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French Skiers Parachute off Cliff to Avoid Avalanche

TWO BIG CAVEATS HERE: This video is an advertisement for GoPro. It also might be a fake viral video, because 99.99% of everything on the internet is a fake viral video. With that in mind, this is still awesome. AVALANCHE!

Tech News Sam Biddle

Fujitsu’s Pico Projector-Packing Laptops Replace Optical Drive with Something Even More Useless

I can’t remember the last time I put a disc in my laptop. Maybe an old mix CD. The world’s moving on from physical media! Great! But how about replacing that slot with something useful, and not a pico projector? Fujitsu’s new LifeBook S761/C and P771/C notebooks are bizarre beasts, with fold-out pico projectors where…

Tech News Sam Biddle

FDA Finds Rat Droppings ‘Too Numerous to Count’ on Delta Flight

Do you have a fear of flying? It’s only natural. There are many frightening things about air travel that are completely out of your control. And here’s another one: Rats. Pooping rats. The Food and Drug Administration has sent a letter of warning (they’re really into those, these days) to Delta Airlines CEO Richard Anderson,…

Tech News Seth Abramovitch

Play Kalei Transforms Your Photo Collection Into Endless Fun

Crafted by casual game developer LoadComplete for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, Play Kalei is one of those incredibly simple games that you just can’t seem to put down. A kaleidoscopic image is generated from a certain point in… [Kotaku]

Tech News Kotaku

Fukushima Plant Is (Officially) Dead Forever

We knew that the longterm plan for Fukushima’s nuclear plant was to get the thing safely shut down and decommissioned, but the local governor has just put the kibosh on any nuclear future there, banning TEPCO from restarting the plant. [Kyodo News]

Tech News Sam Biddle

There Might Not Be a 2011 NFL Season, But There Is a NFL 2011 iPad App With Live NFL Draft Streaming

With the annoying lockout of billionaires vs millionaires still raging on, this coming NFL season might not even happen! But one thing that is guaranteed to happen is the NFL Draft. It’ll be held next week and the NFL just released its 2011 NFL app which includes a live video stream of NFL.com’s Draft coverage,…

Tech News Casey Chan

Can You Believe Someone Scribbled All Over These Floors?

Heike Weber took what I, and probably you, did in elementary school and brought it to a ridiculously larger scale. Those designs on the floor? Drawn with permanent marker. She’s worked on art installations like this for more than a decade. I’ve scribbled stuff down on my notebook and even threw in some pretty far…

Tech News Casey Chan

GigaPan’s “Time Machine”, a Way To Pan and Zoom Gigapixel Timelapses

GigaPan, if you recall, is that incredible technology that stitches together hundreds of photos into a single, ultra-high-resolution image which you can zoom in and out of to view minuscule details. Now, GigaPan has updated their project so you’re zooming in and out of moving pictures—timelapses. So you’re not only flying through space, but also…

Tech News Davey Alba

This Bike Helmet Has Built-In Turn Signals

Riding bicycles at night is dangerous. It’s hard to see the road and it’s even harder for people to see you. Sure, you can get light attachments for your helmet—but they all look goofy and cluttered. That’s where the Blink Bike Helmet rides in. The Tron-looking helmet has LED turn signals, that you activate by…

Tech News Husain Sumra

Robots Were Almost Called Labori

Robots. That word seems so fitting for what they are but obviously it wasn’t always that way, someone had to invent that word after all. And did you know that the inventor, Czech playwright Karel Čapek, almost called them “labori”? Can you imagine? Čapek first introduced the term robot in his 1920 play, R.U.R., or…

Tech News Casey Chan

The Man Who Successfully Challenged Five Speeding Tickets Using Traffic Photo Timestamps

Will Foreman keeps getting nabbed by traffic cameras for speeding. Believing the cameras to be inaccurate, he analyzed the timestamps and the position of his car in each pair of photos, using them to successfully contest five speeding tickets. According to the Washington Times, the traffic cameras in Prince George’s County, MD use a sensor…

Tech News Adrian Covert

A Man Pushed His Wife Off a Cliff, Possibly Because She Discovered His Online Affair

Charles Black, the man pictured above, is being accused of smashing his wife’s head with a rock, dragging her to a cliff and then throwing her over that cliff. Amazingly, she’s still alive. The police are saying that Black’s motives may be because his wife, Lisa, discovered that Black was having an online affair with…

