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New Olympic Zipper Technology Makes Seams Nearly Invisible
Jan 15, 6:00PM
You won't find it in stores just yet, but if you look closely at the jackets and other gear worn by US, Canadian, and Russian athletes at the upcoming 2014 Olympics, you might catch a glimpse of Columbia Sportswear's new waterproof zipper technology. Or you might not, since it's been engineered to be almost invisible when zipped shut.
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Scientist Discovers How to Clean Up Poison Water With Whisky Leftovers
Jan 15, 5:48PM
Alcohol may not solve all our problems, but it can solve at least one: A researcher in Scotland has found a way to purify arsenic-tainted water with the barley husks leftover from making whiskey.
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Japan's Launching a Giant Net Into Orbit to Scoop Up Space Junk
Jan 15, 5:24PM
Something must be done to deal with the estimated 100 million bits of man-made space junk circling the planet, and Japan is taking the lead. But can we do? Shoot it with a laser? Invent Wall-E-like robots to collect it? Nah… let's just blast a big net into space.
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How to Get 50GB Free Storage Right Now on iOS
Jan 15, 5:08PM
As it's done in the past with Android, Box is offering 50GB of free storage for new iPhone and iPad users following its latest iOS redesign.
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Apple has settled its suit with the FTC over disclosures that it was too easy for kids to make in-ap
Jan 15, 5:07PM
Apple has settled its suit with the FTC over disclosures that it was too easy for kids to make in-app purchases. As Tim Cook's letter to Apple employees. notes the company had previously agreed to refund 37,000 claims. The settlement will additionally require Apple to disclose the 15 minute window after entering your password during which you can make purchases without reauthorization.
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Otherworldly Photos of the World's Largest Cave Make Humans Seem Puny
Jan 15, 4:40PM
See that tiny speck in the bottom right corner? That's a person—a very hard-to-see person, standing inside Vietnam's enormous Son Doong cave, the largest in the world. Photographer Ryan Deboodt ventured inside to get these astounding shots.
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Brilliant, Overdue App Forces Your Phone to Take Horizontal Videos
Jan 15, 4:20PM
You can tell your friends and family they should be shooting videos horizontally all you want, but that won't stop them from capturing unwieldily vertical clips that are impossible to fullscreen on a computer. But there's finally a solution to this problem. Simply hide their default camera app—bury it deep in a folder somewhere—and replace it with Horizon, a replacement camera app that captures horizontal videos no matter how the device is held.
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These Awesome Olympic Souvenir Concepts Are Better Than the Real Thing
Jan 15, 4:00PM
Souvenirs have a tendency to skew way, way kitschy, especially when they're tied to major events like the Olympics. But these souvenirs—designed by a group of industrial design students—put a totally new spin on the traditional tat, and the results are pretty awesome.
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The Best Her Parody Yet Has a Punchline Worth Waiting For
Jan 15, 3:44PM
In the new Spike Jonze film Her, Joaquin Phoenix plays a dude who falls in love with an operating system. But what if it the gender roles were flip flopped? This parody from HitFix shows a situation that might be all too familiar.
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A Flash Drive Watch That Always Knows the Time and Available Storage
Jan 15, 3:27PM
Even with wireless networks and cloud storage services like Dropbox, there's still a place in this day and age for manually sharing files on a flash drive. And to ensure you've always got one on hand for an emergency file transfer, the silicone Verb watch features four gigs of storage built into a simple but stylish timepiece.
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A Cheap Folding Drone That's Strong Enough To Carry a GoPro
Jan 15, 3:00PM
They say the best quadcopter is the one you have with you (or is that cameras?) because not every opportunity to capture some glorious aerial footage is planned. So while you can spend thousands of dollars on a giant rig designed to hoist a heavy DSLR, why not save yourself some cash and opt for this wonderful $495 Pocket Drone that folds into a case smaller than a seven-inch tablet.
