It’s fascinating to watch traditional camera manufacturers try to adapt their technology to a world in which smartphones can take great photos. Point-and-shoots have never been better, and yet they’ve never been less useful to the everyman. Which is why Sony packed all of its wonderful pocket-cam technology into its weirdo QX100 “lens-style camera.” The […]
Month: September 2013
If you take a step back and really think about it, we’re living in a pretty futuristic age. People are flying around on jetpacks. Everybody’s carrying around pocket computers. We go to space all the time. Pretty futuristic! Not everyone is so convinced, though. For better or worse, a lot of the people who run America […]
If you think that kids today are going to have screwed up childhoods because all they care about is playing with their phones or keeping up with friends on Facebook or shooting people in video games, well, there’s still hope! Comedian Mark Malkoff sat down and talked with some kids about social media and the […]
Your iPhone’s new operating system comes with plenty of advantages, but iOS 7′s not without its drawbacks. Battery life just ain’t quite what you’d want it to be, but we’ve got some tips to squeeze the most out of that sucker and stay juiced all day long. iOS 7 comes with a whole bunch of […]
The longer you’ve been wrapped up in the internet, but more crazy stuff you’ve seen. Everybody’s got one or two really strange, totally bizarre website they like to trot out; they’re like trading cards for web nerds. Now’s the time, what’s the single strangest site you’ve got in your arsenal? To try and keep this […]
When lunchtime rolls around during the work week, you’ve got a handful of options that usually boil down to two: Head out to one of the food-slingin’ establishments within walking distance, or reach into your bag to eat whatever it is you packed yourself to chow down on that afternoon. Now, if you’re a regular […]
See this cute little space dino, floating like it’s the most natural thing in the world? Well he was made by hand, with love, in orbit. And you can never have him because he belongs Earth’s luckiest three-year-old boy. Aren’t you green with envy? Mr. Saurus here (unofficial name) was made by ISS flight engineer […]
You can run into some weird dudes on the underground, but for the most part it’s a pretty normal experience. That is, unless you record it with a digital scanner; then it turns into a glitched-out digital funhouse. On acid. Metro is Chris Coleman’s daily commute on the Denver Light Rail as seen by a […]
We’ve seen real laser guns before, pulling off tricks like starting small fires, or popping black balloons. That’s cool, sure, but it’s got nothing—and I mean nothing—on this crazy handheld laser rifle that eats metal for breakfast. Developed by TWI this laser-cutter was initially designed for use by Terminators robots, but a few recent tweaks […]
You think of water and fire as opposites, but it doesn’t have to be that way. If you’re clever enough about it, they’ll get along together just fine. And there’s just always something so paradoxically cool about starting a fire with H2O. As the King of Random shows off here, there are a couple of […]