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Drinking Up to Four Cups of Coffee Won't Dehydrate You At All
Jan 10, 6:00PM
The received wisdom is that coffee dehydrates you. Fact. Period. No arguments. But a new study shows that, actually, in moderation, coffee is no less hydrating than water.
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Audi's Traffic Light Assistance Ensures You Never Hit a Red Light
Jan 10, 5:40PM
The only thing more annoying than having to obey the speed limit when driving is having to frequently stop at red lights. So in a brilliant attempt to become the world's awesomest automaker, Audi has created a new in-dash system that tells you how fast or slow you need to drive in order to hit as many green lights as possible.
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These Doomsday Planes Protect Heads of State When Disaster Strikes
Jan 10, 5:20PM
In the event of a nuclear strike on American soil, we're going to be in a little bit of trouble. But at least we'll die safe in the knowledge that the valiant leaders of our nation—or any yahoos lucky enough to be in office at the time—will be escaping the nuclear holocaust in a fleet of environmentally-impervious airborne command centers.
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It's Insanely Cheap for Cops to Track Your Cell Phone
Jan 10, 5:00PM
At this point, nobody's surprised to hear that the authorities can track your cell phone. But what you might not realize is just how easy and how incredibly cheap it is.
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Here's Your Chance to Own a Glow-in-the-Dark Plant—And Soon
Jan 10, 4:52PM
Perhaps you remember the wildly successful but also controversial Glowing Plant Kickstarter. Perhaps you're even patiently waiting for your glow-in-the-dark seeds, due to arrive in…September 2014.
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A Charging Cable That Saves a Little Power For Later
Jan 10, 4:25PM
A backup battery for your phone is only useful if you're willing to carry it with you. So Native Union has come up with the JUMP which integrates a little extra power into your smartphone's charging cable, ensuring it's light enough to carry and always has a little bit of extra power to keep your device running.
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The Batteries of the Future Could Be Powered By Rhubarb
Jan 10, 4:03PM
Building the perfect battery is a hard problem. Batteries either too inefficient or too expensive or too unstable to power the renewable gadgets of the future. But a team of Harvard scientists just built a new kind of battery with a molecule found in food, and it could solve these problems.
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You Won't Mind Pocketing a Business Card That's a Working Keyboard
Jan 10, 3:40PM
Even with perfect typography, a stunning design, or a novel shape, a business card is still an antiquated way to share your contact details. So the folks over at TechKeys—makers of custom keyboards—wanted to design a card that reflected their work and left a lasting impression—and what better way to do that than with a business card that doubles as a working keyboard.
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A Massive Road-Building Initiative Is Transforming Africa's Landscape
Jan 10, 3:20PM
Africa is home to some of the poorest road networks in the world, which act as a major barrier for trade, education and healthcare. Not for long, though—as it's embarking on a frenetic road-building exercise that could revolutionize the entire continent.
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Remote Control Sneaker Lights Blind Your Friends With Awesomeness
Jan 10, 3:00PM
These days, a set of velcro straps across the top of your kicks just isn't enough to impress your sneaker freak friends. To guarantee you're the envy of everyone on your block, forget about dropping hundreds on the latest pair of Nikes—instead, strap a pair of these Light Kicks LED strips to your feet.
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Last week, we learned that digital music sales dropped for the first time since iTunes in 2013.
Jan 10, 2:48PM
Last week, we learned that digital music sales dropped for the first time since iTunes in 2013. Thanks to Billboard and Nielsen's fresh year-end music report, we now know that there was significant 32 percent uptick in music streams in 2013. This doesn't prove that Spotify and the like are killing music sales, but it sure suggests they might be.
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Target Hackers Also Swiped Personal Info of 70 Million Customers
Jan 10, 2:46PM
So remember a few weeks ago when Target admitted that hackers had swiped the data of 40 million customers, but no one needed to worry because it was all encrypted? Well, Target's starting to realize that quite a bit more data was swiped than it previously thought—specifically, the names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of 70 million customers. Whoops.
