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• Guy invents high-tech machine to separate oreo cookies [Video]

  In Technology, VIDEO / 27 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  It’s one of the oldest traditions we have: Separating Oreo cookies for our enjoyment. Some like the cookie side, some like the creme side. Everyone has their own style on how they twist, dunk and consume each Oreo. David Neevel, who is a physicist, is no different. David prefers the cookie side of the Oreo and has invented a high-tech robot that separates his cookies, shaves off the creme, and provides him with a perfect Oreo to cure his appetite. David shows us how his machine works in this hilarious video.

• Steve Jobs Was The Best Infomercial Salesman Of All-Time

  In Technology / 25 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  Billy Mays is not that greatest infomercial salesman of all-time. He is a close second of Steve Jobs. Yup, the visionary of Apply was good at two things. 1. working with his team at Apple to create game changing products. 2. selling these products at his keynote addresses with dramatic flare and his “One More Thing” tactic.

• Google Chromebook Pixel

  In Gear, Technology / 22 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  The Chromebook is here and it promises to compete with Apple’s Retina MacBooks. The monitor is the most intriguing arm that distinguishes itself from the others. A full touch screen features a 12.85″ Gorilla Glass multi-touch screen

• 10 Brilliant HQ Photos of the Russian Meteor

  In HIGH QUALITY, Space / 22 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  Marat Akhmetaleyev, 31, was at the right place at the right time. Mr Akhmetaleyev had gone out to shoot some idyllic rural scenes when the meteorite blasted into view just where his camera was pointing. This incredible picture of the Russian meteorite was taken by the professional photographer who feared it was a nuclear bomb. Despite trembling with fear, Mr Akhmetaleyev instinctively started snapping away as the space rock lit up the sky. The 100,000-tonne space rock blitzes through the air before exploding with the force of 30 Hiroshima bombs.

• 7 Computer Class Games You Played In Elementary School

  In Randomness, Technology / 21 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  There was something magical about entering computer class as a kid: the dim lighting, the soft hum of the hardware punctuated by the occasional clicking and clacking of a printer or floppy disk at work… plus, we knew we were about to relax and have some fun. Why couldn’t video games be used to teach us high school physics, chemistry or algebra? Read “7 Computer Class Games You Played In Elementary School” on Guyism >>

• 17 Mesmerizing HQ Photos of the Sun As You’ve Never Seen It Before

  In Space / 21 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  NASA created an extraordinary three minute video showing the results of their Solar Dynamics Observatory project. The observatory launched in 2010 and in those three years SDO’s data and imagery has blown everyone’s hopes and expectations out of the water. Here are images shot by the SDO that provide stunningly detailed views of the sun as we have never seen it before.

• Watch The Playstation 4 Announcement Live Right Here!

  In Technology / 20 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  Word on the street has it that Sony is set to debut a new PlayStation 4 console at a much anticipated meeting that kicks off at 5:30 EST today! You can watch one of the biggest gaming announcements of the year live in the video player below. Watch live video from playstation on www.twitch.tv

• Google’s “Glass” Video Will Blow Your Mind [Video]

  In Gear, Technology, VIDEO / 20 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  Wow! What a way to start a morning. I’m in nerd heaven right now. Google has just uploaded a new video promoting their Google Glass product, which essentially is Go Pro Cameras meet Smart Phones.  Google Glass is wearable high-tech specs that is hands free and interactive through natural voice commands.  Users wear them like regular glasses and voice a command like, “Okay Glass, take this video”.  Then, Google’s technology does the rest.  Google Glass can do everything your smart phone does: Get directions, share videos, connect to the internet, interact with other people around the world and so much more.  This is a ground-breaking product to say the least and their video below helps to prove that statement.  This is “How it Feels Through Glass”.

• CCTV Footage of Meteorite Flash and Shock Wave at the University of Chelyabinsk

  In Space, VIDEO / 19 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  Surveillance cameras in the university of Chelyabinsk captured various angles of meteoritic flashes and impacts of shock wave.

• Inside Google’s Eccentric Zurich Offices

  In Technology / 19 February 2013 / 0 comments

  
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  Meteorite Explosion Sets Off A “Gold Rush” In Russia

  In Space / 19 February 2013 / 0 comments

  On Friday, terror rained from the skies, blowing out windows and scaring people over an enormous swath of Siberia. But by Monday, for many people what fell from the sky had turned to pure gold, and it touched off a rush to retrieve the fragments, many buried in deep February snows.

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  Heat Map Of Every Meteorite To Hit Earth Since 2300 BC

  In Space / 19 February 2013 / 0 comments

  This is a nerd’s dream. The following map shows impact zones where scientists have found craters of meteorites, dating back as far as the year 2,300 BC. All of this is on one map that you can zoom in and interact with.

