Remember that no-stick ketchup bottle of the future an MIT professor made a few years ago? Well, the MIT team created a company to sell the super slippery technology, and Elmer’s recently signed an exclusive license to use it in their glue bottles. Pretty slick! (Sorry.) Read more…
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Crazy No-Stick Coating Is Coming to a Bottle of Glue Near You
If you thought $10 was highway robbery when it comes to apps, this colorful infographic should help put things in perspective. Read more…
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The Most Obscenely Expensive Apps for iOS
If you need more than ten fingers to count the number of times you’ve burned yourself while trying to light a candle at the bottom of a tall glass container, the Illume ArcLighter will probably seem like the greatest invention since the wheel. Instead of a flame, it produces a glowing electric arc that can light everything from candles, to gas burners, to even kindling. Read more…
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This Lighter Works Like a Taser To Start Fires Without a Flame
Close to a decade ago a clever inventor came up with a safety feature for power tools that could detect when a blade made contact with human flesh and instantly retract it to prevent injury. Unfortunately, it destroyed the tool in the process. Read more…
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Flesh-Detecting Table Saw Instantly Drops the Blade Without Destroying It
Facebook Messenger now lets you send payments to your friends —exactly as you would with Venmo or Paypal. Except it’s way easier, because just about EVERYONE already has Facebook. Read more…
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You Can Send Money To Your Friends Through Facebook Messenger Now
Two years ago, Nvidia announced its original Titan graphics card , a bad-boy built on the company’s Kepler technology and for a time the most powerful card out there. Now, the Titan X is here and it’s ready to reclaim the throne. Read more…
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GTX Titan X: Nvidia’s Absurd New $1,000 Graphics Card Is a Beast
Human-made satellites have long been able to harness the sun’s energy as it washes over them outside the protection of our atmosphere. But what if we could beam all that solar power down to Earth? The science fictional idea may be a reality sooner than you think. Read more…
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Japanese Scientists Just Beamed Energy Through the Air
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies—aka HGST, aka a subsidiary of Western Digital—was recently showing off its gigantic new 10TB hard drive at the Linux Foundation Vault tradeshow in Boston. But unfortunately you won’t be packing 10, 000 gigabytes into your laptop anytime soon because the drive is designed for use in servers, and mostly because it requires special software to work. Read more…
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Sadly This 10TB Hard Drive Is Designed For Servers, Not Your Laptop
DNA testing startup 23andMe has been doing brisk business collecting genetic samples from over 800, 000 customers. But the company just announced a new plan that’ll launch it into the big pharma world: 23andMe is going to invent its own pharmaceutical drugs using the data it collects from customer DNA. Read more…
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23AndMe Is Going to Mine Its DNA Data to Invent New Drugs
NASA may be endlessly fascinated with microbial life on far-flung moons in our solar system or testing powerful rocket boosters that will propel humanity off its ancestral home, but there’s still tons we don’t know about our own planet—and cosmic dust is one of those mysteries. Read more…
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120,000 Pounds of Cosmic Dust Floats Down From Space Every Day