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Finally, Face-Scrambling Glasses to Go With Your Drone-Proof Cloak
In early 2013, the engineer/artist Adam Harvey unveiled a drone-proof burqa he called Stealth Wear. The garment cloaks the wearer in "nickel-metalized fabric designed to thwart IR-detection by thermal...
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So Much for Net Neutrality: Web Giants Are Buying Up the Internet
In a blow to the concept of a neutral internet, it turns out Facebook, Google, Microsoft and other web giants have been paying broadband service providers millions of dollars in exchange for faster...
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The Instagram Video Versus Vine Showdown
Facebook's Instagram has finally unveiled a video feature in its 4.0 update. Many are happy to see video come to Instagram, and some are wondering if it will be a Vine killer. To me, its just the next...
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myWater Turns Your Sink Into A Smart Pool
Photo via Flickr / CC We use tons and tons of water inside our homes each day, but a new water-monitoring tool will help us put things in perspective. Anthony Jakubiak, a recent graduate from...
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Chuck Your Phone in the Toilet, Because Superhydrophobic Sprays Are Now...
Image via Ross Nanotechnologies ShamWow! is amateur stuff compared to superhydrophobic coating, but you already knew that. Superhydrophobic sprays have yielded infomercial gold since company Ultra...
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These Men Built the World's First Bona Fide Flying Bike
Image: Kickstarter We may have been promised jetpacks, but at least we got flying bicycles. John Foden and Yannick Read recently won themselves a slice of blogospheric fame by unveiling the Paravelo,...
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3D-Printed Batteries Could Be the Solution to Our Lithium Woes
This SEM image, taken by Jennifer A. Lewis's team, shows the interlaced stack of electrodes printed layer by layer to create the microbattery. What do Afghanistan and Bolivia have in common? Current...
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Kickstarter Admits Crowdfunded "Seduction Guides" Are a Bad Idea
Remember those so-called pick-up artists, the men that dress like Criss Angel meets the Mad Hatter? (There was a TV show, lest you forget.) At its best, the PUA game appears to be about developing...
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Dirty Weed Is Poisoning the Emerald Triangle
via Mother Jones I've said it here before and I'll say it again: Nine times out of 10, growing weed is a dirty job. Dirty in the greenest sense. Not only can growing cannabis be a massive electricity...
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Guy Almost Jumps Jeep over Pool
Ask any auto enthusiast from a rural area for a tale about an indestructible old Jeep, and you'll hear ten. My own favorite was the time I saw a guy at Pismo Beach dig a hole about ten feet round and...
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For a Moment, One 40 oz Drinking Contest United the Hacker, Activist, and...
Image: Twitter The hacktivist community looked on while activist Rachael Perrotta chugged a 40 oz faster than Shm00p, the current leader of the Anonymous trolling group Rustle League. It was part of a...
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Christie's Auction House Is Turning Into a Secondhand Apple Store
All images courtesy of CHRISTIE'S IMAGES LTD. 2013 The international auction house Christie’s, more often known for dealing fine art, is offering an online auction of early and rare Apple computers...
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Eight Revelations from the Steve Jobs Movie Trailer
The trailer for Jobs, in which Ashton Kutcher plays the departed tech visionary, just dropped today. It'd be easy to write it off as a cloying ploy to suck even more cash out of the locally-tailored...
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American Car Use Has Declined Every Year Since 2005
Image: Wikimedia Forget what you've heard about Americans and their proud automobiles. Cars are so 20th century. So, well into the next one, Brooklyn and Facebook have gone about killing them off. My...
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NASA Wants You to Take Pictures of Clouds
Photo via Flickr / CC NASA has its head in the clouds. The agency just put out a call for help to smartphone users and cloud enthusiasts around the globe, asking them to collect data on clouds. The new...
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Introducing the NSA-Proof Font
Image: ZXX At a moment when governments and corporations alike are hellbent on snooping through your personal digital messages, it'd sure be nice if there was a font their dragnets couldn't decipher....
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New York City's Trees Saved Eight People From Dying Last Year
Photo: Nan Palmero/Flickr That more trees in urban areas improve air quality is pretty firmly established at this point. What a new study does, however, is quantify this reduction in pollution in terms...
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Rising Crop Yields Are Not Enough to Feed 9.6 Billion People
Photo: Mat McDermott/Flickr If estimates on how much more food we'll need to produce by 2050 to feed us all are accurate—that is 60-110 percent more food, for probably 9.6 billion people—we're not...
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Kai Wiedenhöfer Is Photographing the World's Most Brutal Walls
German photographer Kai Wiedenhöfer has seen a lot of walls over the past couple of decades. Beginning with the Berlin Wall, which he witnessed collapse in 1989, Kai has photographed many of the...
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Being an Apollo Astronaut's Wife Was Less Glamorous Than It Seemed
We tend to see astronauts as these brave, heroic, manly men. And handsome. Astronauts are sort of like firefighters that way. Even when they’re not that cute, they’re still cute. There’s just something...
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