The Creators Project assembled this incredible video profile of Curt Morgan, a snowboarder-cum-filmmaker whose team, Brain Farm, uses the world's most advanced cameras to capture extreme sports as they've never been seen before. Think Planet Earth on forty Red Bulls. More »
Snowboard - Sport - Extreme sport - Winter Sports - Magazines and E-zines
When you consider it, we're not so nice with our furniture. We plop our heavy selves down on some pieces and put drinks on others...sometimes without coasters. We push them around, figuratively and literally. This smart furniture, however, pushes back. More »
Furniture - Home and Garden - Shopping - Consumer Goods and Services - Business
Despite its mobile prowess, Apple sucks at the internet. But surprisingly it's Microsoft—not Google—that's best positioned for Our Future in the Cloud. Here's why. More »
Microsoft - Apple - Google - IPad - Steve Ballmer
The next time you're at a music festival and see a giant rainbow trout swishing around in the sky, there's just a chance you might not be intoxicated. It might be scientists testing an airship that moves like a fish. More »
Airship - Technology - Aerospace - Aeronautics - Lighter Than Air
Posture a little wonky these days? Bum hurt after eight hours of sitting on the office desk chair? You need to invest in one of these 16 workstations, pronto. [WebUrbanist] More »
Workstation - Hardware - Health - Shopping - Furniture
Ever wonder what happened to that weird kid who found Internet fame and shame when a video of him waving a stick like a light saber went around? Well, like anyone else, he grew up. This is him now: More »
starwars - Science fiction - Games - Roleplaying - Recreation
The biggest astromech in the Universe lives in Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. Some crazy students decided to turn the Goodsell Observatory into RD-D2 using a temporary disguise. Simple, but effective. And as the video shows, it moves! More »
R2-D2 - Minnesota - Carleton College - Education - United States
You'd have to be quite the crazed Hello Kitty fan to pay four bucks for a Twitter iPhone app with a nauseatingly cutesy user interface like this, but it's available on iTunes now anyway. [iTunes] More »
iPhone - Twitter - Smartphones - Handhelds - Online Communities
To stand out in the already-overpopulated field of alarm clock iPhone apps, you have to bring some really unique functionality to the table. Sleep Blaster does just that, with one extremely good alarm clock idea and one extremely bad one... More »
IPhone - Sleep disorder - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Alarm clock
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer and Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie spoke at the All Things D D8 conference. In the spirit of fair comparison, we did some thinking about their language, just as we did for Steve Jobs before. More »
Microsoft - Steve Ballmer - Steve Jobs - Business - Allegedly Unethical Firms
It's a monster! It's a bike! It's monsterbike! And it can destroy any bicycles that it encounters. And most cars too. [LikeCool] More »
Cycling - Sports - Bike Shops - United States - Bicycle
I may wish that everything in life could be coded, but I'm happy that I'm not a codemonkey. Because let's face it: I don't have the skills and definitely couldn't cope with days like this very often. [GeekAndPoke via Digg] More »
Humor - Columnist - Analysis and Opinion - Recreation - Magazines and E-zines
A study in incongruity: ArcAttack, the Tesla-coil playing musical act adored by geeks everywhere, rocking out for Sharon Osbourne, Howie Mandel, and That British Guy Who Isn't Simon Cowell on America's Got Talent. But something else is amiss... More »
Howie Mandel - Sharon Osbourne - Got Talent - americas got talent - Shopping
Finally, someone got a helicopter and filmed the Guatemalan Gates of Hell. The 200-feet deep sinkhole—which swallowed a clothing factory—was caused by tropical storm Agatha's torrential rains. What I want to see now is someone exploring the bottom. More »
Guatemala - Central America - Guatemala City - Sinkhole - Tropical cyclone
BP has managed to cut the top off the broken oil riser pipe and is in the process of getting a containment dome mounted over the mess. You can watch the process live here. [ABC] More »
BP - Business - Oil - Construction and Maintenance - Pipes and Fittings
PingChat! (formerly known as Ping!) has received an overhaul. The iPhone messaging app now has a better looking user interface, allows for group chats, can send images and videos, and is ad-free. Not too shabby. More »
iPhone - Smartphones - Handhelds - Mobile Computing - Wallpapers and Themes
Remember that amazing Canon lens thermos from a few months ago? Well, It was only a matter of time before we saw the response: a Nikon AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8 thermos, available for preorder. Your move, Sony. [Ebay via Nikon Rumors] More »
Camera - Nikon - Photography - Canon - Arts
The Pentagon's cribbing a play from Monday Night Football, adopting the same instant-replay technology used during games to improve analysis of war-zone video feeds. More »
Pentagon - History - Twentieth Century - Wars and Conflicts - Terrorism
