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North Korea Is Putting Its Rockets on Standby for Fire After the US Made a Show of Force with Stealth Bombers

Mar 29, 2:57AM

According to Reuters, North Korea has readied its rockets to attack US military bases in South Korea and the Pacific Ocean after the US made a show of force earlier today by flying stealth bombers over South Korea. Kim Jong Un had apparently signed off an order for North Korea's rockets to be "on standby for fire". More »





A Batman Coffee Table Bruce Wayne Wish He Had

Mar 29, 2:30AM

Because we all dreamed about being Bruce Wayne once upon a time (or to this day), here's something you can get that he could never: a batman logo coffee table. Made by Charles Lushear of the Bohemian Workshop, the coffee table is carved from wood with hairpin legs and is a must for any comic book geek still living with his parents or someone who has a really understanding girlfriend (or boyfriend). More »





Toilets in Video Games Are All Pretty Gross

Mar 29, 1:30AM

Though most video games never involve a player having too drop a deuce, video game worlds always seem to have dirty toilets in even dirtier restrooms. Who uses these toilets and why are they universally dirty! Video Game Toilets rounds up the toilets found in video games—it spans from like the early 80's until now—in a hilarious Tumblr. Here are a few we love (the one above is from F.E.A.R. 3). More »





Is Facebook About to Announce a Facebook Phone Running Android?

Mar 29, 12:14AM

Facebook just invited the press to an event at Facebook HQ that'll show off Facebook's "new home on Android". Is this the much talked about (and denied) Facebook phone? Will Facebook be using the Android OS to build a layer of Facebook on top of? HMM. Or is this just some new version of the Android Facebook app? We'll find out on April 4th. More »





Watch a Genius Two-Year-Old Use Nail Clippers to Pick a Lock and Steal His Sister's Toys

Mar 29, 12:00AM

Here is the most adorable theft ever. A two-year-old toddler figured out how to use nail clippers to pick the lock on his eight-year-old sister's door so that he could steal a stuffed animal at night. His parents set up a baby camera to see the incredible "crime" go down. More »





There Is Such Thing As a Beer Pong Arcade Game

Mar 28, 11:20PM

If you combined a horizontal version of skee ball and a super small version of pop a shot, you would get this beer pong arcade machine. It takes all the basic tenets of beer pong (ping pong balls, red solo cups, etc.) but forgets the most important part: DRINKING. In the arcade version of beer pong, you just try and knock down as many cups as you can in 60 seconds... sober. More »





What's Your Least Favorite Emoji?

Mar 28, 10:40PM

Earlier today we asked you, faithful Twitter followers, which emojis you most despised. Results varied widely. More »





Beautiful Collapsable Cubicles Are an Office Rat's Dream Come True

Mar 28, 10:20PM

The cubicle is a horrid monster of office design. While they might be functional, it's never pretty to section off your office into endless false walls, resigning workers into their own little pockets of a giant ice cube tray. The designers at Taylor and Miller Architecture and Urban Design have a beautiful solution that even packs in some extra features. More »





A Full, Offline Thesaurus in Your Pocket to Impress Anyone, Anywhere

Mar 28, 10:00PM

Sure, there may already be a veritable cornucopia of dictionaries, thesauruses, and other word reference apps out there, but Thesaurus Rex is the thesaurus app to end all thesaurus apps. Packed with more information than you could ever hope to know and fast to boot, this will become the last word reference software you'll need. More »





DNA vs Razr: What's Your Pick?

Mar 28, 9:40PM

The HTC Droid DNA and Motorola's Droid RAZR HD/RAZR MAXX HD are all sweet handsets. The DNA of course has an edge in terms of screen and display while the RAZRs' battery lives are unmatched in the Android ecosystem. Sure the HTC One will be frickin' awesome when it does eventually show up but "later this spring" is just too long to wait. So, if you had a phone upgrade coming your way this weekend—as I do—and the iOS option is right out, which phone would you choose? More »





The Ocean Is Safe from Swarms of Man-Sized Robo-Jellyfish—For Now

Mar 28, 9:20PM

While there's still a debate over whether the world's real jellyfish population is exploding or not, a team at Virginia Tech is working hard to supplement the prehistoric blobs' numbers with robotic monsters of their own. Huzzah? More »





This Modular Wine Wall Is Good Even When the Booze Is Bad

Mar 28, 9:00PM

Maybe you don't know the first thing about wine except that you like it. Hell, maybe you make your oenological choices based on how cool the label is. Even if the wine is crap, you can still nail the presentation with STACT, a slick modular wine rack. More »





