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Okay, actually just unwrapping — but hey, this would be the best present you could ever get for Christmas. Workers started carefully removing the protective shrink wrap over space shuttle Atlantis today at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex as the historic spacecraft is prepared for its role as the centerpiece of the center’s new…
We’ve all had it happen to us: order a small item from Amazon, only to have it arrive in what seems to be the world’s biggest box. What gives, Bezos? Redditor V_for_VinceVega posted this picture of the packaging that surrounded a battery. A single battery. Of course, the warehouse could have run out of appropriate…
Nokia has announced that it will hold a Lumia event in London on May 14th—brace yourself for new phones.
If you use Android, you may have had Facebook updates foisted upon you that didn’t require going anywhere near the Play store. That made Google angry—so it’s banned developers from being able to update apps except from through its store. Previously, if users chose to allow installations from unknown sources on their handset, an alert…
The earliest of early adopters can now get the New York Times app on Google Glass. HUD headlines!
Amazon is busy trying to gobble up all kinds of top-level domains—.book, .read, you name it—but it also has its eye on .amazon, too. Turns out that the Brazilian and Peruvian governments have something to say about that though, and would rather snag it for the famous river. The Guardian reports that the governments have…
There’s a lot of quirkiness to Google Glass and a lot of stuff that Google still has to figure out. One of those things, according to ol’ Google CEO Eric Schmidt, is talking out loud to control Google Glass. In a talk at Harvard today, Schmitty literally called it “the weirdest thing”. He also said…
Great googley moogley. Watch this on full-screen and prepare to melt into your chair. The music of Melt Yourself Down, a London-based Jazz Fusion group some describe as “Afrocentric jazz-tinged tribal pop” (the what?), is crazy good and the animation from Morgan Beringer is enough to make your brain jump clean out of your skull…
Wearing broken 3D glasses is now a fashion thing, at least according to a NFL draft pick who rocked ’em
You could use measuring tape to steal a can of soda from a vending machine but if you’re a genius, why not just invent a freaking robot to do the dirty work for you? This guy did just that. He inserts his robot inside the vending machine and controls it to grab as many sodas…
As a kid, I’ve always been amazed at the shininess and flimsiness of aluminum foil. It was always so, like, technological! And it was always around! But if you wanted to do more with aluminum foil, try out these six tricks. You can make a AAA battery become a AA battery. You could quicken up…
Let’s admit it together. We all kind of suck at math. It’s okay! Numbers are evil. And back in high school when you were forced to struggle through Algebra and Geometry and Algebra again and if you were especially unlucky, Calculus, you probably thought to yourself when in the hell would you ever use all…
A subway-borne chemical attack is one of those theoreticals that require the willful ignorance of regular passengers—for most of us, it’s just better not to think about it. Not so for the NYPD, which yesterday announced a plan to test how a chemical or radiological attack would spread through the city’s 200-odd miles of subway,…
It’s going to look silly! But more seriously, it seems like we’re all going to have to accept that wearing technology is going to be the real future and not just the imagined future of science fiction movies. We won’t know we’re in the future until we’re wearing technology like Google Glass or Apple’s supposed…
Betaworks, the company that rescued Digg from the toilet, has just bought a majority stake in Instapaper from its founder Marco Arment. The biggest question is what will become of Instapaper, which rose to the top amongst the many bookmarking/mobile reader apps because of its superior design and engineering. Digg was acquired at what seemed…
Already a favorite among Android users, Drippler’s highly helpful, personalized suggestions and tips are finally making their way into the hands of iPhone users everywhere. What does it do? Takes note of your iPhone model and carrier, then comes up with a feed of all the newest phone fixes, apps, and other goodies it thinks…
You can now “create and edit drawings” and even access Docs, Sheets and Slides offline. [Google Drive]
The team behind Glass has a very special Easter Egg for Glass owners: A creepy panorama team photo! [Valleywag]
Remember that pegboard you hung your baseball caps from in your bedroom when you were a kid? Pin-press is a vast improvement on the same idea. It’s a big board with giant wooden pegs you can push in and out to use as shelves, hooks, and all-around creative storage. The boards can be customized in…
Jon Kessler is an artist known for his kinetic sculptures formed out of ragged machinery and surveillance cameras. His latest installation, The Web, at the Swiss Institute in New York, is a sensory rabbit-hole into to our hyper-connected world. Walking into Kessler’s installation is like entering a kid’s fort made out of circuit boards, TV…
