Gaming Preorder Discounts, BBC Documentaries, SanDisk Storage [Deals]
Prepare your wallet and your backlog, here are a whole bunch of PC pre-order deals.
Why Scientists Dig Trenches To Find Hidden Fault Lines in Cities
Thanks
to our asphalt-giddy behavior, we've all but paved over the fault lines
that zigzag through some of our riskiest seismic zones. A new video
shows how a team of geologists and engineers in LA have been digging a hole to find the exact location of a fault which could prove to be especially destructive.
A scientifically accurate Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers is quite nasty
Back again to ruin all of your childhood's favorite cartoons, here's ADHD hilariously explaining how disgusting chipmunks are.
Sure, they might look cute with their puffy cheeks but in reality,
their always growing, suicidal teeth and disease riddled selves don't
make for ace detective material.
Tech From Stealth Warplanes Make Wind Turbines Invisible to Radar
From afar, wind turbines look like small toys spinning lazily in the wind. But get up close, and you realize what huge structures
they really are: hundreds of feet tall, blade tips slicing through the
air at over 100 mph. And these wind turbines can really scramble airport
and weather radars. To solve the problem,…
Home Depot Confirms Hack: As Many As 60 Million Cards Stolen
Home Depot confirmed today
that the company was, indeed, the victim of a large credit card breach
reported by many customers last week. An estimated 60 million card
numbers were stolen, which would make it the biggest such hack in retail
history.
Sit Back, Tell Us How Special You Are, and Win a Prize
While the drive to take quizzes and fill out surveys online is technically not included on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs,
it's nevertheless up there with eating, sleeping, and sex in terms of
unstoppable human urges. When given the opportunity to reflect on your
own special self by ticking off boxes— introvert or…
Make sure to watch this short till the very end because it's brilliant
This short animation for Channel 4 is brilliant in
many ways. It shows an overly developed world inhabited by millions of
cute little creatures, with cute little jobs, and cute little bars. All
is fine till the final twist—so unexpected that it blew my mind.
The ***Flawless Remix Is My Daily Affirmation
Whenever I need to light the fire under my own ass, I turn on the remix of Beyonce's ***Flawless. There's 100 percent more Nicki Minaj, and it's 100 percent more awesome. It's a motivational tool!
How an Iconic B-Movie Powerhouse Churned Out Its Godawful Effects
Ever wonder who's responsible for the trove of cringeworthy, if classic, B-movies clogging up your Netflix queues? Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, currently playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, is the inside story of the gonzo gusto of Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, Israeli…
That New Utopia Show Is a Dumb Dystopia But Obviously That's the Point
Throughout history, people have tried to build many different versions of Utopia. Sometimes it's a charismatic leader ushering people toward a righteous path with a common goal. Other times, groups of like-minded people come together to democratically work toward a common goal. And sometimes it's just a bunch of…
Japan's Spending $5 Billion to Fast Track Maglev Trains in the US
Come on guys. It's just 40 miles. We'll even go halfsies with you.
Except, in this case, "halfsies" still amounts to $5 billion. Japan, in
an effort to help DC build a maglev train that would cut travel time to
Baltimore down to 15 minutes, is offering up half the cash to do it. The question is: Does that make the…
When These CMYK Coasters Are Stacked a Masterpiece Is Revealed
As
newspapers, magazines, and books are slowly replaced with electronic
alternatives, the art of CMYK printing is slowly dying alongside them.
So now's as good a time as any to grab a souvenir before the technical
process becomes a forgotten art—and these CMYK coasters seem to fit the bill, especially if you've got…
Tamagotchi 2014 Review: My Pocket Friend Left Me Before I Could Kill Him
Remember
Tamagotchis? Of course you do. They taught you about responsibility.
They taught you about friendship. But most importantly, they taught you
that friends don't leave friends in rooms filled with their own feces.
Now, it's time to reopen those old, grief-stricken wounds. The
Tamagotchi is back—and it is still…
The Clever Plan to Mine Lithium From Geothermal Power Plants' Wastewater
Regardless
what you think about the future of phones or wearables or cars, there
is one thing nearly everyone can agree on: We will need more batteries.
And for that, we'll need more lithium. One startup has its eyes on a new source of lithium: the wastewater from geothermal power plants.
Google Play Movies & TV app
for iOS, which was announced back in January, now supports offline
playback. So you can watch your videos from Google Play on your iPad on a
plane. Nifty.
These Stealth Knives Only Need Sharpening Every 25 Years
What
good is a fancy set of kitchen knives if after deboning a few chickens
and julienning a bunch of celery stalks it's already too dull to handle a
ripe tomato? You don't want to spend your time in the kitchen toiling
away on a sharpening stone, so the folks at TB Groupe designed a set of
knives featuring…
8 Things We Can Do Now to Build a Space Colony This Century
Before
humans start living in space on a regular basis, there's a lot of basic
science and political agendas that need to advance. We talked to
scientists and experts about the fundamental things they think we should
do right now, if we want to have a space colony in the next 100 years.
Archaeologists Just Discovered a 1,000-Year-Old Viking Fortress
It's
been 60 years since a viking settlement was discovered, leading
historians to assume that we'd uncovered everything there is to uncover.
But this weekend, Danish and English archaeologists announced they've unearthed evidence of a new fortress that's been sought after for years—and they used some pretty cool tech…
What's the Best Carry On Luggage?
Even on the long lists of gripes I have with air travel, sitting
helplessly in my cramped, hot seat as the airline loses or destroys my
bag still really stands out. A great piece of carry on luggage remains
safely with you, saves you a trip to the luggage carousel, and protects
all the great gear you were inspired…
7 Famous Quotes About the Future That Are Actually Fake
Here at Paleofuture, we love failed predictions. It's kind of our bread
and butter. But shockingly, some of the failed predictions being passed
around on the internet are often misleading, frequently taken out of
context, or sometimes completely fabricated.
Climbing The Snowiest Mountain In The World
The
snowiest mountain in the world can be found right here in the US. I
traveled to the North Cascades in Washington State to climb Mt. Baker
with world-renowned climbing guide, Craig Van Hoy.
Moto 360 Battery Life Test: So Far, Not As Bad As You Heard
Battery life is generally the slowest thing to test on a gadget, and
it's almost always the toughest to get right. There's just no way to
rush it, and there are just so many variables regarding how people use a
particular gadget that it's always one of those "your mileage may vary"
type of situations. Last week,…
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