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Your axe may be razor sharp, your slingshot aim might be undeadly accurate but if you forget your head the second zombies start rising from the grave, all your cardio training will be for naught. So, let’s just take a moment and go over the basics one more time, just to be sure.
Intel’s integrated graphics have taken plenty of heat over the years, and most of it deserved. But the climb to respectability that started back with Sandy Bridge is about to get a turboboost. Meet Iris, the biggest generation jump in Intel’s integrated graphics to date. Get ready to game. Intel’s Iris graphics are going to…
Those crazy Slow-Mo guys are destroying anything they can possibly get their hands on this week. Today, it’s a house made from LEGO. And though explosions are almost always a delicious visual treat, especially in slow motion, blowing up LEGO should never make anyone happy. Thankfully, LEGO bricks can totally withstand a banger. Though the…
Yahoo is buying Astrid, one of our favorite productivity apps for Android. It’ll work for 90 more days and then disappear into Yahoo’s elephant graveyard of acquisitions. Hopefully not though! [Astrid]
Why do you kiss? Because it makes you feel good down there? Because it’ll hopefully lead to something that’ll make you feel great down there? Probably. But what about the science behind why we kiss? Vsauce, our favorite scientific talking mouth who needs no water during his soliloquies, explains that it’s something to do with…
Is this a picture of a soldier shooting lasers against the night sky? How did they make the beams bend? They twist and turn like bolts from a Tesla coil! Sadly, no. It’s just a fantastic picture of a Marine launching a PL-87 Stinger Missile at a flying drone in a training exercise. It’s so…
The relatively recent trend of highly focused, functional, and beautiful apps (February’s Haze, for instance) has come produced some wonderful replacements to Apple’s proprietary apps. The stock selection on your iPhone is functional, sure, but it could be so much better. And Timeless may just be the timer replacement you’re after. https://gizmodo.com/haze-turn-your-weather-forecast-into-psychedelic-art-5984565 What does it…
Say what you will about the robot designs in the Michael Bay Transformers movies, they make for one bad-ass costume when someone puts an incredible amount of detail into it. In this case the someone is Marc De Repentigny who crafted this obscenely over-the-top costume based on the Transformers movies aesthetics. In other words, brushed…
Sometimes it feels like all kitchen accessories look the same. But for something different—albeit subtle—here’s a pair of stainless steel salt and pepper shakers with magnets at the angles that work like a joint connector. It’s $30 for the pair, but it’s the kind of thing that looks like you spent a more on it.…
For all of the devastation caused by the 2011 earthquake/tsunami in Japan, the former, a 9.0 magnitude beast called “Tohoku,” could have claimed far more lives. The reason it didn’t? Since 2007, Japan has had an early warning system—conceived ten years ago at Caltech—which California still hasn’t managed to set up. And while it only…
Norway’s capital city has a serious waste management issue—they’re way too good at it. Half of Oslo’s 1.4 million residents rely on a steady stream of refuse to power their appliances and heat their homes. Problem is, there just isn’t enough trash to go around. Burning municipal waste—everything from household trash and industrial scrap to…
Camera-lovers aren’t the only ones who get to fawn over retro design nowadays. German company Soundpauli has made a racket of taking vintage speakers and restoring them to their former glory. They’re stunning. Each device is doted upon cosmetically and electronically, adding a 1.8″ mini-plug for your smartphone or iPod as well the ability to…
WTF? Google Glass won’t recognize dirty words. http://valleywag.gawker.com/you-cant-say-fuck-on-google-glass-486227536
These days, most of us expect the things we buy online to arrive within a day or two. After all, why does ecommerce exist, if not to deliver a horse head mask to my doorstep within 24 hours? To meet our expectations, companies are employing an increasingly unconventional set of solutions to function more efficiently,…
Back in September, we ran this same deal of the day and folks really liked it. Basically, Sound Earphones is a pretty cool audio retailer based in Cincinnati, and they carry a lot of high end stuff—Grados, Westone in-ear monitors, amplifiers—that never goes on sale. Sometimes it’s because of contractual restrictions, other times it’s simply…
If the thought of smooshing, crushing, smashing, squishing, or even touching a cockroach grosses you out, a Japanese company called Fumakilla has come up with a better way to dispose of them. Taking inspiration from Vader’s Lando’s carbonite chamber, this aerosol can literally freezes them in their tracks. As durable as they are, unlike Han…
Twitter for iOS and Android just got hit with an update that lets you tailor your displayed Trends to whatever strikes your fancy. Plus, Vine playback should a run a bit more smoothly now.
When Swatch figured out how to simplify and automate the production of Quartz watches, it made the technology extremely affordable and accessible to anyone who still wanted an analog timepiece. But even with rumored smart watches on the horizon, more traditional timepieces with mechanical movements are still very much desirable. And Swatch has found a…
Your dick just might be the next star of the art world, and this month is its chance to make its artistic debut. You just have to sext a photo to artist Karen Finley to use in her upcoming installation “Sext Me if You Can” at New York City’s New Museum. The New Museum describes…
They say symmetry is beauty, which makes a lot of sense. It’s the balance of equal proportions. It’s a sort of geometric perfection. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’re going to capture it. The Challenge Photograph symmetry. Real, not photoshopped. The Technique It’s going to be a bit of a hunt. You need to…
