to Swype or SwiftKey. It’s live in the Google Play store now. Here’s what it does: It lets you use gestures to type, meaning you can continuously slide across letters to make a word and just lift your finger to make a space. It…
Today’s smallest primate, the pygmy mouse lemur, can reach up to about 5 inches in height—and that’s even on the larger side. But the primate skeleton that researchers just uncovered, the oldest ever found on record, stood even smaller than our pygmy friend as it scampered around the earth a whole 55 million years ago.…
Amusement parks are sprawling places, made of equal parts cotton candy-flavored summer fun and sweat-soaked, grease-coated despair. Artist James Dive of the Glue Society managed to squeeze that all down into one beautiful but horrifying 4 by 4 meter cube that has all the grease and none of the fun. Built for Denmark’s Sculpture by…
Right now, 3D-printed fashion is mired in novelty—each piece seems to scream hey, look what’s possible with this craaaazy technology. Someday, printed garments might be commonplace, but that day just isn’t here yet. However, that doesn’t mean savvy designers, like London-based Earl Stewart, shouldn’t tinker with different techniques to see what sticks. In fact, that’s…
Wall-mounted bottle openers are great in and of themselves. It’s the 21st century—we shouldn’t be using both of our hands like some kind of animal. But Dropcatch cleverly takes this modern convenience one step further with bottle cap catching magnets. No more inconsiderate house guests littering your floor with small, jagged pieces of metal. Because…
These days you can get just about anything from a food truck: pulled pork waffles, cheeseburger sushi, and even snail lollipops. But how about freshly baked bread, made to order in just nine seconds? That was the vision of a 1956 ad for, of all things, ball bearings. No matter how mundane the product, modern…
Books! Who doesn’t love books? Now, you can shout your love to the high heavens—or at least to a room in your house—with this adorable Penguin Classics wallpaper. I love this idea because many book jackets are so artfully done—especially the classics. These tiles are based on a modern classic: the 1961 jacket design by…
There’s something uncanny about drones, those autonomous airplanes that kill insurgents and civilians—but mostly civilians—and anger the pants off of many liberty-loving Americans. But drones aren’t all bad. Outside of warzones, drones have been helping everyone from farmers to journalists and now they’re helping doctors too. Imagine using a brain-to-computer interface that enables people to…
In the cold winter months you’ll do everything you can to maximize your exposure to the sun. In the scorching summer, though, it’s just the opposite. So what if there were a way to harness/banish the sun’s rays without a constant battle with curtains or venetian blinds? Researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial…
Man, I love “I Fucking Love Science“, the Facebook page with 5.4 million likes that clutters my News Feed with hundreds of clever images, many of which are stolen without attribution to their authors. It’s entertaining, and amazingly sharable. It’s also changing the character of the social network—and some argue it’s doing so for the…
