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When you were at high school, math was probably an uninspiring string of algebra you had to crunch through. Get to the cutting edge of computational fluid dynamics, though, and it all starts to look a hell of a lot more pretty. These images represent incredibly complex fluid flows, and were generated suing supercomputers by…
RIM’s PlayBook is being pulled from online stores, which suggests a new one is on the way. Yay? [Computer World]
AMD has officially announced its new tablet-specific Z-60 processor, known as Hondo, and it promises rather a lot. In fact, the chip manufacturer claims it will allow you to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on your Windows 8 tablet, at 30 fps on a 1024 x 768 display. Sounds zippy. https://gizmodo.com/amd-mobile-processors-coming-this-year-5881820 AMD claims…
Windows Phone 8 pre-orders, including the colorful new HTC 8X and Nokia Lumia 920, will begin on October 21st. [Verge]
Microsoft is rolling out some marketing for Windows 8 that we can really get behind: free Boingo Wi-Fi across huge swathes of San Francisco and NYC until the end of the holidays. The Wi-Fi hotspots in San Francisco are already up, running and free, and are concentrated around Fisherman’s Wharf and Union Square. In NYC,…
Julian Assange has penned a new book about his worries over government control of the Internet and surveillance. Written along with Jacob Appelbaum, Jérémie Zimmermann and Andy Müller-Maguhn, it will be published in November. Assange explains: “In March 2012 I gathered together three of today’s leading cypherpunks to discuss the resistance. Two of them, besides…
Two things that are always cool: Tesla coils and Nerf guns. One thing that’s cooler than those two things: a freaking Tesla coil Nerf gun. That’s right. Rob Flickenger converted a Nerf gun into a handheld Tesla coil. Freaking. Sweet. Here’s how Flickenger and Rusty Oliver of the HazardFactory made the gun Tesla coil-ready: He…
CO Tokers Can’t Stop Stoning Dogs PSA for all Denver area stoners: Yes Half Baked was a great movie. No, the part where Killer gets high goes flying was not real—doesn’t matter how badly you want it to be. So you really need to stop giving your dogs weed and throwing them out of windows.…
We’ve already heard that the next Nexus phone will be made by LG and be kinda, sorta similar to the powerful LG Optimus G but this might be the first time we’re getting a good look at it. A gallery of photos of an LG Android phone that looks like the Optimus G and runs…
100 million years ago, when dinosaurs were still around, this spider had captured a wasp in his web. The wasp was going to be the spider’s dinner. The wasp was going to die watching the spider kill him. The wasp was going to—SPLAT. At that exact moment—one hundred million freaking years ago—tree resin flowed over…
Allplane got some shots from the unveiling of Thai Airways’ first Airbus A380, including the crew quarters (the A380 is so big that is staffed by 23 people). They look from the future. [Allplane]
Would you believe me if I said Lynyrd Skynard’s song “That Smell” is actually based on a Russian children’s folk song about archaeological finds? You shouldn’t, but the smell of ancient animal remains is apparently so distinct, an 11-year-old boy in Russia just found what might be the most perfectly preserved mammoth ever. Zhenya Salinder…
Maybe it’s just me, but as I see people jumping in and out the Paternoster—an elevator made of chained cars that never stop—I can only see myself being crushed between the car and the floor. Or losing a foot. Or some fingers. It’s terrifying. This one is the largest in the world, located in the…
Something as adorable as this infuser deserves an equally adorable name, so Made by Makers dubbed it the Tea Egg. All together now: awwwww! It comes in six different colors and costs $17.50 on Normann-Copenhagen. It’s made out of silicon, so it’s safe for the dishwasher. And now that we’ve officially transitioned into sweater weather…
Multi-tools pack everything you need into a small, convenient device. Sometimes they can go a little overboard. But this thing takes it to a whole new level. The 9-in-1 Emergency Light stores a knife, scissors, Phillips-head screwdriver, bottle opener, carabiner, and a hammer all into the base of a flashlight/latern that also has a blinking…
New vending machines are going to display how many calories are in your body-expanding soft drinks, and offer some healthier alternatives. But is that going to actually matter? At all? No, right? The new information on vending machines comes after New York City’s approved ban of all sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces. But that…
I’m glad someone finally made a parody that truly shows the impossibly high level of imbecility and self-congratulatory pretentiousness of that stupid Facebook ad that we had to suffer last week. https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-first-ad-is-facebooks-worst-ad-5948904 Thanks for the chairs, stupid!
Although not indestructible, the MacBooks’ aluminum body is really hard. I can’t imagine what happened to make this one end like this. I got the image on the mail with no context whatsoever. Any ideas? [Thanks Karl!]
Facebook is testing its own version of Pinterest. It’s called “Facebook Collections.” It adds clickable buttons to posts about products from retailers, which then adds it to a personalized page that reminds you to buy it later. Ugh. AllFacebook reports the Facebook Collections feature has been enabled for several retailers, including Pottery Barn. A collection…
The Wii Introduced the masses to motion-based gaming. The Kinect took things one step further and all but eliminated controllers. Microsoft’s latest innovation, an infrared tracker which is worn on the wrist, could make gaming and UI controls even more immersive than before. The wrist controller users multiple infrafred cameras to track the movement of…
