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The Internet is a great place to look at things you can’t have, and this clever map that cross indexes San Franscico real estate listings with location fits snugly in that category. At least the nicer districts do. The “Median Rent” map by Stephanie May takes a half-year’s worth of listing data, and boils it…
Ferrofluids are liquids that become super magnetized when they’re in contact with a magnetic field. Ferrocious is a ferrofluid sculpture that uses the hyper-magnetic material respond to sound, like a high-tech musical lava lamp. Noises like your voice or the beat of a song will cause the copper colored electromagnet at the top of the…
Although Seiko was founded in the 19th century, it wasn’t until the 1960 that they started challenging Swiss watchmakers with mass-produced mechanical timepieces. Sure, they weren’t as elegant as some handmade watches, but they were much less expensive, and they were pretty damn nice in their own right. Leading Seiko’s offensive were a slew of…
Google is now using Gmail’s new compose experience as the default one.
Spotify has a new logo. It’s been pared down, lost its cutesy aesthetic, and thanks to a little simplicity looks better overall. The old, over-stylized branding bounced at you like a candy pop music beat. On the other hand, the new 2D look is spelled out in Proxima Nova(Proxima Nova is the font used on…
Your friends send you a whole bunch of Dropbox links? Good news, from here on out they’ll get saved in a tab for you.
Ikea’s furniture isn’t just cheap and easy to transport, it’s easy to hack too, with sites like Ikea Hackers showcasing some of the best modifications. But none can top this hack by Andreas Bhend and Samuel N. Bernier that converts a couple of Ikea Frosta stools into a pedal-less bike—or draisienne if you really want…
Trailer-editing professionals TOKYO experimented with Vine recently by re-editing a handful of trailers into six-second, near seizure-inducing cinematic bursts inspired by The Wolverine Vine trailer. You’ve never seen Aliens like this. https://gizmodo.com/vine-is-twitters-new-gif-like-video-sharing-service-5978676 The set of trailers are posted under the twitter handle @retweaser. It’s good to see Vine not providing only terrible content. [Glass Eye…
The best way to deal with smog is to make less of it, but it’s too late to just do that. And when it comes to cleaning up your already polluted air, mesh structures like this one in Mexico City are a stylish way to filter a whole city’s worth of air. This porous wall…
The truth is that, statistically, planes are one of the safest ways to travel. But with that being said, even walking out your front door is going to come with its fair share of risks. So for all you hyper-paranoid aerophobes out there, the UK’s Channel 4 is producing a documentary—The Crash—that attempts to officially…
It’s useful for blasting dust, crumbs, and other crap off your keyboard and electronics, but those overpriced compressed air cans are almost as big a rip-off as printer ink. So here’s a brilliant and relatively simple hack that makes a compressed air can refillable with a standard tire pump. And just to highlight what’s probably…
Researchers at Panasonic’s imaging division have found a way to increase the sensitivity of digital camera sensors, which in turn equates to almost double the brightness in photos taken in low light conditions. But the discovery has nothing to do with the sensor itself; instead, the company’s improved the color processing filter placed in front…
Have you ever wondered why your skin gets covered in tiny bumps when you step out of the shower, or when your body’s fight or flight instincts kick in? The goosebumps phenomenon, named after the way a large bird looks after being plucked, is actually your body’s attempt to protect itself. Tiny muscles connected to…
Millimeter wave radars have been saddled with an unfairly negative public perception ever since the TSA’s bumbling body scanner program began. But, the technology itself is immensely useful for more than peeping under clothes and this miniaturized prototype from the Fraunhofer Institute aims to prove it. https://gizmodo.com/one-hundred-naked-citizens-one-hundred-leaked-body-sca-5690749 The millimeter wave sensor solves a problem that’s…
Cable companies routinely score lower in customer satisfaction than almost any other consumer service, and a large part of that is the fact that most Americans can’t choose their cable provider. But if you do have options, you should choose Verizon FiOS, according to a new report from Consumer Reports. Based on results from a…
Our friends over at Jalopnik compiled the 10 most unbelievable military testing videos in all their draw-dropping glory. https://jalopnik.com/the-ten-most-unbelievable-military-testing-videos-461535277
While the Internet at large was freaking out about an apocalyptic attack that wasn’t really happening yesterday, something nefarious was going down at the bottom of the sea. Egyptian authorites found a trio of divers down there attempting to sever a crucial submarine communications cable. https://gizmodo.com/that-internet-war-apocalypse-is-a-lie-5992652 Yesterday, Egypt’s Coast Guard stumbled upon a suspicious fishing…
Camping purists may prefer to eschew traditional toilet paper in favor of nature’s very own brand of sticks and leaves, but to the untrained eye, becoming one with Mother Earth might might leave a lasting, painful reminder on those tender, poison-ivy-scrubbed nether regions. So for those of us who aren’t quite ready to give up…
When you gaze at architecture firm Zaha Hadid‘s new tower, you imagine two jazz hands raising up to the sky as high as they stretch. Located in Marseille, the skyscraper is the headquarters of French shipping and container company CMA CGM. It’s nearly 500 feet tall, and although the upward reaching form is the most…
Samsung Galaxy S 4 pre-orders for AT&T customers start April 16th. $250 with a two-year contract. $250!? Sheesh.