• 5 Things you can do with a Spare USB Flash Drive

  In Technology, VIDEO / 19 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  You know those spare USB flash drives you have in your desk drawer unused since you’ve been a progressive-techie and switched to the cloud? Turns out there are more things those little guys can do besides hold files and folders. Here are the top 5 alternative uses for spare USB flash drives. Source: HackCollege.com

• Name That Space Rock

  In Space / 18 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  Very helpful with all your space questions. With the recent meteor/meteorite news, illustrator Tim Lillis of Narwhal Creative realized that he was confused about the differences between meteors, meteoroids, comets, and meteorites.  So he designed “Name That Space Rock,” a handy chart that explains them all. Source: Laughing Squid Tips

• Time-Lapses of the Night Sky Over Death Valley

  In Space / 16 February 2013 / 0 comments

  
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  The 22 Key Turning Points In The History Of YouTube

  In Technology / 16 February 2013 / 0 comments

  YouTube is the world’s most popular online video site, with users watching 4 billion hours worth of video each month, and uploading 72 hours worth of video every minute. Since its inception in 2005, YouTube has grown from a site devoted to amateur videos to one that distributes original content.

• Man Takes Stunning Photos of the Sun From His Backyard

  In Space / 16 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  Alan Friedman is a greeting card-maker by day and amateur astronomer once the night falls. These photos were taken right from Friedman’s backyard in Buffalo, NY using a small (3 ½” aperture) telescope with a Hydrogen Alpha filter and an industrial webcam to capture the surface of the Sun.

• Russian Meteorite Super Cut Compilation [RSVLTS Original]

  In Space / 15 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  You would have to be living under a rock to not have heard about the meteor impact in Russia this morning. Over 700 people were been injured in the sparsely-populated Chelyabinsk region from the impact. There are tons of videos floating around the web so we took the liberty of compiling the best of the best into this Russian Meteor Supercut.

• Photo of the Day: The Snow Covered Northeast From Space

  In Space, Weather / 11 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  The northeast got walloped by Nemo this past weekend which brought accumulations of at least 30 inches to five states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York. Now we can look at the record-breaking storm’s aftermath as a whole with this stunning image shot by NASA’s Tera satellite.

• Photo of the Day: Powerful Nor’easter ‘Nemo’ As Seen From Space

  In Space, Weather / 8 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  The U.S. East Coast is about to get romped by a massive winter storm comprised of two low pressure systems that are merging to create one large superstorm. The NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite captured this fascinating image at 9:01 a.m. EST, showing clouds associated with the western frontal system stretching from Canada through the Ohio and Tennessee valleys, into the Gulf of Mexico. The comma-shaped low pressure system located over the Atlantic, east of Virginia, is forecast to merge with the front and create a powerful nor’easter. The National Weather Service expects the merged storm to move northeast and drop between two to three feet of snow in parts of New England. See the full size image here >> Credit: NASA

• 27 Remarkable Apple Concepts from the 1980′s

  In Apple, BRAND, Technology / 7 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  You always hear how the late Steve Jobs was always ahead of his time. How his idea of the future would pave the way for products we couldn’t imagine living without today. Well the proof is in the pudding, Jobs’ conceptual thinking in the 1980′s was vastly beyond anything we could’ve ever imagined. Hartmut Esslinger accounts his relationship with Apple and Jobs in at a time where consumer electronics and communication technologies were there for the taking. Essliner writes a mind-blowing excerpt from his book,  Design Forward, in Fast Co. Design. His innovative and conceptual thinking would reinvent the aesthetics of Apple products for the foreseeable future. 

• The Rise Of Social Media Resumes [Infographic]

  In Technology / 7 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  These days, job seekers push a button and have a social background check on you within minutes. Now some people take that as a bad thing, changing their name or going off the grid, but your social livelihood might just win you a job. Job seekers today, like seeing a presence on social media, as long as you keep those spring break, Cancun pics private. A positive well manicured social presence holds many great qualities, it shows your with the times and current events, your following says a lot about social interaction and how people recept you. The problem is treating your social outlets like a resume, checking grammer, holding off on profanity and doing a clean sweep on pictures of you doing keg stands. Unless you’re striving to become a paid keg stander.

• Tweepting: Every Tweet in the World in Real Time

  In Technology / 6 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  The Twitterverse is vast and beyond human capacity to ingest all tweets at once, unless you’re Edward Nigma, which is why hashtags became commonplace so quick. To filter them into groups for people to follow along a specific rabbit hole and then enjoy the live stream of subjective opinions. Front end developer Franck Ernewein developed Tweepting to give you a realtime idea of how many people are tweeting around the globe. 

• Earth To Receive Record-Setting Asteroid Fly On February 15th

  In Space / 5 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  Talk about a close shave. On Feb. 15th an asteroid about half the size of a football field will fly past Earth only 17,200 miles above our planet’s surface. There’s no danger of a collision, but the space rock, designated 2012 DA14, has NASA’s attention. “This is a record-setting close approach,” says Don Yeomans of NASA’s Near Earth Object Program at JPL. “Since regular sky surveys began in the 1990s, we’ve never seen an object this big get so close to Earth.”

