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This Icy Blue Tower Will Be New Jersey's Tallest Residential Building
Mar 18, 9:20PM
New Jersey has plenty of tall buildings, to be sure, but it's not known for its skyscrapers. A new development planned for Jersey City hopes to change all that with a bright blue set of towers that will boost the city's skyline.
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This Wooden Birdfeeder Tries To Thwart Squirrels With a High-Wire Act
Mar 18, 9:00PM
Of all the technological and engineering challenges mankind has faced throughout history, none have been as daunting as designing a bird feeder that prevents squirrels from stealing seeds. And even if the wire-suspended Spun still isn't the perfect solution, at least it looks good while giving squirrels a real challenge.
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NY Is Cracking Down on High Frequency Trading Tech That Runs the NYSE
Mar 18, 8:40PM
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman vowed today to crack down on the technology that gives high frequency traders an unfair advantage in the market. And that's a very good thing for regular humans with money in the marketplace.
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Android Wear Is Just a Google Now Watch (And That's Great)
Mar 18, 8:17PM
Google just announced its first real foray into the frenzied fray of the smartwatch world: Android Wear . That's an accurate name for a wearable, Android-powered device, sure, but it's also a little misleading. This is a Google Now watch. And that's excellent news.
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Apple Just Patented a System That Could Put Siri In Charge of Your Home
Mar 18, 8:08PM
While we were all focused on sensors that fit on our wrists, Apple was quietly winning 38 patents for a system of sensors as big as a house.
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The Navy Has The Ultimate MH370 Search Tool, It's Just Not Operational
Mar 18, 8:00PM
While the world is tied up in the mystery of what happened to Malaysian Air Flight 370, testers at Edwards AFB in south central California and at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland are hard at work developing the ultimate tool for solving such a mystery, the Northrop Grumman built MQ-4C Triton.
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These Architectural Posters Were Printed With Bike Tires And Ink
Mar 18, 8:00PM
Biking to the top of the Empire State Building ain't gonna happen. But hey: Rolling across a sheet of loose leaf can give a pretty fantastic, small-scale interpretation of the Big Apple icon. Seven different inked-up tire tracks came together to make this cool print—it just might be the closest you'll get to scaling the heights.
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Even More Reasons To Be Glad Google Isn't a Real Guy
Mar 18, 7:35PM
Let's face it: There's no one in the world who knows you quite as well as Google does. It's the only place we'll get truly, uncomfortably intimate, revealing every bodily function, personal secret, bizarre question, and government-watch-list-worthy keyword. Now imagine if, instead of an inanimate website, we were dishing all that out to some dude in a cubicle.
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Scientists Discover the Key to Making Paint That Never Fades
Mar 18, 7:20PM
It seems like scientists are all about immortality these days. It's not just plants and people that are getting the treatment, though. A team of Harvard engineers are developing a way of producing color that could produce paint that never fades, and displays that never go dark.
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Neon Lights Make These NYC Water Towers Into Inter-Dimensional Portals
Mar 18, 7:00PM
Have you ever stuck your head up a water tower? Wait, what? You haven't? Well, here's your chance. On display at Madison Square Park in New York right now are three water towers, each illuminated with neon lights and mirrors. Even if you're not in New York, you can take a look at these trippy photos.
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The College Kid Who Built a Secret Tunnel Underneath the Berlin Wall
Mar 18, 6:40PM
At its peak, the Berlin Wall was 100 miles long. Today only about a mile is left standing. Compared with other famous walls in history, this wall had a pretty short life span.
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A Nick in Time: How Shaving Evolved Over 100,000 Years of History
Mar 18, 6:20PM
Removing unwanted body hair has been a part of human hygiene since the dawn of history. Over the centuries, this practice has served to denote everything from high-ranking social status to acts of contrition. And as the tradition of shaving has evolved in step with global culture, so too have the tools of the trade.
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15 Faked Miniature Photographs
Mar 18, 6:10PM
Tilt-shift photography wasn't invented to transform real world scenes into small scale models, but who's complaining? Here are 15 faked miniatures, by you .
