On its peak day this holiday shopping season, Amazon sold an astonishing 26.5 million items at a rate of 306 items per second. And the honor of being the “#1 best-selling, most gifted, and most wished for product” goes to Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD. The release is chock full of wins for Amazon but take a look at the below image: More »
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Amazon Sets Holiday Shopping Records Despite Making Half Of What It Made Last Year
Robots are so commonplace now that we use them to entertain kids at amusement parks. But even though modern technology has given us artificial lifeforms that can walk, talk, and even fly, there’s still something utterly fascinating about pre-electronic mechanical automatons like this Vers de Soie caterpillar dating back to 1820. More »
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This 200-Year-Old Mechanical Caterpillar Does Everything But Turn Into a Butterfly
NASA has confirmed a surprising, counterintuitive discovery. The burning hell known Mercury—the closest planet to the Sun—has water. Frozen water. Three new research papers, based on data obtained by the Messenger spacecraft, show undeniable evidence. More »
It looks like Anonymous followed up with its threat of digitally attacking Israel for taking military action in the Gaza strip. They’ve knocked down websites, deleted databases and have leaked e-mail addresses and passwords. It’s a whopping takedown. More »
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Anonymous Destroys Israel By Taking Down Hundreds of Websites and Leaking Emails and Passwords
Official description: “The Zalman CNPS FX100-Cube is fanless and noiseless CPU cooler, which does not draw dust or generate vibration due to its passive operation.” Unofficial description: LOOK AT THIS FREAKING MONSTER HEATSINK! More »
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The Most Grotesque Fanless CPU Cooler I’ve Ever Seen
In a very, heh, familiar story , Google apparently lost the upcoming Nexus 4 in a bar last month. Yes, the LG Nexus phone we expect to be unveiled next week . Yes, the phone that’s probably going to take the crown as the best Android phone available when it comes out. More »
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Google Lost the Nexus 4 in a Bar
This grainy picture was taken on October 24, 1946, almost 14 months after the end of World War II and almost 11 years before the Sputnik launch. It was taken by American military engineers and scientists, using a Nazi rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range, in New Mexico. More »
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This Is the First Picture Ever Taken From Space—and It Was Taken From a Nazi Rocket
Alongside the iPad Mini launch the other day, Apple quietly rolled out a meatier, 12-watt power adapter. Turns out it will charge all the old iPads iterations quicker. More »
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Latest 12W iPad Charger Will Charge Older iPads Quicker
This is CHAMP: Boeing’s new missile otherwise known as the Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project. It automatically disables PCs and other electronic devices as it soars through the skies, using a burst of powerful radio waves—and it was successfully tested last week . More »
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Boeing’s New Missile Remotely Disables Computers as It Flies By
In what sounds more like alchemy than science, a small British company has figured out a way to create gasoline from air and water. To do so, engineers at Air Fuel Synthesis (AFS) produced five litres (1.3 gallons) of the fuel by extracting carbon dioxide from air, and hydrogen from water, which was then combined in a reactor with a catalyst to create methanol. This methanol was then converted into gasoline. More »
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Engineers create gasoline from air and water. Yes, really.