A Banned iPhone 5 Promo
Who doesn’t like making a mockery of the latest Apple gadget? That’s exactly what the guys at the Gentlemen’s Rant did.
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The Minnesota Twins Send A Baseball To Space
Your browser does not support iframes. Get the perspective of a baseball as it gets launched into the stratosphere attached to a weather balloon from Target Field.
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A Stunning High-Def Video Of The Earth Rising Over The Moon
Thank you, Japanese space agency. Here is a stunning look at the earthrise over the moon, shot by the HD camera on Japan’s Kaguya spacecraft. With no atmosphere to fuzz out the scene and a high-def camera and optics beaming back mega-pixels, the video is so crisp is almost looks fake. I can only imagine that astronauts, when they aren’t busy keeping their capsule together with duct tape, have to remind themselves that this is real, that they aren’t hallucinating, that this floating blue orb is of all things the most material, and not some vision from the outer reaches of the mind’s creativity. I would trip the heck out. I recommend you watch it 1) full screen, 2) with the sound off, then 3) with the sound on.
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Grungy NBA iPhone Wallpapers Here, Get ‘Em While They’re Hot
Here is an awesome collection of grungy iPhone Wallpapers for all you NBA fans. How to download: View the mobile version of this page (easy to remember URL: http://bit.ly/NBAiphone) on your iPhone and set the team logo for your Lock Screen and the texture for your Home Screen to properly theme your phone, like the one above.
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JFK’s Moon Speech 50 Years Later
On Sept. 12, 1962, fifty years ago today, President John Kennedy challenged us to go to the moon within the decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
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Now You Can Track That Plane Flying Overhead In Real Time
How you ever wondered where that jet flying overhead is going? One of life’s little mysteries is now solved with Flight Rader 24 which offers real time flight tracking that you can watch on your computer.
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A Brief History Of The iPhone [Infographic]
Five years after the first iPhone upended the mobile industry Apple is feeling the heat from rivals like Samsung. The technology giant is set to reveal the latest iPhone today so we look back at the history of the iPhone and just how large their market share really is.
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The International Space Station Experiments With Long Exposure Photography [12 HQ Photos]
On April 27th 2012 the six man crew of Expedition 31 began their 62 day trip aboard the International Space Station (ISS). While in space the crew experimented with long exposure photography and the results are mesmerizing.
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RSVLTS.com Office Breakdown
Over the next few months we’ll be publishing a new editorial series, showcasing the working space, living space and general “where the magic happens” space of our friends and colleagues. The point is to profile people offices, apartments or man caves highlighting meaningful items that they’ve acquired over the years. Keep an eye out as we connect with top musical artists, publishers and influencers to find out what makes them tick. For our inaugural feature, we’re going to give you an inside look at our lair.
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10 Things You Need To Know About The New Lumia 920
Today Nokia shook up the tech world with the launch of it’s new Lumia 920. Here is what you can expect from the new phone.
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HP x4000 Mustache Mouse
The high-end design of the HP Wireless Mouse X4000 mimics the motion of a fast sports car. But the fun doesn’t stop there. This comfortable mouse also features wireless connectivity, 30-month battery life and a highly-precise laser sensor. Long story short, it’s the finest mouse on the market. To top it all off it is available with a mustache, perfect for you Roosevelts out there.
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Photo of the Day: The Milky Way Rises Over Turkey
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“Cinemagraph” Advertising Coming To A Tumblr Near You
“Cinemagraph“-making apps became trendy, and Tumblr posts filled to the brim with animated GIFs ranging from the artsy to the humorous. But animated GIFs aren’t just for fun anymore – Tumblr has turned them into a money-making tool.
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A Rare Blue Moon Will Rise Tonight
On Friday night a rare blue moon will rise in the sky in an astronomical event that occurs only once every three years or so. So the moon won;t actually be blue but it’s still a rare occurrence.
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The Best Mars 360° Panorama To Date
Want to feel like you’re standing on Mars without the obscenely harsh conditions. Take a look at this newly released panorama from Curiosity. See The Panorama Here >>
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How People Use Their iPad [Infographic]
If you are one of the 53.2 million people currently with an iPad, there’s a good chance you’ve already developed habits related to how you best like to use your device. Mashable has put together an infographic that details how users have embraced the iPad over the years, from using it while watching TV to cozying up to it in bed or even using it in the bathroom.
