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A Matryoshka Bat and Ball Hide a Gym Class Worth of Sports Gear
Feb 16, 7:36PM
How many times has a trip to the park been undone because you just couldn't decide what sports gear to bring with you? With the AryaBall kit, it's a decision you'll never have to make again because a simple bat and soccer ball turn into everything you need for playing frisbee, baseball, golf, and even football.
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Building a Tetris Tower Is a Nightmare When the Game Board Is Hovering
Feb 16, 7:10PM
Refusing to acknowledge that Tetris and Jenga are both incredibly challenging in their own rights, ThinkGeek has mashed the two of them up into a new game that has you stacking 3D tetromino-like pieces on a game board that actually hovers. Not even that crazy multi-level chess game in Star Trek seems this futuristic.
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Beautiful New Website Explores 100 Years of Grand Central's History
Feb 16, 7:00PM
New York's Grand Central Terminal is one of the country's largest and busiest public transit structures, and now it has a new website that honors its outsize legacy. Based on the Grand by Design exhibition that was on display at the station last year, the website includes historical documents, videos, stories, and rare, previously unseen photos of the building throughout the years.
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This Tiny Classic Arcade Is as Smart a Watch as You Need
Feb 16, 6:53PM
You might think you need a watch that can check email, control your music, and even stay on top of Twitter updates, but you've been misled. ThinkGeek's new Classic Arcade Wristwatch is all you really need strapped to your wrist, especially if you're old enough to remember a time when beating a video game required a pocket full of quarters.
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An Unintended Effect of Energy-Efficient Buildings: Toxic Mold
Feb 16, 6:00PM
Energy-efficient buildings can be wonderful at keeping out drafts and keeping down heating bills. But the same air-tightness, unfortunately, is also perfect for trapping humid air where toxic mold can go to party.
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How Comcast-TWC Will End Your All-You-Can Internet Buffet
Feb 16, 5:00PM
There are broad, sweeping implications for the proposed merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable. This is not one of them. This is a very specific, fine print change. But for TWC customers—and, eventually, the rest of us—it's going to be the single worst part of the deal. Welcome to broadband data caps! They're here to ruin everything.
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This New School of Architecture is a Crazy Canyon of Concrete and Wood
Feb 16, 4:00PM
What an amazing building this turned out to be, the new Abedian School of Architecture at Bond University in Queensland, Australia. Designed by London's CRAB studio—led by Gavin Robotham and Sir Peter Cook, whose work you might know from Archigram—the 27,000 square-foot structure has just been completed and now faces the hard test of everyday use.
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Remote Control Nerf-Firing Robots Are the Answer To Every Kid's Dream
Feb 16, 3:54PM
Robots and Nerf, two toys that are the staple of every child's messy bedroom floor, are finally coming together in what could be one of the best (and safest) ways to harass your siblings, parents, and even co-workers. Because Hasbro's new Combat Creatures let you remotely unleash a barrage of foam darts from a safe distance.
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Scrabble's New Electronic Score Tracker Will Save Competitive Families
Feb 16, 3:39PM
Realizing the toll that Scrabble has taken on families when it comes to accurately keeping track of the score, Hasbro is introducing an updated version of the game that among other improvements, now includes an electronic score tracker. So no longer will your mom or dad's questionable math affect the outcome of a game.
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Simon Now Caters To the Swipe Generation
Feb 16, 3:21PM
Before Flappy Bird, Candy Crush, and other electronic obsessions occupied our free time, there was Simon. The simple game had players trying to perfectly recreate an ever-growing sequence of flashing colors by pressing a set of four buttons. It was simple, it was frustrating, and now it's gotten even harder as Hasbro is adding swipe gestures into the mix.
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Every Baby Bottle Needs a Grippy Rollcage
Feb 16, 3:00PM
If you don't have kids, you might find it hard to believe that baby bottles don't come standard with this springy shock-absorbing and easy-to-grip silicone rollcage. The Ba Baby Bottle Holder is actually a $15 aftermarket accessory for bottles that makes them easier for babies to grip, and better suited to surviving being thrown across a room.
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These Glowing Dogs Are Made From Trash Pulled From the Ocean
Feb 16, 2:00PM
Alaska has a trash problem. As you probably noticed in the aftermath of the Japanese Earthquake, America's northernmost state happens to be the dumping grounds for all the garbage the Pacific Ocean doesn't want. Now, an industrious artist is drawing attention to the problem.
