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These Sennheisers are not fashion headphones. They don’t have a multi-million dollar marketing campaign behind them. They don’t have legions of rapper endorsements. What they are is well-designed, comfortable, and beautiful-sounding headphones that are currently at Amazon’s lowest historical price. Mario Aguilar reviewed them back in May and loved them: The PX 100-II’s deliver lovely,…
Banking on the whole notion of it not being the size of the gift that counts, physics students at Brigham Young University’s Nanotechnology Research Group have created what could be the world’s tiniest cupid, made of carbon nanotubes. The impossibly small cherub was made by blasting a pattern of tiny iron seeds with a heated…
When is light painting so much more than light painting? How about when it’s the perfect (golf) shot—an incredible composition by Dan Durakovich? My partner and I failed to find sparklers in time for our shoot so we fell back on old steel wool. Hopefully that doesn’t DQ us, especially since sparklers would have made…
Need a place to squirrel away your digital stash? Box is giving 50GB of online storage free to new users. Box will let you sync across both Mac and PC, and it has apps for Android, iOS, Outlook, BlackBerry PlayBook, and a bunch of other platforms listed here. To get yours, just head over to…
If you thought it was intense when Hot Wheels cars zoomed around loops, narrowly missing each other at high speed intersections that would make a civil engineer fall to his knees and cry, Hot Wheel’s new Carcade might give you a heart attack. And if your favorite speed is “10 mph under the limit,” the…
On January 24th, 25-year-old snowmobiler Caleb Moore crashed during the X Games freestyle finals in Aspen. A week later, he died of complications from his injuries. And if you want, today, you can watch the fatal crash in its entirety right on YouTube. It’s been uploaded dozens of times by perverse opportunists, viewed by millions…
Designed for impoverished students and those who couldn’t care less about posture, the bean bag chair is rarely regarded as a stylish addition to a well-appointed room. That is, until designer Antoinette Bader managed to turn the lowly specimen into a throne fit for a criminal mastermind, an evil dictator, or your average CEO. The…
Something must not have been to the liking of the Almighty if He decided to strike St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome with not one, but two major lightnings moments after the soon-to-be-ex-Pope Benedict XVI announced that he wants out. The chilling moment—if you are superstitious, anyway—was captured by photographer Filippo Monteforte and the BBC cameras.…
As soon as The New York Times first hit us with its paywall back in 2011, industrious little news fiends all over the Internet began looking for ways to get around it—and it didn’t take long. One of the simplest and most bafflingly long-lasting holes in The Times’ paywall simply required you to delete a…
Someone left the hose out overnight when it was freezing, and in the morning, he had awesome cylinder ice. His wife probably yelled at him, but that is one happy accident. I don’t know how the hell this works. It could be fake, although I don’t know why anyone would fake something like this. What…
Windows that can automatically adjust from transparent to opaque to keep out the sun can already be found in use all over, including Boeing’s new 787. But while they provide shade, the glass still absorbs and transmits heat to a room. So researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have developed…
In the early 1950s, many people speculated that the average American’s body would look dramatically different by the early 21st century. Some thought that the average woman of the year 2000 might be over six feet tall, incredibly athletic and just as strong as the average man. Others believed that modern conveniences like the automobile…
Following the success of David Fincher’s House of Cards, Netflix is going to produce a new series, this time teaming up with Dreamworks Animation SKG. The series will be based in Dreamworks’ upcoming animation movie Turbo, the story of a snail that gains speed superpowers. You know, for kids. [AP]
Strapping your feet to a board and then sliding down a snow-covered hill requires skills that most humans aren’t born with. So to make it just a little easier for novices to learn how to snowboard, Australia’s Streetboardz has created a board with a built-in handbrake that lets riders easily stop before things get out…
Ticketmaster now lets you transfer tickets electronically to other people. Smart! [PR Newswire]
I am the prettiest princess, and you(r child of either gender) can be too. With an endless supply of cyber-makeup afforded by the Barbie™ Digital Makeover Mirror, an iPad, and the associated app, your (child’s) dreams of effervescent, MSPaint magnificence can—will come true. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then resplendent, face-melting…
What’s the world’s most expensive beta product? As our gearhead brethren at Jalopnik explain, it’s the Tesla Model S.
The Stone House looks totally out of place amidst conventional homes in Hanoi. This building is what it would look like if a hobbit woke up one morning and suddenly the Shire had become suburbia and rows of houses had popped up around him. But in reality, it’s the other way around. The designer—Vo Trong…
This very thorough analysis of the Battle of Hoth will be one of the best things you read today. And seasonally fitting.
Last night, North Korea unexpectedly decided to test a nuclear bomb without the common courtesy of telling anybody first. But it’s just the latest in a long line of terrifying and crazy things that the country gets up to. Led by a single family since 1948—first Kim Il-sung, then later Jong-Il and now Jong-un—North Korea…
