You’d think staying in the tallest skyscraper in London would afford you some privacy. But visitors at the newly-opened hotel inside of the Shard are being creeped out by the bizarre effects of a simple design flaw—which reflects the view inside of certain rooms directly onto the windows of nearby guests at night. Read more…
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A Design Flaw Is Turning the London Shard Hotel Into a Voyeur’s Dream
Holograms are super cool , but they’re hard to make at home. Pepper’s Ghost, on the other hand, is a relatively simple 19th century optical trick that looks like a 3D hologram and brought a very dead Tupac Shakur back to the stage . And Joey Shanks is here to show us how to rig up a system to bring Pepper’s (or Tupac’s) ghost to your home. Read more…
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Make a DIY 3D "Hologram" Like the One That Brought Tupac Back to Life
Agents from the Agencia Tributaria— the Spanish IRS—announced the find of a priceless Van Gogh which disappeared from the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Vienna, Austria. Dated in 1889, the painting “Cypr ess, sky and field” was discovered in a safe deposit box that belonged to a Spanish fraudster. Read more…
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Police finds priceless Van Gogh taken by Nazis hidden in bank vault
Undersea energy pipelines constitute a vital physical link between deep water wells and onshore refineries, but it’s not like we can just lay these lines like oversized bendy straws. That task of constructing and sinking these tubes instead falls to vessels like Allseas’ newest addition to its pipelaying fleet, the Audacia. Read more…
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The Audacia Lays 100 Feet of Pipe On the Ocean Floor Every Minute
Facebook doesn’t automatically show you all the content shared by your liked pages or even friends, and recently Facebook page owners have been experiencing extreme declines in audience reach . If there are pages or friends you always want to see updates for, here are the settings you should change. Read more…
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How to Make Sure Facebook Doesn’t Filter Out Page and Friend Updates
Bloomberg claims that Microsoft is readying a new, smaller version of its Surface tablet which will use Qualcomm chips and another, larger device that will be powered by Intel silicon. Read more…
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Bloomberg: Microsoft Readying Small Qualcomm and Intel Powered Surfaces
It’s been half a century since Belgium’s famed Sarolea motorcycle brand last put out a bike but they’re clearly making up for lost time with the incomprehensibly gorgeous, all-electric-and-carbon-fiber SP7. And to prove they’re back in the superbike game, Sarolea is entering this black beauty into next month’s electric-only, Isle of Man TT Zero race. Read more…
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The Sarolea Superbike Is a Lightning-Powered Speed Demon
Self-flushing toilets are nothing new—you can find them in plenty of public restrooms—but they’ve never quite made it into the home successfully. Now, Kohler has an affordable, high-tech solution which means you’ll never have to touch your home toilet again. Read more…
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Kohler’s New Kit Makes Your Toilet Hands-Free For $100
Two separate teams of scientists have announced that blood transfusions from young individuals make older individuals younger, fixing their hearts and curing aging brains. Speaking to the New York Times, Harvard Medical School’s professor of neurology Rudolph Tanzi, “these findings could be a game changer.” Read more…
Vine, Twitter’s six-second looping video app, just pushed another big update to its website, and it looks strangely familiar. It’s got playlists, channels, trending tags, and a “popular now” curated feed. And you no longer have to be a Vine user to use it. In short, it looks a hell of a lot like YouTube, packed to the brim with looping vids that are GIFs in spirit if not in form. Read more…
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Vine’s Website Turned Into a Massive Searchable Library of Tiny Vids