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This Week's Top Comedy Video: Comparing RoboCop With its Inspiration
Feb 16, 2:00AM
Can a remake of a legendary classic ever live up to its inspiration? That's the challenge set before José Padilha's RoboCop, and film critic Peter Rosenthal takes us through the key differences between the 2014 remake and its inspiration, a classic from the bygone era of silent film.
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Turn Your Mouse Into a Weird Noise Factory With This Theremin Webpage
Feb 16, 1:00AM
Theremins are super fun production lines of weird squeeps and bloops, the de rigueur sound of kitschy black-and-white sci-fi movies and DJ rave parties alike. Anyone with an appreciation of music, or just noise, should play with one given the chance—and now you can do so from the comfort of your computer, thanks to Femur Design's Theremin webpage.
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Google Glass Marriage Proposals Show Why Glass Makes Everything Awful
Feb 16, 12:00AM
The folks at Google Glass put together a Valentine's Day video showing the Glass-eye view of five couples' marriage proposals. It's cute. It's heartwarming. It's the worst.
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How NASA's plan to capture an asteroid is crucial to human survival
Feb 15, 10:53PM
NASA is committed to grab an asteroid and put it into lunar orbit in the next decade, using a robotic system to put a 40-foot (12-meter) rock into a space shopping bag, and then tow it to the Moon. This apparently useless mission is actually crucial to the survival of humankind.
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How Netflix Braces For the House of Cards Binge
Feb 15, 10:00PM
Marketplace's Queena Kim was in Netflix's war room at the moment season 2 of House of Cards went live, getting a peek at how Netflix pulls off dropping an entire season of phenomenal television into our addled, impatient laps. Just thinking about that sudden rush of millions of fans clicking on the new season of HoC makes my head spin, yet they did it again without a hitch.
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Kickstarter CEO Says Site Hacked, No Credit Card Info Stolen (Updated)
Feb 15, 9:49PM
Uh oh, Kickstarter's CEO Yancey Strickler says that the company has been hacked. No credit card info was stolen (whew!), but the company says users' personal info has been compromised. Better go change your password.
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This week in Tech Reads: area codes, Facebook comments, and who's really benefiting from Google+?
Feb 15, 9:00PM
This week in Tech Reads: area codes, Facebook comments, and who's really benefiting from Google+? It's our weekly roundup of smart takes from around the web on this tech-driven world we live in.
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Comcast-Time Warner, Pebble Steel, And Our Boss Kidnapped in Vegas
Feb 15, 8:00PM
This week, we learned that Comcast and Time Warner are merging to create a cable superjuggernaut; Gizmodo's Editor in Chief Geoff Manaugh learned how to escape kidnapping in Las Vegas; and we played with the Pebble Steel smartwatch and NYC's new touchscreen subway maps. And so much more!
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Nike Designer Says Marty McFly's Power Laces Are Coming Next Year
Feb 15, 7:00PM
If there was one disappointment about Nike's awesome Back to the Future II Air Mag, it's that the shoes didn't have Marty's power laces (and that they only made 1,500 and neither you nor I own a pair). But Nike designer Tinker Hatfield says that's about to change—power laces are coming in 2015. The future is here!
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How to Cut the Cord and Ditch Cable Once and For All
Feb 15, 6:04PM
The imminent merger between Time Warner Cable and Comcast heralds the start of a new era: one of even more expensive channel bundles, and even longer waits for service. It's time to make like a rat and get the heck off this sinking ship of cable television. Here's how you can keep watching your favorite shows without a cable box. It's time to cut the cord.
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Good news for iPad-using spreadsheet lovers: Microsoft Office for iPad should be coming out soon--ev
Feb 15, 5:26PM
Good news for iPad-using spreadsheet lovers: Microsoft Office for iPad should be coming out soon—even before Office for Windows 8 debuts, according to ZDnet.
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Draw a Straight Line or a Skyline With These Famous City Rulers
Feb 15, 5:00PM
A ruler's traditionally a straightforward thing, but that doesn't mean it has to be boring. These pretty pieces from Monkey Business give you a measuring edge when you need it, and a city skyline stencil when you're feeling playful.
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Dear Superman: Don't Spin Earth Backwards, You'll Break Everything
Feb 15, 4:00PM
Remember how Christopher Reeve's Superman spun the earth backward to go back in time and save Lois? Turns out, he probably shouldn't have done that, because slowing the earth's rotation to a stop would seriously mess up everything on our planet, as Earth Unplugged explains. Not cool, Superman.
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