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You Can Turn Any Surface Into a Touchscreen With a $150 App
Aug 15, 10:16AM
Ubi Interactive and Microsoft have been working together to develop software which can—with the addition of a Kinect and projector—turn any surface into a touchscreen. Now, you can buy the app that powers it for $150.
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The Mysterious Magnetar WIth an Insanely Strong Magnetic Field
Aug 15, 9:27AM
A team of scientists using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space telescope have discovered a weird dead star , which hides one of the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe.
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These Lands Were Entirely Unknown Until the Age of Exploration
Aug 15, 8:37AM
While the people of Europe bravely set sail during the Age of Discovery—a period stretching from the early 15th century and continuing to the 17th century—it's easy to forget that very few of the shores onto which they stepped were entirely uninhabited. This map shows the lands that were, until adventurers landed, entirely unexplored by a single human.
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Amazon has given its Silk browser for Kindle Fire a massive UI overhaul: it's now neater and easier
Aug 15, 8:26AM
Amazon has given its Silk browser for Kindle Fire a massive UI overhaul: it's now neater and easier to navigate.
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Things the Authorities Say to Mislead You About NSA Surveillance
Aug 15, 7:45AM
It's been two months since President Barack Obama first said that he welcomes a debate about NSA surveillance, which he once again reiterated last week at his press conference. Unfortunately, it's very hard to have a real debate about a subject when the administration constantly and intentionally misleads Americans about the NSA's capabilities and supposed legal powers.
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What the Proper Cell Phone Etiquette Is Around the World
Aug 15, 5:00AM
My brain tickles itself when something brand new gets invented, like a smartphone, and how different habits and customs form in each culture around that new smartphone and a brand new form of etiquette specific to each country is created all over the world. Maybe in some countries they call more than they text. Maybe in other cultures they use WhatsApp over SMS. Maybe it's e-mail. Maybe they adapt to technology's limitations. Maybe in some hellish place, phones are used openly in movie theaters.
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet: Distance
Aug 15, 4:00AM
There are two lessons here: One, Stuart Smalley was right (just look at him now, a US Senator). Two, chowing down on a fistful of peyote caps just before trying to talk to your crush for the first time is probably a bad idea.
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eBay's My Gadgets Organizes Your Tech to Make It Easier to Sell
Aug 15, 3:14AM
eBay finally officially announced the launch of My Gadgets, a new little wrinkle to eBay that lets you organize and track the value of the gadgets you have accumulated over your years of buying stuff you probably don't need. It's like an online portfolio of your stuff, add the gadgets you own and see what the average selling price of it is on eBay.
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The Special Effects of Game of Thrones Are Still Unbelievably Amazing
Aug 15, 2:30AM
For a TV show, Game of Thrones has clearly mastered the art of special effects. The quality of its visuals is simply spectacular. From the beautiful castles and boorish giants and nipple cutting we already know are fake to the amazing tricks of turning day into a bustling night camp and making snow impossibly glisten, the world they are able to create is simply amazing. And so damn real. This reel from SpinVFX shows some of the special effects used in Game of Thrones Season 3. [SpinVFX, Jose Antonio Espejo via The Mary Sue]
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AMP: Robots Make a Hell of a Friend (And a Pretty Good Soldier)
Aug 15, 1:46AM
AMP is a pretty engaging sci-fi short written and directed by Adam Marisett for Triton Films. It's set in a world where giant robots can be your best friend and giant robot dogs can be your worst enemy. Basically, it's the kind of dystopian war where technology is awesome.
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Google's Definition of Literally Literally Isn't Literal
Aug 15, 12:38AM
Grammar loving folks who love to point out where commas should be inserted instead of periods and how semi-colons are both simultaneously underused and overused, should pick up their red pens, furrowed brows and pitchforks at the fact that the definition of literally is literally no longer the literal definition of literally. The trolls who say "literally" when they're being completely non-literal and say it as an exaggeration or emphasizing something have won.
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In addition to Spielberg's live-action Halo series, Microsoft is supposedly making another sci-fi sh
Aug 15, 12:08AM
In addition to Spielberg's live-action Halo series, Microsoft is supposedly making another sci-fi show for Xbox Live: a brand new remake of BBC TV show Blake 7. Screw regular network television, everyone wants to make their own original content now! [FT]
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10 Clever Food Tips That Will Make Eating Easier
Aug 14, 11:30PM
The constant helping hand of Household Hacker is back again with 10 new tips that'll make life easier for you. This time, they're tackling food-related tricks like opening a jar, mass producing hard boiled eggs and even giving you a few easy recipes. If the kitchen is the final level video game boss in your home, you'll probably find one tip you can use from this. Eating doesn't have to be so hard. [Household Hacker]
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Special liquid underwear helps pervs to have orgasms in strip clubs
Aug 14, 10:58PM
Today's lonely man who hangs around strip clubs wants a lot more than to see some skin and have a drink or three. He wants to have an orgasm from a stripper rubbing herself on his crotch. But this is apparently painful and unsightly, not to mention gross and pathetic, so please welcome the new "Liquid Lapdance" undergarment for gentlemen.
