You're poring over the hundreds of photos you shot on a Saturday afternoon. They're all shit. You drink a mystery liquid from a miniature vessel resembling a Canon lens. Magically, those photos now look great. $18 (for 3). [Photojojo via Laughing Squid] More »
How do you make a maple seed cool? Turning it into a state-of-the-art single-wing helicopter drone that soldiers and police officers can carry into the field, and that they launch by hurling it like a boomerang, is a pretty good start. More »
So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn't possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn't worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. More »
Lockheed Martin's Orion multi-purpose crew vehicle (MPCV) is still many years and years away from seeing the cold vacuum of space. Until then, it'll see the cold water of NASA's Langley testing pool, getting repeatedly dunked at 55 MPH. More »
Google's horrible new policy on using real names in Google+ effectively means that the service is now a danger to real people. You have to ask yourself why a company that pledged to not be evil would do this. More »
We knew galaxies collide with each other, but we rarely see beautiful pictures of them about to engage in a titanic clusterfuck. This is one of those: VV 340 North about hit VV 340 on the bracket. More »
Lookout towers are often more dramatic pieces of architecture than tall buildings because they only have a single floor - the top one. This means that they can be very skeletal and the design is all about a dramatic staircase. Here are some of our favorite examples, accidental architectural gems, like mini Eiffel Towers used for watching everything from forest fires to smugglers. More »
In this week's app roundup: pictures, turned panoramic; videos, made flickery; messages, killed by Facebook; cocktails, made and drank; NYC, re-affirmed as the best city; graffiti, virtualized; people, sculpted; penises, played with and much, much more. More »
Lately, anytime the gaping maw of AT&T opens, no matter what it's talking about—puppies! or unlimited data (boring) or financial data—it has to slip in at least a tiny reference to how badly the T-Mobile merger has to happen, or all of our phones are going to explode and the puppies will die and go extinct forever. More »
Today's sticky, ill-defined civil rights-related debate involves government, its people and the rights of each when there's a protest taking place in the middle of one of the most connected, social periods of human history. Let's discuss! More »
Absolutely gut-wrenching video of the Indiana State Fair concert stage collapse from last night. An engineering failure and poor planing to the highest degree. The video will no doubt be used as evidence in the inevitable wrongful death suit. [AP] More »
If you've ever had a broken bone, it's not just about dealing with the pain. It's about dealing with how confusing the whole healing process can be. This is a cast that could take some of the mystery out of what your body's doing. More »
I've always wanted to see Chicago. I just haven't had the chance yet. This gorgeous tilt-shift time-lapse of the city, taken by WGN TV, is more proof that I need to go. I will have your deep dish pizza. More »
I'll say this of Margaux Lange's jewelry. They're provocative. And I feel like the fact that they're just a tad... grisly is softened by how cute they wind up looking. I feel funny... More »
In keeping with new changes Google's rolling out for their services, all their login pages will soon follow suit. Hence the new layout for Gmail's page. Altogether airier and cleaner. The "Gmail" in plaintext. All the functionality you'd expect. More »
We're all quite familiar with how beautiful the proposed new Apple campus is supposed to look. Well, today Cupertino released high-res renders of the facility. And they look mighty stunning. Like, I kind of wanna live in these images, stunning. More »
It seems the good folks at Mozilla just set the latest version of Firefox loose. It promises to be 20% faster than the already zippy Version 5. It also gets a facelift and a speed boost on Android. Neat. More »
It's a scary world out there. Fires in London. War overseas. Michele Bachmann. At the end of the day, you need to keep yourself safe. But how do you do that without drawing too much attention to yourself? More »
