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Man Wakes From Coma in a Morgue Fridge After Being Dead for 21 Hours

An old man dies. Such is life, my son. And for all our sadness, life surely must go on. Except when the old man didn’t actually die, and woke up inside the morgue a day later. Then it’s time for an explanation. Like, what? A 80-year-old South African man got the rudest of awakenings yesterday…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Plussem.com Will Sell You +1s For the Low Low Price of Your Soul

It’s only natural. People were bound to game the system to get those precious +1s so their crochet/steampunk blog got some recognition. SEO! So you can’t blame Plussem.com for charging $9.99 for that fix, right? Of course you can. The whole thing gives me a bad taste in my mouth. Plussem is offering “packages” where…

Tech News Kwame Opam

This Is What the Grand Central Apple Store Looks Like

NYC’s Metropolitan Transit Authority has released a couple renderings of what the new Grand Central Apple Store will look like. Of course, it will look stunning. But anything in the Grand Central atrium looks stunning. Even Phil Schiller’s underpants. The aesthetic of Apple’s usual minimalistic setup merges perfectly with the breathtaking beauty of the station.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Samsung-Funded Study Finds Samsung’s 3DTVs Hurt Your Eyes (Updated)

Whoops! Looks like we shouldn’t have funded that university study on the effects of looking at 3DTVs, probably says some guy at Samsung right now. Probably, because the study found that 3DTVs cause eye strain and fatigue, Ars reports. This is A) Unsurprising news, and B) another disturbing instance of commercial interests intermingling with scientific…

Gadgets Sam Biddle

Someone Should Make These Clever Mobile Container Hospitals

Created by designer Kukil Han, this container expands into a medical structure three times its original size. The container itself can carry the beds and supplies. You can even combine four modules to create a minihospital with four wings. These could be deployed using helicopters to any place, and set up in just a few…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Putting a Ton of Glowsticks in Blenders Looks Just as Awesome as It Sounds

Crushing glowsticks for their oozy neon contents and spraying it all over the place in a room filled with paint and loud music sounds like a wonderful way to conclude a drug bender. It’s also a super yogurt commercial! The team at Bon Yurt, a Colombian yogurt brand, went with the Let’s make our ad…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Japanese Nuclear Emergency Director: You Have No Right to a Radiation-Free Life

This footage, from a recent meeting of indignant Japanese citizens and feckless Japanese government types should be a little shocking. Sadly, it’s just more of the same—ineptitude and inaction. Buy denying the right to avoiding radiation? OK, shocking. The Tokyo meeting was meant to broach the push to expand the evacuation zone around Fukushima—a zone…

Tech News Sam Biddle

“How do I insert a CD to the iPad 2?”

This new iPad owner is either a pitiable fool or a brilliant troll. Apparently he’s been “trying for the past few hours” and is on the verge of giving up. Readers, do you have any advice for him? [Apple Support via TheNextWeb]

Tech News Michael Zhao

iFightback for iPhone: Stop Being a Wimp and Learn How to Protect Yourself

I’m no tough guy and I try to stay in my lane but sometimes there’s just these prickjob nutcases who get a little too close, you know? iFightback teaches you how to protect yourself. Self-defense is a good thing! What’s it do? It’s an app that lets you scan through a series of self-defense tutorial…

Tech News Casey Chan

Microsoft Wants To Heat Your Home With a Cloud Server

Even though so many of us are in the midst of a heat wave, winter is indeed coming. Microsoft, ever mindful of the future, has therefore figured out a great way to stay toasty. With a cloud server! Umm, what? Microsoft conducted a study that went on to state that sending servers to apartments and…

Tech News Kwame Opam

TSA Soaks Bladder Cancer Survivor With His Own Urine… Again

Thomas Sawyer is already quite familiar with TSA patdowns, seeing as they already spilled urine on him last November. Once should be enough, right? Nope. The exact same thing happened again. What? For old time’s sake? https://gizmodo.com/tsa-screening-soaks-bladder-cancer-survivor-with-his-ow-5695522 Sawyer was travelling from Detroit Metro Airport to Orlando on July 14th when he had to relive this…

