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T3 Scooters and the Cops Who Love Them

The next time you ride NYC subway, you might notice an officer mounting one of four brand new T3 scooters. But the NYPD aren’t nearly the first cops to show off their sweet three-wheelers. Thank goodness. Hoover, Alabama Police Department Likes: Soundtrack; scooting in formation; raw speed. Dislikes: Shopping mall location limited for stunts; gaudy…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Seals Are Helping Chart the Ocean Floor

What better way to learn about the ocean’s depths than plastering this contraption on a wild seal’s head? This guy and 56 of his friends are gathering information about the seafloor to help scientists model the ocean’s reaction to climate change. The 57 elephant seals, which have an electronic tag (which looks more like a…

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Art Sleeps With Tech and Makes Some Bizarre Babies

This weekend marks the celebration of the Vimeo Festival + Awards, which brings together experts and achievers in online video. And, some pretty spectacular visual artists, merging DIY tech ingenuity with brilliant sculpture. And we’ve got the highlights below. The exhibit consisted mostly of students from NYU’s famed ITP program—whose awesomeness we’ve covered before—and made…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Most Beautiful Girl In The Lab

I once dated a guy who thought that quoting a Flight of the Conchords song was incredibly romantic. While I didn’t exactly agree, I certainly would’ve swooned over an extra geeky parody of the tune. Like this one. If you’re not familiar with the original song, you can watch it here. If you’re not familiar…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Watch the Sikorsky X2 Breaking the World’s Helicopter Speed Record

This video shows the Sikorsky X2 breaking the world’s helicopter speed record: 260 knots—that’s 299.2mph vs the 172mph of conventional helicopters. Bonus: The video shows their X2 Light Tactical Helicopter too. The X2 uses a single T800 engine to power both the rotors and the tail-mounted variable-pitch propeller, which provides forward thrust to enable the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Not Even Superheroes Should Friend Their Mothers On Facebook

Somehow it wouldn’t surprise me if something like this did happen to Superman. He just seems like the type who’d not consider the consequences of friending his adoptive parents on Facebook. [Joy of Tech via High Definite]

Social Media Rosa Golijan

This Week’s Best Apps

In this week’s wacky wild app round up: UFOs, videotaped; photographs, shared; Google, goggled; your friends, all text messaged at once; first person shooting; assassinating real life opponents; recipes, collected; tranquil text editing, achieved for free, and more! iPhone To view these on one page, click here iPad To view these on one page, click…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Yeah, But Does Your Keyboard Tie Actually Play Music?

On the left: a standard-issue keyboard tie. Sure, it looks great and makes you popular at parties, but acoustically it’s a dud. On the right: a fashionable tie that also makes beautiful music. Listen to the sound of neckware evolution! From Maureen Grant, the soft circuit keyboard tie was built using the Open Software tutorial.…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Designing Herman Miller’s Golden Gate Bridge-Inspired Sayl Chair

The aim of the Herman Miller Sayl Chair, designed by Yves Béhar, is to maximize comfort while minimizing materials. For inspiration, Béhar looked to the suspension bridges of San Francisco. It took Béhar and Herman Miller two and a half years to perfect the chair, which employs a novel “3D Intelligent Suspension Back” instead of…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

iPad Apps 10/8

PlainText: A Dropbox-enhanced text text editor from the makers of the inimitable WriteRoom, PlainText takes the same minimalist approach as apps like Writer and Elements but does it for a minimalist price: Free. Paprika Recipe Manager: The iPad is a chef’s best friend, and all it was missing was a simple, dedicated way to pull…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Apple Repair Line Is Broken. Just Like My Computer.

My notebook is toast. It’s basically being completely rebuilt. I dropped it off at the Genius Bar a week ago. I wanna know where it’s at, so I called Apple to find out. I didn’t get very far. Fantastic. I hope it’s in better shape than Apple’s repair line robot.

