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Inside the International Space Station's Tool Kit
Aug 06, 10:17AM
When you're floating in space, it pays to be prepared, so it's perhaps no surprise that the International Space Station packs a pretty impressive tool kit. Those obsessed by workshops and making, prepare to drool.
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What Should Be in the NSA Surveillance Reform Legislation?
Aug 06, 9:30AM
Following a wave of polls showing a remarkable turn of public opinion, Congress has finally gotten serious about bringing limits, transparency and oversight to the NSA's mass surveillance apparatus aimed at Americans.
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Resistive RAM: Terabytes of Storage, 20 Times Faster Than NAND
Aug 06, 8:42AM
There's never a shortage of new experimental forms of memory—but a company called Crossbar has now worked up something called resistive RAM which could wipe the floor with NAND.
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This $300 Solar-Powered Ubuntu Laptop Lasts 10 Hours on 2 Hours of Sun
Aug 06, 7:51AM
Working with a computer outdoors can often mean you're at the mercy of your battery—but not if you have this`Sol laptop, which can run for 10 hours on a single solar charge.
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IKEA's new 2014 catalog app lets you arrange virtual furniture in your home using augmented reality.
Aug 06, 7:24AM
IKEA's new 2014 catalog app lets you arrange virtual furniture in your home using augmented reality. You still have to put it together yourself eventually, though.
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What Famous Photos Would Look Like If They Were Taken with an iPhone
Aug 06, 5:00AM
Because we all carry smartphones and because we all fancy ourselves as photographers and because we're all just satisfied with good enough, the pictures we take hardly ever reach the full potential of a shot. Even worse, they're run through filters that destroy the tone, they're squared off to limit the scope and they're used with a flash that should never be used.
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This is the tiniest painting in the world
Aug 06, 4:45AM
Scientists have created the tiniest painting ever—the Mona Lisa that you can see here. It's only 30-microns, less than half the thickness of a human hair. If that's hard to imagine, look at the comparison—if this microscopic Gioconda were a tattoo on an ant, it would only take a minuscule fraction of its eye.
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Iceberg
Aug 06, 4:00AM
This is what happens when you let M. Night Shamalan direct the Titanic reboot.
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The Difference Between Real Life and Video Games Is Comically Sad
Aug 06, 3:01AM
It's not at all embarrassing or shameful to admit that you learned a lot about life from playing video games. Maybe you fell in love with sports by playing Madden. Or first understood the concept of driving with Mario Kart. Or maybe it was Sim City that taught you budgeting or Tetris that introduced logic or RPGs that pushed hard work. It's okay! But why did video games teach us some false lessons too? Like that sleeping is always rejuvenating and how easy it was to find money?
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Al-Qaeda Can Turn Clothes into Explosives By Dipping Them in Liquid
Aug 06, 2:22AM
ABC News is reporting that al Qaeda has come up with a "new generation of liquid explosives" for a potential attack. The scary thing is that the bomb "would not be detected by current security measures". Even scarier is that a US official called the new method "ingenious". Well, then.
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Man, Watching Airplanes Take Off and Land Is Like Playing a Video Game
Aug 06, 2:00AM
This timelapse video shows the controlled chaos that is airplanes taking off and landing at San Francisco International Airport. If you ever played Flight Control on your phone, it's pretty much exactly as impossible as that. It's incredible how nerve wreckingly efficient the whole process is. I will shut my mouth up next time when I wonder why my plane is stuck on a runway. [Craigiest via Laughing Squid]
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New Newspaper Owner Jeff Bezos on the Bleak Future of Newspapers Last Year
Aug 06, 1:01AM
Well this is just fun. Jeff Bezos talked with German newspaper Berliner-Zeitung in 2012 about the dark future of newspapers and how they can be relevant to Amazon. And well, since Bezos is now a newspaper baron, it's probably a good idea to revisit his rather bleak thoughts on print.
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This Short Doc About a Magnetic Tape Fanatic Will Break Your Heart
Aug 06, 12:00AM
No matter how outmoded the technology, you'll find someone who's devastated that it's gone. These people are in absolute denial about the old tech's inferiority to the advancements that supplanted it. This is Micke, the Swedish tape nut. He is precisely the luddite we're talking about.
