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Today's Paper Is the New York Times Online, Organized Like Print
Dec 05, 3:46PM
The thing about newspapers is that you don't really need the newspaper to read the newspaper any more. The Internet! If you find reading online a little hollow for some intangible reason, you might like the New York Times' new web app, Today's Paper, which is organized like the New York Times in print. It's positively functional. No flare, just reading. Kind of like...a newspaper.
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Even the U.N. Is Using Drones to Spy on People Now
Dec 05, 3:45PM
The United Nations now has its own drone program. Its first unmanned aircraft took off earlier this week in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Joining some 87 countries with the capability, the organization says it's just keeping up with the world's technological advances.
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Plant Your Next Garden With A Boom, Using Repurposed Shotgun Shells
Dec 05, 3:27PM
For all the hubbub about California banning the use of lead in ammunition, there's been less of a focus on safer alternatives—but designer Per Crowell has taken this to perhaps its most tongue-in-cheek extreme, proposing shotgun shells filled with seeds.
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Biking Across a Pool of Cornstarch Beats Walking on Water Any Day
Dec 05, 3:00PM
The minds behind the Hard Science YouTube channel have given us a crash course in the exciting world of non-Newtonian fluids in the most awesome way possible—by biking across a pool of cornstarch that is, at once, both solid and liquid.
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Arguing that it is "not a currency in the real meaning of the word," Chinese authorities have banned
Dec 05, 2:49PM
Arguing that it is "not a currency in the real meaning of the word," Chinese authorities have banned financial companies from using Bitcoin. This is to "protect the status of the renminbi as the statutory currency, prevent risks of money laundering and protect financial stability." [New York Times]
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Electronic Triage Bracelets Prioritize Who Needs Immediate Care
Dec 05, 2:39PM
In a disaster situation, triage and rescue workers typically tag patients with a colored paper bracelet that correlates to the severity of their injury. But a patient's situation can change after being tagged, making it difficult to keep track of who needs what care. So researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have developed a cheap electronic alternative enhanced with GPS and health sensors.
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Gawker Woman Loses Lotto Ticket, Finds Out It's Worth $47 Million | Jalopnik The North Korean Subway
Dec 05, 2:11PM
Gawker Woman Loses Lotto Ticket, Finds Out It's Worth $47 Million | Jalopnik The North Korean Subway May Be The Creepiest Subway On Earth | Jezebel What Does It Even Mean to Be a 'Needy' Girl? | Lifehacker How to Have Great Ideas More Often, According to Science
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8 Heated, Humming, or Just Plain Strange Toilets from the Future
Dec 05, 2:00PM
In this era of pocket computers and 3D printing, one of the most eternally important gadgets can go overlooked: the toilet. Or so it seems. You might still sit on a stupid piece of porcelain, but a very special group of designers is working hard to improve your pooping experience with a new generation of pots.
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AT&T's No-Contract Phone Plans Just Got Cheaper
Dec 05, 1:46PM
AT&T has just announced that its non-contract customers are finally catching a break. By tweaking its mobile share plans, the carrier is shaving a bit off of what were previously some pretty expensive plans.
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China Plans to Fight Its Smog With Artificial Rain
Dec 05, 1:30PM
China has an awful smog problem, which means its cities smell, are hard to breathe in, and, in the most unfortunate extreme, give children cancer. But its authorities hope that it may have found a solution, in the form of artificial rain.
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The Pigeon-Guided Missiles and Bat Bombs of World War II
Dec 05, 12:40PM
Today I found out about Project Pigeon andProject X-Ray, WWII plans to use pigeons to guide missiles and (literal) bat bombers.
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Bluetooth Is Getting an Intelligence Boost to Save Your Battery
Dec 05, 12:00PM
Since Bluetooth was given an overhaul in 2010 with the 4.0 standard, it's surged in popularity, being used in everything from wireless speakers to smartwatches. Now, the connection is getting a shot in the arm—and it should help save your battery.
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The 2015 Ford Mustang Is The Most Advanced Muscle Car Ever Built
Dec 05, 11:34AM
When you think "muscle car" many picture a prehistoric V8 belching exhaust and cheesy rock music. The 2015 Ford Mustang is not that car. They've chopped the number of cylinders in half and added a host of new tech so they can promise more power, performance, and, yes, even efficiency. It doesn't just look like the future. It is the future.
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Those Mexican Cobalt-60 Thieves Will Die of Radiation Exposure
Dec 05, 11:20AM
Those Mexican thieves that stole a truckload of cobalt-60? They're virtually sure to die, according to experts.
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Google Glass Owners Can Get an Updated Pair For Free
Dec 05, 10:45AM
Those ahead of the curve enough to be in possession of Google Glass can now swap their existing pair of smart specs for an updated version of the hardware—free of charge.
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Obama: Dammit, I'm Not Allowed an iPhone For "Security Reasons"
Dec 05, 10:10AM
Poor old Barack Obama. Not only is his pet project HealthCare.gov struggling to gain traction, he has other tech woes, too: he isn't allowed an iPhone for "security reasons."
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Do You Feel Smug or Embarrassed About Not Owning a TV?
Dec 05, 9:20AM
Maybe, like most people, you own a TV. But there's a chance that, like me, you don't. If that's the case, how do you feel when you have to tell someone that's the case?
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This Is the Official Color of 2014
Dec 05, 8:40AM
Pantone, the self-declared official body in control of the entire visible spectrum, has announced the color of the year for 2014. You're looking at it.
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What it's like to fly a fighter jet
Dec 05, 5:25AM
No music. No flashy moves. No missile launches. And yet this video is still incredible. It's just flying sequence after flying sequence of Russian Air Force MiG-31s cruising through the sky. Filmed by GoPro cameras strapped to a MiG, this footage is probably the closest we'll ever get to flying a fighter jet. Seeing the world from such a powerful beast of a machine somehow simplifies things.
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Wind
Dec 05, 5:00AM
The residents of an unusually windy town devise ingenious methods of coping with the gusts—short of, you know, building shelter.
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New video reveals fascinating details in alienesque hexagon on Saturn
Dec 05, 4:33AM
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured the first high definition video of the mysterious Saturn hexagon. It shows some fascinating details and features never observed before. But now, more than even, it looks like some kind of living alien organism looked through a microscope—except it's not, because this monster is wider than two Earths.
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NASA explains how it knows so much about alien planets
Dec 05, 3:23AM
How do you understand something you can barely see, never visited and is light years away from us? By being really, really smart at connecting dots. In this video, NASA explains its process in figuring out what alien planets are like with the limited information it has.
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Crazy guy rides a bicycle backwards down a steep mountain
Dec 05, 2:09AM
Because riding a bicycle down a steep mountain road after it just rained isn't crazy enough, Eskil Ronningsbakken wanted to up the crazy by doing the whole ride backwards. So yes, he was balancing himself, steering, braking, making sharp turns, veering away from cars and zooming down the mountain while facing the completely opposite direction on a wet freaking road.
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Pouring creamer into coffee in slow motion looks intergalactic
Dec 05, 1:20AM
The beautiful Milky Way is above us and around us but is also actually in our coffee cups too. What? Just watch Modernist Cuisine pour creamer into coffee in super slow motion, it's like watching another galaxy form or something. Life should have a slow motion mode so we can appreciate the little things.
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Our Favorite Android, Convertible Laptop, Tablets, and So Much More
Dec 05, 1:00AM
November gave us a cornucopia of new gadgets, a grand feast of electronics that satisfied us like five pounds of mashed potatoes. From this, we picked out the very best. Like Thanksgiving leftovers, except it's only the good stuff.
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