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Techbrats and Tech Buses: What's Ruining San Francisco This Week
Jan 24, 6:40PM
It's been a tumultuous week in San Francisco. The city's transit agency held hearings to regulate the ubiquitous tech buses, but protesters say the buses have already ruined the city's real estate. It's a What's Ruining Our Cities San Francisco Special Edition.
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Robo-Whiskers and Three Other Cool, Creepy, Animal-Inspired Machines
Jan 24, 6:00PM
Inventors, designers and engineers are constantly cribbing from Mother Nature, building new-school robots inspired by old-school biology. Let's take a look at some of the latest, greatest, and weirdest designs that use biomimicry to give animal capabilities to machines.
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MEMS: The Microscopic Switches That Make the Modern World Possible
Jan 24, 5:40PM
We use them every day without realizing it. They're in our phones, our cars, our cameras, and innumerable electronic devices. They're called MEMS, and they're the microscopic switches that allow our gadgets to become smaller, lighter, and faster.
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The Fascinating, Untold History of Jell-O
Jan 24, 5:20PM
For over a century, Jell-O has been a part of American culture and, according to a 1904 edition of the Ladies Home Journal, "America's Favorite Dessert" (conveniently enough named such in an advertisement paid for by Jell-O before anyone was really buying it all). That said, ever since then it really has been one of the most popular deserts in America. The story of this fruit-flavored, gelatin-based icon includes good old-fashioned American ingenuity, brilliant marketing, and a wobbly start.
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You've Got to Watch the Most Popular Vine Compilation of All Time
Jan 24, 5:00PM
Today might be the birthday of some computer, but it's also the first birthday of everyone's favorite 6-second stupid, funny, stupid-funny video sharing service, Vine. To celebrate, we found the most ridiculously popular Vine compilation ever to supplement Vine's own official roundup: this 45 million view behemoth. You just can't not watch the whole thing.
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Watching lava destroy Coca Cola cans is totally mesmerizing
Jan 24, 4:29PM
YouTube's predictably awesome lavapix shows us how a volcano consumes a can of Coca Cola: the slow, oozy, melty way. And for some reason I'm finding hard to explain, I just can't look away.
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Would You Live in a House of Bricks Made from Pee and Bacteria?
Jan 24, 4:20PM
To make a concrete bench, add sand, bacteria, calcium chloride, and some really concentrated pee?
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Google Tips and Tricks Every Student Should Know
Jan 24, 4:00PM
Whether you're a student in college (or earlier) or a lifelong learner, Google is an essential tool for learning. Here are a few tips for using Google search and other apps more effectively to further your education.
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Why These People Want You to Boycott SodaStream
Jan 24, 4:00PM
You'd think that, as a company accused of fostering oppression for years, SodaStream would be a little more careful about the wording of its biggest-ever marketing campaign.
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How a Giant Underground Air Conditioner Supplies Zermatt With Snow
Jan 24, 3:40PM
Ski season and crap tons of snow don't always coincide with one another in the way resorts would like. That means they have to use the power of machines to manufacture snow. The resort of Zermatt, Switzerland, does that on a polar vortex-like scale, thanks to 1,000 machines pumping out 7 megawatts of power for oodles of artificial fresh powder.
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Macintosh 128K Teardown: A Time Capsule With Keyboard and Mouse
Jan 24, 3:10PM
The Mac turns 30 today, and what better way to celebrate than with a good ol' fashioned autopsy. iFixit proves that can be a lot more fun than it sounds with its classic 128K Macintosh teardown, a beautifully gory history lesson.
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All the Crazy Stuff People Tried to Bring on Airplanes Last Year
Jan 24, 3:00PM
TSA screened 638,705,790 passengers in 2013, and as we learned last year, if you look deeply within the possessions of that many people, you're gonna find some weird stuff. Tons of weird stuff. Here's a rundown of the craziest objects TSA found in 2013.
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Shooting Challenge: POLAR VORTEX
Jan 24, 2:50PM
We've all heard. The Polar Vortex Part II: Vortex Returns is coming. And the best way to suffer through this frigid end of the world is to grab it by the snowballs and make some art.
