In a time when business cards seem more obsolete than ever , more and more people are coming up with fantastic ways to modernize them. And no one will probably make a better first impression than Kevin Bateske, who created this business-card-sized Game Boy clone called the Arduboy that’s just 1.6 millimeters thick. Read more…
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Make an Awesome First Impression With a Tetris-Playing Business Card
Meet the Exosuit. It’s a $600, 000 atmospheric diving suit capable of taking a human 1, 000 feet underwater at surface pressure, and it’s the first of its kind. If you have dramatic music handy, you should go ahead and play it, because this thing is insane. Read more…
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The Exosuit: What Tony Stark Would Wear Underwater
It’s not just IDF forces and Israeli settlements that come under rocket fire; militant groups have been known to take pot shots at commercial airlines as well—such as when a pair of SAMs narrowly missed an Israeli charter shortly after it took off from a Mombasa, Kenya airfield, in 2002. To protect vulnerable aircraft from future attacks, Israel has developed this belly-mounted laser shield for commercial jets. Read more…
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Israel Is Putting Frickin’ Lasers on Its Commercial Airliners
Two thousand ago, the Thomas Edison of the ancient world lived in Alexandria, Egypt where he tinkered, built and wrote about some of the most amazing and whimsical machines the pre-industrial world had ever seen. Read more…
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The Amazing Ancient Machines of Hero of Alexandria
This week marks six years since the Svalbard Seed Vault opened to serve as an agricultural Noah’s Ark for humanity. Within its walls, scientists have collected nearly one million seeds from all over the world—just in case. Now, they’re adding many more. Read more…
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Doomsday Seed Vault Adds 20k New Crops—Including Beer Barley
Re/code reports the claims of industry sources who say Amazon is in talks to create a streaming music service that it would bundle with Prime subscriptions. The report makes a lot of sense, and if true, it would make Amazon Prime and even better deal than it already is. Think how amazing that would be! Read more…
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Report: Amazon Is Gearing Up to Add Free Streaming Music to Prime
Qatar’s overtly yonic World Cup facility has also been the cause of a staggering number of construction deaths : More than 500 Indian migrant workers have died at the site since January 2012. This week, the stadium’s architect Zaha Hadid said, well, it’s not her problem. Read more…
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Architect Zaha Hadid Says 500 Worker Deaths Are Not Her Problem
Believe it or not, making ice is more complicated than just making water really cold. One thing that helps is bacteria. Yes, bacteria! In this captivatingly magic video, it takes just a second for Pseudomonas syringae to turn a whole jar of water into ice. Read more…
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Whoa, Watch Bacteria Instantly Turn Water Into Ice
Facebook’s email service, which caused lots of controversy when it changed everyone’s contact info , is shutting down. From now on, messages sent to your Facebook email address will be forwarded to your primary address (though you can turn this off). Facebook should notify you as the feature rolls out. [ The Verge ] Read more…
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Facebook’s email service, which caused lots of controversy when it changed everyone’s contact info,
At the company’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, SanDisk announced today the imminent release of the single largest-capacity MicroSD card ever created. This tiny storage medium offers an unprecedented 128 GB of space, but don’t expect it to come cheap. Read more…
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This MicroSD Card Packs Massive Capacity into a Minute Form Factor