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Most Considerate iPhone Thief Writes Out List of 1,000 Stolen Contacts
Nov 25, 3:30PM
What really sucks about losing your phone—besides losing the phone—is that you also lose a whole bunch of your data. But to help ease that pain, a iPhone thief in China copied down a list of all his victim's contacts (by hand!) and returned it to its rightful owner. All 1,000 of them.
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These awesome photos of lion cubs were taken by a camera buggy
Nov 25, 3:23PM
Nikon ambassador Chris McLennan and engineer Carl Hansen have created a small remote controlled four-wheel drive rover to roam the savanna and capture photos of curious lions, like the cute pride above. It's pretty neat. Watch it in action here.
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Four-Winged Flying Robot Drifts on Breezes Like an Airborne Jellyfish
Nov 25, 3:00PM
It seems logical that if you're designing a flying robot, you might borrow a few ideas from Mother Nature's airborne repertoire. But researchers at NYU instead too their inspiration from under the sea for this unusual robotic craft that flies through the air the same way a jellyfish moves through the ocean.
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Heathrow Airport Needs Tightrope Walkers Just to Change Its Lightbulbs
Nov 25, 2:40PM
Heathrow's Terminal Five was designed to be a soaring, light-filled tribute to the wonders of flight. Five years into its life, though, 60 percent of its lightbulbs are burned out—because there's been no safe or cost-effective way to change them. Now, officials say they've found a solution: Acrobats.
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Stone-Tipped Spears Pre-date the Human Race
Nov 25, 2:20PM
Spears feel very much like a human weapon of war—so it's surprising to find out that, in fact, the stone-tipped projectiles pre-date our species by a bewildering 85,000 years.
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6 New Mega-Airports That Will Compete For the Title of World's Busiest
Nov 25, 2:00PM
In October, Dubai's massive new airport—World Central Airport Dubai—cleared its first commercial flight. It's expected to become the world's busiest airport, but, with plenty of other contenders quickly taking shape in Asia and the Middle East, it's going to have some stiff competition. Welcome to the mega-airport boom.
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Move Over Graphene: The Wonder Conductor of the Future May Be Stanene
Nov 25, 1:00PM
When it comes to super materials, graphene seems to get all the attention. But a team of researchers has developed Stanene: a single layer of tin atoms that could just be the world's first material to conduct electricity with 100 percent efficiency at the temperatures that computers work at.
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Sony's Play For Elderly Tech Fans: A Wearable Smart Wig?
Nov 25, 12:10PM
Sony's engineers have filed a patent for a new form of wearable tech, only this one differs from the watches and glasses currently doing the rounds. Sony's come up with the idea of a smart wig, with embedded rumble tech to tap the wearer on the scalp when they get a message.
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Watch All 37,000 of Herschel's Scientific Observations in One Go
Nov 25, 11:20AM
From its launch in 2009, the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory was a busy little satellite. Over its lifetime it made over 37, 000 scientific observations—and this video shows them all, condensed into less than one minute.
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HTC has just announced a gold-colored version of the One.
Nov 25, 10:45AM
HTC has just announced a gold-colored version of the One. This one won't set you back $4,400—it costs the same as the standard silver model—but it still looks pretty blingin'.
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What Are These Boxes Doing Floating Through Space?
Nov 25, 10:20AM
This might look like the start of a scene from Gravity, but you're actually looking at three nanosatellites—known as Cubesats—which have just been released in space.
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This Disaster Housing Is Made From Upcycled Relief Water Bottles
Nov 25, 9:30AM
When natural disasters hit, one of the first relief supplies to arrive is clean, bottled drinking water. But soon the empty bottles could be put to good use, too—in the form of this new style of disaster housing.
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Eric Schmidt has written perhaps the cheesiest guide for switching from iPhone to Android.
Nov 25, 9:02AM
Eric Schmidt has written perhaps the cheesiest guide for switching from iPhone to Android. An example: "Be sure to use Chrome, not Safari; it's safer and better in so many ways. And it's free."
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Samsung's Galaxy Grand 2: A Monster Phone With Limp Specs
Nov 25, 8:40AM
You're looking at the monstrous Samsung Galaxy Grand 2. With a screen that measures 5.25 inches on the diagonal, it's got plenty of display real estate—but not, perhaps, quite the guts to support it.
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Newly discovered species will make you want to run screaming in terror
Nov 25, 7:08AM
Behold the latest goddamn species discovered on Earth! The big male seems to be ready to rip apart your two arms while grabbing your thighs with those lower hooks. You wouldn't be able to scream because he'd be cracking your head with those jaws to eat your brains. Fortunately, fellow humans, these beasts are tiny.
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This beautiful camera designed by Jony Ive just sold for $1.8 million
Nov 25, 2:10AM
This one-of-a-kind Leica M camera by Apple design pope Jony Ive and Marc Newson has reached a record-shattering $1,805,000 at the Sotheby's RED charity auction. It was expected to sell for about $750,000 but it seems that some rich kid really wanted a new toy for the holidays. Good, as all this money goes to fight AIDS.
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Mount Etna Is Making It Rain Rocks
Nov 25, 2:00AM
There's nothing like some casual rock precipitation to make you glad you packed your umbrella.
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When Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill Screws Up It Makes Art
Nov 25, 1:00AM
Photoshop is amazingly powerful. But like any other program it's limited. Sometimes hilariously so. And content-aware fill is an example of an amazing feature that's still in the gray area between amazing and really off base.
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Waze Has New Celebrity Voice Navigation
Nov 25, 12:25AM
Who wouldn't want Kevin Hart yelling accurate but somehow disparaging directions at them while they're trying to drive? No one. So Waze made a deal with Universal Pictures to get celebrities talking at us while we're lost.
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Report: The Next Kindle Paperwhite Will Have A Better Screen and Font
Nov 24, 11:31PM
A report from TechCrunch based on a prototype viewing indicates that Amazon is making upgrades to the Paperwhite e-reader for release in spring 2014. Screen resolution is set to jump from 212 ppi to 300 ppi and the redesigned unit will supposedly be lighter than the current model.
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Every Weird-Looking Tree Should Get A Beautiful Time Lapse Like This
Nov 24, 10:21PM
The Yucca brevifolia, or Joshua tree, only grows in the southwest U.S., mostly in the Mojave Desert, so a lot of people don't even know about the spike-y and pipecleaner-y weirdo.
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The Best Deals And Gear This Week: Pre-Black Friday Edition, New Deals
Nov 24, 8:55PM
Sorry about the sheer verticality of this post, but we've got a ton of deals to remind you about from this week, along with a list of new ones that could have headlined our regular deal roundups. Please also take this opportunity to follow us on Twitter, as we really want to be able to ping you quickly with deals over the Black Friday/Cyber Monday period, and in general.
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You Can Buy Bacon Deodorant
Nov 24, 8:50PM
The bacon-everything craze has mostly passed, thankfully, and things seem to be getting back to normal. The constant barrage of bacon Band-Aids and bacon office supplies is over. Bacon personal care products are apparently another story, though.
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Comets look like swimming sperms in time-lapse videos
Nov 24, 8:02PM
The H-1 camera on board NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft has captured this sequence of the two comets now en route to the Sun: Encke and ISON. They look like sperms trying to fertilize an egg named Earth—which is quite appropriate, given the hypothesis that comets brought life to this planet.
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What Do You Think of Black Friday At This Point?
Nov 24, 7:04PM
Black Friday deal shopping, which is now more of a concept than a single day, has evolved from a brief free-for-all into a multi-day marathon.
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