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Apple is going to let people trade in their third party iPhone chargers for an official Apple USB Po
Aug 05, 11:31PM
Apple is going to let people trade in their third party iPhone chargers for an official Apple USB Power Adapter for 10 bucks. So if you want to save $9 off the retail price and/or get rid of possibly faulty chargers, head to an Apple Store starting August 16th with a third party charger and an iPhone, iPad or iPod. [Apple via 9to5Mac]
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Galileo Was Even Smarter Than We Thought
Aug 05, 10:34PM
Galileo is perhaps best known as the guy who proved Copernicus right about the sun sitting in the center of our solar system. But this proof would have been impossible without the improvements Galileo made to the telescope, which allowed him to see into the world beyond our planet like never before. And it turns out that these instruments might have been more advanced than we've ever given Galileo credit for.
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The Orbits of 1,400 Asteroids NASA Says Could Smash the Earth
Aug 05, 10:20PM
In case you didn't have enough to worry about, NASA says there are over 1,400 Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) orbiting our sun. If it makes you feel any better, this visualization of their orbits is kinda pretty. The beauty of impending destruction.
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New Technology Lets Paralyzed People Communicate With Pupil Size
Aug 05, 10:06PM
For the longest time, the medical community hasn't had any idea what to do with people who have locked-in syndrome, the condition of being completely paralyzed from head-to-toe. Sometimes doctors don't even know if they're even conscious. The answer to communicating, it turns out, is to look in their eyes.
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Receiptmate for iOS: Make E-Budgeting Easier With Scannable Receipts
Aug 05, 10:00PM
No one save receipts anymore. We buy nearly everything either online or with a credit card, so since we basically have an electronic record of most of our purchases, it's become too easy to toss any potential paper trail. But some of our payments are still made in cash, and if you really want to track your budget, you need to track it all. Receiptmate makes it easy.
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Toxic Water From Fukushima Is Leaking Into the Ocean at Emergency Levels
Aug 05, 9:34PM
According to Japan's nuclear watchdog group, highly radioactive water from the now-destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant has leaked into the ocean through an underground barrier and is now quickly rising towards the surface. Today, that same group reported that the toxic water has caused the ocean to exceed levels far above the legal radioactive limit.
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A $10 Hack Fixes One of Apple's Most Annoying Product Design Missteps
Aug 05, 9:05PM
Apple's stock headphones aren't exactly the most-loved product in the company's oeuvre, even after Jony Ive's team revamped them last year. Yet they're free (with purchase) and produced by the millions. So Sprng, an inexpensive little plastic do-dad that makes them useful, is worth paying attention to.
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NSA Appears to Be Tracking the Anonymous Internet
Aug 05, 8:54PM
That custom-built malware that's tracking down Tor network users? Turns out it might not be the FBI behind it after all. It looks like it might be the NSA.
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Jeff Bezos Is Buying the Washington Post for $250 Million
Aug 05, 8:36PM
Today the Washington Post Company agreed to sell the Washington Post newspaper to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for $250 million in cash. This ends the Graham family's ownership of the paper after four generations. The deal, which was made independently of Bezos' other ventures, is expected to close within 60 days.
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How to Light Your House During a Blackout (Without Buying a Generator)
Aug 05, 8:20PM
It's the dog days of summer, even at 10pm your neighborhood is just slightly warmer than the surface of Venus, and everybody in town's got their A/C units cranked up to 11. Which would explain what triggered the rolling blackout that has now left you and yours sitting in a darkened home. Just because you're going to swelter until the power comes back doesn't mean you need to do so in the dark. Here's some ways to lighten up the situation without having to resort to a pricey generator.
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One Man Is Resurrecting Forgotten Patents of Yore With 3D Printing
Aug 05, 8:00PM
The charms of the patent office archives—and the hilariously insane inventions they contain—are well-known. But is it possible that a few of those failed entrepreneurs were actually onto something? New York lawyer Martin Galese thinks so—and he's resurrecting the ghosts of patents past by offering 3D models of them online.
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Synthetic Hamburgers Are the Future--And Have Been for Decades
Aug 05, 7:32PM
"Fifty years hence, we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium." - Winston Churchill, 1932
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