This fire resistant suit is being burned at 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit for about 12 seconds. If you were wearing this suit with that kind of fire attacking you, there's still a possibility you might suffer some second degree burns. But if you were wearing traditional fire retardent material, well, you'd be dead. More »
I never knew those plastic clips that hold a bag of bread together actually had a purpose. The most commonly used system is the one above, where Blue, Green, Red, White, Yellow (alphabetical order) tell you which day it was actually baked, Monday through Saturday. Not every bread company does this, but next time you see it, you'll know which loaf is the fresh prince. [Wise Bread via Consumerist] More »
Forget stomach stapling and lap band surgery. The next big thing in weight loss surgery may be the stomach pacemaker. More »
Depending on which platform you use, the experience of downloading and installing updates to your OS can vary. Which one are you? [Sticky Comics] More »
A 48-year-old man in Naperville, Illinois must be crying his eyes out right now because he was recently finally forced to face reality about a few things. More »
We don't really want to think about how many hours we've spent flinging little cartoon birds at little cartoon pigs—it's too sad to consider all that wasted time. Instead we're going to focus on which of those little cartoon birds we like best and why. More »
Until Watson can pull out answers as good as Teen Jeopardy contestants, I want no part of this new robotic trivia movement. [Gawker TV] More »
Oh, how I love the Onion! It constantly creates fantastic nightmare scenarios detailing how the world as we know it could be destroyed—or in this case, how a cute piglet could take down the Internet. More »
OS X Lion Will Use TRIM commands when dealing with SSDs, which will extend the life of the storage devices found in all MacBook Airs. [HardMac via Cult of Mac] More »
Munyaradzi Gwisai, a lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe's law school, was showing internet videos about the tumult sweeping across North Africa to students and activists last Saturday, when state security agents burst into his office. More »
Click to viewNotable film critic Leonard Maltin and notable unstable former boxer Mike Tyson take a few minutes to hash out Iron Mike's Oscar favorites. It's even more ridiculous than you'd think. I mean, there's pigeon-whispering. More »
After releasing DSLR cameras such as the a33 and a55, which feature a translucent mirror inside, Sony said they plan to put the same tech all of their interchangable-lens cameras...eventually. The translucent mirror technology helps to increase shutter speed. [Photo Rumors via PetaPixel] More »
You get this odd looking piece, created by the Netherlands-based Dieter Volkers. It will ensure that nobody visiting your home/room takes you very seriously. [Dieter Volkers via Core77 via FastCo] More »
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We're about to replace our old HDTV. We're considering a projector for our home theater system. What do we need to consider, and what kind of issues will we run into setting up a projector in our home? Is it worth it? More »
Remember Boston Dynamics, the company responsible for the oh-so-creepy BigDog robot? Well they're still at it, except now they're working on a cheetah-like robot (called Cheetah) that can chase us down like prey, and a humanoid, bipedal robot that looks like the Terminator crossed with the Headless Horseman. More »
The latest Apple patent indicates future MacBooks will have touch-sensitive technology on their external casing. Apple dreamed up some grand ideas as to how this might be used Media playback controls? On/off button? iPhone sync? Possibly, but judging from this HIGHLY PRECISE diagram shown above, it mostly just looks like an elegant battery indicator. [Apple Insider] More »
From the earliest cartoon dinosaurs to stop-motion to CGI to today's eye-gouging 3D, Time guides us through a tour of the major milestones in over a century's worth of special effects achievements. Even The Parent Trap gets some much-deserved love. And who knows? Maybe studying up here will help out with that Oscar pool. [Time] More »
When an adventurous skier tumbles backwards down the rocky side of a mountain his helmet-cam is there to record it all. According to his Vimeo account he was very lucky not to be seriously injured. More »
