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These Are Google Glass’s CPU and RAM Specs

Not too long ago, some of Google Glass’s specs got out there, but we were missing two critical pieces: CPU and RAM. Now, thanks to some endeavoring hackers who’ve gotten their hands on a pair, we now know some of those details. Jay Lee, with some help from Liam McLoughlin, managed to find Glass’s USB…

This Numberless Calculator Requires You To Knock On Wood

There’s not a single college in the country that will let you use this wooden calculator during an exam. And it’s not because it can be used for cheating. It has more to do with the fact that instead of pressing number buttons, you have to tap out your amounts on its wooden surface, and…

Nobody Walks in L.A.: The Rise of Cars and the Monorails That Never Were

“Who needs a car in L.A.? We got the best public transportation system in the world!” says private detective Eddie Valiant in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Set in 1947, Eddie is a car-less Angeleno and the movie tells the tale of a an evil corporation buying up the city’s streetcars in its…

Behold the Fastest CF Card Ever Made (For Now)

Are you worried your compact flash card won’t be able to keep up with the demands of the upcoming 4K revolution? Toshiba’s got your back with its new Exceria Pro series CF cards that boast read and write speeds of 160MB/s and 150MB/s respectively, making them the world’s fastest—for the time being. Available in 16GB,…

Make CMYK Shadow Puppets with This LED Lamp

It’s taken a while for the humble LED to gain a foothold in the broader consumer market—blame artisanal culture or simple force of habit, people love their cream-colored incandescent bulbs. But as the New York Times devoted 1600 words to explaining yesterday, more and more designers are jumping on the LED bandwagon. Case in point:…

This Tilt-Shift Timelapse Video Makes Miniature Melbourne the Cutest City of All

If there’s any photography effect that’s more fun to look at than the time-lapse, it’s tilt-shift photography, the camera trick that makes a normal real-life scene look like it’s actually built out of miniatures. But the coolest effect is a mix of the two, like in this tilt-shift time-lapse of Melbourne, Australia by Nathan Kaso.…

Report: Samsung Is Planning a Klutz-Proof Version of the Galaxy S4

Rugged phones are nice, but they are almost invariably crap. According the Wall Street Journal, Samsung is making a move to kick that trend with an upcoming waterproof, dustproof Galaxy S4. The WSJ’s unnamed source says the tenatively named “Galaxy S4 Active” will launch this June, alongside robust models of the Galaxy line’s 7 and…

Michael Bay Is Why Transformers Got So Complicated

Have you tried to put together a Transformer lately? Without an instruction booklet, you stand a better chance of dismantling a nuclear warhead than making Optimus look like Prime, instead of a 16-wheeler with a robot head for a butt. That wasn’t always the case. In our visit to Transformers HQ in Providence, RI, we…

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How to Inspect Windmill Blades Without Ever Leaving the Ground

Getting to the top of a wind turbine is no small feat—akin to summiting the Washington Monument—and even more difficult when the wind farm is at sea. So rather than force human inspectors to make the perilous climb, Helical Robotics has developed a magnetic turtle to do it for us. Officially the HR-MP20, this single-handler…

What a DDoS Attack Looks Like

When hackers do cyber-battle, there isn’t much to see. Maybe you’ll wind up on a crashed website, but the real carnage is happening behind the scenes, perpetrated by a diffuse army of computers a world away. This is what it looks like. What you see here is a record of a April 23rd DDoS attack…

Of the 418.6M cellphones shipped last quarter, more than half were smartphones at 216.2M, a first, according to IDC.

TWC plans to recuperate losses by making basic Internet and cable packages crappier and more expensive. Awesome!

Hard to Believe This Super Sharp Footage Was Shot with a Palm-Sized Camera

The BlackMagic Pocket Cinema Camera is exactly what it sounds like. It was announced earlier this month and promised to deliver super-sharp image quality in a tiny $1000 device. By the looks of the first bits of footage to hit the web, it won’t underwhelm. https://gizmodo.com/blackmagic-pocket-cinema-camera-raw-video-in-the-palm-5994043 Blackmagic’s chosen camera tester, John Brawley, posted an edit…

Your Child Will Never Be Safer In a Car Than In the Arms of Batman

Despite his gruff mannerisms, deep down Batman is a tender, loving superhero. And had he kids of his own, he would embrace and protect them just like this Batman carseat will do for yours. If he can protect Gotham from evil super-villains, surely he can protect your kids during a fender bender. A built-in five-point…

What Hurts More: Child Birth or a Kick in the Balls? Science Answers.

In response to that one debate you had in 8th grade health class that ended abruptly because there wasn’t nearly enough coffee or cigarettes in the teacher’s lounge to put up with that crap, and really, Jesus Christ, ASAP Science has attempted to answer who has it worse: women in child birth, or men who…

An Introduction To Complications: The 21st Century Watch

Editor’s note: This is the last in a series of introductory pieces on mechanical watches from our friends at Hodinkee. You can read the rest here. Against all odds, it seems the wristwatch has found a place all its own in the 21st century. In fact, watches are experiencing a surge in popularity. Not only…

“Chief Porn Identification Officer:” The Best Job You’ll Never Have

If you could do anything—anything—for a living what would it be? Well that’s dumb; it would be “looking at porn.” And though you may not be so lucky, someone working for China will be, boasting the prestigious title of Chief Porn Identification Officer. China’s rampant censorship policy has an upside, it seems. While adult content…

A Self-Propelled Snowboard Makes Going Uphill Just as Fun

When Archimedes thought up his revolutionary water-pumping screw, little did he know that one day a group of high school students in Lyon, France would find a better use for his design. Their Propul-Surf uses a pair of horizontally-mounted screws to push a snowboard through the snow when gravity doesn’t provide enough momentum. The rig,…

Watch This Bread City Fall Into Actual Decay

People talk about cities falling into decay all the time, but it’s usually metaphoric. Not so with this cityscape made of bread—which moulds and crumbles before your eyes. Theater set designer Johanna Mårtensson created this doughy dystopia after reading an article about how the world could cope quite easily without humans littering its surface. He…