We’ve mentioned before that knowing a few words in the native language can help improve your travel experience. Knowing some of the local slang can help, too—though it’s a bit tougher. Natalie Holmes at Conde Nast Traveler lays out local slang for a few major international cities. Read more…
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Learn Some Local Slang for Major International Cities
As they make their way up and down the field chasing the ball, the players on this new soccer pitch in Rio de Janeiro are actually helping to keep the lights powered when the sun sets. Because underneath the artificial turf are 200 special tiles that work like tiny generators to harness the kinetic energy of the players and turn it into electricity. Read more…
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Players Help Power the Lights on This Soccer Field Just by Running
Navdy, the voice and gesture-controlled heads-up display that wants to keep your eyes on the road, hit $1 million in pre-orders in its first week of the company’s pre-order campaign. Read More
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Heads-Up Display Navdy Hits $1M In Pre-Orders During First Week
Instagram’s new messaging app Bolt has launched in Singapore, New Zealand, and South Africa. Read more…
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Instagram’s Snapchat Rival, Bolt, Just Launched In 3 Non-US Countries
Handoff is a great new feature of Apple’s forthcoming operating system, Yosemite. Not all Macs will support it, though. Here’s how to check if yours will. Read more…
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Find Out if Your Mac Will Support Handoff in OS X Yosemite
The next time you have a few dollars left on one of those prepaid credit card-based gift cards, consolidate those odd dollars and cents into your Google Wallet account. Read more…
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Consolidate Your Credit Card Gift Cards with Google Wallet
Every ounce counts when you’re hoisting several hundred tons of steel into the air and flying it across an ocean. So does every second flight attendants spend waiting on the people inside. Those ounces and seconds add up—and that’s why Virgin Atlantic spent $168 million on a transformative redesign of its meal trays. Read more…
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How a Better Food Tray Is Saving Virgin Atlantic Millions
Inside a cave so deep and dark it’s called Hoyo Negro, or Spanish for “black hole, ” divers are transporting a 12, 000-year-old skull for 3D scanning. The skull belongs to one of the oldest and most complete skeletons ever found in the Americas. Lucky for us, the expedition was documented with an entire set of stunning photos. Read more…
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This Diver Is Cradling a 12,000-Year-Old Skull in an Underwater Cave
CGI is everywhere now. In many cases, it’s almost completely indistinguishable from things that were actually filmed. You can only tell by the impossible camera angles. It wasn’t always that way though—you remember The Last Starfighter , don’t you? Still, 20th century CGI had its high points, and these are 10 of them. Read more…
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10 of the Best Moments From the Early Days of CGI
Large Christian communities are not abundant in Muslim-dominated Egypt, but one of the more populace groups are the garbage scavenging Zabbaleen who have retained their Coptic beliefs and established the largest Christian church in the Middle East at the Monastery of Saint Simon. Read more…
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The Cave Church of Garbage City