HTC One Teardown: Even Harder to Fix Than the iPhone

Mar 28, 8:59PM

The HTC One is hands-down the most beautiful Android phone we've ever seen, so it should come as no surprise that it doesn't come apart nicely. The folks over at iFixit gave it a shot and had One hell of a time getting the guts out so you won't have to. And you shouldn't try; it's a nightmare. More »





How to Make Windows 8 Look and Feel Like Windows 7

Mar 28, 8:40PM

If you have a PC with Windows 8 but miss Windows 7, there's no need to downgrade. Following a few simple steps, you can make Microsoft's current operating system look and feel almost identical to its predecessor. Here's how to bring back the Start menu and the attractive aero glass theme how to hide other Windows 8 elements like the Charms menu. More »





Amazon Is Buying Goodreads (Updated)

Mar 28, 8:13PM

Noted online bookstore and retailer Amazon.com is buying the excellent online books-related social network and information portal Goodreads. Well, that's a deal that makes a lot of sense. More »





Street View Hits Mars With This 4-Gigapixel Panoramic

Mar 28, 8:07PM

There's been no shortage of Mars pictures since Curiosity landed. We've got Martian mountains, rover selfies, the works. But thanks to a little image stitching by a clever dude back here on Earth, now we have Mars Street View, kind of. More »





A Pretty Little Map of All The San Francisco Apartments You Can't Afford

Mar 28, 7:40PM

The Internet is a great place to look at things you can't have, and this clever map that cross indexes San Franscico real estate listings with location fits snugly in that category. At least the nicer districts do. More »





This Sculpture Makes a Highly Magnetic Material Move to Your Music

Mar 28, 7:20PM

Ferrofluids are liquids that become super magnetized when they're in contact with a magnetic field. Ferrocious is a ferrofluid sculpture that uses the hyper-magnetic material respond to sound, like a high-tech musical lava lamp. More »





An Excellent Starter Seiko Watch Is Your Deal of the Day

Mar 28, 7:00PM

Although Seiko was founded in the 19th century, it wasn't until the 1960 that they started challenging Swiss watchmakers with mass-produced mechanical timepieces. Sure, they weren't as elegant as some handmade watches, but they were much less expensive, and they were pretty damn nice in their own right. Leading Seiko's offensive were a slew of nice automatic diving watches, and the modern Monster model is part of that line. More »





Less Is More for Spotify's New and Improved Logo

Mar 28, 6:49PM

Spotify has a new logo. It's been pared down, lost its cutesy aesthetic, and thanks to a little simplicity looks better overall. More »





Turn Some Boring Stools Into a Pint-sized Scooter With This Brilliant Ikea Hack

Mar 28, 6:40PM

Ikea's furniture isn't just cheap and easy to transport, it's easy to hack too, with sites like Ikea Hackers showcasing some of the best modifications. But none can top this hack by Andreas Bhend and Samuel N. Bernier that converts a couple of Ikea Frosta stools into a pedal-less bike—or draisienne if you really want to get technical. More »





A Man Was Caught Smuggling Almost 14 Percent of an Entire Species

Mar 28, 6:20PM

Last week at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok authorities arrested a Thai man after discovering 54 Ploughshare Tortoises in a suitcase he retrieved from a luggage carousel. That's a lot of tortoises, particularly when you consider that the Ploughshare is one of the rarest species on the planet, numbering just 400 around the world. More »





This Giant Mesh Wall Acts Like an Air Filter for Mexico City

Mar 28, 5:40PM

The best way to deal with smog is to make less of it, but it's too late to just do that. And when it comes to cleaning up your already polluted air, mesh structures like this one in Mexico City are a stylish way to filter a whole city's worth of air. More »





Watch These Classic Movie Trailers Re-Purposed for Vine

Mar 28, 5:34PM

Trailer-editing professionals TOKYO experimented with Vine recently by re-editing a handful of trailers into six-second, near seizure-inducing cinematic bursts inspired by The Wolverine Vine trailer. You've never seen Aliens like this. More »





What's the Safest Seat in an Airplane?

Mar 28, 5:00PM

The truth is that, statistically, planes are one of the safest ways to travel. But with that being said, even walking out your front door is going to come with its fair share of risks. So for all you hyper-paranoid aerophobes out there, the UK's Channel 4 is producing a documentary—The Crash—that attempts to officially settle, once and for all, which spot on an airplane least resembles that of a deathtrap. More »






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