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When is an Ultrabook not an Ultrabook? When it’s got a 14-inch screen, weighs 4 pounds and has an optical drive, that’s when. Samsung has just announced its new Ultrabook range, branded Series 5 Ultra, reports Sammy Hub, and amongst them is one that stands out. Not for good reasons, though. One of the models…
Here’s the perfect last-minute Christmas gift for the musician in your life: a t-shirt with a built-in drum machine. Whether they’re a busker in need of a backing track, or an annoying nephew who’s keen to lay down some hip-hop beats, this shirt’s what you need to get them. Using pressure-sensitive pads mounted on the…
When Canon announced the outlandish 1DX, you could be sure Nikon wouldn’t be too far behind. Now, specs of the new D4 are leaking, and it looks like it could be a close fight between the two. According to Nikon Rumors, the hotly anticipated pro-level D4 will feature a 16.2-megapixel sensor, an 11fps burst mode,…
Since its launch the Kindle Fire has received mixed reviews, though it must be said: we like it. But in the past few weeks software bugs have been piling up — and Amazon hopes to fix that with an impending update. If it isn’t trouble with wifi connectivity, it’s slower-than-promised web browsing, or even some…
Watching this cube slowly turn itself inside out as its internal gears mesh together is a mesmerizing and puzzling experience. It looks like it should never work, but it does. I have a degree in engineering. Hell, I have a PhD in engineering. I (kind of) know how it works. But it still looks like…
Night vision is cool. It’s also incredibly useful, too, which is why the US military is funding a project that will make it cheap enough to feature on your phone. DARPA is ploughing $13.4 million of funding into vision systems company Raytheon in order for them to build infra-red cameras that are cheap enough to…
Sure, everyone can’t stop talking about rooting the Kindle Fire right now. But for those who care more about reading than watching YouTube, here’s how to start customising your Kindle Touch. It might be designed with just words in mind, but that shouldn’t stop Kindle Touch users having a little fun hacking their device along…
You see, the thing is that, in order to make the future happen, you need to have people in the present to work on it. So if you happen to invent machine-induced hibernation, just don’t tell anyone. [XKCD]
This is Puppis A, the remnants of a violent supernova that exploded 3,700 years ago, glowing red as its shockwaves still heat up the dust around it. But Puppis A is really special because it hides the “Cosmic Cannonball.” That’s how astronomers call the neutron star that moves inside it at a whooping 3 million…
Pantone, official arbiter of the visible spectrum, has declared its selection for next year’s color—a statement of both insane arbitrariness, and great weight in the world of things. So what’ll it be? You’re lookin’ at it! The above hue is Tangerine Tango (also referred to as “red”), which, as The Color of 2012, must grace…
There’s nothing cool about measuring cups. Nothing. Maybe if you’re measuring huge quantities of cocaine, but that’d be very inefficient, and there’s nothing cool about inefficiency either. But wait—what if your measuring cups were in a multitool? Yes. With these $10 Swiss Measuring Spoons by Gamago, you can pretend you’re braving the wilderness instead of…
You’d think that if were going to let someone stick a syringe into your genitals, you’d want them to have a medical degree of some sort. Or at least a masters in communications. Not this guy! Death by penis procedure. The Daily Mail says the preeminent Fake Dr. Kasia Rivera killed a 22-year-old “patient” by…
Who is going to win Lego Santa Yoda with the Santa Claw? WHO WILL IT BE? The person who grabs this special box with special green wrapping paper wins Lego Santa Yoda. Yup. We will send it to you. Happy Sunday! Oh, and we’ve had a Lego Santa Yoda photobooth set up all weekend! Here’s…
There’s a law in place that requires a company to get your permission before it discloses videos you’ve seen. It sounds like an obscure, niche piece of legislation, but it’s suddenly super relevant—and Netflix wants to kill it. The New York Times reports Netflix is putting big support behind a bill that would turn the…
I thought writing about gadgets was tough! Apparently I have nothing to worry about, and neither do you, unless you’re like Wesley Baptiste, who’s training to disarm old nuclear warheads for a living. Don’t drop that wrench. Part of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty—a pact between us and Russia, acknowledging we no longer need…
How is the world’s top search engine going to put its software in every TV on earth? Not by flying commercial, like some sort of company for poor people! Let’s just buy a few spare private jets, just in case. Most reasonable people are content with one or two private jets, Larry Page, Sergey Brin,…
Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania seems to agree with me—making a fake ID should be sketchy and laborious, not something you can do on your fancy smartphone! The questionable “Drivers License” app is not officially under fire. A fake ID used to be a trophy—an item of pride. You had to earn that case of…
While authorities debate the authenticity of Iran’s high school gym UAV display, The Daily Show has tackled the whole imbroglio on its own. Who ever thought talking about an RQ-170 Sentinel could be funny? Game of Drones! Yes! The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook…
This is really weird. Apparently Google Translate seems obsessed with Angelina Jolie. Which, mind you, it’s completely understandable. Try the following: 1. Go to Google Translate and set it to translate from English to French. 2. Enter any phrase that ends in Jolie. Like “I want to meet with Jolie”. You will see that it…
This is fascinating, a nuclear explosion from the Tumbler-Snapper tests performed in Nevada during 1952. It looks different from all nuclear explosions you’ve seen because it’s what it looks like one millisecond after detonation. It looks like a skull by Tim Burton. The face of atomic death just one second away from unleashing its absolute…
