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Building a Database of Perfect GIFs For Every Human Emotion
Mar 06, 8:40PM
Do you want to rule the internet? Better up your GIF game, dude. Here's some help: GIFGIF is an interactive project by two students at the MIT Media Lab that catalogues moving images by emotion. You can hunt for—and find!—a looping clip for every nuanced feeling a human might ever experience.
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D.C.'s Planning Its Own High Line On a Freeway Bridge
Mar 06, 8:20PM
The runway success of the High Line has sparked trendy rail-to-trail conversions across the country. Now D.C. is offering its own twist: A park on a span of decommissioned freeway that crosses the Anacostia River. Maybe they'll call it the "Highway Line."
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The Most Retro-Futuristic DMV in America
Mar 06, 7:50PM
In 1979, two artists completely covered a Southern California building with futuristic murals. They painted moon motorcycles, high-tech highways, and spaceships that would look right at home in Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. But as delightfully retro-futuristic as the building is on the outside, what happens inside may surprise you. It's the Culver City DMV.
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Ice Age Fossils Are Being Unearthed By L.A.'s Subway Construction
Mar 06, 7:40PM
A 65-foot deep shaft being dug for Los Angeles's newest subway line is filled with buried treasure. The so-called Subway to the Sea is still nine miles from the beach, but excavation has already revealed some creatures from the ocean floor… the prehistoric ocean floor!
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These Futuristic Villas Would Produce More Energy Than They Consume
Mar 06, 7:20PM
It's sort of an environmentalist's dream. Forty-five gorgeous villas built on a wasteland that are so impossibly eco-friendly that they produce more energy than they consume in a given year. Ideal as it sounds, Vincent Callebaut has designed just that.
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San Francisco Plans on Banning Plastic Water Bottles
Mar 06, 7:00PM
San Francisco wants to cut its landfill waste down to absolute zero by 2020. While a city-wide plastic bag ban has been in effect for a few years, new legislation approved by the Board of Supervisors this week sets its sights on the bane of tap-water enthusiasts and thirsty environmentalists alike: Bay Area, say goodbye to the plastic water bottle.
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Roku Streaming Stick Preorders, Rugged Bluetooth Speakers [Deals]
Mar 06, 6:45PM
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It's the streaming stick you've all been waiting for . The Chromecast was sold out everywhere a few weeks after launch, and we expect the same will be true of this. Lock in your preorder now to receive it on launch day, and enjoy the peace of mind of Amazon's preorder price guarantee.
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The Sketch Wizard Tracer Turns Anyone Into a Photocopier
Mar 06, 6:40PM
It's been said that while good artists copy, great artists steal. But what about those lacking any artistic talent at all? They trace, and their copied creations will be all the more authentic with Crayola's new Sketch Wizard contraption that lets anyone reproduce sketches of other pictures, or even 3D models.
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Streaming Device Showdown: Who Wins the Battle for Your TV?
Mar 06, 6:20PM
So you want to stream stuff to your TV. These days you have plenty of options, but which of them is best? After Roku announced its upcoming $50 HDMI-ready streaming stick , we put this chart together to show you how it stacks up to the competition.
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TechCrunch reports that your Facebook news feed is getting a design touchup.
Mar 06, 6:15PM
TechCrunch reports that your Facebook news feed is getting a design touchup. Nothing major: new fonts, "bolder" images, and a simplified left sidebar. As for the glorious overhaul we were supposed to get last year—still no word.
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Customize Every Detail of These Gorgeous Prefab Houses
Mar 06, 6:00PM
If you fancy yourself a designer of sorts, you're going to love Blu Homes. This California-based company makes beautiful, incredibly customizable prefab houses that also happen to be environmentally friendly. You can design your own without leaving the comfort of your couch.
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This Slim iPhone Case Works Like a Real-Life Tricorder
Mar 06, 5:40PM
You've seen the iPhone accessory that can check your blood pressure, as well as the one that can monitor your heart rate. There's even one that can turn your phone into an electrocardiogram (ECG). But, now, there's an iPhone case that can do all of that—and more. Meet Wello.
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Let's All Cool It With These Stupid Maps
Mar 06, 5:20PM
Maps are great. Maps help us get where we need to go and can sometimes teach us things about the world we live in. But unfortunately, the internet has been infected by a scourge of stupid maps. And stupid maps are making us dumber.
