Most people find speed bump irritating. For those with a heavy foot, these bumps can have all sorts of undesirable effects on your car. But, when you have kids and live on a street where people speed, you realize the necessity.. Enter the intelligent speed bump by Mexico’s Decano Industries. With this clever new technology, […]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] According to the latest Pew Internet survey, one in five of you want to tell everyone what you’re up to in 140 characters or less. More specifically, 19% of Internet users are posting status updates on Twitter or another service (I would imagine that Facebook is the runner-up, with […]
Last week, a surveillance video of a drunk guy at a convenience store became quite popular. However, it was almost eleven minutes long and was, well, a store surveillance video. The guys at Mustache and Monocle re-edited it and gave it the silent movie treatment, making it much easier to watch, and just as funny. […]
World Champion Anvil Shooter Gay Wilkinson has one passion in life: Shoot anvils up in the air. Yes, you read that right. After putting a generous amount of black powder between 2 anvils and, going against all common sense, light the whole thing up via a fuse, he then runs away to a respectable distance […]
Don’t forget people, by not taking risks, you’ll never accomplish anything. Oh, like everyone, your projects will fail from time to time, but the key is to keep on trying, and trying, and trying, until you get everything right. [Via Reddit]
Sometimes you hear a rumor that has very little detail, but the very idea of it is momentous enough to take seriously. This could be one of those cases: Google may be getting into the music business. Very little is known at the moment, with most reports tracing back to a post on TechCrunch. That […]
With the announcement that Barnes and Noble is attempting to grab some of Amazon’s e-reader market share with their “Nook,” a competitor to the Kindle, I thought I’d dig up some bookworms with Kindles in their natural environments. I don’t have one myself, but there is something rather appealing about having something so thin to […]
In order to promote Microsoft’s revamped Windows Marketplace, the company just released a humorous video giving a quick peek inside their top secret apps lab. Check it out. [Via TechCrunch]
For those of you who have always wondered about Antarctica’s real size, NASA has released this informative picture via Twitter comparing the size of the continent (5.4 million sq mi, or roughly 14.0 million sq km) in relation with the size of the United States of America, less Alaska and Hawaii, of course.
Remember the auto-tuned song featuring Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking we posted last month? Well the song was so popular that its creator, John Boswell, decided to create another one, and this time, he included Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye, to sing along with Sagan. Check it out.