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Start your week off right with these excellent stories from the urban world.
Oct 29, 1:50PM
Start your week off right with these excellent stories from the urban world. This week: baseball economics, a ghastly smelling tour, Canadian sewers, radical policing tactics, and more.
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How a Genome Hacker Made a Family Tree With 13 Million Branches
Oct 29, 1:40PM
What happens if you let a genome hacker—a kind of computer scientist-turned-biologist—loose on the world's online genealogy sites? The world's biggest family tree is what, which shows how over 13 million people are related.
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Amazon's Kindle MatchBook Service Is Now Live
Oct 29, 1:37PM
In this modern age of tablets and e-readers, it's always a little bit tough to decide whether to buy the hardcopy of a book or just go for the e-book. Now, you don't have to choose with the newly launched Kindle MatchBook service that offers cheap e-book versions of hardcopy books you've purchased on Amazon.
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A Self-Powered Treaded Skateboard That Can Plow Through Any Terrain
Oct 29, 1:21PM
The smallest rock can topple even the most skilled skateboarder. And if your town is devoid of smooth, safe skateparks and half-pipes, maybe it's time to upgrade your gear? With a set of spiked treads and a four-stroke engine, Dan Baldwin's Ungoverned will happily plow through gravel, dirt, snow—pretty much any terrain you can think of.
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Bullet-Stopping Cellphone Saves Gas Station Clerk Held at Gunpoint
Oct 29, 1:20PM
In what's some fantastic news for both HTC and anyone who keeps their cellphone in their shirt pocket, a Florida gas station attendant's life was saved when his dearly departed smartphone became a martyr during a recent holdup.
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14 Awesome Dollhouses Built By Today's Top Architects
Oct 29, 1:00PM
Architecture-with-a-capital-A isn't always regarded as one of the more playful creative fields, but give the pros a good cause and they just might surprise you. London-based developers Cathedral Group enlisted the star-studded talents of 20 top UK architects and firms to make a custom dollhouse for an upcoming auction benefiting Kids, a charity dedicated to disabled kids and their families.
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Gawker MTA Driver Bans 10-Year-Old Boy From Bus for Speaking Arabic | io9 BAD IDEA: Hotel from The S
Oct 29, 12:44PM
Gawker MTA Driver Bans 10-Year-Old Boy From Bus for Speaking Arabic | io9 BAD IDEA: Hotel from The Shining Will Build on a Pet Cemetery | Jezebel Justin Bieber Learned About Poverty, Took His Shirt Off | Kotaku Of Course, People Are Dressing as Kim Jong-un for Halloween
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WSJ: Google's Smartwatch Could Be "Ready Within Months"
Oct 29, 12:12PM
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google's smart watch is "in late-stage development," and the company is in talks with suppliers to begin mass production of the device soon.
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How the Electric Guitar Was Invented
Oct 29, 12:00PM
For as far back as we are able to look into the prehistory of the human race, music has been a crucial part of the life of humans. Some scholars even speculate that human music may have come before language. From the beginning, people living in little groups sang and danced to self-made music. Drums and pipes were readily developed, and even today they can be found in use, still often hand-made, in every culture anywhere in the world where simple communities gather for group celebrations.
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Neurocam Analyzes Your Brainwaves to Take Photos For You
Oct 29, 11:11AM
Pressing a button is so 20th century. And winking or asking Google Glass to do it for you seems like quite a lot of effort, too. So, for the truly lazy, Neurocam analyzes your brainwaves to work out when you want a picture taking.
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Scientists Smash the Li-Fi Data Record, Achieving Speeds of 10Gbit/s
Oct 29, 10:23AM
If the hype is to believed, Li-Fi could be the next Wi-Fi. And if that's the case, then we're excited—because a team of researchers has just smashed the record for visible light data transmission, pushing it to a staggering 10Gbit/s.
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Motorola Wants to Make Your Phone Modular
Oct 29, 9:32AM
Motorola has announced that it's new research and development team, called Project Ara, is developing an "open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones". In other words, it wants your phone to come in bits.
