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This Plywood Chair Is Super-Stylish--and Affordable
Jul 08, 8:45AM
This stylish chair may look super-classy—but don't be fooled: it's actually made from humble plywood.
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We're All Photographers Now
Jul 08, 7:50AM
That smartphone in your pocket has changed you. You're not just able to stay in contact with your friends and family now—you're also a photographer. But what good has really come of it?
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Having reached the ripe old internet age of 16, Microsoft is shutting down MSN TV this September.
Jul 08, 7:20AM
Having reached the ripe old internet age of 16, Microsoft is shutting down MSN TV this September. At least a handful of people will be upset.
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Some Of The Best iPhone Games Ever Made Are Now Free
Jul 08, 5:30AM
Apple's App Store turns five this week (it first opened on July 10, 2008), and to celebrate, many of the biggest and best apps - including games - seem to be going on sale for, well, nothing.
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Young Adult: You Can Go Home Again (But Maybe You Shouldn't?)
Jul 08, 12:00AM
When a ghost writer of a failing young adult book series heads back to her hometown, things go... poorly. Very, very poorly. If you thought Charlize Theron was a monster in Monster, you should see her in Young Adult.
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The Lumineers (Feat. Harry Caray): Ho Hey
Jul 07, 11:00PM
You've heard Ho Hey on enough radio stations and in enough commercials by now to be thoroughly sick of it, and you'd be forgiven for never wanting to listen to it again. But maybe, just maybe, the addition of Will Ferrell's Harry Caray impersonation will be enough to convince you to give it another shot.
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How a Design Trend Is Helping Prevent Wildfires in the American West
Jul 07, 10:16PM
As wildfires escalate year by year, fire prevention is becoming even more important. And prevention doesn't always mean Smokey Bear PSAs. In fact, the lumber industry has developed a symbiotic relationship with the very material feeding many of the fires.
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The Army's Insurgent Tracking Software Is Now Being Used to Track Gangs
Jul 07, 9:19PM
We all know that social media is the criminal's worst enemy. But this summer, a group of researchers are collaborating with police to test software that can reliably predict whether a person is part of a gang based on their social networks, building on similar software used to track insurgents in Afghanistan.
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The Largest Building Ever Constructed Has Opened in China
Jul 07, 8:15PM
At what point does a building become a city? At 1.7 million square meters, the New Century Global Center lands somewhere between the two.
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Artist Turns His Hyundai Into Art-on-Wheels With Chalkboard Paint
Jul 07, 7:02PM
A 2004 Hyundai Elantra is worth about $5,000 cash today, according to Cars.com. Philip Romano's model is probably worth a bit less than that, since it's coated headlight to fender in gritty black chalkboard paint.
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10 Years Ago, Opportunity Rover Began a 90-Day Mission That Never Ended
Jul 07, 6:00PM
When NASA's Opportunity rover launched on July 7th, 2003, expectations were modest. It would spend 90 Martian days exploring soil and rock samples and taking panoramas of the Red Planet; anything else would be a bonus. Nearly ten years after its initial shift was up, Opportunity is still going strong.
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The Slingshot Madman Has Perfected the Zombie Capture Kit
Jul 07, 5:00PM
Some people devote their lives to science, some to religion, some to high finance. And then there's Joerg Sprave, who spends his day-to-day creating zombie-killing slingshot insanity. Or in this case, zombie-capturing slingshot insanity, for when you need to to take them in alive undead.
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Idiot Thief Robs CCTV Company, Is Immediately Caught With CCTV Footage
Jul 07, 4:00PM
A life of small-time crime is difficult enough as it is; the pay's not great, the cops are on your case, your conscience flares up. But one particularly dim bulb in Somerset, England made things even harder on himself by robbing a man who installs IT cameras for a living. Whoops!
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The original streaming box is being put out of its misery; Microsoft's MSN TV—née WebTV—is shutting
Jul 07, 3:49PM
The original streaming box is being put out of its misery; Microsoft's MSN TV—née WebTV—is shutting down at the end of September. It will be missed, but not too much, because no one has used it in at least a decade. [AllThingsD]
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How Batman Takes a Selfie
Jul 07, 2:58PM
Let's face it; no one takes better pictures of themselves than superheroes getting ready for a poster. But how do they get the perfect set-up every time? Like this.
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Solar Impulse Ends Cross-Country Flight With Tiny Little 8-Ft Wing Gash
Jul 07, 2:24PM
It took two months for Solar Impulse, the little solar-powered plane that could, to make it from Washington state to New York's JFK airport. Two months of 45mph speeds, multiple stopovers, and cursing at clouds. But after surviving all that time and distance, the flight's triumphant finale was cut short by a torn wing.
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Vinstavids Curates the Very Best Vine and Instagram Videos
Jul 07, 2:00PM
If the only Vines and Instagram videos you're looking at are the ones your friends are making of their cats, you're missing out. There's a whole world of snapshot auteurs out there that can make you laugh, think, and feel six (or 15) seconds at a time. And Vinstavids has done you the service of curating them.
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Slow Motion X-Ray Footage Reveals the Secrets of Bat Wings
Jul 07, 1:00AM
If you happen to see a bat flying around you in real life, it's easy to panic and not see much of anything but a vague blur as you cover your head and cower. But they're actually pretty graceful when you really look at them. And new slow motion, x-ray footage just goes to show it in even greater detail, all while revealing one of the creature's high-flying secrets.
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Operation Ivy: Sound System
Jul 07, 12:09AM
We've all got that record, the one we discovered early on that completely changed the way we look at music. Mine was Operation Ivy's 1989 effort Energy, and I'm proud to say that—I think—it still holds up.
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These Incredible Facial Scans Capture Detail Down to the Skin Cell
Jul 06, 10:36PM
Rendering CGI faces that look close to real is hard, but we're starting to see hardware that can pull it off. Then, the problem becomes the source material; you've got to have models that look good enough to pass for real. For that, a new kind of facial scanning is going to come in handy, one that can get detail all the way down to each skin cell.
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Aliens' Xenomorph Queen Was Way Less Scary in Her Larval Form
Jul 06, 9:27PM
There's no denying that the Xenomorph queen is terrifying in Aliens, but she doesn't seem quite has bad when her lifeless head is just sitting on a table in its earliest form, not quite sculpted into the horrifying finished product. She's still no looker, though.
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iOS 7 Is Secretly Baby-Proof
Jul 06, 8:00PM
Regardless of what you think of its icons, iOS 7 is a big design shift for Apple, and it's here to stay. When the new OS finally hits consumer phones everywhere, it might be a little surprise for some, but there's one demographic it's really going to flummox: babies.
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What's the Best iPhone 5 Case?
Jul 06, 7:47PM
So, I'm a guy that doesn't keep his phones in cases. I'm pretty damn careful with my devices, so I've never really needed one. But hey, accidents happen, and the iPhone 5 isn't exactly a tank, so I've finally decided to pick up a nice case.
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What Are Your Hottest Tips For Browsing the Web Like a Boss?
Jul 06, 7:11PM
With Google Reader finally dead and gone, it seems like as good a time as any to rethink the way we all look at the web. There's a whole wealth of browsers and widgets and apps and extensions out there that will try to alter your browsing experience. Some of them will change your life, other's won't.
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A Boeing 777 Has Crashed In San Francisco [UPDATING]
Jul 06, 7:02PM
A Boeing 777 is on fire at San Francisco International Airport. The emergency slides have deployed, though it is not immediately clear what caused the crash and conflagration, nor if there are any injuries.
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