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When Space Age Pepsi Was Way Cooler Than Coca-Cola

In 1983-1984, Pepsi in West Germany issued the 12 most awesome 330ml cola cans ever produced in the soft drink industry. The collectible set was named ‘Welt Der Raumfahrt’ i.e. ‘The World of Spaceflight’. The front of the cans looks like an ordinary Pepsi can from the Eighties: The yellow label with the title of…

Sonos Playbar: The Awesomest Wireless Music System Wants to Be Your Home Theater Too

Sonos continues its righteous quest to dominate every room in your house with easy, awesome wireless music with its new Playbar. Except it’s trying to be the easy solution for your home theater, too. The sound bar joins the Sonos subwoofer introduced last year as well as two standalone tabletop systems already available. The Playbar…

NCAA Puts 75 Years’ Worth of March Madness Highlights on YouTube

In 1992 Duke beat Kentucky in the NCAA championship by making a basket in the last second of the game. And you can relive that incredible moment—and hours more—today because the NCAA has put 75 years worth of March Madness highlights on YouTube. On the NCAA OnDemand channel, you’ll find various playlists—amazing upsets, nail-biting buzzer…

This Robotic Mouse Was Designed to Stress Out Real Mice

Lab rats have a new companion, but it’s not friendly. Researchers at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, have developed a robotic rat called WR-3 whose job is to induce stress and depression in lab animals, creating models of psychological conditions on which new drugs can be tested. Animal are used throughout medicine as models to…

Own a Piece Of Mars Without a NASA-Sized Budget

Good news for anyone who’s stared in envy as NASA sends rover after rover to explore and study Mars. You no longer need countless millions and a team of rocket scientists to perform your own experiments on the red planet. For just $25 ThinkGeek will sell you your very own shard of our celestial neighbor.…

Relationships Perfectly Summed Up In a Drumming Duel

When you’ve been in a relationship a while, you and your partner develop a natural rhythm for your day-to-day interactions: which is perfectly encapsulated in this drummer versus drummer performance featuring Charlene deGuzman and Miles Crawford. It’s also a pretty good representation of every text conversation you’ve ever had. The couple argues over what to…

Google Reportedly Pays Apple $1 Billion To Be the Default iOS Search Engine (Updated)

A leaked report from Morgan Stanley seems to suggest that Google will pay Apple a cool $1 billion dollars in 2014 to remain the default search engine in iOS. TechCrunch reports the leak, explaining that Google only paid $82 million for the same privilege in 2009. That’s got analysts suggesting that the payment is on…

BlackBerry Z10 Teardown: A Samsung Galaxy SIII By Any Other Name?

BlackBerry’s new all-touch Z10 may have only been announced a little over a week ago, but some intrepid nerds have already torn the phone to shreds. And inside? It looks a lot like a Samsung. The teardown, by UBM TechInsights, isn’t the most thorough, but at least it’s a start. Taking a peek inside, they…

Vertu’s New Android: Handmade in England, Dog Ugly and $10,000

Vertu, the purveyors of luxury cell phones, has announced its latest waste of money. Called the Ti, it’s handmade in England and can be yours for the princely sum of $10,000. What do you get for your money? Ooh, a titanium case (hence the name), a sapphire crystal display, and the reassurance of quality that…

Would You Want to Fly Underwater in This Winged Wetsuit?

There can be no denying that designer Guillaume Binard’s “Oceanwings” look slightly ridiculous. But with the promise of letting you fly underwater, they’re a strangely tempting prospect, too. The idea is that the winged wetsuit lets you glide effortlessly through the water, like a… well, like a fish, we guess. In fact, a video made…

There’s finally a stable install of XBMC for Raspberry Pi—which could make the $35 PC worth shoving under your TV.

This Is Why Chemistry Is Amazing

You were glad to see the back of chemistry at high school because it’s so dull, right? Wrong! Chemistry is amazing, and it helps explain what all the stuff around us is and where it comes from. This video is part of a new series by Crash Course which will explain why chemistry is so…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: The Box

It’s all fun and games with the fart box until someone craps on the carpet. Luckily we’re not dealing with horse-sized ducks. Rhode Island School of Design grad Joshua Durst created this whimsical animated short about a quartet of malcontent mallards and a magical box of flatulence. [Joshua Durst via Cartoon Brew]

North Korea Might Have Just Tested a Nuclear Bomb (Update: North Korea Confirms)

This isn’t good. North Korea has reportedly conducted a nuclear test. Unusual seismic activity in the region was detected that indicated a nuclear bomb and South Korea has told a United Nations Security Council diplomat that North Korea performed a nuclear test. A 4.9 magnitude earthquake was felt in North Korea with the epicenter supposedly…

Remember the Hilarious Horror of Geocities with This Website

Oh my god. This is perfect. Because things on the Internet never really die and because old terrible things on the Internet eventually become wonderful and especially because Geocities was so hilariously awful, One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age is my new favorite website. It posts screenshots of old Geocities pages in all their blinging, blinking,…

Five Scientific Facts on How Chocolate Is Good For You

Valentine’s Day is coming up (it’s Thursday I hear), which probably means you’ll be eating overpriced chocolate with your sweet loved one or eating fair priced chocolate alone. Either way, have no guilt because chocolate is “good” for you! These five scientific facts about the chemicals of chocolate prove it so. I BELIEVE. Chocolate makes…

Is It Possible to Defend Comic Sans?

It’s nearly impossible to use Comic Sans on the Internet and not get tarred and feathered. It’s an Internet sin of the highest level. A crime against human decency and people’s eyeballs. A parody of a joke of a fool. Universally hated. So… is it possible to defend the font? Is Comic Sans wrongfully reviled?…

Men Love Drone Strikes More Than Women

Though the use of drone strikes should still be an American moral crisis, the majority of America approves of the pilotless robotic missile strikes. And men overwhelmingly support the invisible killers compared to women. The survey on drones, conducted by the Pew Research Center, show that 56% of the people approve of the use of…

Facebook Is Being Sued By a Dead Man

Dutch programmer Joannes Jozef Everardus van Der Meer is suing Facebook over its ‘Like’ button. Companies get sued all the time! Why do we care? Well, aside from having an A+ name, van Der Meer is actually… dead. He passed away in 2004, just as Facebook was beginning to take over the world. Why is…

If you have an American Express card, you can buy stuff directly from Twitter now. You tweet to buy. Seriously.