With the flu running rampant this time of year, theres a burning desire to see who’s to blame for your sickness. Fast Company discovered a FB app that uses a complex algorithm to scan your friend’s status updates to determine which one of your pals is the culprit responsible for your illness (i.e. “feel terrible,” “run down”) . Mine is Richard Anthony every time. F*ck You Richard Anthony.
The OD-11, by Teenage Engineering is the best of a new era of minimalist bluetooth speakers. Simple enough to not make a scene, but powerful enough to over power one. It uses a cloud system that controls your music from anywhere in your house, by using its app synced to your wireless device. The most unique part of this is the remote: a hockey puck shaped, maganetic dial to control the volume or push in to change a song. The OD has an integrated 100W amplifier, a single woofer, and a single tweeter, all of which combine for terrific sound in nearly any room. The remote communicates with the box via Bluetooth 4, and features a magnet on the back so you can stick it anywhere you find handy. Coming this Spring $880
If you own a GoPro, you understand how difficult it is to organize the intricate accessories that come along with it for travel trips. I, personally, bought a soft lunchbox and toss everything in there for big trips, a short term solution that leaves me rummaging for parts and ultimately losing pieces. Conventional camera bags have voids of space for large equipment and are designed to protect delicate units. Since GoPro has defied both size and fragility, a new means of organizing and carrying is also in order. With the RollPro III, Riseful has set out to create an organizer that compliments GoPro’s characteristics by designing it exclusively for the GoPro and its accessories. The result is a fat free case that tames the GoPro and its entourage of pieces in a functional and beautiful fashion. Roll Pro III $79.00
Will your smartphone cause a plane to crash or not? It’s that simple. In this video D News looks to debunk myths in hopes that the FAA will change their rules.
The Chameleon Clock App is as simple as it is brilliant. The app uses the device’s rear facing camera to show what’s behind the iPad, which in turn blends the device with surrounding area. The clocks color is customizable, so it can pop against the surface better. The Chameleon Clock App is currently available for both the iPad and the iPhone on iTunes.
The new Seagate Wireless Plus is a game changing 1TB external hard drive that can hold up to 500 HD movies. With its own Wi-Fi network you can wirelessly stream your media and files to your tablet or smartphone on-the-go and off-the-grid. Also allows up to eight tablets and smartphones to access and store content at the same time. The 10-hour battery life will also have you enjoying it’s capabilities on all your travels. Game consoles, smart TVs, connected Blu-ray players and other DLNA devices can access the content on Wireless Plus whenever you have it connected to your home network via Wi-Fi.
Last night at the launch event for AXE Apollo there was a special guest appearance. Buzz Aldrin. The second bro to ever step foot on the Moon. Take a moment to read his Wikipedia. The stories of his genius level intelligence and fearlessness in the face of unimaginable danger is awe-inspiring. Buzz didn’t do any press at the event and only showed face for a moment but I seized the opportunity by blowing past security and got to shake the hand of this American legend. Buzz was an critical piece in realizing the the dream of JFK as he said, “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard” and because of this we pulled together a collection of his most iconic photos, as they are some of the most important photos in history.
Mauna Kea is an inactive volcano on Hawaii with heights of roughly 13,000 feet. With its high altitude, dry environment, and stable airflow, Mauna Kea’s summit is one of the best sites in the world for astronomical observation. This photo, shot by Andrew Hara using long exposure techniques, gives us an incredible view of the Milky Way.
Cell phones today are amazing. You can watch HD movies while flying across the country. You can instantly talk face to face with someone half way across the globe. But did you know that a cell phoen is good for more than communication? Let’s stay things turn nasty in your city. Think zombie attack or major superstorm. You’re left there cold and hungry. No matches, no fishing pole, no way to tell which way is north and south. What do you do? Find a few cheap cell phones and use it’s parts as a survival tool.
A study shows that 3 out of 4 people don’t know how to perform a well-executed search on Google. Although this infographic was made for college students working on research paper it has use for real life situations too. Here are crucial tips for becoming a Google search all-star.
Long before Stonehenge was built, well before the Dead Sea Scrolls were written, ancient artists painted life-sized figures on canyon walls in Utah, USA – but why? Nobody is sure. The entire panel of figures, which dates back about 7,000 years, is called the Great Gallery and was found on the walls of Horseshoe Canyon in Canyonlands National Park. The humans who painted them likely hunted Mammoths. The unusual fuzziness of largest figure led to this mural section‘s informal designation as the Holy Ghost Panel, although the intended attribution and societal importance of the figure are really unknown. The above image was taken during a clear night in March. The oldest objects in the above image are not the pictographs, however, but the stars of our Milky Way Galaxy far in the background, some of which are billions of years old.
Intel is reportedly on the cusp of delivering something that consumers around the world have been wanting for a long, long time.
This year has seen some amazing space photos, including gloriously shining dust in the Orion nebula, Saturn wreathed in rings and accompanied by its moon Titan, spectacular shots of Earth’s Arctic region, and an artful dust devil on Mars. Here we present our favorite shots taken in 2012 that show off the wonder and unbounded beauty of the cosmos. See all 18 photos here >>
2012 gave us one of the most exciting Olympic games in recent history. So which athletes dominated the web in 2012? Was it an Olympic champion? A soccer player? Lebron? Wikipedia offers an accurate representation of how the internet searched in 2012 so based off their list of the 1,000 most searched terms of the year as given to us by tech wiz Johan Gunnarsson, we can tell you who was the king athlete of the web in 2012.