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A Three-Pound iPhone Case Turns Texting Into a Weirdo Workout
Mar 18, 6:00PM
What if every call you answered, every text you sent, and every Facebook status update you posted actually worked to improve your fitness? It's kind of a ridiculous notion, but the ToneFone—which is basically the heaviest case you'll ever slap on your iPhone—promises just that.
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Great Deals on Panasonic Shavers, Logitech Speakers, Roku 3 [Deals]
Mar 18, 5:45PM
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We've dug up great deals on a nice variety of products today, from cheap but popular Logitech computer speakers, to high-end shaving gear. And of course, who wouldn't like to get $50 off a $100 purchase at Advance Auto Parts? That's like half off a new battery!
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This Five-Bladed Behemoth Is the World's Largest Cargo Ship Propeller
Mar 18, 5:40PM
Modern international trade is only possible because of our fleets of seafaring cargo ships. And as these gigantic vessels continue to grow to meet the increasing demands of a rapidly globalizing marketplace, so too do their components. Spanning nearly 34 feet in diameter and weighing a stout 113 tons, this massive cargo ship propeller is the largest of its kind (by width, at least) ever built.
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Animals See Power Lines as Terrifying Bursts of Light
Mar 18, 5:20PM
We've known that most critters try to avoid power lines, but until recently, scientists were pretty much in the dark when it came to why. Now, it turns out that to animals, power lines and pylons look like terrifying bands of glowing, flashing bursts of light.
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Vines of bougainvillea and jasmine wind their way up laser-cut screens, engulfing these high-rise ap
Mar 18, 5:10PM
Vines of bougainvillea and jasmine wind their way up laser-cut screens, engulfing these high-rise apartment buildings Casablanca, Morocco. The Gardens of Anfa is an under-construction mixed-used development designed by Maison Edouard François, and I bet it will smell heavenly. [design boom]
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Introducing the Paleofuture Book Club
Mar 18, 5:00PM
Welcome to the Paleofuture Book Club, a new experiment where we'll be discussing the coolest books about old futures and the history of technology.
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Toshiba's New Breathalyzer Diagnoses Diseases, Not Drunks
Mar 18, 5:00PM
Toshiba just took the wraps off a medical breathalyzer that the company says can diagnose diseases by analyzing the air a patient exhales. "Bad breath" just took on a whole new meaning.
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Moto 360: This Is Motorola's Slick Android Wear Powered Smartwatch
Mar 18, 4:36PM
We just learned about Android Wear for the first time , and now we're already getting inundated in new hardware. Here's a hot piece of gear from Motorola, the Moto 360. Billed as a more contemporary smartwatch thank the clunky wrist-bricks we've seen before, the Moto 360 will supposedly be available this summer.
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LG's G Watch Will Be One of the First Android-Wear-Powered Wristables
Mar 18, 4:34PM
It appears to be a banner day for smartwatch news. Engadget is reporting that LG is also cooking up a smartwatch of its own. It's coming out next quarter and will run on Google's just-announced wearables OS, dubbed Android Wear .
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A Soft Squeezable Flashlight That's Safe To Keep In Bed
Mar 18, 4:20PM
For those who need to make frequent trips to the bathroom every night, designer Jung Soo Park has created the Molli flashlight, which is only as bright as you need it to be. It's also the first flashlight that feels like a stuffed animal, so you can actually sleep with it beside you so it's always easy to find.
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The Prophet of Virtual Reality
Mar 18, 4:00PM
Palmer Luckey, the the man behind Oculus virtual reality goggles, is shockingly young. He may be responsible for one of the current hottest things in tech, but he's just 21. And he says the kind of things people that age say when they're bold enough to dream out loud.
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NSA System Can Record an Entire Country's Calls for 30 Days at a Time
Mar 18, 4:00PM
Remember all that business about the NSA saying it only collects phone metadata? Yeah, that's not true. Not only can the NSA listen in on foreigners' phone calls. It can record "every single" conversation in an entire country and store the recordings for 30 days at a time, a new Washington Post report reveals.
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