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Sharing a drink with someone when they can take a sip from the other side of your glass is reasonably acceptable. But that’s just not possible with a canned beverage. You either agree to share their germs, or refuse to share at all. It’s an age-old conundrum that Coca-Cola has finally solved with a two-in-one…
News emerged this week that the U.S. Army, which has been collecting biometric data of locals in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, is going to start storing that data in the cloud. Put simply, biometrics is the collection of personal, physical data using devices like retina scanners, and no matter what way you spin the…
The King of the Hill definitely never went this far with his love for an open flame. Meet Colin Selig, a California designer who fabricates sleek, sinuous couches out of metal sheets cut from empty propane tanks. Selig’s inspiration for one of his many pieces of upcycled petro-furniture came not from a King of the…
The High Court of New Zealand just ruled that the FBI has to give slews of Kim Dotcom’s digital property back to him. The agency—along with officials in New Zealand—screwed up pretty bad, indeed. When New Zealand authorities brutally sacked Kim Dotcom’s mansion back in January 2012 at the behest of the US government, they…
The shrinkification of technology is as inevitable as death and taxes, but we still can’t help but be excited to see that Japan’s NHK, working with a company called Astrodesign, has managed to shrink an 8K-capable camera into this relatively compact package. Compared to the HD-capable smartphone in your pocket it’s monstrous, but when put…
Not content to just turn paint into a power source, revolutionize headphones, suck pollution out of oceans, bestow us with hyper-fast upload times, and pretty much anything else you can dream up, graphene is at it once again. And this time, the supermaterial that keeps on giving is opening the door to better low-light photos…
Even though whiskey predates the United States by centuries, it’s an undeniably American liquor. It helped George Washington muster troops during the American revolution. It traveled with settlers making their way out West for the first time. It’s partially responsible for spurring Prohibition, and in 1964, Bourbon was officially recognized by congress as “a distinctive…
What you’re looking at above is the exact moment that atoms for a covalent bond. It’s the first time this intricate single-molecule transformation has been captured in the act. It’s a breakthrough, it’s informative, in many ways it’s beautiful. And it was taken by sheer dumb luck. As reported in this week’s Science Felix Fischer…
Finally, there’s a solution for those who can never find a hanging light’s pull switch in the dark, or those who do find it and end up yanking it off. The battery-powered hanging Tuggit Pullbulb is the light and the switch all in one, so it’s easy to find as you fumble around your dark…
The best wedding proposals involve things that you both care about. Memes, drones, and so forth. This proposal is especially cute because photographer Jerrit Pruyn combined his love for cameras with his love for his girlfriend. He etched ‘Marry Me’ inside his camera so when his girlfriend looked inside, she’d be asked the question. It’s…
Because the Samsung Galaxy S4 can sense when you’re looking at it, Swisscom hilariously set up a challenge for people to stare at the phone for an hour. If you hit the 60 minute mark, you win a free Samsung Galaxy S4. If you get distracted, you don’t get one. Easy? Not as easy as…
This is the single best pizza commercial in the history of all time.
Though Curiosity the rover can explore and see Mars up close, curious men and women of Earth will have to wait a bit longer. NASA reports that a manned trip to Mars is likely impossible with current technology because of radiation. Curiosity’s Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) was able to measure the radiation of Mars from…
The beauty of slow motion is that it lets you see and analyze every detail of anything in a much more digestible package. Explosions become a dance, athletic achievements become more thoughtful, life becomes even more interesting and idiotic behavior gets more hilarious. Watching a guy get stung by a scorpion in slow motion? Yeah,…
If we can agree on one thing, let’s agree on this: 360° videos are unbelievably awesome because they completely immerse you into the video itself. Actually, video isn’t even the right word for them because 360° videos fully capture everything around you, below you and above you—they’re a recording of real life. But the problem…
There are things that are adorable but make complete sense: babies, puppies, kittens, small phones, you get the point. Then there are things that are cute that make no sense: monkeys eating bananas, a ball of yarn and so on. A miniature chandelier would usually be sensibly cute. But putting that miniature chandelier in a…
Driverless cars are nearly here, at least if Google has its way. But what happens when we’re all zipping around, hands-and-feet free, nary a care in the world, and BAM! we’re in a terrible accident? Who’s responsible? And perhaps more importantly, will we make any attempts to stop it? When something goes awry and it…
The Tumblr app is, admittedly, a wonderfully designed one. And there’s no denying it has more functionality than something like Postcards. But for those who use Tumblr more as a means of finding articles to read instead zipping through streams of GIFs, this might be exactly what you’re looking for. What does it do? Turns…
Yep, this might be incredible. The new Razer blade is a 14-inch monster… ultrabook. With a discrete Nvidia GTX graphics card. Basically, this is the smallest, most badass gaming laptop-cum-ultrabook we’ve seen. It’s Razer, so obviously this is expensive. The new 14-inch Blade starts at $1800, and scales up from there if you want to…
Intel’s new integrated graphics are better than ever, and AMD’s are nothing to shake a stick at either, but if you really want to game on a laptop, nothing’s gonna beat discrete. And Nvidia’s new GeForce GTX 700M series just rolled into town with the best graphics you can put in your laptop. https://gizmodo.com/intel-iris-integrated-graphics-are-finally-awesome-486483980 The…
