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This Simple Accessory Blinds Kinect and Solves Your Privacy Concerns
Oct 28, 1:40PM
The Xbox One's original requirement for the Kinect 2.0 sensor to always be connected and active led many gamers to raise concerns about their privacy. Microsoft eventually caved in on that requirement, but anyone upgrading to the new Xbox One now has an absolute guarantee that the Kinect 2.0 sensor won't keep tabs on them with this new accessory from PDP that completely blocks both of its cameras.
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New Anti-Predator Material Looks Colder As It Gets Hotter
Oct 28, 1:08PM
A team of scientists has created a material that's enough to confuse fellow researchers and the Predator alike: a substance which looks cold when viewed using infrared light even when it's getting hotter.
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16 Incredible Animals and Landscapes You Can Only See With a Microscope
Oct 28, 1:00PM
The electron microscope is a fascinating scientific device—it uses an electron beam to illuminate a specimen, magnifying it up to 10 million times. With it, scientists can look deep into the substance of the world that surrounds us—and find another world, very similar to ours.
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Self-Filling Gas Station Pumps: Welcome To the Lazy Future
Oct 28, 12:46PM
The full-service pump at your local gas station is always a tempting option, particularly on cold mornings. Unfortunately, having to tip the attendant usually means most of us always opt for self-serve instead—but what if every pump was automatic? Husky and a company called Fuelmatics are developing robotic gas pumps that automatically fill your vehicle when you pull up. What a wonderful world.
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Best Xbox One Dashboard Look Yet Is a Silky, Voice-Controlled Dream
Oct 28, 12:41PM
In less than a month, Xbox One will finally be available to everyone. Here's the most complete look yet at what navigating the new console's dashboard will look like.
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This Video Shows Just How Beautiful Mathematics Is
Oct 28, 12:00PM
Betrand Russell once wrote that "[m]athematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music." In this video, Yann Pineill and Nicolas Lefaucheux prove him right.
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Rumor: Nexus 10 Specs Leak Briefly on Google Play Store
Oct 28, 11:30AM
The amount of times Google branded hardware "accidentally" turns up on the Play Store before it's supposed to you'd be forgiven for thinking that the big G was purposefully leaking it all. And that's what appears to have happened with the forthcoming Nexus 10 tablet, which had its guts spilled all across the store before being swiftly taken down.
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Why Are JavaScript Attacks So Dangerous?
Oct 28, 10:48AM
You've probably heard security articles talk about JavaScript being used to attack websites, but you might not know why it's quite so dangerous. This video helps explain.
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After months of trials, Nielsen is about to roll out its technology to include online viewing figure
Oct 28, 10:18AM
After months of trials, Nielsen is about to roll out its technology to include online viewing figures in its records, and it'll lean on social networks to match viewing habits to social demographic.
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Watch Six Famous Corporate Logos Evolve Before Your Eyes
Oct 28, 10:00AM
Just like the products and services they sell, company logos have a tendency to change over time. In this series of animations by Nick DiLallo, you can see how the logos of six big firms have changed over the years.
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Watch Six Famous Corporate Logos Evolve Before Your Eyes
Oct 28, 10:00AM
Just like the products and services they sell, company logos have a tendency to change over time. In this series of animations by Nick DiLallo, you can see how the logos of six big firms have changed over the years.
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20th Century Headlines Rewritten as Linkbait
Oct 28, 9:20AM
The online headline is a strange thing indeed when you compare it to the more classical titles that filled the newspapers of the 20th century. So, what if you took major historic events of the last 100 years and rewrote them as linkbait?
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Obama Was Unaware of NSA World Leader Spying (Updated)
Oct 28, 8:35AM
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Obama was unaware that the NSA was spying on world leaders—until an internal White House review revealed that the operation existed.
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Livescribe Smartpen 3: Note Taking Magic in a Luxury Package
Oct 28, 4:01AM
So you want to take hand-written notes but you don't want to transcribe them onto your computer? No problem. Livescribe's new Smartpen 3 is a magic for note-taking tool that automatically translates your scratches and scrawls into an iPad or iPhone app.