Tech News Kwame Opam

How to Mash Up Songs Like a Boss

Watch as Chris from Ithaca Audio mixes a whole bunch of songs in real time using Ableton Live and an Akai APC40 live control surface. Like a goddamn boss. If you can’t identify all the songs, here’s the list: Isaac Hayes – Theme from Shaft John Williams – The Imperial March Leftfield – Phat Planet…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Touchscreen Keyboard Morphs to Fit Your Typing Style

Typing on a touchscreen is not one of life’s pleasures: the one-size-fits-all nature of most virtual keyboards is a hassle that puts many of us off using them. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen journalists put down an iPad, for instance, and pick up a laptop or netbook to do some…

Tech News Paul Marks - New Scientist

7 Tools for the DIY Drinker

The making of one’s own booze is a practice that extends into prehistory and has outlasted countless empires (as well as Prohibition). These seven tools will help you create your own crunk. Cooper’s DIY Beer Kit Beer is the oldest and most widely consumed adult beverage on the planet and has been around almost as…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The Mithril Jacket Is Made From Kevlar and Meant to Last a Lifetime

Kevlar, the synthetic bullet blocking material, has been used to create a softshell jacket for the first time. Called the Mithril Kevlar Jacket, the jacket is supposed to last forever no matter what sort of beating it took. If Mithril sounds familiar, it’s because the jacket was named after the lifesaving chainlink shirt Frodo wore…

Tech News Casey Chan

Anonymous Bitcoin Purchases Aren’t Actually Anonymous

Let’s be honest: we can dress Bitcoin up all we want, but like the Craigslist Personals section, we know exactly why most of you are there. But now it looks like the crypto-currency is maybe not all that crypto at all. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-bitcoin-5803124 Researchers from University College Dublin attacked the issue by analyzing a theft of…

Tech News Kyle Wagner

Barack Obama Thinks Your Password Sucks

We aren’t the only ones who want to see an end to passwords. So does the government. Barack Obama wants to kill your password. https://gizmodo.com/its-time-to-abandon-passwords-5812685 In fact, he’s set up a special office just to make that happen. We talked to Jeremy Grant, who runs the program. Here’s what he said. Gizmodo: There have been…

Privacy & Security Mat Honan

What Happens to Your Brain in a Bomb Blast

When your brain is severely concussed— whether via car crash or IED— individual neurons will retract like the arms of a sea anemone, severing important neural connections and constricting blood flow. Now, Harvard researchers believe they’ve figured out why. Harvard bioengineer Kit Parker and his team built a simple neural network of engineered human blood…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The Best Deal of the Day

Are you aware that there was a Star Trek: The Animated Series? Yes, there was! No, I’m not making it up! Captain Kirk, drawn by hand! Spock dodging anvils! Despite being well-received and awarded a shimmering Emmy, it was canned after only one year, But what a year 1973 to 1974 was! In one episode,…

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Man Wakes From Coma in a Morgue Fridge After Being Dead for 21 Hours

Plussem.com Will Sell You +1s For the Low Low Price of Your Soul

This Is What the Grand Central Apple Store Looks Like

Samsung-Funded Study Finds Samsung’s 3DTVs Hurt Your Eyes (Updated)

Top Stories: Monday July 25, 2011

Someone Should Make These Clever Mobile Container Hospitals

Putting a Ton of Glowsticks in Blenders Looks Just as Awesome as It Sounds

Japanese Nuclear Emergency Director: You Have No Right to a Radiation-Free Life

“How do I insert a CD to the iPad 2?”

iFightback for iPhone: Stop Being a Wimp and Learn How to Protect Yourself

Microsoft Wants To Heat Your Home With a Cloud Server

TSA Soaks Bladder Cancer Survivor With His Own Urine… Again

How to Mash Up Songs Like a Boss

Touchscreen Keyboard Morphs to Fit Your Typing Style

7 Tools for the DIY Drinker

The Mithril Jacket Is Made From Kevlar and Meant to Last a Lifetime

Anonymous Bitcoin Purchases Aren’t Actually Anonymous

Barack Obama Thinks Your Password Sucks

What Happens to Your Brain in a Bomb Blast

The Best Deal of the Day

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

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

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