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A Single Night of Sex on This Luxury Hotel Submarine Costs $390,000
Feb 13, 7:40PM
Well here's a new option for the wealthy tourist who's seen it all. No, it's not a trip to space. It's not a floating hotel room or even a wild safari. It's a luxury submarine—an underwater palace built for a Bond villain that can be yours for the weekend. But it'll cost you.
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The Ultimate Whale Watching Vessel Isn't a Boat—It's a Satellite
Feb 13, 7:20PM
Whale watching: you're out there on the water with salt spray in your face and wind in your hair, waiting for a gigantic sea mammal to surface and do something splashy. It seems like a touristy thing to do, but scientists actually track whale populations from that very same vantage point. Sea level's cool and all, but wouldn't it be awesome to monitor whales—FROM SPACE?? You're damn right it would, and now it's actually happening.
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Your Choice Of 4K Monitors, GoPro, Game Of Thrones [Deals]
Feb 13, 7:15PM
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Reasonably priced name name brand 4KTVs may still be on the horizon, but affordable 4K monitors are quickly coming within our grasp. This 28" Dell 4K Monitor is down to $560 today, and a great deal if you're dying to get 4K on your desk. [Dell]
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Escape Your Winter Nightmare In These Five Perfect Dream Houses
Feb 13, 7:00PM
If you're somehow not sick of winter yet, then you're sick of hearing other people complain about it. And there's at least another month of this crap in our future. So sit back, relax, and let Jesus Diaz take you on a calming ride through the world's best beach houses.
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You Can Finally Choose Custom Gender Options on Facebook
Feb 13, 6:36PM
For the many who identify as neither male nor female, Facebook has finally heard you. Starting today, those using Facebook in U.S. English will be able to select a custom gender field with no less than 10 different identification terms.
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This Beautiful Floating Bungalow Is the Perfect Jungle Hideout
Feb 13, 6:20PM
Eager for an escape? You might consider Sri Lanka, that ancient island off the coast of mainland India that's not nearly as dangerous as it used to be. If you're not interested in ancient statues of Buddha, you might just want to rent this beautiful jungle bungalow.
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I Can't Stop Looking at This Dead Mall's Abandoned Food Court
Feb 13, 6:10PM
Malls that were once active but have since been abandoned ("dead malls") are fascinating relics of greed, consumerism, and our increasingly antiquated analog way of life that required actual motion through space to get the material possessions we don't need, per se, but covet. They're also creepy and kind of sad, if you think about the unrealized dreams of the people to tried to sell you that shit you didn't need. Dead malls are sweeping the nation in that agonizingly slow manner that dead things sweep.
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SanDisk Just Made the Fastest 4K-Slinging SD Card Yet
Feb 13, 5:40PM
SanDisk just announced an absurdly fast card that can go almost three times faster than the previous champ. Why do you need all that horsepower? To chomp 4K video, of course.
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OK, it didn't win the design competition, so this proposed radio tower will never be broadcasting ov
Feb 13, 5:39PM
OK, it didn't win the design competition, so this proposed radio tower will never be broadcasting over a city near you, but its harp-like cables and rings sure do make a cool structure in the sky. Designed by the London-based firm Architects of Invention for a site in Santiago de Chile, the tower would have included a circular walkway suspended above the city below. For other entries in the call for a landmark radio tower, stop by Plataforma Arquitectura. [Architects of Invention]
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The girl from the 1981 Lego ad is now a doctor and still loves it
Feb 13, 5:28PM
Remember the stereotype-busting, heartwarming 1981 Lego ad featuring an adorable Lego-loving (gasp!) little girl? Well, her name is Rachel Giordano and she's all grown up, working as a naturopathic doctor in Seattle. She's still gaga for Lego, she just doesn't want a girly pink set.
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A Rear-Facing Bike Camera Reminds Drivers They're Being Recorded
Feb 13, 5:20PM
Despite what the classic video game Paperboy taught us, the biggest threat to cyclists isn't dogs, RC cars, or random rolling tires, but the drivers they share the road with. So in addition to ensuring they're definitely seen, the Fly6 bike light includes a constantly recording video camera designed to keep drivers behind a cyclist on their best behavior.
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How Comcast Just Conquered America, in Two Simple GIFs
Feb 13, 5:15PM
It's a sad day for consumers as the rumored merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable is moving forward. What does it look like when the two biggest cable companies in the country jump into the sack together? The map above gives you an idea. It ain't pretty.
