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The Top 40 Vines from the Tribeca Film Festival Will Convince You That Vines Are Actually Great

Barely even four months old, Twitter’s Vine video service has already delighted the film world to the point that the Tribeca Film Festival is giving ephemeral attention spans their very own Vine competition. And the people were ready. After sorting through over 400 Vines or approximately 40 minutes-worth (for those of you keeping score at…

House Passes CISPA By Huge Margin

CISPA, or the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or “the worst privacy disaster our country has ever faced” has just passed through the House of Representatives with an astounding majority of 288 to 127. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-cispa-5905360 The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act wormed its way into the public consiousness shorty after the Internet’s big…

Autobots Assembled: How Transformers Come to Life

Transformers. There’s maybe no more iconic toy, especially if you’re a child of the 80s and 90s. And while the memories of making them shapeshift are indelible, the process of actually building one from scratch is far more involved (or exactly as involved, if you spent your entire childhood dreaming of this) as you’d imagine.…

You Can Decide What the Next Official Transformer Looks Like

Have you seen our peek into how Transformers are brought to the world? Well, that’s one way that the design process happens. The other way is a new poll Hasbro’s got, which lets fans decide everything about the new toy. Autobot or Decepticon, what its vehicle mode looks like, or if he’s a jerk robot…

Pump Up This Pressurized Hydration Pack So You Never Have To Suck

The most important thing you can pack for a long outdoor trek is water, which is why hydration packs are an ideal accessory. But trying to suck water through a long hose when you’re exhausted, well, sucks. So Geigerrig is releasing a new pressurized hydration pack that’s like having a Super Soaker strapped to your…

Could This Bike On Steroids Really Hit 100mph?

Bike builder Tom Donhou—the namesake behind Britain’s Donhou Bicycles—has a dream, and possibly a death wish. He wants to ride a pedal-powered bike up to 100 miles per hour, and he’s hoping this somewhat ludicrous creation is the bicycle that will let him do it. As far as bikes go Tom’s creation is pretty run-of-the-mill—at…

An Ecuadorian Home Made From 900 Lego-Like Blocks

Modular construction is as old as settled civilization and as ubiquitous as Lego, but it’s less than common to see an architect literally reinventing the brick, as Jose María Sáez and David Barragán have. The pair of Ecuadorian architects are the subject of a recent profile in Dwell, where they discuss how they built a…

Win the Ultimate Survival Tool

If there’s even the smallest possibility you might wind up abandoned on a desert island (one can dream in this weather, amiright?) in the upcoming future, or if you just want to be able to fix anything, anytime, anywhere, then you should take the survey below, and possibly win a titanium 16-headed Leatherman multi-tool. They’re…

The Very Suspicious Similarities Between Google Glass and… Glass

At first sight, the two logos above look so similar that you might think they’re the same product. But are they? Nope. The image on the right is the logo for Google Glass, the futuristic glasses from Google that just arrived to the hands of the first lucky explorers. The image on the left, however,…

How the Post Office Sniffs Out Anthrax Before It Hits Your Mailbox

The Amerithrax case of 2001, in which letters harboring Anthrax spores were delivered to media outlets and a pair of US Senators’ offices, killed five people and sickened another 17. In the wake of these attacks, the US Postal Service (USPS) installed a system of electronic noses in mail processing facilities around the country designed…

Twitter #Music Hands On: A Celeb-Stalking, Music Discovery Dream

The celebrity-hawked Twitter Music app is finally here. And what’s good enough for Ryan Seacrest is good enough for us kind of. Opening the app prompts you to sign in using either your paid Rdio or premium Spotify account—in other words: shove off, moochers. Any non-subscribers will have to satisfy themselves with iTunes previews. But…

Hang the Whole History of Video Game Controllers on Your Wall

Chances are you’ve got some old video game controllers sitting in your closet somewhere. A good-old PlayStation Dual Shock, maybe a N64 controller, or some Donkey Konga Bongos. And you’ll never use them again. So clear out that space and preserve their memory with a comprehensive controller family tree. The new Evolution of Video Game…

Is This What a Cheaper iPhone’s Shell Will Look Like?

Whether Apple will release a budget iPhone this year is subject to no small amount of debate, but it seems almost certain that the company is at least testing one out. Which is why this rumored cheap iPhone shell, published by Tactus, could very well be legit. Whether it actually makes it into stores is…

How Many Times Can You Stack a Lego Brick Before It Stops Connecting?

The moulds used to create plastic Lego pieces are engineered with extreme precision so that the bricks stay connected via friction alone. But over time your Lego pieces will wear out with use and eventually stop sticking, and Phillipe Cantin wanted to know exactly when that would happen. So he built a small machine designed…

Yahoo also updated its iPad mail client today with all sorts of new UI wizardry. And it’s just as pretty as the Weather.

Yahoo Just Made The Most Beautiful Weather App

It might be the changing of the seasons and the yearning for warmer days and longer nights but why is it that we always end up talking about the weather? For most of us, it dictates a lot of our day. Aren’t you constantly checking the weather on your phone or is it just me?…

Man’s Best Friend Gets Its Own Action Cam Mount Courtesy Of Sony

Thanks to Sony, YouTube is soon to be flooded with countless first-person videos of dog butts and fire hydrants as the company is releasing a dog-mount for its Action Cam, starting in Japan. Specifically designed for dogs larger than 33 pounds, the $54 mount is designed to be worn like a traditional harness providing exciting…

Twitter Music Is Finally Here for Normals

To say that Twitter Music is debuting today would be to discount the man hours Ryan Seacrest and other celebrities have spent assaulting their earholes with it. But, as shared on Good Morning America, Twitter’s music service has finally arrived on the web and on the iPhone for the common man. So what are we…

Tylenol Could Help You Stop Worrying About Dying

New research suggests that acetaminophen—the generic name for Tylenol—could help people overcome anxiety about existential fears of death. The research, carried out at the University of British Columbia and published in the journal Psychological Science, reports that Tylenol could provide interesting psychological effects that have previously been overlooked. The work was inspired by a previous…

Google Bans Selling or Lending of Glass

If Google thinks any of its new Google Glass owners have been flogging them on eBay or loaning them their to friends it has the right to remotely deactivate the tech spectacles, according to the Ts & Cs in the contract this first wave of buyers have agreed to. The oppressive Google Glass terms state…