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Giant Meter-Long Spaghetti Lets You Live Out Lady and the Tramp
Feb 03, 7:20PM
Valentine's Day is less than a couple of weeks away, and if you've yet to plan a romantic evening with your sweetheart, don't sweat it. This tube of meter-long spaghetti lets you recreate that famous scene from Lady and the Tramp. Because what's more romantic than a couple of runaway dogs fighting over table scraps in a back alley?
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The Government Wants Our Cars and Trucks to Talk to One Another
Feb 03, 7:00PM
The U.S. Department of Transportation brought us one step closer to that utopian future where cars never crash on Monday with the announcement that it will move ahead with vehicle-to-vehicle communication (V2V) technology. In short, the government wants all the cars on the road to talk to one another.
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SONOS Speakers, The Walking Dead, PC Parts And Peripherals [Deals]
Feb 03, 6:45PM
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Pick up a SONOS Play:3 or Play:5 speaker today and Amazon will sweeten the deal with a $50 gift card you can put toward anything sold by Amazon, including other components for your new SONOS system. [Amazon]
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Chromecast Is Finally Going to Get the Awesome Apps It Deserves
Feb 03, 6:43PM
Chromecast has always been great at what it does, but up until now it's done fairly little. Compatible apps have been just trickling in, largely because Google has been hand-picking what devs even get to play with the $35 wonderstick. No more! Google's opened up the Chromecast to developers everywhere. Finally, it should start getting the apps it deserves.
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How Far Can This Ship Shift Sideways? Enough to Break the Ice
Feb 03, 6:20PM
Today's largest cargo ships can exceed 130 feet—in width—making any sort of passage through the arctic's ice-encrusted trade routes nearly impossible without the help of not one but two conventional icebreakers. But with just a single one of these triangular ships leading the way, even the largest container vessel can forge through ice fields with ease.
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Definitive Proof That App Store Search Is the Absolute Worst
Feb 03, 6:08PM
One of the most exciting new apps in months has hit Apple's App Store today: Paper, an app that provides a refreshing new Facebook experience. This is an app that, conservatively, hundreds of thousands of people want to download today. Good luck finding it.
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Spam, Silkworms, Hydroponics: The Speculative Future of Food on Mars
Feb 03, 6:00PM
Last year, NASA held a recipe contest for cooking on Mars. Ordinary civilians like us were invited to submit recipes based on a list of available ingredients—heavy on freeze-dried produce and various meat-flavored "textured vegetable proteins"—to be cooked and judged by crew members of HI-SEAS.
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Twitter Just Completely Changed Its Layout
Feb 03, 6:00PM
Twitter just flipped the switch on a redesign on the web and it looks totally different. Everything is flat, the font has changed, your profile picture shows up in the top left-hand corner, and overall, it looks a whole lot cleaner.
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Should Students Be Able To Take Coding Classes For Language Credits?
Feb 03, 5:40PM
The Kentucky Senate just passed a law that will let students take computer programming classes to satisfy their foreign language requirements. Do you think that's a good move?
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Researchers Just Solved One of Quantum Computing's Biggest Problems
Feb 03, 5:20PM
Like graphene, quantum computing is an exciting but endlessly elusive technological promise. One of the reasons—among many—that quantum computers aren't exactly a reality yet is that we haven't been able to effectively spot errors in quantum computations. Not until now, anyway.
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How LED Streetlights Will Change Cinema (And Make Cities Look Awesome)
Feb 03, 5:00PM
The announcement last year that Los Angeles would be replacing its high-pressure sodium streetlights—known for their distinctive yellow hue—with new, blue-tinted LEDs might have a profound effect on at least one local industry. All of those LEDs, with their new urban color scheme, will dramatically change how the city appears on camera, thus giving Los Angeles a brand new look in the age of digital filmmaking. As Dave Kendricken writes for No Film School, "Hollywood will never look the same."
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Paper, Facebook's new standalone reader app, is now available for download.
Feb 03, 4:57PM
Paper, Facebook's new standalone reader app, is now available for download. It's more than just a reading app, providing the kind of content you're actually using Facebook for on the daily, in quite a beautiful package. [App Store]
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How To Turn Dry Pasta Into a Rocket Engine
Feb 03, 4:40PM
You may not realize it, but your kitchen is one of the most well-stocked chemistry sets you could ever hope for. And it's not only for creating edible chemical reactions. NASA might rely on giant laboratories and factories to build its rocket engines, but all you need is a piece of pasta, a jar, some hydrogen peroxide, and a little yeast. Oh, and fire.