• Instagram Releases Web Feed Feature

  In Apps, Mobile, Technology / 5 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  As of today, you can now browse your Instagram feed on the web – just like you do on your mobile device. The mobile app has been dedicated to catering to a mobile world for the past few years, but has seen the light (dollar signs) and profitability of allowing a web based viewer to view all of your friends humble brag photos in real time. The news, while exciting, isn’t shocking with sites like staticgr.am ahead of the curve for viewing Instgram photos for web. The only thing left is to allow users to upload from the web, also. Whether or not that will ever be available is still up in the air, but would optimize their full user radius, being that some mobile carriers still don’t have an Instagram app. Go to instagram.com and log in to your account to give it a try.

• 111 Stunning Pictures from the International Space Station

  In Space / 5 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  About 205 miles over our heads is the International SPce Station flying by at about 17,239.2 mph. At this speed the ISS circles the globe once ever 92 minutes 50 seconds.

• Easily Jailbreak Your iPhone In About 5 Minutes

  In Apps, Technology / 5 February 2013 / 0 comments

  

  Jailbreaking your phone is so incredibly simple and it takes only about 5 minutes. Doing so will give you access a special app store called Cydia, which is full of alternative apps not found in Apple’s official store. Jailbreaking your phone will also allow for an incredible level of customization. System requirements include: A computer, running Windows (XP minimum), Mac OS X (10.5 minimum), or Linux (x86 / x86_64) An iPhone, iPad or iPod running iOS 6.0 through 6.1 (you may check in Settings > General > About > Version) A USB cable to connect the device to the computer Before you start the jailbreaking process make sure you back up your device and go to Evasi0n and download the file associated with your computer’s operating system. 

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  How Oreo Produced Their Brilliant Super Bowl Black Out Tweet

  In Technology / 5 February 2013 / 0 comments

  After the lights went out at the Super Bowl,  light bulbs went on above the heads of the creative team behind Oreo cookies ads. When a power outage at the Superdome in New Orleans stopped the game between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers for an epic 34 minutes, Oreo’s team took action and posted a simple ad that was retweeted, or shared, more than 14,500 times on Twitter. See how it was done on WSJ.com >>

• 22 Epic Images Of Earth Shot From Space

  In Space / 31 January 2013 / 0 comments

  

• The Cost of Living on Mars [Infographic]

  In Space / 29 January 2013 / 0 comments

  

• What’s Faster App

  In Technology / 29 January 2013 / 0 comments

  

  The idea for What’s Faster started from a curious eight year old boy William who was always asking his father “Dad, what’s faster a BMW or a Ferrari, a Jaguar or Jet, an Apache helicopter or a Aston Martin.” William and his father Will combined ideas and efforts and made that question into one amazing app for curious people everywhere. What’s Faster brings hours of fun and learning as you test your curiousoty of speed amount 32 categories and 625,000 unique comparisons. The game shows you two items and you have to guess what is faster! Pretty simple. You have to get a certian number of correct to unlock the next category. Get too many wrong and the round ends. With all the comparisons inside the game you may get stuck now and then. Radar guns allow you to “clock” the two items, get thier speeds and move on to the next comparison. What a help! What’s Faster comes with 25 radar guns. If you need more, you can purchase them inside the game. Download it now: $1.99

• The Internet Universe Map

  In Technology / 28 January 2013 / 0 comments

  

  This is one of the coolest things you’ll see all day. This Internet universe map works just like any other map. Every site is a circle on the map, and its size is determined by website traffic, the larger the amount of traffic, the bigger the circle. The resulting product looks like a galaxy where you can search specific websites, zoom and interact to see the stats. Unfortunately the stats seem to be a little out of date because rsvlts.com isn’t included and we’ve been killing it over the last few months but regardless of our bitterness this is still pretty damn cool. View the internet map >>

• Bet You Didn’t Know There Are Thousands Of Underwater Internet Cables Running Across The Oceans

  In Technology / 23 January 2013 / 0 comments

  

  The world’s internet network has been damaged by an anchor landing on a key cable where it hits Kenya – the East African Marine System. The undersea cables are a remarkably historic but efficient way of supporting the information age, and their network is everywhere. I had no idea there was a cable running across the entire width of the Atlantic ocean, let alone the dozens shown on this map. The idea of even producing a cable long enough to circle the globe several times, then laying it on the bottom of the deep deep ocean is mind-boggling. This map from telecom data specialists Telegeography shows the full extent of that network. Zoom in, out and around the map or click on the navigation on the right to explore it. View the map here >>

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  Happy Birthday Buzz Aldrin! [11 Iconic HQ Photos]

  In Space / 21 January 2013 / 0 comments

  Buzz Aldrin is the second bro to ever step foot on the Moon and today, as we celebrate his 83rd birthday, we look back at his  fearlessness in the face of unimaginable danger with a collection of his most iconic photos, as they are some of the most important photos in history.

• The Most Impressive International Space Station Time-lapse Video We’ve Seen

  In Space, Time Lapse, VIDEO / 21 January 2013 / 0 comments

  

  Time lapse video, especially those of space, are all the rage these days. Seems like a new one is popping up on the web each day but this is the best one so far.