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Gawker Christie: Sorry, I'm Just Really Bad at Knowing What My People Do | Jalopnik This Is What Hap
Jan 10, 2:26PM
Gawker Christie: Sorry, I'm Just Really Bad at Knowing What My People Do | Jalopnik This Is What Happens When You Let Your Mechanic Friend Fix Your Car | Jezebel A Man Is Facing Jail for Harassing Women Online, and It's a Big Deal | Kotaku By 2014 Standards, Ghostbusters Caused $23 Million Worth of Damage
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Plumen's Beautiful New Bulbs Make Low-Energy Into High Art
Jan 10, 2:20PM
A bulb is a bulb is a bulb. Wait, no, not—not when it looks like this it isn't. These energy-efficient bulbs make low power consumption a form of high art.
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8 Amazing Museums Where You Can Bring a Sleeping Bag and Stay the Night
Jan 10, 2:00PM
Have you ever slept beneath the bones of a T-Rex? What about next to the Declaration of Independence? It's been nearly three decades since I read From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, but the plot—two kids run away from home and take up residence at the Met, eventually solving a mystery, natch—has stuck with me. It's also totally possible to make that dream come true.
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Magnetic Levitation Looks Magical in Slow Motion
Jan 10, 12:51PM
What do you get if you take some magnets, superconductors, and liquid nitrogen, and a slow-mo camera to film them with? This kind of magical footage is what.
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The Science of Why Your Pasta Boils Over
Jan 10, 12:15PM
We've all done it: you put the pasta on to boil, turn your back for a few minutes to wipe off the counter or read the newest Today I Found Out article, and suddenly you hear that foreboding hissing sound of water boiling over. (Perhaps if you simply subscribed to our Daily Knowledge podcast and been listening instead, you'd have avoided this issue. You really have only yourself to blame.
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PlayStation Now--the streaming game service--will, weirdly, require a proprietary DualShock controll
Jan 10, 11:57AM
PlayStation Now—the streaming game service—will, weirdly, require a proprietary DualShock controller to play PS3 games on TVs, phones and tablets.
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NASA captures the Flaming Fist of God 17,000 light-years away from us
Jan 10, 11:23AM
Humans like to see things where there's nothing but visual patterns. Even NASA: the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has captured an "image [that] shows the energized remains of a dead star, a structure nicknamed the Hand of God after its resemblance to a hand." Except now it looks more like The Flaming Fist of God.
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Google's Making It Easy for Strangers to Send You Email
Jan 10, 11:22AM
Google has updated Gmail with a feature that some of you might not appreciate. Now, simply typing in someone's name into the 'To' field will automatically grab their address from Google+, and, worse, the service is applied to your account by default.
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Why You Sleep at Night
Jan 10, 10:40AM
It's not just because it's dark. Well, it partly is, but more accurately it's a result of a complex series of biological processes which give rise to something called circadian rhythms.
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China's Smog Is So Bad That Hotels Now Give Guests Gas Masks
Jan 10, 10:00AM
It's no secret that China is choking on smog, but the problem has gotten so bad recently that hotels have started issuing guests with gas masks to use during their stay. For real.
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Why Is the Solar System Flat?
Jan 10, 9:20AM
When our solar system formed from a swirling cloud of dust, it happened to form in such a way that all planets sit on a single plane. But with all of 3D space to choose from, why did it turn out flat?
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Headphones Are a Social Panacea
Jan 10, 8:40AM
Headphones can transform any awkward social situation. Fact. [Doghouse Diaries]
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Google has given Google Play Services for Android a big update--adding turn-based multiplayer suppor
Jan 10, 8:28AM
Google has given Google Play Services for Android a big update—adding turn-based multiplayer support, a preliminary Google Drive API, and improved battery life for all users who run Location Reporting.
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