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What kind of sorcery is this? How is this egg standing whole without its shell? Apparently, the inner membrane—the thin layer that you can see stuck to the hard shell when you boil an egg—is strong enough to hold it without breaking its shape. But how can you do this? According to author Biswarup Ganguly—an…
Most Twitter hackers go after heads of states or companies to stir up some humiliation. But today’s target is Burger King, which has been transformed into a combination of McDonald’s and amphetamine addict. Enjoy it while it lasts. It’s not Anonymous, it’s not UGNazi, it’s… I have no idea who it is. He seems to…
Forget for a second that today you bundled up so much you felt like the nerdy kid in Little Giants who wore a foam suit for pads. Filmed with GoPros, this video of guys using flyboard water jetpacks will help take your mind off things. Some daredevils chilling out in Hawaii strap a crazy get…
It’s the future, and that being the case, you’re going to want to talk to your smartphone and have it make heads or tails of what you’re saying. Getting that to work can be a pretty tough job however, unless your phone can learn like a human. And as Wired explains, that’s exactly what Google’s…
The human brain is one crazy computer, and while it’s been around for ages, there’s still a lot to learn about how it works. To that end, the Obama Administration is revving up to announce at ten-year plan to create a comprehensive map of the human brain, just like the one we have of the…
Last week, on February 11th, Alexandra Watson (aka @happinesscoach) received a very exciting email in her inbox and promptly tweeted the news out to her 66,000 followers: Hurray, I am so super-duper popular on LinkedIn. My life now has meaning. She’s not that special. Watson is one of 20 million people who received an email…
Here are some Presidents’ Day facts for you: John Quincy Adams had a pet alligator. Ulysses S. Grant got a speeding ticket in a horse and carriage. And George Washington and Abraham Lincoln have been turned into adorable flash drives from Mimobot. Each USB 2.0 drive is available in 8, 16, and 128GBs for $20,…
Windows 8 was a big step for Microsoft, and rumors have been swirling that its arrival is heralding more than just live-tile interfaces. A report from November indicated that Windows would move to a cheap, annual upgrade cycle called “Blue,” not unlike OS X. Now, job postings seem to confirm that yes, Blue exists, and…
Stats obsession has been the provenance of baseball’s sabermetricians for the last several decades. But if your data-crunching heart belongs to basketball, you’ve finally got a datum-filled palace to call home. Meet NBA Stats. It’s… comprehensive. A joint effort between the NBA and SAP, NBA Stats will include box scores from every game ever, shooting…
Jon Millward deosn’t watch porn like the average man: instead, he sees it as a heaving data set to analyze and graph. No, really. That’s why he’s visualized porn star demographics to work out what the typical, ahem, actress look like. Having scraped the Internet Adult Film Database for physical attributes—hair color, race, sizes, and…
When you’re starting out in photography, with your shiny new DSLR, the world of lenses can be complex and scary place: prime this, wide angle that, and what the hell is focal length anyway? Don’t worry! This video should have you covered. If you can get over the fact that it’s sponsored by Pentax—so, surprise,…
These leaked press images, purportedly direct from Sony, show off two of the company’s hopes for luring in advanced amateurs—with entry-level interchangeable lens cameras. Snagged by Digicam Info, the images show off two purported new cameras. On the left is the Alpha A58, packing ergonomic tweaks, a new 18-55mm, f/3.5-5.6 II kit lens and—if rumors…
Sprint’s LTE service is now live in San Francisco, just so you know.
This map, put together by China File, plots all of the publicly available suppliers who fuel Apple’s production lines. While the majority are found in Asia, it’s interesting to see that the rest of world represents, too. Each point on the interactive map represents an individual supplier, provided with complete context—from Analog Devices in Limerick,…
This. Is. MADNESS. Watch Deviant Art user Elemental79 converting a 320 x 240 pixel screenshot from Doom—the legendary 1993 game that made first person shooters popular—into a stunning 9,600 x 7,211 image complete with textures, lighting and 3D effects using Photoshop. It’s absolutely nuts. According to the author, “each frame represents ten seconds of work.…
Deep in your heart you know it: there are like two drivers out there on the road that are causing all the traffic jams and one of those assholes is the guy right in front of you. Well, new information collected from hundreds and hundreds of drivers’ cellphones actually backs that up. Sort of. It…
I was very fortunate to have the pleasure of seeing the incredible, weird, and incredibly weird Jeff Mangum perform last night. And while the show was spectacular—really, you should be jealous—there was just one thing missing: April 8th. But let me back up. Jeff Mangum is the former lead singer and songwriter of the seminal…
If you want to jailbreak your real iPhone, you’re going to have to put a little work into it. But if you pick up one of these toys, it’ll come that way straight from the factory floor. If you look closely, you’ll see there’s a Cydia icon right there, smack-dab on the homescreen. Sure, it’s…
I was travelling this weekend and found myself connected to the incredibly blandly named “Home_Nework” Wi-Fi network. When I go home, it’ll be scarcely better when I connect to yet another router with a boring out-of-the-box name: “FastRabbit.” Bleh Plenty of people out there are significantly cleverer than I am, we’ve all seen Wi-Fi names…
We all have fancy things, but some of us have fancier things than everybody else. This safe is for those people. The new behemoth by Döttling boasts insurance coverage of up to $1,000,000. And it’s even got a built-in humidor for all your cigars! It’s like they were reading your mind, right? Billed as “safest…
