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At the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, there’s a strange exhibit on show: a single iPad stands on a white pedestal. It’s not for visitors to play with; instead, it’s a piece of art by Li Liao. The New Yorker explains the concept behind the piece: While Americans hash out the moral ups…
Best Buy released a too good to be true coupon earlier today: Spend a $100 and save $50 automatically when you pay with a MasterCard credit card. The fine print had excluded a few products but it was pretty much a free $50 bucks for everything else. So predictably people took advantage of ol’ Best…
10 Animals That Get High After a hard day’s foraging and outsmarting apex predators, don’t you think they’ve earned it? [LiveScience – Image: CREATISTA / shutterstock] CATNIP: EGRESS TO OBLIVION? Won’t someone please think of the Kittehs? Besides the Sundance Film Festival, of course.[Geekosystem] Five Hard-line Prohibitionists Fighting Legal Weed Rolling Stone has assembled an…
Women have the ultimate trump card when it comes to dealing with pain: they give birth. And since men have no idea what giving birth even feels like, we really don’t know how painful it really is. Maybe it’s all a big conspiracy (kidding!). Maybe it’s not that bad (of course it is!). Well, two…
It ain’t easy being the leader of the free world. This is true on the face of the President of the United States of America Barack Obama and all the previous Presidents as well. Once you land the gig of head American honcho, the hair starts going gray, the wrinkles start getting deeper and life…
Our friends at BoingBoing put together a video to show you a simple and fun card trick that anyone can learn in no time: Using a deck of playing cards, make three piles of three cards each. Flip a pile over to note the bottom card and then combine all three piles into one, making…
When Twitter rebranded its old fat whale of a bird logo into the svelte upward jumping bird logo it is now, it went through a lot of early concepts to get the angle of the bird jusssst right. One of my favorite concepting sketches? The middle finger. Twitter should have totally used that bird as…
Because Peter Parker was a nerd, every geek has wondered what it would be like to be Spiderman. Batman was too rich and good looking, Superman wasn’t from this world but Spiderman… he was just like us! So if you want to know what ol’ Spidey goes through on the daily, watch this incredible video…
Twitter is having big time problems in some places right now. Out in California, I can’t even get the website to load or the desktop app to show any tweets. It’s completely, utterly borked. But out in New York, no one seems to be having any problems. And Twitter on my phone works! What’s the…
Barack Obama is our president sequel, but more importantly, this photo. Duck face. Frog case. First place. Space race. Make haste. And yeah, shut up, it’s a slow news day. But at least we now know that the iPhone is the White House Tween Handset of Choice, so Google should be declaring bankruptcy any… second……
MoMa Art Lab—a new app from New York City’s Museum of Modern Art—will teach a kid who Henri Matisse is at a very young age. And mom and dad might learn a little something too. What does it do? Teaches you about famous artists and lets them create drawings and sound compositions in various contemporary…
Ever wondered how a key opens a lock? Wonder no more. If this is not one of the best animated GIFs I’ve ever seen, I don’t know what is. First, because it taught me something new. And then, because it’s so satisfying to see it work. Aaaaaah. Oh yes. [soup—Thanks Karl!]
We’ve evolved past the point of shouldering giant boomboxes for something a bit more portable. Now the party can follow you in a more stylish way—Rebecca Minkoff and Stellé Audio’s fly new clutches aren’t really clutches at all. Rather, they’re Bluetooth speakers. Best part? They don’t even look like speakers. The silver studded purses come…
New Windows Phone users will be left out in the cold after January 30th asnewly connected Google accounts will no longer work through Exchange ActiveSync. Something we’ve known since last December, which caught Microsoft by “surprise”. But fret not, Microsoft is scrambling to push out an update that will support Google’s CardDAV and CalDAV system.…
You’re not going to find anymore gun-related deals on Groupon, at least temporarily. The company says the entire fire arms category is under review: All scheduled and current gun-related deals featured on Groupon North America, including shooting ranges, conceal-and-carry and clay shooting, have been placed on hiatus while we review internal standards that shape the…
Check out this amazing Lego construction by Baron von Brunk: a 5-foot model of a Nintendo Entertainment System controller made with Lego bricks. One that actually works just like the real thing. Initially conceived in the late summer of 2012, this titanic brute has been gradually worked on since the past months and finally completed…
Remember to take a multitool with you next time you shred the slopes. But be careful—a bulky piece of metal in your pocket will hurt when you fall on it. For something less painful, try Signal Snowboard’s Leatherman line. The Leatherman Rime ($25) has a carabiner, scraping edge, #3 flat/Philips bit, bottle opener, lace assist,…
Can’t wait until you’re good and drunk to be an obnoxious dick? When you use the Cap Zappa to crack open a bottle its spring-loaded mechanism can then be used to launch the cap up to 16 feet letting you easily anger and annoy your fellow drinkers. For just $11 you can also consider it…
While UAVs have joined spy satellites as an indispensable part of America’s military operations—especially in delivering timely, accurate intel to troops on the ground—they are not the end-all-be-all perfect solution, even in coordination. That’s why DARPA plans to supplement these unmanned intelligence gathering platforms with jet-deployed constellations of micro-satellites. Soon, every grunt will have access…
Seamless is claiming that they can tell the flu is worse this year because more folks are ordering orange juice this year. Makes sense: orange juice is full of sunshine and vitamin C. But you don’t need a delivery boy to get good orange juice. You can make it at home — even if you…
