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Charles and Ray Eames Explain the Computer Revolution

In the 1950’s IBM was synonymous with computers but faced a serious problem. Computers at that time were enormous, vacuum tube-driven machines—completely alien technology to the average person—and that bred a fear of them. To counter this PR nightmare, IBM turned to none other than Charles and Ray Eames. Charles and Ray Eames, designers of…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

How to Print Your Own Custom Holiday Wrapping Paper

Got the perfect gift but can’t find a wrapping paper to do it justice? No problem, just make your own. Check out PhotoJoJo’s step by step guide for printing your own photos as wrapping paper. I’m going to forgo name tags altogether and just print the receiver’s face on mine.

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The World’s Longest Sushi Roll Spans an Absurd 1.5 Miles

Sushi is great because it’s one of those foods that you can’t get enough of. But English Russia found a Japanese restaurant in the city of Yekaterinburg (wherever that is) that measures its rolls not in pieces, but in football fields. Determined to break the world record for longest sushi roll, a shopping center aptly…

Tech News Michael J Kennelly

Want to Pay After You Pump? Just Swipe Your ID

Used to be, you could pull into a gas station, fill your tank, and then pay your tab. Not anymore and you can thank the constant drive-offs—people pumping and running—for ending that. But this new payment system aims to fix both problems—assuming you don’t mind swiping your driver’s license. Developed by Bob Hohn, President of…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

This Magical Time Lapse of Los Angeles Inside a Snow Globe Makes Me Miss Home

Hi folks. You might think Los Angeles is filled with Starbucks sippin’ celeb wannabes who are fake, plastic and vapid. Whatever. I think of Los Angeles as home. And since I’m not going home for the holidays, this time-lapse video is the closest I’ll get to a lovely Southern California “winter”. Sure we don’t get…

Tech News Casey Chan

Red Spit Is Eating This Steel Bridge

Spitting’s a gross habit. Spitting on a bridge hanger and weakening its structural integrity. Well that’s just rude and really gross. All that red you see. That’s spit. Human spit that’s slowly eating away at the steel structure keeping the Howrah Bridge in India from collapsing into the Hooghly River. The reason the spit is…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

The Pudding Machine That Yells At Kids

You know what kids don’t deserve? Free pudding. And you know why? Because they’re too damn eager. Puppy dog eyes may work on spineless parents, but they’re not gonna move Kraft’s stone hearted sample dispenser. Jell-O’s Temptations dessert is being marketed to adults so this vending machine has built-in face recognition to check the age…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

How to Create Synthetic Symphonies on Your Android

The number of noteworthy music apps in Google’s Android ecosystem is on the rise, but it’s still weak in certain sub-categories – in particular, music-making apps. Until recently, Android showed a real dearth of high-powered music-making apps. This was a real buzzkill for musicians (myself included) who wanted to make music on our Androids in…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm

Feeling Down? Dial the Hall and Oates Hotline

The holidays can be tough. The stress of strained finances. Getting felt up at the airport on your way to be ridiculed by your family. Fortunately, there’s someone you can call. Actually two people you can call, Hall and Oates. Dial “Callin’ Oates” 719-26-OATES (719-266-2837) to be given the option of listening to one of…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

James Struthers: You, Me and Optimus Prime

I’ve never listened to James Struthers, or even heard of him. But the Winnipeg, Canada born artist certainly has a knack for self-promotion, virtually guaranteeing that everyone who grew up in the ’80s will watch this video. The second track on his first album, Nadia, is cleverly titled You, Me and Optimus Prime. And while…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

I Can’t Look At These Warped Airport Photos Without Getting Dizzy

Relying on satellite imagery collected from the internet instead of a camera, artist Hubert Blanz created these mind-bending images of airports for his X-planation collection. I rarely get motion sick, but browsing through these images makes me want to puke. The photos are obviously a result of clever pixel pushing in Photoshop, but the nauseating…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Hot for 2012: Facebook Ads in Your News Feed!