Tech News Casey Chan

Fire Trucks Are Being Outfitted with Oxygen Masks for Pets

Pets are cute! But very helpless, especially so during times of emergency. So what happens when they’re stuck in a fire and suffering from smoke inhalation and, well, need oxygen? Fire trucks in Denver are starting to get pet-specific oxygen masks to pump that good stuff into them. These masks aren’t new, veterinarians have been…

Tech News Casey Chan

FDA Gives Robots Permission to Sew Hair On Your Scalp

Balding sucks. But will you trust the machines to repair your scalp? The FDA does, which is why they approved this piece of robotery to perform hair transplants. It’s name is ARTAS, and it lives in your dermatologist’s office. If you have straight hair that’s brown or black and you want more if it, you…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Early Remote Controls Had More to Worry About Than Just Changing Channels

You would think the first remote controls would be dead simple to use. What the heck could they do, right? Change three channels? Turns out that a remote from 1961 had much more to worry about then just flipping channels. The RCA Victor Color TV in this 1961 video had a seven function remote control…

Tech News Casey Chan

Self-Correcting Laser Rifle Sight Gives the Most Accurate Shot Yet

When you’re aiming at a target two miles away, the slightest perturbation could end up causing a catastrophic miss – not good enough for today’s military. Until guns can aim themselves, snipers need the most accurate weapons possible. Engineers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory came up with a laser-guided correction system that ensures a shooter’s…

Tech News Rebecca Boyle - PopSci

Hide Your Data Through Fragmentation, Not Encryption

The thing about data encryption is that it’s basically a flashing neon sign indicating “SENSITIVE DATA HERE!” A new technique lets you secure your data by customizing the way that data is fragmented across your drive. The new method uses special software to place data on specific parts of your hard disc using a code…

Privacy & Security Kyle Wagner

Pervert Alert: This Camera Can See Through Clothes

This S95-styled point and shoot, the Midnight Shot NV-1, is the perfect camera for perverts. Why? Cause it has an infrared-night shot mode which can let you see through thin fabric and other materials. It has a regular mode too! But the night-shot mode is where the nudie cam comes in. It gets the blocking…

Tech News Casey Chan

Obama Is Sending Predator Drones to Libya

Robert Gates, the US Secretary of Defense, just said that Obama has authorized the use of of Predator Drones in Libya against Gaddafi’s forces. In fact, the first mission of the Predator Drones in Libya had taken place earlier today. They’ve already used drones for gathering intelligence in Libya, but sending in Drones armed with…

Tech News Casey Chan

How To Cool Down the Fukushima Plant

As part of its roundup of the tech that can save the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, The Atlantic takes a look at the water chillers that could help stabilize temperatures and bring the plant under control. It’s a system that the French have used for years, and amounts to basically a (very) fancy air…

Tech News Brian Barrett

French Skiers Parachute off Cliff to Avoid Avalanche

Fujitsu’s Pico Projector-Packing Laptops Replace Optical Drive with Something Even More Useless

FDA Finds Rat Droppings ‘Too Numerous to Count’ on Delta Flight

Play Kalei Transforms Your Photo Collection Into Endless Fun

Fukushima Plant Is (Officially) Dead Forever

There Might Not Be a 2011 NFL Season, But There Is a NFL 2011 iPad App With Live NFL Draft Streaming

Can You Believe Someone Scribbled All Over These Floors?

GigaPan’s “Time Machine”, a Way To Pan and Zoom Gigapixel Timelapses

This Bike Helmet Has Built-In Turn Signals

Robots Were Almost Called Labori

The Man Who Successfully Challenged Five Speeding Tickets Using Traffic Photo Timestamps

A Man Pushed His Wife Off a Cliff, Possibly Because She Discovered His Online Affair

Fire Trucks Are Being Outfitted with Oxygen Masks for Pets

FDA Gives Robots Permission to Sew Hair On Your Scalp

Early Remote Controls Had More to Worry About Than Just Changing Channels

Self-Correcting Laser Rifle Sight Gives the Most Accurate Shot Yet

Hide Your Data Through Fragmentation, Not Encryption

Pervert Alert: This Camera Can See Through Clothes

Obama Is Sending Predator Drones to Libya

How To Cool Down the Fukushima Plant

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

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

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