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An Occult History of the Television Set
Feb 13, 5:00PM
The origin of the television set was heavily shrouded in both spiritualism and the occult, writes author Stefan Andriopoulos in his new book Ghostly Apparitions. In fact, as its very name implies, the television was first conceived as a technical device for seeing at a distance: like the telephone (speaking at a distance) and telescope (viewing at a distance), the television was intended as an almost magical box through which we could watch distant events unfold, a kind of technological crystal ball.
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Can The Government Stop The Comcast/TWC Monstrosity?
Feb 13, 4:52PM
The Anschluss of Comcast and Time Warner Cable is not over yet. We can still stop this thing! Well, the Department of Justice can still stop this thing. Clap if you believe antitrust laws still exist...
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This Is Too Awesome: DARPA's Building Real Flying Transformers!
Feb 13, 4:43PM
Between their remote locations and the ever present threat of ambush (or worse yet, IED), it's simply getting too dangerous to deliver the average 100,000 pounds of supplies that far-flung American forward combat bases require each week. Air drops by cargo plane or helicopter are one option, but DARPA researchers may already have a better solution: shape-shifting, cargo-carrying UAVs.
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Inside Bangkok's Abandoned, Half-Finished Ghost Tower
Feb 13, 4:20PM
The skyscraper index tells us that tall buildings and the market are closely correlated—and the unlucky ones being built during a catastrophic economic crisis run the risk of remaining incomplete forever. Such was the case with Sathorn Unique.
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A Century-Old Prosthesis So Advanced Even an Expert Thought It Was Fake
Feb 13, 4:00PM
In our quest to rid the world of fun and joy, we've done a number of posts fact-checking viral images. Sometimes we'll come across an image that just doesn't smell right, and enlist the help of experts to determine its authenticity. And sometimes, even the experts aren't quite sure.
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Earthquake Damage Has This Giant Telescope Hanging by a Thread
Feb 13, 4:00PM
Arecibo Observatory, the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, should look familiar to anyone who watched GoldenEye or Contact a lot as a kid. But an earthquake near the observatory did some serious damage last month, nearly snapping one of the cables supporting the reflector platform hovering 450 feet in the air. Talk about a big oops!
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Why the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger Is Even Worse Than You Think
Feb 13, 3:36PM
The mere mention of Comcast and Time Warner cuddling up to form one crummy super-conglomerate is enough to send you running for the pitchforks. But this unholy union—if it passes regulatory muster—goes deeper than MONOPOLY BAD.
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This Stainless Steel Origami Spoon Is Shipped In a Flat Paper Envelope
Feb 13, 3:22PM
Perfect for scooping things out of rectangular containers with flat walls, but not so great with anything round, the real claim-to-fame of David Adler's Kafolda spoon is that it arrives as a perfectly flat piece of stainless steel and some assembly required.
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How to Escape Comcast and Get Your Internet Elsewhere
Feb 13, 2:52PM
Comcast has confirmed that it's going to buy Time Warner Cable to form a huge, tangled monster of awfulness. Hooray! You want out? Lucky for you there are some alternatives to doing business with your monopolistic cable-internet master if you try hard enough. Here are your options, and good luck making your escape.
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Need a Fecal Transplant? There's a Poop Bank For That
Feb 13, 2:40PM
By now, you've probably heard of the miracle that is the fecal transplant. When antibiotics become useless against infections by the nasty bacterium Clostrium difficile, a slurry of human feces—full of "good" bacteria—piped into the gut can fix things up quick and cheap. The problem has always been a reliable source of poop.
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Gawker Chaos and Darkness Reign as Monstrous Winter Storm Tears Through East | Deadspin 8 Wild Ski P
Feb 13, 2:28PM
Gawker Chaos and Darkness Reign as Monstrous Winter Storm Tears Through East | Deadspin 8 Wild Ski Photographs, And The Stories Behind Them | io9 What would Google, Apple, and Facebook look like if they built cities? | Kotaku 1960s Batman Valentine's Day Cards Are Weirdly Awesome
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A Hovercraft That Isn't Afraid of Giant Waves
Feb 13, 2:20PM
In order to float across land and water, the giant air-trapping skirt around the base of a hovercraft needs to keep a tight seal at all times. Were it to tackle giant waves, it would get tossed about just like a boat, but unlike a boat it would tend to sink—because that cushion of air would be gone. But an improved design means this hovercraft isn't afraid of rough seas.
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12 Buildings Nominated For the Year's Best Design
Feb 13, 2:00PM
A cemetery in Sweden. A floating school in Nigeria. A cast-iron facade in the UK. The wildly divergent list of nominees for the Design Museum's annual awards make you wonder: How the hell do you pick a single building to represent such a broad profession?
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