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This Old-School Firestarting Kit Will Make You Feel Like Survivorman
Feb 03, 4:20PM
At one point in time, camping was truly about getting away from it all and only relying on nature for everything you needed. But these days, most new camping gear pertains to keeping your smartphone charged. Not Francesco Faccin's Re-Fire kit, though. It's designed to make camping a little more rugged again—by letting you start a fire using nothing but wood and elbow grease.
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All the Gear an Olympic Photographer Is Bringing to Sochi
Feb 03, 4:02PM
Jeff Cable is a Bay Area photographer who has travelled the globe taking pictures, including coverage of the last three Olympic Games in Beijing, Vancouver, and London. Cable is about to head to Sochi to cover the 2014 Winter Olympics, where he'll be blogging about his experience. To kick things off, Jeff published a rundown of all the gear he brings along to get the job done.
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More than 300 years ago, settlers traveling up the St.
Feb 03, 3:50PM
More than 300 years ago, settlers traveling up the St. Lawrence River founded the small town of Verchères. To commemorate the landing, Quebec architects Les Ateliers Guyon recently installed these elegant outdoor seats along the river's banks. The idea is to transport the "to the seventeenth century, a time without roads; when the only means of transportation was a ship, propelled by water and wind." [Daily Tonic]
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Scientists Are Going to Create the Coldest Spot in the Known Universe
Feb 03, 3:40PM
The universe is freezing. In spots like the Boomerang Nebula the temperature drops all the way down to one degree Kelvin. But if NASA scientists have their way, the known universe will have a new coldest place, and it's going to be inside the International Space Station.
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New Automated Army Trucks Are Almost Optimus Prime
Feb 03, 3:30PM
The latest in army truck awesomeness from the US Tank Automotive Research, Development & Engineering Center (TARDEC) and Lockheed Martin makes real-life Transformers look plausible— their new Autonomous Mobility Appliqué System (AMAS) brings fully robotic functionality to the US military's largest land vehicles.
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A Hacker Found GPS Data in the Audio of This Police Chase Video
Feb 03, 3:20PM
It's incredibly noisy in the cockpit of a helicopter, and you'd assume the sounds you hear in any YouTube police chase video were just the deafening whine of the chopper's engine. But as one hacker discovered, that monotonous drone can actually hide some useful data, like the helicopter's GPS coordinates.
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Build Your Own PC on the Cheap with Amazon's Deal of the Day
Feb 03, 3:15PM
There are few tech rites of passage more rewarding than building your own PC, but if cost is your main concern, you can pick up some great discounts on various components today from Amazon's Gold Box. Below, you'll find the complete list of discounted processors, motherboards, graphics cards, cases, RAM, input devices, and more that you'll need to design the rig of your dreams. Happy building! [Amazon]
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Every Super Bowl Tech Ad, Ranked
Feb 03, 3:01PM
Unlike recent years, 2014 saw some Super Bowl ads for tech companies that were actually... good? Inconceivable! We've gathered them all here, in easily processed ranking form. As always, all rankings are totally subjective and legally binding.
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It Took More Than Just iPhones to Shoot Apple's New Ad
Feb 03, 2:38PM
With Macintosh turning 30 this year, you'd think Apple would go big. Maybe they'd spring for another Super Bowl commercial like the 1984 ad that changed the way the world thinks about computers. Nah… they just made an Apple promo reel that was shot entirely on iPhones—with a little help, of course.
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The surreal, disturbing and sometimes erotic worlds of Rachel Baran
Feb 03, 2:35PM
I love the surreal worlds of Rachel Baran, a self-taught, 20-year-old photographer who creates beautiful images—sometimes disturbing, sometimes erotic, always hypnotizing. This is Rachel in her own words, as she told me in an email:
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Gawker Pictures From the Great Super Bowl Transport Nightmare | Jalopnik The 'Seinfeld Reunion' Was
Feb 03, 2:23PM
Gawker Pictures From the Great Super Bowl Transport Nightmare | Jalopnik The 'Seinfeld Reunion' Was For Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee | Jezebel Brooklyn Decker's 'Girly Guide to the Super Bowl' Is a Headache | Kotaku Microsoft's Kinect Is Now Guarding the Korean Border
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This Is What HIV Looks Like When It Infects Living Cells
Feb 03, 2:20PM
This monochrome image of living tissue has some extremely unwelcome visitors lurking within it. Taken from some of the first ever 3D images of HIV at work, those little blue circles show the virus infecting the surrounding cells.
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