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How a Lost Boy Used Google Earth to Find His Way Home After 25 Years
Oct 16, 1:31PM
Last year, we heard the amazing story of Saroo Brierley, the Indian "lost child" who used Google Earth to find his way home after 25 years. This stirring video produced by Google features Brierley telling the story in his own words. It's pretty crushing.
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North Korea Used Camo Paint to Pass Off Civilian Planes as Military
Oct 16, 1:13PM
Having been burned when it used Photoshop to make its military seem more mighty, North Korea has apparently gone the analog route. That "military cargo plane" from a few weeks back? Nothing more than a short loan from Air Koryo and a cheap coat of camo.
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Electronic Make-Up Lets You Activate Gadgets By Blinking
Oct 16, 1:01PM
A cheeky wink can say an awful lot—but now it can do an awful lot, too. A new range of conducting cosmetics means that you could soon be activating electronics with the blink of an eye.
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The 11 Weirdest Fried Foods at the State Fair of Texas
Oct 16, 1:00PM
The State Fair of Texas is one of the biggest, longest-running state fairs of the country. It's steeped in tradition, from its livestock competitions to its architecturally significant Art Deco grounds. But perhaps the most important part of the Texas State Fair? Its role as America's fried food mecca.
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Clever iOS Game Helps iPhone 5C Case Fulfill Its Connect Four Destiny
Oct 16, 12:34PM
Much has been said about the perforated plastic case Apple designed for the iPhone 5C, and very little of it has been positive. But an iOS developer has found the plastic cheese grater's silver lining with an iOS game that turns it into a fairly authentic recreation of Connect Four.
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Verizon is trying out a scheme where it'll offer same-day delivery for phones ordered online--first
Oct 16, 12:33PM
Verizon is trying out a scheme where it'll offer same-day delivery for phones ordered online—first in Philadelphia, then hopefully in NYC, Dallas, San Francisco and Pittsburgh. Just in case you really, really need that new handset right now.
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Report: Next-Gen Google Glass Planned For 2014 and Will Be 'Cool'
Oct 16, 11:30AM
Google Glass — it's Robocop, it's The Terminator, it's every sci-fi dream we've ever had, right? At least it should be: Glass may be causing nerdgasms all over Google Campus, but to the guy on the street it's the dorkiest looking gadget ever. Thankfully, Google is working on it.
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This Year's Best Wildlife Photograph Required Serious Balls to Take
Oct 16, 10:49AM
Have ever sat mere yards from a herd of elephants as they drank at a watering hole? What about had one brush by just inches from you? Or then tried to photograph the whole thing? No? Well, it's a good job Greg du Toit did, then.
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WSJ: Apple Is Slashing Orders for the iPhone 5C
Oct 16, 10:11AM
Apple took a big step when it introduced the iPhone 5C, and since the internet has been abuzz with how successful—or otherwise—the handset will be. Now, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is slashing orders for the device.
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Wait, How Did Someone Recreate Escher in Lego?
Oct 16, 9:27AM
Of all the the mind-bending, unfathomable pieces of art to choose to recreate in Lego, surely anything by Escher must be the hardest, with all its impossible stairs, bridges and passageways. Still, that didn't stop Riccardo Zangelmi from trying.
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Many of the Most-Pirated Movies Can't Actually Be Bought Online
Oct 16, 8:34AM
If the movie industry wonders why piracy seems to persist, here's one possible answer: people pirate 'em because they don't have the option of paying for a legal copy online.
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Everything You Need to Know About the Grid, CERN's Global Supercomputer
Oct 16, 7:47AM
Before the word wide web was a twinkle in Tim Berners Lee's eye, CERN had developed the Grid—a world-spanning network of computing power to help drive the progress of physics.
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Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich said he expects a rash of $100 tablets, $300 laptops, and $350
Oct 16, 7:29AM
Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich said he expects a rash of $100 tablets, $300 laptops, and $350 2-in-1 hybrid to appear over the holidays, sporting Haswell and Bay Trail silicon. Bodes well for your Christmas shopping.