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Did LG Accidentally Announce Curved-Screen G Flex? (Update: Official)
Oct 28, 3:21AM
Tonight, an LG press release officially unveiling the curved screen G Flex smartphone briefly appeared online. It's gone now, but before it disappeared it gave us a new look into this strangely-shaped bananaphone.
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The Only Motion In This Music Video Is From Spinning CDs
Oct 28, 1:00AM
Phenakistoscopes are old school machines that used illustrated discs to create animation. Kind of the round version of a flip book. And the Japanese band SOUR wanted those methods in their music video. The whole thing is pretty mesmerizing.
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A Doomed Comet Hurtling Toward the Sun
Oct 28, 12:00AM
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), launched in 1995, stares mostly at . . . yeah. The sun. But when its instruments are trying to image other things near the sun, all that light gets kind of overwhelming. So sometimes instruments on the SOHO just block the sun out and turn their attention to other things. Like this sungrazer comet.
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Go Where You Want in These Immersive 360 Degree iPad Animations
Oct 27, 11:27PM
Movies, TV and video are great. Someone made all the decisions and you just get to sit back and watch. If you want to take control you play video games. Right? But HEAD-Geneva wanted to develop a hybrid genre so the group created IDNA.
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How Many Electric Car Charging Stations Are Actually Out There?
Oct 27, 10:06PM
Hybrid and electric cars have gone pretty mainstream. But it's hard to get a sense of whether the charging infrastructure is keeping pace. Especially since there are lots of proposals for how we could transition away from the gas station model.
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A Detailed Description of Why Human Skin Is Amazing
Oct 27, 9:07PM
As Minute Earth rightly points out, we could avoid a lot of flesh wounds by having thicker armored skin like a pangolin. But the energy needed to generate and maintain that armor wasn't evolutionarily worth it for us to expend because we put so much fuel into our enormous brains. We can think of ways to escape danger or make intelligent plans to avoid dangerous situations in the first place. And we do have scales, they're just not visible to the naked eye, but they protect us from tons of microbes. A lot is going on with our skin as the layers form, live out their life rising to the surface and then die. Watch this video and then go exfoliate.
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Competitive Dairy Tasting Is A Thing That Exists
Oct 27, 8:10PM
So this is the situation. Human tastings are a crucial component in milk safety evaluations and by extension the dairy industry as a whole. So the Future Farmers of America (FFA) have an event called the Milk Quality and Products Career Development. A big part of it is a milk tasting contest for high school students, and the competitors go big.
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Have You Ever Gotten Sick from Using a Gadget?
Oct 27, 6:36PM
There are lots of diseases and health issues for humans to worry about in general, and yet we tend to create more of them as time goes on. Lead poisoning, cancer from tanning beds, lots of stuff from smoking. And now that we're addicted to gadgets it was only a matter of time before the health effects starting showing.
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Bike Navigation That Actually Might Not Kill You
Oct 27, 5:31PM
Using any gadget on a bike is pretty dangerous. But it makes sense that you might want driving directions while biking. There's tons of GPS and mapping tech out there, let's put it to work, right? Hammerhead is on it.
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The Color Blue Has Conquered the Internet
Oct 27, 4:09PM
Shades of Gray. Orange Is The New Black. The Scarlet Letter. Colors are clearly important in marketing. We know. And you have also probably noticed that a lot of companies use blue in their logos. Plus Blue Is The Warmest Color. Sooooo yeah.
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Here are the Coolest Custom Lego Minifigs You Can Buy on Etsy Right Now
Oct 27, 3:44PM
The Lego minifig. That 1.5-2", articulated plastic figurine that brings your Lego creations to life. The history of the minifig is long and illustrious, and over the years enthusiasts have created their own custom ones to reflect their personalities and interests. Here are the coolest minifigs you can now buy on Etsy.
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