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Looking like something straight out of a sci-fi film, it might shock you to hear that these images aren’t taken from the set of a new Alien film, but are real photographs of scientific experiments. Captured by Pery Burge, artist-in-residence at Exeter University, UK, she refers to her work as “artistic flow visualization”. In other…
Fears are formed when we associate things with a strong, negative emotional response. Now, a team of scientists have developed a technique which lets them erase new emotional memories from the human brain—which could make it possible to wipe out your fears for good. When the brain learns something, a memory is created through a…
So, here are some lines moving like crazy. Stop moving like crazy, you lines! Oh, here are some squares. “Hello lines, let’s all play nice together!” they say. Now everything makes sense. How did this happen? Eye witchcraft! Thank you for the squares, stupid!
If you’re very attached to your unlimited data plan, Verizon’s Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo knows better. Speaking at an investor conference Shammo has claimed that “unlimited is just a word”—and one that you don’t understand at that. Android Central has posted a direct quote from the call. Shammo explained: So what customers are understanding…
Salon has sold one of the web’s oldest online communities, The Well, to its own members. [The Well]
Maybe you discovered a friend from high school recently had a baby. Maybe your girlfriend is in a few too many of some other guy’s recent photos. (You know what I’m saying?) Hopefully you’re not like this woman, who discovered through Facebook that her daughter had died. What’s the most shocking information you’ve ever gleaned…
Marooned On Watango Island – Lluis Fuzzhound From the mind of Lluis Fuzzhound, the same Australian animator that did the video for Midnight Woolf’s “Skin You Alive,” comes a tale of shipwreck, survival, and drug-induced Tiki industry. [Laughing Squid] Marijuana legalization 2012: Colorado, Oregon and Washington vote Taiwanese absurdist animation studio NMA is back with…
I was only a wee pup in 1989 so I totally don’t remember this ridiculously awesome Radio Shack “transportable” cellular phone. My first memory of cell phones were brick-sized, not car battery-sized like this one. But still! It was portable! You could use it in your car! I wonder if we’ll look back on the…
The craziest thing about Apple switching out Google Maps for something so clearly subpar is that Maps is one of the apps people use the most on a smartphone. I mean other than checking e-mails and using a web browser, what other apps do you absolutely need more than Maps on a smartphone? I’m not…
A new feature being tested out by Youtube could add infinitely many new uses to the video-hosting service. TechCrunch reports that a user-customized quiz feature called “Video Questions Editor Beta” (first spotted by a Dutch tech site). Youtube describes the feature as a way for “multiple questions to be displayed on top of your video…
In PBS’ latest Off Book video, they examine the art of web design. We spend so much of our time on websites these days that when they’re good, we don’t even think about them anymore. But, of course, it wasn’t always like that. People had to build them bare before they could add some pizazz…
Though we’ve already seen the iPhone 5 in all its naked guts and glory, we didn’t get any of the typical iFixit analysis and context of what’s going on in there. Well, until now. iFixit is currently tearing down the iPhone 5 and reporting their findings. What will they discover? https://gizmodo.com/the-first-pictures-in-the-world-of-the-iphone-5-taken-a-5945005 We’ll be highlighting any…
Luckily Australians. The first to get their grubby mits on everything good simply by virtue of the fact that they live down under. But even the iPhone 5’s first Aussie owners had to do their time in a queue, and, frankly, they’re not too thrilled by it. “Jessica C. E.,” a physics student who spoke…
Dealzmodo alert! You can score a refurbished new iPad 16GB with Retina Display for only 400 bucks at Wal-Mart right now. That’s $100 off retail and $50 off the refurbished model in the Apple Store. This is very probably the best deal you can get on the new iPad. The new iPad, of course, isn’t…
It looks like the kind of spit you’d roast a pig on for some sort of tropical luau cookout. Except instead of flames, there is a supersensitive laser rangefinder. And rather than a suckling pig sizzling, there is a clown head seemingly singing. Or a roll of paper towels. Really, just about any earthly object…
Time loving watch wearers: here’s a watch you can wear that’ll prove your timeliness twice as much as an ordinary watch because it has not one, but two faces. Yes, one face is for the hour hand and the other is for the minute hand. Is this crazy? Or am I crazy for thinking this…
Vivre Sa Vie is not the most well known Jean-Luc Godard film. (That honor goes to Breathless. It is not the most challenging of his films either. (Try Pierrot Le Fou, 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her or Film Socialisme for that.) But for what it lacks in fame or complexity, it makes…
Boeing is making a big push to outfit its airplanes with more connectivity. By 2013 all new Boeing 747-8 and 777 planes will have built-in systems so that you can make calls on your cellphone while flying. In addition, Boeing already offers a kit to make its monster 787 Dreamliners phone call friendly as well.…
We have an super cool president—last year he bought the chefs at Pennsylvania Ave. some homebrewing kits, which yielded what the brewmasters thought was some really delicious beer. And now, hail to the chief, the White House has released the recipes for the official Honey Porter and Honey Ale so you can make them at…
Apple just released a statement regarding the overall shittiness of Apple Maps and though Cupertino ducks most of the issues like false listings and a melting 3D world, it promises that the service will get better as more people use it. Hmm… https://gizmodo.com/apple-maps-vs-google-maps-a-side-by-side-iphone-compar-5944960 Here’s Apple statement in full, as told to AllThingsD: Customers around the…