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SpeedGlow Speedometer For iPhone
If you’ve ever tried to adjust your GPS settings while you’re driving, you know it can be tricky and highly dangerous. We can handle a stick shift while drinking a coffee and eating a Egg McMuffin, but leaning over to tap a screen through menus can take our eyes of the road a bit too long. It’s the reason we haven’t been fans of most speedometer apps we’ve come across. SpeedGlow is different, allowing you to control everything with gesture controls instead of menus. Quick swipes and taps are all you need to view more details, change your speed limit alarm (probably a feature you won’t use) and access the heads up display so you can reflect the display onto your windshield at night. Now you can really track your Prius’ 0-60 time.
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15 Neil Armstrong Fan Art Tributes
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Remembering Apollo 11 [40 HQ Photos]
On July 20, 1969, three human beings – Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. - with the help of many thousands of others – left our planet on a successful journey to our Moon, setting foot on another world for the first time. The entire trip lasted only 8 days, the time spent on the surface was less than one day, the entire time spent walking on the moon, a mere 2 1/2 hours – but they were surely historic hours. Scientific experiments were deployed (at least one still in use today), samples were collected, and photographs were taken to document the entire journey. Collected here are 40 images from that journey four decades ago, when, in the words of astronaut Buzz Aldrin: “In this one moment, the world came together in peace for all mankind”. (40 photos total)
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Neil Armstrong Has Died At Age 82 [12 Photos + Video]
NBC News is reporting that Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died Saturday. It all started with John F. Kennedy’s famous speech on September 12, 1962 when he proclaimed that we would go to the Moon by the end of the decade. “Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, ‘Because it is there.’ Well, space is there, and we’re going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God’s blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.” -John F. Kennedy, Rice University, Sept. 12, 1962 Then just seven years later Neil Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, and he radioed back to Earth the historic news of “one giant leap for mankind.” He spent nearly three hours walking on the moon with fellow astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin. RIP to one of the most courageous citizens America has ever know. more »
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Curiosity’s Descent To Mars In Crystal Clear HD Video
For the first time we can see a full-resolution version of the NASA Curiosity rover descent to Mars. The metallic object in the beginning of the video is the heat shield being released. Fromt here the rover itself makes the trip down to the surface. If you ant to see some pictures from the surface check out our Facebook gallery “Hows The Weather On Mars Today?” as we update it regularly.
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Turn You iPad Into A Retro NES With “GameDock”
Tecmo Super Bowl throw down anyone? With the new GameDock by Cascadia Games you can turn your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch into a retro game console and play all the great games of your childhood via NES USB controllers. The GameDock was a KickStarter project that became reality with $50,000 funding. Another victory for crowd sourcing! is so awesome now we can play all the great games of your childhood via NES USB controllers.
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How Instagram Got Crushed In Their Deal With Facebook
At the beginning of 2012 many business insiders would have argued that Instagram, the popular photosharing app, was Facebook’s top competitor. So what does Facebook do in this situation? The same thing any company would do. Buy ‘em out! It was fear that lead Mark Zuckerberg to buy Instagram for $1 billion (twice it’s reported value) but in the end, according to this article by NY Times, Facebook gave Instagram a raw deal.
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A Grill Masters Best Friend: The iGrill
As much as we all like to believe we’re super chefs behind the grill at a LDW BBQ, that’s not always the case. Unless you prefer your steaks charred, grilling meat is not always the easiest of tasks. Weight, temperature and heat of your grill are all things, usually overlooked at a summer BBQ, but if you really want to optimize your grilling skills, try this app out. The iGrill is a digital thermometer. But you start the Bluetooth connection of iGrill app on an iPhone or iPad, and is a world of useful features. It has a multiple-meat temperature that monitoring system that can be modified to fit any cut according to your exact specifications. The “estimated time to completion” feature comes in clutch, if you’re multitasking, cooking meat, corn and your girlfriend’s cousins veggie burger. Even though, I personally don’t think this feature will come to much use, since most grill masters hold down their in-use grills like a lioness protecting its cubs, you can hook up the feature to bluetooth and an alarm on your iphone will sound off just as your meat is tender and ripe for the eatin’. Zuckerberg just announced a full Facebook integration more »
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20 HQ Photos of the Perseid Meteor Shower
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The Roosevelts get a tour of The Microsoft Home of the Future
During our time wrapping up the Windows Phone Baseball Bucketlist tour, the powers that be at Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to let us into their highly secretive home of the future. The home essentially showcases everyday household technology that we’ll be using an estimated 10 years in the future. Johnathan, The Director of Strategic Prototyping and possible mad scientist, gave us the entire rundown of what our future digs will offer and look like. The technology featured in the home is not necessarily the direction well be accustomed to, instead the engineers at Microsoft are encouraged to think in a more non traditional sense and produce software and hardware that skews the perception of technology as we know it now. software that can tell if a plant isn’t getting enough sunlight or nutrition. OLED screens so thin, that they can be used as wallpaper and painted over with normal household paint then used to reveal a subtle message illuminated. Fully interactive tablecloths perfect for a child’s birthday party, or fun dinner party with friends and most importantly, mancaves. Coffee tables that can fully recognize photos and type of a tangible magazine TVs that offer a virtual more »
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Nokia Play 360 NFC Portable Speaker: Bump to Play
The Nokia Play 360 is the quintessential speaker for all your summer travels. Whether you’re in a back yard or on a secluded beach, the Play 360 offers a unique feature virtually unheard of for an affordable portable speaker. It’s “bump” to play technology allows you to play your favorite throwback jams on your smartphone’s playlist while syncing it via bluetooth or NFC. The speaker itself can be charged via a microUSB port. A complete charge of 3 hours should last just over 20 hours of play time. In addition to wireless audio, they come with a 3.5mm audio jack as well. $200.00 Available at most Microsoft Stores.