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This flame is made of pure water
Oct 29, 9:10AM
Scientists have invented a new low-cost method to create a safe welding flame using water as its only fuel. Called the Safeflame, the device splits water in oxygen and hydrogen, recombining them both outside of the torch's mouth to create fire. And the only byproduct is water.
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Netflix Is Thinking of Making Original Movies Now, Too
Oct 29, 8:46AM
Netflix is no stranger to making original TV anymore, but it seems it has bigger plans than that: it's floating the idea that it'll foot the bill for a "big" movie, which would appear in theaters and on Netflix at the same time.
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The Chemistry of Fear and Why We Like It So Much
Oct 29, 5:00AM
It's the season of fear! Horror movies, haunted houses, spooky costumes, we find anything and use everything to scare ourselves senseless. But why? What is the science behind fear? What the hell is fear? Bytesize Science explains how fear is our anticipation of something bad happening and how it works in our brain. Spooky! [Bytesize Science via Neatorama]
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet: M is for Masticate
Oct 29, 4:00AM
Remember kids, synthetic drugs are all fun and games until somebody loses an ear.
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Don't Forget How Beautiful the World Is
Oct 29, 3:02AM
Living in cities, driving on freeways, going to work, sitting in cubicles, shopping at supermarkets, surrounding yourself in urban density and all around stepping away from nature makes it easy to forget how beautiful she can be. We should never forget.
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Nexus 5 Leaks Again for 'Pre-Registration' with a Full Spec List
Oct 29, 2:13AM
Stop me if you've heard this before but... the Nexus 5, probably the most anticipated Android phone right now, popped up on the Internets before it was officially announced.
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Here's an Amazing Card Trick Bet You Will Always Win
Oct 29, 1:00AM
The beauty of math and numbers and formulas and equations and so forth is that they can work without you ever understanding how the hell they work. What seems like complete randomness is actually just a math problem! Like this slick trick with a deck of cards. Take twenty or so cards and flip over five cards face side up and randomly insert them back into the rest of the deck. Shuffle it up all you want, split the deck in two and you can get the same exact amount of face up cards in each card pile.
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A PVC Air Cannon Is Perfect for Scaring Trick or Treaters
Oct 28, 11:45PM
You could make crazy DIY Halloween decorations to scare the creeps out of trick or treaters in your neighborhood. You could dress up drones as flying ghosts or ghoulish goblins to strike fear into child-sized candy beggars. You could be the cranky old man who turns his light off and seeps scare by ignoring costume wearers.
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A San Francisco Cocktail Party Where the Bartenders Are All Robots
Oct 28, 10:22PM
There's both an art and a science to making the perfect mixed drink—it's not just the stiffness of the drink but also the flashiness of the pour. At the 2013 Barbot event last weekend, guests were treated to an evening of mechanical bartenders that put Brian Flanagan's bottle-flipping skills to shame.
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A Bionic Material That Lets Buildings Open and Close Like a Flower
Oct 28, 10:00PM
Imagine a building with a façade that opens and closes like a flower blooming. It feels like the building is alive, but in reality, it's just inspired by life. A material that can make this happen actually does exist—it's called Flectofin, and it's based on a flower called the Bird of Paradise.
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3D Printed Lens Hoods Let You Stand Out In a Sea of DSLRs
Oct 28, 9:40PM
At one point and time, carrying a DSLR made you feel special. In a sea of point and shoot cameras you looked like a bonafide professional photographer—even if you never ventured past your DSLR's Auto shooting mode. But these days everyone's got a prosumer camera hanging around their necks, and the best way to feel special now is to pimp yours with custom accessories like these colorful 3D printed Kapsones lens hoods.
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Deadspin Penn State: $59.7 Million In Settlements With 26 Sandusky Victims | Gawker Texas Abortion L
Oct 28, 9:37PM
Deadspin Penn State: $59.7 Million In Settlements With 26 Sandusky Victims | Gawker Texas Abortion Law Ruled Unconstitutional by Federal Judge | Kotaku Nothing's As Sweet And Awkward As A Video Game Love Song | Lifehacker How to Get Into Exclusive Parties and Clubs Without an Invitation
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Make It a Cross-Species Halloween
Oct 28, 9:20PM
Interaction designer Chris Woebken has taken Halloween to its logical conclusion: helping one species pass for another.
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