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Amazing St. Patrick's Day Cocktails: Don't Stoop to Green Beer
Mar 14, 9:00PM
Listen, friends don't let friends drink green beer. We're talking about cheap light beer, plus green. Yum. Is this what your Irish grandfathers and grandmothers worked their fingers to the bone for? No! It's possible to make a drink that pays homage to The Emerald Isle without compromising your dignity in the process. Here are a few great ones.
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Goodyear's Newest Blimp Isn't Actually a Blimp
Mar 14, 8:40PM
This ain't no blimp. The first new dirigible in nearly a half century to bear the the iconic Goodyear logo is actually a rigid airship—a safer, more efficient, far less explodey form of air travel than conventional blimps.
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This Handy Hack Makes Any Receipt Printer Spit Out the Constitution
Mar 14, 8:20PM
Ever have that sense of panic when you're standing in line at the grocery store and can't remember your constitutional rights? Well, then you need the CONSTI2GO, a clever little device that lets you print out a full copy of the U.S. Constitution in receipt form.
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Valve's Redesigned Steam Controller Looks a Little Less Bizarre
Mar 14, 8:14PM
Back at Steam Dev Days, Valve announced it was giving up on the touchpad dreams for its Steam Controller . Now, we've got a render that shows exactly what the new older-school design will look like. Which is to say, just a liiittle less alien. [Engadget]
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To The People Of New Jersey
Mar 14, 8:00PM
On Tuesday, under pressure from the New Jersey auto dealer lobby to protect its monopoly, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, composed of political appointees of the Governor, ended your right to purchase vehicles at a manufacturer store within the state.
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A Pleated Filter Eliminates the Slow Drip of Purified Water
Mar 14, 8:00PM
Camelbak's made a name for itself when it comes to proper hydration, at least when it comes to outdoor activities. But now the company has set its sights on your kitchen—and Brita—with its new Relay pitcher that uses an exposed dual-pleated filter that lets water flow 10x faster than what we're all probably used to.
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Let's Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now
Mar 14, 7:56PM
Well well well. It's Friday, you made it, we did it! USA! USA! USA! Maybe you're still reeling over this insane story of NBC's shadow URLs . Maybe you're already wasted. But we don't know unless you tell us. So let's talk about whatever is on your little hearts and minds right now.
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Take a Quadcopter Tour of Alaska's Ice Caves Without Catching a Cold
Mar 14, 7:40PM
With towering, crystalline halls of frozen water, ice caves are among the most visually arresting formations in nature. They're just a pain to explore given their often inaccessible locations and the inhospitable climate that allows for their development. But that's where the drones come in.
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How to Handle Internet Indecision
Mar 14, 7:20PM
There are 6,245 restaurants on Seamless in New York City. Sometimes deciding between a roast beef sandwich and a pepperoni pizza is an impossible choice. But this is not an isolated dilemma—the question of what to watch, what to eat, and what to click is indicative of an issue that plagues the whole internet.
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Paris's Smog Has Gotten So Bad, It's Making Public Transportation Free
Mar 14, 7:00PM
Ah Paris—city of light, city of love, city of smog? Unusually warm spring weather has trapped diesel car emissions, blanketing much of France in noxious and dangerous air pollution. It's gotten so bad that officials in Paris are taking the radical next step of making public transportation, bike shares, and electric car shares free to use all weekend.
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A Mechanical Doll That Will Crawl All the Way Into Your Nightmares
Mar 14, 6:40PM
The next time your kid complains about not having the latest and greatest toys, just point to them towards this photo of what children in the late 1800s had to play with. On one hand they'll certainly start appreciating what they've got, but on the other they probably won't sleep for a week because this thing will haunt their dreams.
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The number of Californians who walk, bike, or take transit on an average day has doubled in the last
Mar 14, 6:30PM
The number of Californians who walk, bike, or take transit on an average day has doubled in the last decade, according to a new study by Caltrans. Also notable: More people in their 20s and 30s are not getting their licenses at all. [Los Angeles Times]
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It Turns Out Cyclists Only Really Need Half a Bike To Get To Work
Mar 14, 6:00PM
According to the folks at Kolelinia, cyclists are spending twice as much money as they need to on a bike. The company has just designed a more compact alternative called the Halfbike that looks like someone stripped away all the comfy bits from a real bike, leaving us with the cyclists' equivalent of a standing desk.
