Despite their inefficiency, old-school incandescent lightbulbs sure did put out a pleasant, natural-looking light. The folks at Finally Light Bulb missed that light, so they brought it back with an efficient, affordable bulb using technology Nikola Tesla once patented. The team visited Gizmodo’s NYC office to show us the light. Read more…
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This Super-Efficient Lightbulb Uses Tesla Tech for an Incandescent Glow
Here’s an insanely scary roller coaster for those who need to feel like they’re close to dying in order to feel like they’re living: the Sky Tower in Tivoli Friheden in Denmark. The ride isn’t a ride at all but actually a fall. That is, the safety rope you’re connected to cuts off and you free fall from a 100 foot tower at 55 mph down to the ground. For fun. Read more…
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Roller coaster cuts the safety rope and makes people plummet 100 feet
redletterdave writes Uber announced in a blog post on Monday it would cut the prices of its UberX service in New York City by 20% — but it’s only for a limited time. Uber says this makes it cheaper to use UberX than taking a taxi. Consumers like Uber’s aggressive pricing strategy but competitors — and some of its own drivers — are not as happy. UberX, Uber’s cheaper service usually hosted by regular people driving basic sedans rather than fancy black cars, also cut its rates by 25% last week in the Bay Area, including San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland. As a result of that announcement, Uber said its service was effectively “45% cheaper than a taxi.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Uber Is Now Cheaper Than a New York City Taxi
When most of us think of housing shortages, we think of the micro-apartments of Hong Kong or New York. But Stockholm is in the midst of its own shortage, and with it, incredibly resourceful solutions. Take, for example, this 387-square-foot apartment in an old storage unit. Read more…
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This Tiny Apartment Is Built Inside a 30-Year-Old Storage Unit
The footprint of Manhattan’s been expanding since the 17th century, when early New Yorkers began their first project to infill its shoreline. A huge part of the island we know today is built on artificial pilings. Now, it might get its biggest expansion in years. Read more…
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A Massive New Levee Could Add Two New City Blocks To Manhattan
Adobe is announcing new release of Photoshop CC today, and with it comes one particularly cool feature: the ability to automatically select the out-of-focus areas of an image. Read more…
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The Best New Feature in Photoshop CC
It sounds weird, but the most abundant mineral on Earth finally got a name last week, thanks to a century-old meteorite. What? How? Why did it take so long? There were a whole confluence of reasons it took bridgmanite so long to get its name. Read more…
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Why Earth’s Most Abundant Mineral Only Just Got Its Name
In case you haven’t heard, California is screwed. The drought has turned our perennially water-challenged state into a desiccated husk. In these dire times, we look toward desalination, an idea long-promised but never quite delivered in the U.S. But a spate of new technologies —graphene, solar mirrors, and more—could finally make desalination viable for our freshwater needs. Read more…
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The Cutting-Edge Tech That Will Finally Bring Desalination to the U.S.
Enclosed tube maglev system capable of 1, 800 mph tested in China pic.twitter.com/moxDumJOY1 http://t.co/MhA25cCYJC — Michael (@_cypherpunks_) May 9, 2014 Read more…
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China’s Maglev Train Prototype Could Reach Speeds of 1,800 MPH
Don “Big Daddy” Garlits is one of the Old Masters of drag racing . The first driver to officially break the 170, 180, 200, 240, 250, and 270 MPH barriers on a 1/4 mile drag strip, his name is plastered across racing’s many halls of fame. Last week, at 82 years old, Garlits earned another record, driving the world’s fastest electric-powered drag racer to a record-shattering 184.01 MPH on a 1/4 mile drag strip in Florida. Read more…
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A Drag Racing Icon Just Set a 184 MPH World Record for Electric Cars