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A Beautifully Creepy Drone View of Beautifully Vain Los Angeles
Jul 20, 5:00AM
Los Angeles flaunts its celebrity and pumps its cleavage and yogas its fitness and bikinis its summer and juices its vapidity and sells its dream better than any city in the world. We've seen beautiful time lapses and showcases of the nightlife of LA before, so here is a deliciously futuristic (and Big Brother-ish) view of Los Angeles from a drone's perspective. It'll show you angles of Los Angeles even the paparazzi don't see.
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Muñeca (NSFW)
Jul 20, 4:00AM
This chilling horror story by Sergio Herencias is not for the faint of heart. You wouldn't expect a 3 minute short without dialog to be so skin crawlingly good—or have such an elegant twist. Tear your heart out, M. Night Shamalan.
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What Your Favorite iPhone Apps Might Look Like in iOS 7
Jul 20, 3:00AM
iOS 7 is basically going to cure cancer, save the world and figure out which coconut water brand is the best. Or well, probably not. What it will do is put every current iPhone app on notice. The visual changes to iOS 7's core functionality is so dramatic that it will make every other app look like outdated garbage. Like stayed out in the baking Sun in the middle of July for three weeks garbage. Your eyes won't be able to look at it.
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This Week's Top Comedy Video: 10 Best Lifehacks for Living Alone
Jul 20, 2:00AM
Once you live alone, you can't go back to a life with roommates. You're used to your own habits, you can't blame anyone for dirty dishes and you have as much personal time as you've always wanted. Plus, you can't come crawling back to your friends after making the decision to lone wolf it. That would be embarrassing! So no matter how terribly lonely solo life, you have to make it work. Here are 10 hilarious lifehacks that will get you started, by UCB Comedy.
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Visualizing What a Billion Dollars Looks Like with Windows Notepad
Jul 20, 1:00AM
If you want to laugh out loud at the ridiculousness of being rich and feel embarrassed about your bank account at the same time, here's a little exercise for you. Type $100,000 in a notepad app. That's a lot of money! Then type that 10 times in a row for a million. Even more money! And finally, type $100,000 10,000 times for a billion. Yeah.
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The Moto X Might Have a 4.5-inch Screen and a Back Made from Kevlar (Updated)
Jul 20, 12:08AM
Motorola and Google both don't even care about keeping the Moto X a secret, plastering it on its August 1st announcement invitation and letting Eric Schmidt bandy around with the thing, so hey, don't be surprised if a few details of the phone leaks. The Verge and @evleaks are reporting that the Moto X will have a 4.5-inch display, dual-core 1.7GHz Snapdragon processor, 2GB of RAM and a 10-megapixel camera. Oh, and a back shell made from Kevlar.
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The Destruction of Detroit in Heartbreaking Before & After Photographs
Jul 19, 11:40PM
Though jokes can be cracked about Detroit from afar, it doesn't change the fact that there are real people suffering through the downfall of a once proud city. It's terrible. It's sad. And it doesn't get more heart wrenching than these mashed-up photographs that show what a Detroit High School once looked like, normal and happy, and what it looks like now, abandoned and destroyed.
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Whoa, Disney Made Video Game Rumble Feedback for Kinect Motion
Jul 19, 10:45PM
Virtual reality only immerses two of your senses: sight and hearing. Not that we're dying for smell and taste in video games (bleh! Imagine first person shooters), but tactile feedback makes things feel a lot more real. Disney Research's Aireal does this by blowing puffs of air in your face, and it's not nearly as crazy as it sounds.
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A Laptop-Thin Lunchbox For Fans of Crepes and Flatbreads
Jul 19, 10:40PM
When your budget or diet requires you to brown bag it every day for lunch, here'a a clever alternative if you're embarrassed about commuting to work carrying a sack of food. Unikia's $32 Foodbook is about as thick as your standard laptop, with a slightly smaller footprint, so it can be easily carried in a briefcase or backpack.
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Thanks to a Secret Court the NSA Can Continue Spying on Americas
Jul 19, 10:22PM
On Friday, the secret court that oversees cases related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act renewed the order that enables the NSA to compel telecom companies to hand over records whenever it wants. Translation: No end in sight to the NSA spying on phone records.
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Kotaku Don't Tell George R.
Jul 19, 10:17PM
Kotaku Don't Tell George R. R. Martin What To Do | Lifehacker Everything You Need to Know About Gmail's New, Super-Confusing Layout | Jezebel The Linen Closet Makes Me Feel Like A Filthy Failure | Jalopnik Ten Driving Techniques That Will Turn You Into A Master
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This Week in Time Capsules: Badges, Caskets and Betting on the Ponies
Jul 19, 10:08PM
This week, a race track in New York put a time capsule on tour, a town in Michigan used a casket for their time capsule, and Boy Scout badges will spend the next 300 years underground.