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A Camping Lantern That Keeps Your Gadgets Glowing Too
Aug 14, 10:20PM
If you're on the hunt for the best way to accessorize your fancy new solar powered tent, Goal Zero thinks its new Lighthouse 250 Lantern and USB Power Hub is exactly what the outdoors type who refuses to disconnect can use. Its internal rechargeable battery is good for up to 48 hours of illumination, but it's also happy to share its charge with your dying power-hungry gadgets.
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1980s College Dean: Universities Will Collapse Because of Liberals
Aug 14, 10:10PM
It's a perennial question that gets people on both sides of the debate pretty riled up — should everyone go to college? With the cost of higher education continuing to climb since the postwar era — a time when many people were able to pay for college with part-time jobs and generous government assistance like the G.I. Bill — is getting a university education even worth it these days? In 1987 an educator by the name of Herbert London argued that for most people it wasn't. But London explained that there were also many factors other than price that would lead to nothing less than the inevitable extinction of the university system. One of the most important, London argues, was the public's disillusionment with liberal politics on campus.
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Slack for iOS and Android: A Better Way to Collaborate With Coworkers
Aug 14, 10:00PM
If you're like most people, you work email account is an absolute disaster—most likely some unholy combination of short messages with friends, formal interactions with coworkers and higher ups, client emails, and various other outside communications. Slack wants to remove all the office conversation and collaboration into its own, easily searchable world. So while not quite an "email revolution," Slack does want to make you office chatter that much easier.
What does it do?
Why do we like it?
We've all gotten so used to having everything mashed into one place. And the great thing about Slack is that it doesn't entirely change that concept, but it does make it immensely easier to sort through all the clutter. By creating a constant stream of conversation with coworkers, we get the huge dumping pot of text, email, images, data, etc. that we've grown to depend on, for better or for worse, but now we can actually find things in that dumping ground. New messages get highlighted, so when you're like through a stream of conversation, you'll know exactly where you should be looking. Plus, unlike some other contemporary email clients, Slack comes with a desktop version, so once you get in a routine, you can keep it—no matter if you're on the go, at home, or in the office.
Currently, that app is only available to a select number of beta-testing groups, but interested parties can sign up online starting today for their chance to test out a new way of communicating at work.
Slack, Download this app for: iOS, Android; Free for basic version
The Best: True universal search
The Worst: Would like some way to incorporate email
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10 Tricky Bar Bets You'll Never Ever Lose
Aug 14, 9:33PM
If you haven't already alienated all your friends, coworkers, and enemies by conning them out of their hard-earned dignity with tricky bar bets already, here's another batch to make you reconsider. The unstoppable Richard Wiseman is back with another dollop of unloseable bets from his seemingly endless bag.
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New Cancer Treatment Kills the Bad Cells with Nanoparticles and Lasers
Aug 14, 9:22PM
Fighting cancer is getting very 22nd century with the introduction of a new technique from researchers at the University of Georgia. The science of it gets a little bit complicated, but suffice it to say it's pretty futuristic. Lasers and nanoparticles are involved.
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These 3D-Printed Titanium Watches Will Probably Outlive You
Aug 14, 9:00PM
Titanium is one of those rare wonder materials that sounds like it could only exist in the movies as a fanciful plot device. It's real, though, and stronger and lighter than steel, which makes it a little tricky to work with. That is, unless you grind it into a powder and recombobulate it into any shape you want with a 3D laser printer—like the folks at rvnDSGN did for this lovely collection of titanium wristpieces.
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This Downtown Tokyo Office Tower Contains a Vibrant Vertical Farm
Aug 14, 8:40PM
In technology-obsessed Japan, farming doesn't exactly top the list of desirable jobs. But a staffing company in Tokyo's financial district is using its own office space to illustrate cutting-edge horticultural techniques and inspire a new generation of urban farmers.
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Capsule Minimalist Wallet Review: The Anti-Costanza
Aug 14, 8:21PM
Do you have a George Costanza-sized wallet? If you're like any red-blooded American, then you probably do, which means you probably also have back problems. We can't help you with damage you've already inflicted, but Capsule will help you ditch that bulge with its cleverly designed Minimalist collection wallet.
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How the Speed of Light was First Measured
Aug 14, 7:50PM
The speed of light in a vacuum stands at "exactly 299,792,458 metres per second". The reason today we can put an exact figure on it is because the speed of light in a vacuum is a universal constant that has been measured with lasers; and when an experiment involves lasers, it's hard to argue with the results. As to why it comes out somewhat conspicuously as a whole number, this is no coincidence- the length of metre is defined using this constant: "the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second."
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Digg's mobile-optimized Reader and iOS app both get updates today, with an Android app promised shor
Aug 14, 7:38PM
Digg's mobile-optimized Reader and iOS app both get updates today, with an Android app promised shortly. And whichever device you use, you'll now have the option of only showing unread folders and feeds. [Digg]
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CERN's Voltron for Computers Now Supports Android Devices
Aug 14, 7:33PM
For the past five years, the mad scientists at CERN have been connecting their computers to colleagues' around the world to pool their processing power. This so-called Worldwide Grid turns a regular old desktop into a supercomputer by just plugging in. Now it will do the same with smartphones and tablets.
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