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If I had to sum up my favorite things from my childhood, this would be it EXACTLY. Lego: the best kid’s toy—bar none. Soundwave: the awesomest and most imitated Decepticon. And Game Boy: the first handheld gaming system that didn’t suck. (I’m looking at you Tiger Electronics.) And Lego builder Julius von Brunk has managed…
Some people fall in love with fast cars or expensive women, but it’d be hard to blame an audiophile for swooning over this gorgeous DAC and doing something irrational to get it. Lock up your family heirlooms around the M2Tech Young DAC. No, this isn’t a fancy $1600 alarm clock. The LED lights that read…
After the disasters that befell the country last year, Japan has been focusing its efforts on designing self-powered products that will still function during an emergency. Including water-dispensing vending machines that can be charged via a vigorous amount of cranking. The vending machine being demoed was developed by a company called Sanden, and it requires…
You may just think of Yahoo as a crumbling facade vomiting money and talent and resources that’s ruined or is ruining all of its most prestigious assets. (See: Flickr, Delicious, etc.) But worse, it’s now trying to murder-suicide the Web. Yahoo slapped Facebook with a bullshit patent troll lawsuit yesterday, likely designed to extort money…
Scientists are modeling artificial intelligence after baby brains. Why would they want to make computers similar to beings whose favorite pastimes are drooling and pooping? It makes perfect sense when you think about how malleable a baby’s gray matter is. Artificially intelligent machines have a tough time with nuances and uncertainty. But babies, toddlers and…
Like people, most apps are really dumb, but we like them anyway. And that’s OK because everything need not be smart all the time. Here’s a welcome dose of lovable dumb fun for Windows Phone. What does it do? Sketch Camera slaps Take On Me-esque sketch filters on your photos. And that’s pretty much it!…
For anyone inside the generation for which AOL was synonymous with the internet, and AIM was prerequisite to any social life at all, some pretty sad news: AOL just sacked its IM team. The old king of chat is paraplegic. https://gizmodo.com/remember-when-aol-instant-messenger-was-our-facebook-5800437 The NYT’s Nick Bilton reports the mass canning: The AOL Instant Messenger group took…
But not painlessly. As demonstrated by these Russian youths, all it takes is a large wooden cable spool of some sort, and a long incline. And a dearth of everything else. (Skip to 0:49) On the one hand, Russia is a society used to suffering: serfdom, revolution, warfare, totalitarianism, Cold War tensions. But they’ve also…
Kikkerland must have joined a work release program with their local prison. Because what else would explain the inspiration behind this $6 flattened LED flashlight that looks like it’s particularly easy to smuggle. I assume flashlights are considered contraband in prison. So this one could be easily slipped into a ham sandwich, or between the…
Flutter is a Mac application that turns your webcam into a Kinect-like controller that will start and stop playback of everything from YouTube to Spotify to iTunes on your computer with a quick hand gesture. A bit simple, sure, but the developer promises to add more functionality in the future. [Flutter via The Next Web…
With this imaginative fix, you can watch your camera fall to the earth with slightly less trepidation, secure in the knowledge that a trip to the grocery store and some everyday tools could make everything OK. When Casey Neistat broke the rim on his DSLR lens, he didn’t bitch and moan. He got crafty and…
Supervillains rejoice: scientists have developed a way of steering lightning using lasers. I repeat: steering lighting with lasers. And they told me it could never strike in the same place twice! Admittedly, the team of French scientists have only so far done this in labs, but it still works a treat. The team can create…
The US Marine Corps, they kick ass. Because they are amazing and because they are badass and because their pilots ride Veritech VF-1 Valkyries, as this night shot clearly shows. OK, it’s not a Veritech VF-1 Valkyrie, it’s an AV-8B Harrier with Marine Attack Squadron 311 landing vertically on the deck of the USS Essex…
First of all: don’t do this, it’s dumb. But if you absolutely HAVE to spend three days camped out in front of your local iStore to get your hands on the new iPad, here’s everything you’re going to need to survive the soul-crushing ordeal. Sumo Lounge Chair With three days to kill you’re not going…
Tracy McGrady, who’s surprising just about everyone including probably Tracy McGrady with a good season so far in Atlanta, is launching a new daily deals site for NBA fans and gadget lovers and collector clock collectors. And the most bizarre thing about it might be how much sense it makes. TMac’s Deals has discounted items…
Cable is the worst, and these days there are plenty of compelling reasons to cut the cable not the least of which is that you can just use a regular TV antenna to get 1080p broadcasts for free. Seriously, why would you bother with cable at all? We’ve completely ditched in our house, and indeed…
If you often find yourself stuck for words in the presence of women, don’t beat yourself up; we’ve all been there. But it turns out it’s not you, it’s science! Merely thinking about the presence of women makes men stupid. A study from Radboud University in the Netherlands suggests that men start faltering and exhibit…
According to 9to5Mac, Apple Stores will be opening early at 8AM on Friday March 16th to sell the new iPad. Last year, Apple started selling the iPad 2 at 5PM though it has opened stores early for iPhone releases in years past. [9to5Mac]
Remember our old friend pink goop? The crap notoriously in chicken nuggets and the filth that McDonald’s famously stopped using a month ago? Well, it’s rearing its ugly pink head again and this time it’s going after children. That’s right, the USDA has plans to buy 7 million pounds of pink goop beef for our…
We looked to make an image which illuminates the other worldly beauty that we’ve both found going to festivals over the last 20 years. We believe the image captures a vision of transcendence and view of alien inner worlds. The camera was a Canon XSI, the flash was a Speedlight 430EX II with a diffuser…
