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What country do you think has the best internet? Hint: not the U.S. Every quarter, Akami ranks countries based on their broadband speeds, specifically how many megabits per second. In the latest report, number one has an average peak speed of 54.1 megabits per second. At that rate you could download an entire feature film…
The restaurants are crowded, the roses are expensive, but on Valentine’s Day you’ll do anything for your significant other—except licking the awful envelope seal on the card you bought. Why the greeting card industry opts for the lowest-grade toxic glue it can find is a mystery, but thankfully there’s now a vastly superior alternative—chocolate-flavored envelopes.…
Yum, that food you ordered is so beautifully presented that you’re going to take a lovely photo of it, aren’t you? I bet you’re going to use the flash because it’s dark in this fancy restaurant, too, huh? The NYT has a funny story about restauranteurs who’ve absolutely freaking had it with the photo habits…
Ever played Super Mario Brothers and thought that life-giving mushroom looks good enough to eat? Then you’re on the same wavelength as Gourmet Gaming, your new favorite Tumblr that tells you how to make virtual foods into edible foods. Minecraft pumpkin pie. Dishonored Apricot Tartlet. Guild Wars 2 Chocolate Omnoberry Cake. This is torturous because…
The zookeepers at England’s Longleat Safari Park were curious what it will be like when its resident tigers finally turn on their captors. So taking advantage of the snowy weather, they stuck a hidden camera inside a snowman and let the big cats have at it. The results are unsettlingly—adorable? It turns out that, like…
Mushrooms may be most famous for their pizza prowess and psychedelic strains, but Paul Stamets, renowned mycologist and mushroom enthusiast, has much loftier visions for everyone’s favorite fungi. He believes that the solution to some of the world’s biggest problems lies in mushroom farming. More specifically he posits that—mycelium, the tight network of filaments out…
Want the Nexus 4? It is now back in stock at T-Mobile for who knows how long. Pick it up while you can!
You associate the Netherlands with Tulips and THC, not tax-evasion, but that’s exactly what some tech companies are using the country for. According to Bloomberg, Yahoo, Dell, and Google have set up offices in Holland in order to take advantage of the country’s lenient tax laws and funnel millions and millions of dollars into off-shore…
You might think that license plate flippers are only used by secret agents and other movie anti-heros who need a quick getaway, but apparently you can buy them in real life—and not just for nefarious purposes. The most obvious application for this $445 self-installed kit of dubious ethicality is to avoid cameras used on toll…
Selecting your browser’s home page is a crucial life decision because it’s the first thing you do when you fire up you browser. Duh! Choosing wisely will save you years worth of lost keystroke time (give or take), whereas pointing your browser in the wrong direction automatically will waste precious instants of daily productivity. Where…
Netflix and YouTube have designed a new system for turning that second screen you’re poking at in front of the TV into a remote control for your TV, set-top-box, etc. The protocol is called DIAL. GigaOm reports that DIAL (“Discover and Launch”) has been in the works for sometime and that it’s been quietly debuted…
Apparently creating a company called “Qwikster” wasn’t the only bad idea Reed Hastings had: in an internal motivational video uncovered by FastCompany, you get a look at the CEO’s idea of humor. Let’s make fun of overworked, unconscious Chinese workers. https://gizmodo.com/qwikster-disappears-like-the-bad-dream-it-was-5848195 The video was produced in 2007, when Netflix was experimenting with a Roku-style hardware…
If the screams from pedestrians and the angry looks from oncoming drivers don’t provide enough clues that you’ve accidentally turned onto a one-way street, maybe it’s time you bought a Mercedes. Wait, what? The company’s upcoming vehicles will include an updated safety system that’s able to autonomously recognize no-entry signs and warn the driver of…
If there’s one sport that’s managed to spawn an entire industry of bizarre gadgets promising to improve a player’s game, it’s golf. But Garmin’s new Approach S2 watch manages to shine in a sea of mediocrity, providing a genuinely useful tool to golfers with a library of over 30,000 course layouts from around the world,…
When UK photographer Matt Bigwood took a workshop in pinhole photography, he was inspired to create his own, simple project. So, armed with some empty beer cans and a roll of tape, he set out to make a camera. The cans had 5×7-inch pieces of photographic paper inserted into them, a pinhole made in the…
Way back in the mists of 2009, before Siri was even a twinkle in Apple’s eye, Verizon was planning to add the app to all of its Android smartphones. Sadly for the carrier, that didn’t last. Siri was destined to be a crowning glory of its Android-toting handsets: the carrier had signed a contract with…
It’s the end of an era: Intel has announced that, over the next three years, it will wind down production of desktop motherboards to zero. The company will continue to supply chipsets for use by third party motherboard manufacturers—the likes of ASUS, ASRock and Gigabyte—but after 2013 it won’t make more motherboards itself, reports Anandtech.…
Rumors are emerging which suggest Nokia is planning to launch a “true PureView Windows Phone”—codenamed EOS—some time later this year. The Verge claims that the new handset will use a sensor similar to the crazy-ass, 41-megapixel Nokia 808 that delivered on camera specs but not on phone features. At the launch of the 808 Nokia…
From certain angles you can barely see this beautiful bicycle—because it’s made from the same strong, lighthtweight and transparent plastic used in fighter jet canopies. It’s the perfect stealth bike. A concept put together by Designaffairs, this bicycle—aptly called Clarity Bike—is built from a polymer called Trivex. First used in helicopter windscreens and then in…
There are a number of amazing gigapixel inaugortation images kicking around the web, but this one is by far our favorite—because it lets you tag anyone you recognize via Facebook. Put online by the Washington Post, you can pan and zoom to your heart’s content until you find your nearest and dearest. Then, you can…