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New York Just Set an All-Time Record For Energy Usage
Jul 19, 10:03PM
This afternoon, ConEd issued a statement pleading with New Yorkers to use less energy—and thus prevent brownouts. Why? Because today at 2pm, the company broke its official energy usage record.
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iPad Apps of the Week: VLC, Origami, and More
Jul 19, 10:00PM
You're a musician, a media junkie, and an all-around family man/lady—in other words, you've got a lot to juggle. So here are some apps to easily squeeze into your life and take some of the pressure off. Go on, champ, you deserve it.
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iPhone Apps of the Week: Clipper, Potluck, and More
Jul 19, 10:00PM
Make beautiful memories, read all the best web content, catch up with family, and watch all the videos your little heart desires. Sound like an impossible number of multitasking? Nah—not if you have this week's round of iphone apps to help you out.
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Android Apps of the Week: Floating Toucher, Locket, and More
Jul 19, 10:00PM
With the rate we're all moving these days, we rarely take the time to slow down and enjoy life—even when we really want to. Fortunately, you don't have to go through it alone. This week's set of Android apps are all about making your life easier and more organized, so you can stay in touch with the people who actually deserve it.
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Apple Maps Should Get Way Better After HopStop Acquisition
Jul 19, 9:30PM
Well, well, well. Looks like Apple is doubling down on its Maps efforts leading up to the launch of iOS 7. Bloomberg is reporting that Apple has acquired HopStop marking the second maps-related acquisition for the day. Update: Apple has confirmed the acquisition to AllThingsD.
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Sorry, the World's First Kosher Lube Is Gone as Fast as It Came
Jul 19, 9:28PM
Did you need some kosher lube? Too bad, you just missed the once-in-a-lifetime window. Last week, Trigg Laboratories' "Wet" line of products became the world's first kosher lube, but now that coveted blessing has been revoked after the Rabbinical Council of California realized that it is lube for sex.
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Scientists Created an Impossible Supermaterial Totally by Accident
Jul 19, 9:13PM
For more than a century, scientists have been saying the same thing: It's impossible to create a water-free disordered magnesium carbonate. It's too difficult. You'll never amount to anything! Well, suck it, haters: Researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden have unveiled a super-absorbent version of magnesium carbonate that breaks the world record for surface area and water absorption.
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Which Glass to Use for Which Drink and Why
Jul 19, 9:00PM
You're going to have some friends over for a cocktail housewarming party. No problem, you think to yourself, I'll just pick up some glassware at Crate & Barrel. You get there, and panic sets in. It's an absurd, transparent cornucopia of tumblers and flutes and who knows what else, in every conceivable shape and size. You weren't prepared. Pay attention now, and you will be.
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Motorola's going to show everyone the new Moto X on August 1, in New York.
Jul 19, 8:46PM
Motorola's going to show everyone the new Moto X on August 1, in New York. Or well, actually, it showed us the phone right there on the invite, on the left. May as well give up all pretense of these things being some big surprise. We'll tell you more about the phone from the event.
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Measuring The Ridiculous Physics Of Disney's Hercules
Jul 19, 8:39PM
Two years ago, our friends at the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective applied their usual rigorous statistical scrutiny to a series of basketball movies. We pick up the idea again with this analysis of Hercules, by Anthony Zonfrelli and Dmitri Ilushin.
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A Beach Towel Game Boy That Never Runs Out of Batteries
Jul 19, 8:25PM
For a lot of us the original Nintendo Game Boy was the best travel companion we could have ever hoped for as a kid. Now, our phones provide suitable distractions during boring flights or car rides. But we've still got a soft spot for Nintendo's old handheld, and feel honored at the chance to sprawl out on ThinkGeek's $20 Beach Boy the next time we're relaxing at the beach.
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Let's Talk About Anything You Want
Jul 19, 8:08PM
Hello Internet friends! It is Friday, and most of us have been sweating our butts off all week. It's like a million degrees in New York right now. And guess what? This heat wave is moving in reverse, which means that if you haven't felt it yet, you're about to. I'm not sure I understand backwards weather, but boy does the notion disturb me.
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The Facade of This Water Cooling Plant Is Chill as Hell
Jul 19, 8:02PM
University of Ohio's Central Chiller Plant is chill because it has to be—it supplies water and emergency power to the university's medical district. But thanks to its facade covered in prismatic fins, it's also chill in the non-literal sense of the word.
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