Ads ads ads ads ads ads ads ads ads ads ads ads ads ads. We love ads. Ads ads ads ads. Facebook ads. Give us more ads! We want ads! What’s wrong with Facebook? Not enough ads! More ads? Phew! TechCrunch, citing an anonymous Facebook ad bro, says Zuckerberg’s Like empire will soon start dropping…

Social Media Sam Biddle

Space Age Santa

From the December 24, 1968 Delaware County Daily Times (Chester, PA): SPACE AGE SANTA — Art students at Indian Lane Junior High School, Middletown, man a computer to help Santa Claus decide who’s been band and who’s been good. The eighth and ninth grade students and their instructor, Ronald Beasom, built the computer as part…

Tech News Matt Novak

14 Best DIY Gadget Projects of 2011 and More from TreeHugger

This week on TreeHugger, top gadget projects for you to try, the world’s largest Google Earth display uses 48 screens, Reddit using crowd-sourcing to help animals, and more! 1. Reddit Will Now Harness Crowd-Sourcing to Help You ID Animal Species If you snap a photo of a bird on vacation that you can’t identify, post…

Tech News Jaymi Heimbuch - Treehugger

Why Genetic Determinism Is Bad for Humans

Do you prefer to run in packs or operate as a loner? Your answer is determined by your genes, a new study claims. It’s a big shift in social behavior theory, since scientists previously thought the environment determined social behavior. For example, scientists thought that where food was sparsely spread around, primates would live in…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Stonehenge Experience: The School of Rock

Unravel the mysteries of Stonehenge. Did aliens build it? Was it built by Druids as a place to sacrifice virgins? Oh Stonehenge, how you taunt us with your gray boulders and alignment with the sun. Luckily I no longer have to fear what I don’t understand. The new Stonehenge Experience app will answer all my…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

Report: Amazon Was Almost BlackBerry’s White Knight

As RIM continues to stumble down the long stairway to oblivion, Reuters reports that the company had an unlikely suitor this summer that could have saved them: Amazon. Wait, what? Or more importantly… why? The deal, obviously, didn’t go through; RIM is still RIM and Amazon still has those hundreds of millions of dollars in…

Commerce Brian Barrett

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Surgeons Extract Pen In Woman’s Stomach 25 Years After She Swallowed It

This woman swallowed a felt-tip pen in 1986. Back then, she told the doctor and her husband what happened, but they didn’t believe her. Now, 25 years later, she went to another doctor and they found the pen intact inside her stomach. In fact, the pen was still working after they surgically extracted it, using…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Why You Should Never Share Your Twitter Password

This past Friday, I mentioned that I was trying to get the new Twitter web client. My colleague and noted internet deviant Mat Honan graciously offered to pop in the workaround for me if I’d send him my password. I was in a rush to get to a meeting, so unaccountably, I agreed. Big mistake.…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Charles and Ray Eames Explain the Computer Revolution

How to Print Your Own Custom Holiday Wrapping Paper

The World’s Longest Sushi Roll Spans an Absurd 1.5 Miles

Want to Pay After You Pump? Just Swipe Your ID

This Magical Time Lapse of Los Angeles Inside a Snow Globe Makes Me Miss Home

Red Spit Is Eating This Steel Bridge

The Pudding Machine That Yells At Kids

How to Create Synthetic Symphonies on Your Android

Feeling Down? Dial the Hall and Oates Hotline

James Struthers: You, Me and Optimus Prime

I Can’t Look At These Warped Airport Photos Without Getting Dizzy

Hot for 2012: Facebook Ads in Your News Feed!

Space Age Santa

14 Best DIY Gadget Projects of 2011 and More from TreeHugger

Why Genetic Determinism Is Bad for Humans

Stonehenge Experience: The School of Rock

Report: Amazon Was Almost BlackBerry’s White Knight

Stonehenge Experience Gallery

Surgeons Extract Pen In Woman’s Stomach 25 Years After She Swallowed It

Why You Should Never Share Your Twitter Password

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

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The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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