PowderSorb: Oil Spill Absorbent
How come they haven't made billions of tons of this stuff?! Check out the demo for it above!
Drones by Rolls-Royce
A $4.8 million study called the Maritime Unmanned Navigation through Intelligence in Networks (MUNIN) done by the European Union is teaming up with Rolls Royce, the jet engine manufacturer, not to be confused with the maker of phantoms to envision ships that are faster, cheaper to operate, and have a smaller carbon footprint. These are in simulation now in Norway. ...
Watch Dogs - Welcome to Chicago [Videogame Trailer]
Talk about next level gaming. This is like Grand Theft Auto on crack. Free-roaming gameplay, the ability to hack peoples devices and your environment, online multiplayer, stunning graphics. The people at Ubisoft are really trying to change the game with Watch Dogs and it's looking like the next generation of gaming is very promising. Be on the look out for...
14-Year Old Tells Government to Save $234 Million
Ignore the fact that this kid speaks well beyond his 14-years of age and has a striking resemblance to the villain from Kick-Ass. Suvir Mirchandani has found a way for the government and you to save over $234 million in ink and paper by simply switching from Times New Roman to Garamond, a lighter font. This is a great reminder that...
Facebook Buys Matrix Machine for $2 Billion
After blowing a cool $19 billion on WhatsApp, Facebook just purchased the Oculus Rift company for $2 billion. The Oculus Rift is a fully immersive virtual reality headset. In 2012, the Oculus team went after a Kickstarter campaign to raise $250,000 to bring their product to life.... They ended up surpassing that in a day and then raking in almost...
Print Your Own... Shoes
Don’t you just hate the feeling of always missing out on the limited pairs of those $90,000 Yeezy/Jordans/Drakes? Well hate no more, because soon you’ll be able to print your own - and we’re not talking Chinatown rip offs. The company Recreus has taken the liberty of being the first to try to print shoes via a 3D printer....
Apartment Tetris: Flipping Rooms
You know how sometimes you see a chick from far but then you realize its a dude? Well good thing this isn't about that but its related in that things are not always as simple as they seem. A tiny apartment (600 square ft) in De Rotterdam, Netherlands can be flipped to function as five different rooms ranging from...
Real Tree Music
We’ve all heard that age old philosophical mind fuck of a question: “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” Apparently it can, if you build a custom vinyl record player. Artist Bartholomäus Traubeck took cross sections of a tree, and created a record player embedded with a...
Apple Car Play
It seems all you hear on radio are either commercials telling you who to sue or the same “Mike Will Made It” song over and over. Luckily, our friends at Apple look out for the music lovers. Hence, the introduction of CarPlay which allows you to bring iTunes into your car. The concept is as easy as using iTunes...
NBA 3D Court Projections
On March 8th, Quince Imaging and the Cleveland Cavaliers introduced a new state of the art 3D court projection to the NBA. With this technology they can project video highlights and also make it seem that the court is shifting and changing right before your eyes. It sucks that a crappy team had to introduce this technology, but hey maybe...
Planetarium on Your Wrist
Have you ever looked at your watch and wished you had the solar system there? Yeah, neither have we. But the watch gods at Van Cleef & Arpels thought you could use the upgrade with their Midnight Planétarium Poetic Complication And don’t look to try to find the standard minute- hour configuration either. The six planets here rotate around...
Munchies Baby!
You might be familiar with the savory illusion of the munchies yourself or seen a friend become consumed by gluttony after partaking. THC is the active ingredient in marijuana, and the fact that we have cannabinoid receptors built into our bodies has long puzzled scientists worldwide. Recently, studies have found that the same active cannabinoids in weed are actually in...