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Rock Out and Charge Up, Long Lightning Cables, Parrot AR.Drone [Deals]
Mar 14, 5:45PM
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We love Bluetooth speakers. We love external phone chargers. With the JBL Charge, you don't have to choose. The device goes for $120 new on Amazon, with great reviews, but you can pick up a refurb from eBay today for $84.
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Is Google Glass the future of home cooking?
Mar 14, 5:42PM
I know I will never use Google Glass until it becomes an invisible part of my eyeglasses but I just realized that teaching people how to cook may be a great application for it. Imagine it: Instead of having to look at your tablet or laptop, you can follow recipes without taking your eyes from your hands. So easy.
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Where Do You Actually Store All Your Online Stuff?
Mar 14, 5:20PM
With Google dropping the cost for its Drive service to just $10 a month for an absurdly mammoth 1TB of storage, it's a great time to think: "Wow, well I maybe I should cram all my digital crap into the same place for simplicity!" But it's never that easy.
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9 Albert Einstein Quotes That Are Totally Fake
Mar 14, 5:00PM
As Albert Einstein once said, "Don't believe every quote you read on the internet, because I totally didn't say that."
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Laser and Radar Let Researchers Peer Deep Inside Ancient Roman Bridges
Mar 14, 5:00PM
Ancient stone bridges dot the Spanish hills. Some are still in use, and all play a part in defining the region's landscape and heritage. Now, researchers at Spain's University of Vigo can examine the inner structures of these bridges without disturbing a single stone, thanks to some incredibly powerful imaging technology.
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The New Kind of DDoS That Could Cripple the Internet
Mar 14, 4:40PM
If you're a regular on the internet, you probably know how a DDoS can choke your favorite site with garbage traffic . Well get used to it because they're not going away; they're actually getting worse.
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The Robots of Tomorrow Aren't So Scary When They're Getting Beat Up
Mar 14, 4:20PM
The Italian Institute of Technology's HyQ is one of many quadruped robots vying for the role of one day replacing horses and other means of transporting cargo over uneven terrain. So it makes sense that it would be put through exhaustive tests to ensure it could handle any situation—but none are as satisfying as watching it get pummelled with a heavy weight.
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A Quick Guide to Sounding Smart When You Talk About Energy
Mar 14, 4:00PM
In 2014, we're constantly hearing words like clean energy, solar power, fossil fuels, carbon emissions, the price of oil, and fracking. And if you're like me, you know what some of those words mean but you're hazy on others.
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This Absurd Flying Whale Ushered in a New Age of Stealth Technology
Mar 14, 3:40PM
Not every program DARPA undertakes can be another Big Dog—the agency has had its fair share of fizzled experiments over the years—but even those failures can yield exciting new insights. Just look at the Northrop Tacit Blue, a plane so unwieldy it incorporated more redundancy than the Space Shuttle but also demonstrated the potency of curved stealth design.
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Five Pieces of Sleep Science You Need to Know
Mar 14, 3:20PM
Today is World Sleep Day, designed to make us all celebrate sleep and, presumably, try to get a little bit more of it. But even if you can't catch more shuteye than usual, here are the five most important things you need to know in order to make the resting hours you do get count.
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Measles Are Back in New York City Thanks to Anti-Vax Absurdity
Mar 14, 3:01PM
Everyone should get vaccinated, and, in recent weeks, measles has given us nasty reminder of why: as of last Friday, 16 cases of the highly-contagious respiratory virus had been reported in New York City.
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General Electric's "Walking Truck" Was a Cold War AT-AT
Mar 14, 2:40PM
The Boston Dynamics Big Dog is only the latest in a long line of semi-autonomous cargo carriers developed for the US military. Back in the late 1960's, GE unveiled the Big Dog's spiritual predecessor: a mammoth mechanical pack mule strong enough to push Jeeps around like Matchbox cars.
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