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NASA Publishes Ridiculously HQ Panorama of Mars [12 Photos]
This is Mars unlike we’ve ever seen it before and there are surely more mind-blowing photos to come. From the smallest rocks to the mountains in the distance you can see the smallest details at the foot of Curiosity and miles away on the horizon. We took individual screen grabs of the overall photo but you can see the panorama in it’s entirety by clicking the link below. View the full HQ photo on NASA.gov here >>
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The statement President Nixon was going to read if the astronauts were stranded on the Moon, July 18, 1969
“In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much of the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.”
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Make July National NASA History Month – Sign The Damn Petition Now!
Space, so hot right now. It’s a good time to be a NASA loving geek. We landed Curiosity on Mars and the pictures are starting to flood in. Follow our gallery “How The Weather On Mars Today?” on Facebook as we post the latest pictures as they get released. If hot dogs can get a month long holiday then it’s about time that NASA and space got their own special month too. Make July National NASA History Month: Sign The Petition Now!
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Home-Made Rocket Reaches 121,000 Feet [Video + 28 High Quality Photos]
Sending weather balloons to space is so two years ago. ‘Merica is sending car sized robots to Mars so why can’t a couple of bros with ridiculous engineering skills and a ton of cash shoot for the stars too?
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Why Is Mars Red?
Expect to see a lot of red-orange landscapes over the next few weeks, as the Curiosity rover beams back its first photos of the rugged Martian scenery. But why is Mars red, anyway? The simple explanation for the Red Planet’s color is that its regolith, or surface material, contains lots of iron oxide — the same compound that gives blood and rust their hue. But why does Mars have so much iron, why is that iron “oxidized,” and why does iron oxide look red?
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European Weather Satellite Sends Back A Stunning Image Of Our Home
While you and I were nursing our post 4th of July hangover the European Space Agency was busy launching the Meteosat Second Generation-3 (MSG-3) weather satellite into a geosynchronous orbit about 40,000 kilometers above the Earth.
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Sight: An Insight into the Near Future
With the release of Google’s Project Glass in the coming years, its fun to predict what kind of similar technology the future will hold. A short futuristic film by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo features an advanced model of the Google Glass Project by embedding similar technology into an eye. The film is funny and to the point with an interesting twist at the end. Sight from Sight Systems on Vimeo.
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8 MVP Apps Of The Windows Phone Baseball Bucket List Trip
Now that the Windows Phone Baseball Bucket List trip is complete we had a chance to step back and look at all the apps that helped make three weeks of life on the road more enjoyable and easier for us. We used several dozen apps throughout the trip but here are the MVPs. Photosynth Sometimes it is hard to convey the awe inspiring sights of MLB ballparks (or places we saw while on the road) in words. For those moments there is no better app to have than Photosynth, a panorama app that makes it easy and fun to capture and share interactive panoramas. To keep it simple to understand, Photosynth uses the latest in computer vision techniques to capture 360 degrees horizontally and vertically, making a perfect “sphere.” 4th & Mayor We all know Foursquare. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone out for a night on the town and in the morning asked myself “where the heck did I go last night.” Foursquare solves that age old question and 4th & Mayor is a quick, clean Foursquare client on steroids. Using 4th & Mayor we checked in from the top of Fenway’s Green Monster and check more »