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How To Take a Panorama From the Tallest Building In the U.S.
Mar 06, 4:48PM
How do you go about creating an iconic and awe-inspiring photograph from the tallest building in America? If you'reTIME, you climb right to the top and set up a 360-degree interactive panorama using not one but 567 images of NYC in all its glory.
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The Newest Tomahawk Is a Mighty Morphin' Cruise Missile
Mar 06, 4:40PM
The Tomahawk is among the most widely used and effective conventional weapons in the US arsenal, especially since we began covertly launching them from the safety of submerged submarines during the Cold War. Recently, Raytheon debuted the latest upgrades to its newest generation of Tomahawks—cruise missiles smarter and more adaptable than ever before.
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The Soaring and Nearly Forgotten Arches of New York City
Mar 06, 4:20PM
Beautiful arches, like the art deco skeletal system of a lost urban era, can be found throughout New York City, from Grand Central Terminal to bars and restaurants. Created with tiles by the Spanish father-and-son duo, Rafael Guastavino and his junior namesake, these structures were also marvels of artistic engineering, combining intricate brickwork with functional arrays of vaults and pillars, all leading to a kind of Mediterranean dreamworld of colonnades "hidden in plain sight," as a new exhibition suggests, around the city.
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Local Exploration Service Findery Finally Has an App, You Should Try It
Mar 06, 4:00PM
Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake has been building her location-based exploration service Findery for years, with access only available to a select group of testers. Today,it goes live to the world.
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Apple Patents Emergency Alert That Calls the Cops When You Can't
Mar 06, 3:40PM
An Apple patent published today details a theoretical feature that would enable your mobile device to detect an emergency and alert your designated contacts or the police. And y'know what? It actually makes a lot of sense.
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The Internet of Sound
Mar 06, 3:20PM
Ever wondered what it would sound like if computers could talk to each other? Yes, we have an internet that links all the machines in a vast and glorious global network. But what if they really talked? What if computers could communicate using sounds that humans can't hear?
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Spotify Just Bought Huge Music Data Company The Echo Nest
Mar 06, 2:55PM
Spotify just bought "music intelligence" company, The Echo Nest. In other words, it just bought the data machine that powers rival services like Rdio, iHeartRadio, Nokia MixRadio, Twitter Music and others.
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This Bionic Drummer Arm Is Like Def Leppard 2.0
Mar 06, 2:41PM
Like Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen who lost his arm in an accident but kept on performing, aspiring drummer Jason Barnes didn't let losing his right arm two years ago deter him from realizing his dream. He built a crude prosthetic using springs that allowed him to keep on drumming, but after enrolling at the Atlanta Institute of Music and Media, he met a professor who realized he could build Barnes something better.
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13 Gorgeous Travel Posters From 1930s Japan
Mar 06, 2:00PM
These extremely rare, previously unseen travel posters make me want to travel back in time and visit a Japan of another era. These beautiful graphics were recently rediscovered, and they'll auctioned off at the Vintage Movie Posters Signature Auction this month.
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Gawker An Anchor at Putin's News Channel Just Quit On Air | io9 More Evidence that Dinosaurs Still L
Mar 06, 1:59PM
Gawker An Anchor at Putin's News Channel Just Quit On Air | io9 More Evidence that Dinosaurs Still Live Among Us | Jezebel Beer as a Sports Drink? Hell. Yes. | Kotaku I Want These "Milk And Cookie" Shots Right Now
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The Guy Who Invented Bitcoin Is a Reclusive Oddball (Surprise!)
Mar 06, 1:49PM
Bitcoin, like all great fantasies, has a compelling creation myth: one Satoshi Nakamoto existed on the internet just long enough to give birth to everyone's favorite cryptocurrency before disappearing for six years. Theories abounded as to the man's true identity. No one could track him down. That is, until Newsweek did just now.
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How would you die if you got swallowed by a black hole?
Mar 06, 5:23AM
According to physicists, there are three, er, two and a half different theories on how a person would die if they got sucked in by a black hole: stretched like a spaghetti noodle, burnt like a toast and maybe even scrambled. Nova PBS explains that if the argument on how people would die if swallowed by a black hole were to ever be settled, it would "revolutionize the fundamental laws of nature". Watch and learn why in the video below
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