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Stunning photos of colossal lightning in massive volcano eruption
Jan 15, 2:29PM
You don't need to travel into a brown dwarf star's atmosphere or Saturn's hexagon to see colossal lightning. Just look at these photographs taken by Francisco Negroni of the eruption of the complex volcano Cordón Caulle, in Chile. He told me that, while scary, there was no immediate danger:
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3D-Printed Music Boxes Let You Compose Your Own Tune
Jan 15, 2:20PM
When shopping for a music box there's usually a decent selection of lawsuit-free public domain songs to choose from. But a new online service called Music Drop finally lets anyone compose their own 16-note tune, which is 3D printed alongside these adorable custom hand-cranked music boxes.
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13 Nail-Biting Images Of San Francisco's Bay Bridge Under Construction
Jan 15, 2:01PM
In the battle royale between landmark San Francisco bridges, the Golden Gate will probably always get the glory. But after seventy years, its sister span to the east is coming into its own. The Bay Bridge: A Work in Progress is an upcoming exhibition at the city's De Young Museum that chronicles the earliest days of construction from 1933 to 1936.
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14 Design Trends for 2014
Jan 15, 1:00PM
Just as we did a year ago, I'm kicking off 2014 with a list of design trends I expect to gain ground over the next twelve months. The world of interactive design is an extreme fluid in terms of what's determined as a staple of good design from year to year.
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China Is Cloning Pigs on an 'Industrial Scale'
Jan 15, 12:30PM
A new report by the BBC reveals that China isn't just experimenting with cloning—it's doing it on an "industrial scale." Which is at best interesting and at worst more than a small cause for concern.
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Blackphone Promises To Be a Cellphone to Beat the NSA
Jan 15, 11:45AM
Privacy is at the forefront of everybody's mind, now more than ever. So Blackphone, which will run a "security-oriented" version of Android and claims to be able to foil the NSA, couldn't be better timed.
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Amazing 1956 Video Explains How Music Went From Concert Hall to Vinyl
Jan 15, 11:20AM
Vinyl may have had its day—hell, some readers of this site may never have seen it in action—but for a small group of dedicated fans, it still lives on. This amazing 1956 video explains the process, which has actually changed very little over the last 50 years, of transforming performance into long-player.
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Samsung May Start Making High-End Windows Phone Handsets Again
Jan 15, 10:40AM
Samsung's biggest mobile successes have been planted firmly in rich Android soil, but it looks as though the company hasn't given up on Windows Phone yet. A high-end Windows Phone 8 handset from Sammy looks to be on the way, after a number of details hit the web.
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Rumor: Facebook Could Launch a Flipboard-Like Reader This Month
Jan 15, 10:03AM
Rumors have swirled for some time about the fact that Facebook might be developing a Flipboard-style news reader. Now, a report from re/code suggests that the social network might launch such a service, called Paper, this month.
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What Is the Space Roar?
Jan 15, 9:20AM
In 2006, NASA stumbled across a source of radio waves with six times the intensity of any other source ever measured. In fact, alone it produced a more intense radio signal than all the stars and galaxies in the entire universe put together. So what the hell was it?
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The NSA Uses Radio Waves to Monitor 100,000 Computers Without Internet
Jan 15, 8:40AM
We already know that the NSA intercepts computer deliveries to introduce backdoors into hardware, but now a story in the New York Times suggests that the Agency uses radio technology to spy on 100,000 computers that aren't connected to the internet.
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This pile of cash is actually just carved wood
Jan 15, 5:15AM
We're rich! You would scream if you stumbled upon these cash wads in a cardboard box but your calculations would be a little off. Not because you counted wrong but because there actually isn't money in the box. What you think is a box of 100s is actually just an excellent wood carving. The money is wood.
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Albert Hoffman's First LSD-Laced Bike Ride
Jan 15, 5:00AM
Hey man, you ever ridden a bicycle? You ever ridden a bicycle on LSD?
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Even computer simulations have trouble with walking sometimes
Jan 15, 4:30AM
We were once toddlers before. We've gotten drunk as recent as a few days ago. We maybe got too sore from working out. And we're not always perfectly balanced. We know how awkward it can be sometimes to just... walk. It's okay! It's not always as easy as it looks! Look, even computer simulations tasked to figure out how to walk sometimes fall face down on the floor.
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