Faster Flash Storage, Faster iPhone 6 Charging [Deals]
With several great deals available, it's an excellent day to stock up on or upgrade to USB3 flash storage.
Happy Wednesday, Key and Peele Is Back in Our Lives
Good news for fans of sketch comedy and laughing: Key and Peele comes back for its fourth season tonight, and the first episode is stellar.
Why Sprawling LA Could Be Denser Than NYC in a Decade
By
2025, the biggest cities in the world will not only be bigger, but
exceptionally denser. According to a new study, Hong Kong will be the
densest megacity on the planet, almost twice as crowded as the runner
up. And here in the U.S.—and this might be a real shocker—Los Angeles may be more dense than New York City.
The Beautiful Near-Silence of Botswana's Okavango Delta at Night
I
spend most of my weekdays on my sofa sitting in front of a computer
screen. I'm guessing a lot of you spend most of your weekdays in some
kind of indoor office environment, also sitting in front of a computer
screen. Wanna close your eyes with me and take a sonic journey to Botswana's incredible Okavango Delta?
These illustrations perfectly make fun of our obsession with Facebook
Everybody uses Facebook even if you don't. Artist Pawel Kuczynski
played on the idea of our obsession with the social network and
people's behavior while using it and how Facebook treats its users in
these perfectly on point satirical illustrations. They take Facebook's
logo and twist it into something else.
iPhone 6 Review: The Phone That Lured Me Back to Apple
I'd
rather get this out of the way up front: the iPhone 6 is the best
smartphone you can buy. In fact, it's better than that. The iPhone 6
convinced me to switch back to Apple.
The shrinking of the Arctic ice in one simple graphic
NASA's Greg Shirah made this great grid graphic using images of the north pole sea ice extent from the National Snow and Ice Data Center. From
left to right you go from 1979 to 2014. From top to bottom you can see
the months. You can see how the spots are smaller every year. Zoom in
and scroll.
Winnie the Pooh was based on a real bear that participated in WWI
Everybody
loves Winnie the Pooh and his adorable addiction to honey. It's often
believed that the children's book character is based on a teddy bear that the author, A.A. Milne, gave to his son Christopher Robin Milne. But this is only partially true.
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A Blueprint-Style Catalog of Man's Greatest Erections
Do you love architecture? Like, really, really love it? The Schematic of Structures
is the latest poster by the chronic catalogers at Popchartlab, showing
bitty, blueprint-esque icons of famous constructions from Stonehenge to
the Burj Khalifa. Owning one and hanging it on your wall would be a
great way to publicly…
This Modified Moped Engine Powers a Boat, Concrete Mixer, and Woodsaw
We
live in a world of vehicles and machinery made up of a million
different moving parts and hyper-specialized tech guts. Using nothing
more than a modified moped motor, Gaspard Tinรฉ-Berรจs and Tristan Kopp of
Re-Do Studio imagined a future where a single modular Engine Block can be used to power everything from a…
Report: Apple Knew of Security Problems Long Before iCloud Breach
A software developer is accusing
Apple of brushing off a serious iCloud security flaw that he alerted
the company to six months before the recent iCloud celebrity nude photo
stealing scandal.
Tiny Orbiting Planets Tell the Time On This Solar System Clock
We usually measure the time it takes for a planet in our solar system to orbit the sun in months and years. But given the compact scale of this desktop solar system, the anodized aluminium balls can instead be used to measure seconds, minutes, and hours.
Heating Elements Inside this Suitcase Kill Stowaway Bed Bugs
If
there's one souvenir you don't want to return from a trip with, it's
bed bugs. Those little pests are a nightmare to eradicate, so someone
has created the perfect luggage for travelers who frequent seedy hotels.
The ThermalStrike suitcase heats up inside once you get home, ensuring your clothes are bed bug-free…
A Bittersweet Walk On the High Line's Latest (and Last) Leg
For
the past five years, New Yorkers have enjoyed that linear green
thoroughfare known as the High Line, which has been slowly extending up
the West Side of Manhattan since 2009. Yesterday, the third and final
phase of the park was completed, and it's both happy and sad—that a
great project was seen to completion, and…
Planes Will Start Running on Biofuels From Fallen Trees in Two Years
Now here's some welcome innovation in the airline industry. Southwest Airlines announced today that it will be using biofuel on several of its flights by 2016, purchasing the blended fuel from a Colorado company that salvages "140,000 dry tons of woody biomass feedstock" per year—fallen timber from local forests that…
Ten Technologies That Will Revolutionize Car Manufacturing
Car manufacturing is rapidly changing and these are the technologies that are driving that change.
How to Go Back to iOS 8 and Get Your Cell Service Working Again
If you just updated your new iPhone 6 or 6 Plus, you've probably noticed your cell service and TouchID have died a swift death. But fear not! There is a way to downgrade back to iOS 8 and restore full functionality while Apple patches the update. Here's how to do it.
Create Whatever Furniture You Need With This Cardboard Building Set
If you're not going to be living too long in a place, decking out your temporary abode in recyclable cardboard furniture
actually makes a lot of sense. It's cheaper than real furniture, you
don't have to bring it next time you move, and with these modular TapeFlips sets you can actually build exactly the pieces you…
iPhone 6 Plus Review: The Best Tablet I've Ever Used
Six
years ago, I sat on my girlfriend's couch, casually flipping her new
iPhone 3G end over end. I was pondering why anyone would buy an iPhone
over my clearly superior T-Mobile G1 handset. Yes, I was an Android nut, a former Sidekick owner who believed that smartphones should have physical keyboards and be held…
No, your hair and fingernails don't keep growing after you die
Ever heard the morbid little Fun Fact™ that your hair and nails keep growing after you die? Well, it's not true. It may appear
that a dead person's fingernails are still growing, but that's only
because the body is drying up. The skin's retraction around the nail
just makes it look like they're growing.
Robotic Birds Are the (Ridiculously Expensive) Modern-Day Scarecrows
At
the Sydney Opera House, seagulls are a bigger nuisance than pitchy
tenors. Management is desperate to keep the ravenous sky rats away, so
much that they've installed a large robotic bird of prey as a modern-day scarecrow.
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