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What would you do if you were in some random parking lot—Lowe’s, let’s say—and all of a sudden dozens of car alarms started going off at once? Would you shrug it off like the dead-to-everything city dweller you are? Maybe duck and run and wet yourself because Galactus is obviously coming to devour our planet?…
With WWDC around the corner, iOS 6 rumors are coming in waves. 9to5Mac is reporting that iOS 6 will have a super useful ‘Do Not Disturb’ feature, iCloud Tabs and Mail VIPs. Do Not Disturb looks especially useful, as it would be able to hide all alerts and banners from taking over your phone while…
The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook is testing technology that would let kids under 13 in on the social action. Is this a dystopian development or a practical feature? Right now, if you’re under 13, you can’t use Facebook. The trouble is that it’s easy enough for younger kids to lie their way onto…
If your attempts at art usually end up looking more at home on the fridge than a fine gallery, you might want to see if artists Kyle McDonald and Matt Mets will let you use their wonderful Self-Portrait machine which doesn’t require a lick of talent. In fact, you don’t even need to keep your…
The Samsung Galaxy S III could very well be the Android phone to own when it lands in the US later this month. Curious to see how its 4.8-inch screen—a Gorilla Glass 2 screen, no less—performs, gadget insurers SquareTrade conducted a few real world drop tests to find out. From the looks of things, the…
Joerg Sprave’s latest slingshot takes a very simple concept and makes it wonderfully fun and dangerous: What do you throw that you’d rather fire out of a high-powered homemade slingshot? Throwing knives! But there’s so much potential for more. What else? Baseballs, bowling balls, molotov cocktails, lawn darts, horseshoes, boomerangs, acid, dem ‘bows, anvils, Wolverine,…
The Samsung Galaxy S III, third of its name and new king of Android phones, will be out in the US this month on all four major carriers (plus US Cellular). It’ll start at $200 for the 16GB version, and scale up from there. The 4.8-inch Galaxy S III arrives a bit after the HTC…
For those who can’t decide between an ultrabook’s handy QWERTY keyboard, and a slim tablet’s touchscreen UI, Asus has just revealed a hybrid, double-duty display solution. Wait a second: Business in front, party in the back? That sounds awfully familiar. Asus is showing prototypes of the convertible tablet/laptop/mullet at Computex 2012, but when the device…
Android’s getting all the pretty toys lately. A few weeks after finally getting in on Instagram, Android finally has its own official Instapaper client. It’s available for $3 in the Google Play store, and looks a whole lot like the iOS version, though your purchase doesnt seem to carry over if you own the app…
Sony’s new Vaio T ultrabook takes the Vaio line out of the weird limbo it had been in for the past few years, where it hadn’t had a true, comprable laptop to the droves of hordes coming out. Though the Euro model of the T Series curiously came out in as Sandy Bridge, the US…
This is from last week, but since we missed it and today it’s been such a bad Sunday, I wanted to end the day on a happy note: the most epic and tear-jerking marriage proposal I’ve ever seen. The guy is Portland actor Isaac Lamb and the whole number was done by 60 people—all friends…
What the goddamn hell is wrong with these Russians? First some mad ones climbed some towers. Then a crazy dude climbed up a skyscraper. Then some other nutcases spidermanned a bridge. And now these ones, who are just completely out of their mind. That guy in green is actually letting himself go from the beam…
Timeline Images is a stock photography web site. They sell images. Nothing wrong with that. There are many companies like that out there. Like Shutterstock. But Timeline Images only caters to one type of people: Facebook users. Who the hell buys a stock image to put on the top of their Facebook timeline? Would you…
Here’s yet one more proof that Nazis—especially Goebbels—were not only disgusting bloody bastards but also cunning manipulators. Or perhaps stupid manipulators. Look at these propaganda leaflets that tried to convince American and British forces to desert by appealing to their most basic instincts. The leaflets—conserved at the US Army Combined Arms Research Library at Fort…
I was excited about the official Lego Minecraft set before it actually arrived to the stores—although not as excited as for the Lego Back to the Future set. After seeing this hands-on, I definitely want one. I love how this thing is made, and how the modules connect. [Brothers Brick]
This is gross and old, but it made me hungry. Also, it makes sense: some students made this giant grasshopper cake to celebrate a new book that promotes the cooking of insects as one of the most efficient, greenest ways to feed humans. Apparently, the cake is delicious, like all the sweets made in Netherlands.…
This guys thought it would be cool to fly an RC helicopter in formation with a real airplane, controlled from the airplane itself. It’s pretty cool to see the helo spinning on the tarmac just to spring to the air as the Cessna gets within radio range. The guys at HeliGraphix—the makers of the helo—completed…
159 passengers may have died in a crash in the Iju Ishaga area of Lagos, Nigeria. It seems that the airplane—from a company called Dana Air—crashed into a two-story apartment building just after taking off. Witnesses say it hit a power line, but there is no official cause yet. (WARNING: STRONG IMAGES) According to tweets…
How do you know when your new cancer drug is working better than expected? When they shut down the clinical trial so that every participating patient can receive it. Johnson & Johnson’s Zytiga is kind of a big deal. The FDA approved its use last year for advanced prostate cancer patients who had already received…
Atten-shun, New Yorkers! This will not be as spectacular as her flyover on top of her 747 mothership, but it will be a great view for all of you: NASA’s Space Shuttle Enterprise is going around New York right now! Enterprise is en route to Port Elizabeth, New Jersey, where it will remain till Tuesday.…