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Rediscovering Acres of Forgotten Books In a Grand Old Albany Basement
Jan 24, 2:40PM
Amidst endless stories about the death of the printed word and the closing of America's libraries, another issue remains unresolved: What's to be done with all the leftover books? In Albany, administrators at the former State Library are embroiled in a debate over the value of books—and what's "too precious" to throw away.
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Why a Small Pennsylvania Town Is the Mushroom Capital of the World
Jan 24, 2:20PM
To grow mushrooms is to let things rot, so something's a lot of things are rotten in the state of Pennsylvania.
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13 Hand-Painted Murals Brought to Life as Animated GIFs
Jan 24, 2:00PM
Even if you've never heard of INSA, you've probably seen his work—the British street artist has designed signature collections for everyone from Nike to Kid Robot. But his latest work is a little bit more immortal: INSA's making GIFs.
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Gawker "WHAT THE FUCK DID I DO": Read Justin Bieber's Arrest Report | Jalopnik A Supercut Of Every R
Jan 24, 1:48PM
Gawker "WHAT THE FUCK DID I DO": Read Justin Bieber's Arrest Report | Jalopnik A Supercut Of Every Ridiculous Pimp My Ride Intro | Jezebel I'm a Gigolo and Here's a Secret: It's Not ALL About Sex | Kotaku The 12 Best Games on Xbox 360 | Defamer Here Is the Leaked Quentin Tarantino Hateful Eight Script
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Moog's Theremini Makes It Impossible to Play the Wrong Note
Jan 24, 1:45PM
Originally invented in the 1920s, the theremin is the weird instrument responsible for spooky science fiction soundtracks for a half-century. Its woozy sound is unmistakeable, but it is also notoriously difficult to play. Bob Moog started selling theremins in the 1950's, and today, his company announced a new version, the Theremini, which uses pitch control to make it impossible to play a wrong note.
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Happy 30th Birthday Macintosh, the Controversial World-Changer
Jan 24, 1:36PM
Today is a very special day for a very special computer. This is the computer that started it all, the device that changed everything, the very thing that kicked off the era of the personal computer. Happy 30th birthday, Macintosh. It's been quite a trip.
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A star "just" went supernova in a nearby galaxy
Jan 24, 12:33PM
And with "just" I mean 11.4 million years ago, even while Steve Fossey just detected this bright and rare Type Ia supernova using a 'modest telescope in an unlikely spot: foggy north London.' Scientists say that it will be visible in the sky soon, as it brightens up. Here you can see the supernova appearing in the sky, in a before an after image of M82, the Cigar Galaxy.
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Beam Me Up
Jan 24, 5:00AM
Stupid jerk aliens. It's bad enough that they turn our cows inside out and do unmentionable things to our buttholes, but stealing joints? Really?
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Fearless man plays with grizzly bears like you play with your dog
Jan 24, 4:30AM
Oh, nothing to see here. Just a guy playing wrestle with a grizzly bear and letting it fake swallow his head. Wait, what? Mmhmm. Bear trainer Doug Seus plays around with an 8 foot tall behemoth of a beast the same way you would mess around with your dog. It's stunning to see.
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A frozen Niagara Falls light show looks like a magical wonderland
Jan 24, 3:50AM
Niagara Falls is always powerfully beautiful. A frozen Niagara Falls is even more impressive, like pressing pause on nature to hear the silence. A frozen Niagara Falls filled with colors from a light show? Just look. Photographer Michael Muraz showed us these amazing images of Niagara Falls and the frozen colors make it look like a wonderland.
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What if all the spam mail you got was actually hilariously true?
Jan 24, 2:11AM
You're an Internet veteran, you know what's real and what's not. Anything with Western Union automatically raises your eyebrow. An e-mail promising more length and/or hot girls gets vaporized without a thought. You're too seasoned for these tricks. But what if all that email spam was actually true? How different would your life look? Would you become a money making, big twig swinging, Nigerian prince relatin' party animal? Oh yes.
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This house has a freaking train you can ride all around the property
Jan 24, 1:19AM
What would you like in a house? A roof. Central air is nice. Some insulation probably. Maybe a fireplace if you like that. A yard for the kids with a white picket fence for your dreams. What about a freaking rideable scale train that goes completely around the entire property? Yeah, you know you want that. You want it bad.
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