Apple's newest iteration of their desktop operating system is coming this summer, but we got a chance to play around with the developer beta to see some of the new features coming to Mac OS X. Here's what you can expect. More »
In this week's app roundup: cows, herded (and not abducted); Adult Swim, mobilized; DSLRs, controlled remotely; birds, trained to fly; cocktails, mixed; flights, found; cook books, brought dazzlingly into the future, and more! More »
Oscar Backstage Pass: This is a great idea: An application that allows you to view the Oscars exactly how you want. Just click where you want to be in a map, and it will show real time video from that camera. A perfect way to stalk your favorite stars from the red carpet to the moment they sit their butts in the Kodak Theatre and the Governors Ball. ABC's Oscar Backstage Pass is just $1 and it is designed for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
Cows vs. Aliens: The premise is simple: herd your cows into your barn without letting any pesky extraterrestrials in. You can get by using two thumbs, scooting the cows and aliens along in various directions, but as their numbers start to increase, you're probably gonna wanna try out more fingers. $2.
We know it's happening. Apple's made it obvious that new iPads will materialize, in expectedly grand fashion, on March 2nd. So what do we know about the Second Coming—and what else might pop up at Apple's shindig. More »
Sirens! Nothing new. Ubiquitous on city streets. Even small towns have, to some degree, grown accustomed to their shrill warnings. That's kind of a problem! Enter the Rumbler. You literally feel it coming. More »
How does this happen? Well, the trick is that the spoon is made from gallium, a substance that melts at only 86 degrees Fahrenheit. So when you put the gallium spoon in hot water it turns into T-1000 style liquid metal ooze. So awesome. [Reddit via The Daily What] More »
NASA Scientists have tested the climate effect of what a small, regional nuclear war would do to the world and have come up with a few revealing (and quite scary) conclusions. For the purpose of the exercise, NASA termed a small, regional nuclear war as 100 Hiroshima-level bombs. More »
The video description says it's a 60 second experiment with the color Indigo but that's sort of underselling the beauty of it. There is indigo, yes, but also beautiful smoke, dyed colors and sparks! I don't know why but I've watched it 10 times already. [Paul Octavious via Mappeal] More »
In Georgia, a 14-month-old toddler wandered away from her mother inside a bank. Crazy, I know. What's even crazier is that the baby managed to walk inside an open bank vault that locked as the bank closed (and wouldn't open again until the bank opened). After cameras spotted the baby on security cameras inside the vault, the mother realized that her kid was trapped inside. More »
There's no question that the new MacBook Pros are blazingly awesome. The whole line has been rejuvenated with Sandy Bridge processors, better graphics and a lightning fast Thunderbolt I/O port. But one thing has been bothering us about the update, or rather, lack of update: The 13-inch MacBook Pro still has a lower resolution screen. There's not even an option for a higher-res screen, like the 15-inch Pro. More »
This is one of Edwin Hubble's personal telescopes, the one Hubble used before he finished his Ph.D. It was given to a teacher when he left for graduate school and has been handed down from generation to generation. The telescope is beautifully vintage and to just think about the great man's eye looking through it, and how he saw the rest of the galaxy, makes it one of a kind. [BoingBoing] More »
Cameron and Tyler Winkelvoss, who if you believe them, are the true inventors of Facebook, seem like decently level headed people. They're from the upper crust, for sure, but they respect hard work (as judged by their Olympian status) and reason (as judged by their Hahvadness). More »
Photographer John Crane was out ice climbing and stumbled upon a beautiful ice cave that he wanted to shoot perfectly. The problem was that it was hard to capture all the little details without a flash gel. Crane says: More »
Filed in things I never knew: early Monopoly boards were circular! Filed in things I should have known: Monopoly street names all hail from Atlantic City. More »
This promo video, made in 1984 for a marketing event by Apple, is over the top cheesy, laugh my ass off ridiculous and probably the worst 'commercial' they've ever made. Favorite moment: the guy carrying the huge Lisa computer like it's a laptop. [CrunchGear] More »