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Sony A7 and A7r: Mirrorless Cameras Have (Finally!) Gone Full-Frame
Oct 16, 6:00AM
Mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras have come a long way in only a few years. And after gradually layering on new features and capability, they've finally reached an apex in Sony's new A7 and A7r models, both of which sport that big and beautiful bastion of image quality—the full-frame sensor.
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Sony RX10: A Loaded, Long-Zoom Camera With a Killer Sensor
Oct 16, 6:00AM
Sony's expanding its line of snazzy high-end point-and-shoot cameras with yet another formula we haven't seen before. The new RX10 takes the design of the superzoom "bridge" cameras popular with amateurs and juices it with an enthusiast-quality image sensor and dope optics. Like the entire RX-line, the new shooter promises impressive image quality for a hefty price.
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Mute
Oct 16, 4:00AM
These people need another hole in the head like the need another, um, hole in the head. This adorable CGI short follows the denizens of a mouthless metropolis as they discover all of the awesome things that spectacular orifice is good for. Yes, even that.
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Would You Work In This Viewless Bubble Building?
Oct 16, 2:04AM
The curvaceous forms of blobitecture may look like they're malleable, but the swoops that define the modern style of lady Zaha, Future Systems, and ol' Frank Gehry aren't flexible at all. That's not the case with the concept for the "Bubble Building" in Shanghai, an ambitious re-imagining of an existing structure that covers the windows in a series of nylon pockets that appear to breathe based on the amount of activity inside.
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Oxford's Library Chooses Its First New Chair Design Since 1936
Oct 16, 1:00AM
Oxford's Bodleian library—aka the Bod—is one of England's largest libraries, a 414-year-old research hub steeped in tradition and history. For example, only three types of chair have ever been designed for use inside its walls. Until now, that is: According to Co.Design, the library has chosen a fourth design to replace its older models.
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Why?: The Vowels Pt. 2
Oct 16, 12:00AM
It took me far too long to realize it, but Why?'s 2008 album Alopecia is a lyrical, sonic masterpiece. I really only started loving the band this past year, but I've been on a major Why? kick this month. It's this that led me to stumble upon the entrancing gem of a video by YouTube user Chad Kofahl above.
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Scientists Figured Out a Way to Cheat Newton's Third Law
Oct 15, 11:00PM
Ever since the late 17th century, it's been understood that to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. That's Newton's Third Law of Motion. But a group of German scientists recently came up with a trick that appears to break that law, one that lets light accelerate all by itself. And it could bring us faster electronics in the process.
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The Physics of How a Water Jet Can Keep a Ball Floating in Mid-Air
Oct 15, 10:00PM
If you've ever floated a ping-pong ball atop the warm blast from a hair dryer, you'll appreciate this video that endeavors to explain the physics behind how the same phenomenon occurs with jets of water.
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How We'll Command the Future With Our Thoughts
Oct 15, 9:17PM
The minds of man and machine suffer from a glaring disconnect: The inability to interface directly with one another. We have to use our hands, keyboards, and mice to issue commands to our robotic minions and they can only respond via physical sensory mediums. But we can do better. We can use our minds. In fact, we already are.
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This Adorable Robo-Bottle Provides Cold, Calculated Hydration
Oct 15, 9:00PM
With every sugar water-selling corporation directly targeting kids, it's hard to convince the young'ns that water is really their best source of hydration. But what kid in their right mind would choose to sip from an aluminum can when this wonderful robot-shaped bottle could be lurking in their lunchbox?
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Deadspin French Fry Shapes, Ranked | io9 These images show just how differently cats and humans see
Oct 15, 8:52PM
Deadspin French Fry Shapes, Ranked | io9 These images show just how differently cats and humans see the world | Jezebel I'm Sorry For Making You Read Rielle Hunter's Hilarious Apology Letter | Lifehacker LightZone Is a Free, Awesome Photo Editor and Alternative to Lightroom
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The Computer Doctor Every '80s Kid Was Promised
Oct 15, 8:46PM
IBM's Watson supercomputer may be boning up on its medical bona fides, but the concept of Dr. Watson is nothing new. We've been waiting on our super-smart computer doctors of tomorrow for over 30 years.
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