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To celebrate the 38th anniversary of the liberation of Da Nang, the Vietnam government built this awesome dragon-shaped bridge over the Han River. And to ensure that it totally one-upped the light show on San Francisco’s Bay Bridge, this one is covered in over 2,500 LED lights—oh, and it also breathes fire. Construction on the…
A team of hackers appears to have broken into North Korea’s official, government-run Twitter and Flickr accounts. Evidence left on the sites suggests that the hacks on the social media accounts were carried out by Anonymous activists. North Koreas’s Uriminzokkiri Twitter and Flickr accounts started sending out atypical messages and images several hours ago (see…
Shell prompts are, by definition, pretty dull. So, if you spend a lot of time looking at one, why not make it more fun by… replacing it with a hamburger! Actually, you can replace the thing with any emoji character (as long as you have an emoji font installed—get a free one here), and Andre…
Back in 1981, Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen pulled of an audacious feat: they licensed MS-DOS to IBM, but in a deal that saw them retain entire control of the software. To mark the occasion, the pair were photographed amid a sea of contemporary computers—and now they’ve recreated the image. The picture, taken…
Just 20 months after launch, BlackBerry has decided to axe its incredibly dumb BBM Music service. Good riddance.
In a bid to compete more directly with Apple, Samsung has announced that in the coming months it will open 1,400 Samsung Experience shops within Best Buy stores around the US. Following an agreement made by Sammy and Best Buy in December, the venture will see 900 stores open across the country by May, with…
Google announced last night that it’s going to stop using WebKit—the rendering engine currently used by the likes of Safari and Chrome to display web pages—in favor of its own solution which will be called Blink. That is, admittedly, super-nerdy news, but it’s important. Google claims that WebKit has been slowing down the way it…
See, the thing is, your cat doesn’t actually hate you, per se. It simply prefers the more refined tastes of its imaginary lounging companion. Spread Motion Design filmed and animated this amusing short while Wolfpeople provided the score.
Who invented the Internet? To answer that seemingly simple question you basically have two options: you can go on for hours explaining the hundreds of people and institutions that contributed crucial advancements to the way that the Internet operates, or you can just say Vint Cerf. Or Leonard Kleinrock. Or Tim Berners-Lee. People have been…
Few things are more fun in life than tracking shipments and then seeing how it’ll eventually reach your front door. But what happens in the in between process? This video shows you what happens when you send something by mail. The drop off locations, the sorting facilities, the delivery process and everything in between. There’s…
Imagine a world where light sabers are real. Totally awesome, yeah? All fun and games, right? But not really when a baby gets his hands on a light saber. When they start waving things around, you’re at their mercy. Fingers, homes, human bodies and anything else are just in the way. The video, which was…
Like those pin art toys where you can create images by pushing out certain pins, this mirror recreates your image by using hundreds of spokes and motors to re-align and replicate itself to look like the thing standing in front of it. It’s a mind trip seeing little spokes making a bigger image. The ‘Angles…
By now, it’s pretty much a fact that everyone uses Facebook (pipe down if you don’t). It’s also pretty much a fact that everyone watches Game of Thrones too (shut up if you don’t). But what if the characters in Game of Thrones started using Facebook? It would be so hilarious I need to see…
The word on the interwebs today is that this 1999 Angelfire page belongs to one Mark Zuckerberg. Yes, that Mark Zuckerberg, which means this could be the very first website that the hoody that made Facebook ever created. If true, it’s a time machine into the 15-year-old brain of the most powerful man on the…
Almost everyone’s been there at some point or another: after lugging armfuls of newly purchased groceries home, you put everything away only to realize you’ve forgotten the one item you actually needed. A minor problem, maybe, but near-infuriating, nonetheless. Fortunately, Shopster can help. What does it do? With the help of geotracking, Shopster takes note…
We rarely think twice about the technological complexity behind checking the forecast on our smartphones. But an intricately detailed mechanical watch, like Breva’s new Genie 01, that tells you what the weather will be like? There’s something still wonderfully fascinating about checking a forecast that’s produced and displayed via a series of complex analog mechanisms.…
While hybrid planes like the the 787 Dreamliner and SUGAR concept are far more fuel efficient than conventional airliners, they do still rely on a non-renewable and increasingly limited supply of jet fuel. However, recent tests conducted at MIT suggest that tomorrow’s planes could take flight on the wings of an ionic breeze. Officially known…
Doesn’t the Dedon Floor Rocker make you want to be on the beach right now? It has two skids on the bottom that let it rock back and forth, even on the ground. With bright woven textiles, the seats are pretty easy on the eyes too. And the patterns—Flamingo, Colibri, and Quetzal—are inspired by Latin…
If you’re super wishy washy, we have the ideal piece of furniture for you—D*Haus’s D*Table can be configured anyway you like. The table actually works based on the mathematical principle discovered by Henry Ernest Dudeney that a perfect square can become a perfect equilateral triangle when you carve it up into four different shapes and…
Have you ever had one of those days where you thought to yourself “Boy, I sure wish I didn’t have this sexy yet expensive cocaine addiction”? Fortunately for you, there could be a new solution on the horizon, and all you have to do is fry your brain with lasers. Equally sexy. A new study…