The Olympics kicked off in July, Obama was re-elected on November and it was the most successful year at the Hollywood box office ever. With all the big news stirring on the web it will be interesting to see which person ruled the internet this past year. Wikipedia offers an accurate representation of how the internet searched in 2012 so based off their list of the 1,000 most searched terms of the year, we can tell you who was the king of the web in 2012.
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2012 was a big year for sports, politics and entertainment so it will be interesting to see which man ruled the internet this past year. Wikipedia offers an accurate representation of how the internet searched in 2012 so based off their list of the most searched terms of the year, we can tell you who was the king of the web.
Artelplus has released a genius app for the tie enthusiast. The app teaches 30 different ways to tie a proper tie, including a mirrored animation that works on your tablet. All instructions are presented in pictures illustrating each step you take. Just select a tie knot you’d like to make, and follow simple and clear instructions – in a minute you’ll end up with a beautifully knotted tie on your own without any help of somebody. Think all tie knots look the same? Try a more complex one, and try not to grab the attention of a boss. A good tie knot makes the man. How to tie a tie $3.99
BlueStacks has built infographics based off their user base of over one million to build a composite picture of typical Android and Mac users. The average male using Android is American, wearing a T-shirts, jeans and sneakers. And the average female Mac user wears glasses has black hair, freckles, wears T-shirts, sneakers and jeans is from outside the US and is single. via Mashable.com
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has delivered a glorious view of Saturn, taken while the spacecraft was in Saturn’s shadow. The cameras were turned toward Saturn and the sun so that the planet and rings are backlit. (The sun is behind the planet, which is shielding the cameras from direct sunlight.) In addition to the visual splendor, this special, very-high-phase viewing geometry lets scientists study ring and atmosphere phenomena not easily seen at a lower phase.
The editors of National Geographic selected their favorite space photos of 2012.
The Geminid meteor shower will produce up to 120 meteors per hour and is being described by astronomers as the most intense meteor shower of the year. “Under a clear, dark sky, you may see at least one Geminid per minute on average from roughly 10 p.m. Thursday until dawn Friday morning,” says Sky & Telescope’s Alan MacRobert.
When iPhone 5 launched without Google Maps people when bananas. Apple took the hint and a completely redesigned Goggle Maps has come to the app store. Guyism.com says, “In addition to becoming vector based, which means it loads much more quickly, it also has transit directions, turn-by-turn directions, Street View, and all that other stuff that you’ve missed so, so much.” Tip: navigate using the ← left and right → arrow keys
Apple is definitely coming out with a television, most likely by 2014. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen at the DealBook conferenceHe said he doesn’t know what the Apple TV will look like, but he knows this: Once it comes out, everyone else will scramble to copy it.
Tip: navigate using the ← left and right → arrow keys Winter is here. In the past that meant snow but we haven’t seen much of that since the great Halloween snowstorm of 2011. In case you need to be reminder of what snow looks like take a peek at these extremely close up photos of snowflakes. There is a popular expression saying “no two snowflakes are alike” but according to Wikipedia that might not be the case. Snowflakes form in a wide variety of intricate shapes, leading to the popular expression that “no two are alike”. Although statistically possible, it is very unlikely for any two snowflakes to appear exactly alike due to the many changes in temperature and humidity the crystal experiences during its fall to earth. Initial attempts to find identical snowflakes by photographing thousands of them with a microscope from 1885 onward by Wilson Alwyn Bentley found the wide variety of snowflakes we know about today. It is more likely that two snowflakes could become virtually identical if their environments were similar enough.
[By Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com] Apollo 17, the last of the missions to land men on the moon, began 40 years ago today with the dawning of a man-made sun.
The European Southern Observatory recently released this image of the Carina Nebula taken with their “Very Large Telescope Survey Telescope.” The VST for short is the world’s largest telescope for surveying our skies in visible light. Unlike other telescopes that can only capture small portions of the sky, the VST can photograph massively large regions due to its 268-megapixel CCD camera named OmegaCAM. View the full size image here >>
In an exclusive interview with Brian Williams airing tonight at 10pm/9c on NBC’s “Rock Center,” Apple CEO Tim Cook announced one of the existing Mac lines will be manufactured exclusively in the United States next year.
If you’re willing to be very generous this holiday season, the Microsoft Surface delivers the power of software and quality hardware in a neat uber-tablet. While their main competitor has been hogging the stage for quite sometime, the Surface is the first of it’s kind to offer up a superior high quality and user friendly product. Definitely worth the price tag, with the amount you’ll be able to accomplish. 32GB version priced at US$499, a 32GB version bundled with a black Touch Cover priced at US$599, and a 64GB version bundled with a black Touch Cover priced at US$699.
Tip: navigate using the ← left and right → arrow keys Today, at 2 p.m. EST, NASA will announce results from the Mars Curiosity rover at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. This announcement has been hyped up ever since chief Curiosity scientist John Grotzinger was quoted by NPR as saying the rover’s Sample Analysis at Mars instrument, also known as SAM, had made a discovery for “the history books.” Mr. Grotzinger may have gotten a bit ahead of himself because NASA quickly back-pedaled, explaining that the findings had been overblown. Regardless of they found life on Mars or not we can all agree that the photos shot by Curiosity have been nothing short of amazing.
Not all space tourism is rocket science. A newly successful test of a balloon could allow paying human customers to enjoy stunning Earth views and the weightless astronaut experience by 2014. See all the details here >>
HTC is looking to make a splash his holiday season and strengthen it’s grip ont he smartphone market with the latest release called the Droid DNA. The Droid DNA has a 5″, 440 PPI 1080p screen that gives you full-HD picture and video. There’s also a 1.5GHz quad-core processor along with 2GB of RAM. The phone also has all the major apps including Instagram. Only downfall, it’s only available on Verizon starting November 21st.
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