Tech News Matt Buchanan

The Top Web Comedy Videos of the Week

It’s officially fall! That means more time working, less time watching those comedy videos your old college roommate keeps emailing you. Fortunately: Splitsider’s got a roundup of the week’s best, led by this bit of insanity from Funny or Die. The rest: a healthy mix of Nic Cage, drinking, and sex to cap off your…

Tech News Brian Barrett

iPhone Apps 10/8

UFO On Tape: A simple but compellingly packaged new game in which your iPhone acts as a camera (thanks, gyroscope) with which you have to film a UFO fly-by. That’s the whole game—keeping the little UFO in the frame—but the presentation and the production of the app make it different than pretty much anything in…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

One Perk of Being an Arctic Researcher: Drinking 100,000 Year Old Glacier Water

The scientists who research our planet’s poles have a tough, incredible job. Drilling tens of thousands of feet into the icy surface to retrieve core samples reveals a lot about our planet. It also provides a refreshing, pre-historic drink. Edible Geography has a fascinating interview with Dr. Paul Mayewski of the University of Maine, who…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Nasty Phrases Are Slipping Into The Official White House Website’s CAPTCHA

A man visited the official White House website to send a message to President Obama. At the bottom of a form he was asked, as part of the automated verify-you’re-a-human process, to type two squiggly words. The words? “Rape Baracks.” If you just said, “Zoinks!” you’re probably not alone. When we received the screengrab via…

Tech News Wilson Rothman - MSNBC

Android Apps October 8th

Skype: Skype is now available on all Android phones, well, all Android phones running Android 2.1+. That’s loads better than being Verizon only though! With Skype on Android, you can make Skype to Skype calls, Skype calls to landlines, receive calls from your Skype number, and IM but in the US, Skype calls only work…

Tech News Casey Chan

F-Stop Watch Measures the Minutes In Aperture Numbers

Time marches on regardless of how you track it; might as well ditch the ol’ 1-12 routine in favor of something a little more more fun. Like, say, a watch that ticks off apertures instead of hours. The F-Stop watch may not be practical between eight and eleven, but for the right photographile? More than…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Prize Portraits From Our Facebook Illustration Contest

Once we picked winners for our Facebook contest, we locked artist Sam Spratt in a room with reference photos, digital painting gear, and snacks. We refused to let him leave until he finished the prize portraits. Here are the results: Amazing, no? This is what Spratt had to say about the images: The one of…

Social Media Rosa Golijan

China Blocks Web Searches for Nobel Winner

Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize this morning, and China’s censorship machine is already cracking down: Search results for “Nobel Peace Prize” or “Liu Xiaobo” have been banned for those within the Great Firewall of China.

Tech News Maureen O'Connor

Gazing Down at the World

For the last five years, photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand has been circling the globe by airplane, photographing everything beneath him. Here are some incredible views of countries all over the world from his collection “Earth From Above.” [BF] Music: “At Rest” by Kevin MacLeod

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

T3 Scooters and the Cops Who Love Them

Seals Are Helping Chart the Ocean Floor

Art Sleeps With Tech and Makes Some Bizarre Babies

The Most Beautiful Girl In The Lab

Watch the Sikorsky X2 Breaking the World’s Helicopter Speed Record

Not Even Superheroes Should Friend Their Mothers On Facebook

This Week’s Best Apps

Yeah, But Does Your Keyboard Tie Actually Play Music?

Designing Herman Miller’s Golden Gate Bridge-Inspired Sayl Chair

iPad Apps 10/8

The Apple Repair Line Is Broken. Just Like My Computer.

The Top Web Comedy Videos of the Week

iPhone Apps 10/8

One Perk of Being an Arctic Researcher: Drinking 100,000 Year Old Glacier Water

Nasty Phrases Are Slipping Into The Official White House Website’s CAPTCHA

Android Apps October 8th

F-Stop Watch Measures the Minutes In Aperture Numbers

The Prize Portraits From Our Facebook Illustration Contest

China Blocks Web Searches for Nobel Winner

Gazing Down at the World

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

Good News! You Can Finally Change That Ridiculous Gmail Address

ExpressVPN Just Launched ExpressAI: Your Prompts Are Now Invisible

VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

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