Your grandma doesn't have to be the only one with an television standing on wooden legs. Doshisha just released a retro-looking TV with all the hallmarks of a one straight from the 1970s. Although it looks like it's more than 40 years old, the TV is actually a 20-inch flatscreen LCD surrounded by a wood casing and featuring volume and channel knobs that work.
Trump Threatens To Repeal Fuel Economy And Emissions Regulations
Since the start of the Obama administration, U.S. government agencies have had the auto industry in a choke hold, requiring it to meet incredibly lofty fuel economy and emissions standards. But now Donald Trump threatens to repeal some of those standards, and that could have a huge effect on the industry.
This Computer-Destroying Thumb Drive Is Hacked Together From Old Camera Parts
When I was in elementary school, kids used to pass around printed out copies of The Anarchist's Cookbook and we would delight in the type of mischief and mayhem that book described. My favorite entry was the one for the floppy disk bomb. According to the book, with a little bit of match powder and nail polish, you could create a "bomb" out of a 3.5-inch floppy drive that would successfully fry the hard drive on a computer.
If You Want More Movies With Big Ideas Instead of Big Explosions, You Need to See Arrival
If you've seen the commercials for Arrival, it'd be very easy to assume this big Hollywood scifi movie with Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, crazy aliens, and big ships is an action movie. It's not. It's something else—something much more special.
Store Your Drink of Choice in These Discounted Stanley Flasks and Water Bottles
Conceal your booze or just safely bring some liquid camping thanks to this huge Stanley water bottle and flask sale from Amazon. This style has been around for over 100 years and for good reason. The vacuum-sealed steel design basically started the craze of finding the best place to put hot or cold liquids and keep them that way.
19 Times Someone Gets Thrown Into the Vacuum of Space, From Worst to Best
We all know people don't explode when exposed to space without protection. But science fiction has taken some ... liberties with vacuum exposure over the years. Here are 19 scenes of people being exposed to space, ranked from the least realistic to the most.
What Will Trump's Presidency Mean for Our Future in Space?
If you woke up today wishing to fling yourself into a black hole, you may be wondering what's in store for NASA under President-elect Donald Trump. It is difficult to say much with certainty. But overall, the space agency will probably be directed to focus more on deep space activities and crewed spaceflight over the next four years, while its top-notch Earth science programs could suffer serious cuts.
Donald Trump is About to Declare War on Women's Bodies
Donald Trump made some pretty scary threats during the election about cracking down on abortion. Here's a quick refresher on his campaign promises—and why women have every right to be very worried.
Today started off as a good day for Twitter. Our new Cheeto-stained President-elect basically ran his entire campaign on the service (it is where trolls live, after all) and the stock closed up 4 percent, on a day when most tech stocks plummeted.
Watching People Hug in Movies Makes Me Feel Like I Need a Hug
A good hug is what everyone needs at any time on any day. It's a certain type of closeness combined with a sense of security, and a shared warmth that makes it necessary. Some hugs are sad and emotional, others are happy and relieved, but after watching these 50 hugging scenes from various movies like Interstellar, Mad Max: Fury Road,Sucker Punch, and more, I just want to hug the next person I see today.
At approximately 2:30am EST, Donald J. Trump—a man who shares in common all the traits of burgeoning fascists through history—was declared the 45th president of the United States of America. He will take the office with a Republican majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. And the internet army that believes it elected him already has a new target.
Donald Trump Has His Own .Gov Site Now and Oh God It's All Real
On Wednesday, the transition team for President-elect(!) Donald Trump unveiled his first official government website, greatagain.gov, further demonstrating that this is a real thing that's really happening.
Watch How Slime Mold Smartly Crawls By Itself All Over Everything
Slime mold is fascinating, because though it's only a single cell organism with no brain, it somehow stretches its tentacle-like fingers in a coherent pattern in search for food. This time lapse footage speeds up the process of that goopy crawl (in reality it only moves a few centimeters a day), but you get to see how the simple yellow slime eventually envelopes everything around it.
Crystal Star Really Is the Worst Star Wars Book Ever
Of the approximately eleventy billion books in the original Star Wars Expanded Universe, there are the hallowed (the Thrawn books by Timothy Zahn), the good (the X-Wing books), the bad (The Jedi Academy), and the mediocre (...most of them). And then there's The Crystal Star, a novel so bad it ruined me. Let this article serve as a warning to the rest of the galaxy.
Some Employees Knew Yahoo Was Compromised Years Before Hack of 500 Million Was Revealed
In September, just two months after Verizon announced plans to acquire Yahoo, the search and email giant revealed that state-sponsored hackers had stolen the personal information of 500 million users. According to Yahoo, it began seriously investigating the attack this summer, but the company now says at least some employees knew of the breach as early as 2014.
'Lets Work Even Harder': Mark Zuckerberg Responds to Election
Wednesday night, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued his first public statement on the results of the 2016 election, adopting an optimistic tone in a post on the social network tagged "feeling hopeful."
Take a Ride Through Any Place on Earth With This Street View Animator
Street View has always been a useful Google tool, letting you spy on holiday destinations, historical landmarks, and your own driveway from the comfort of a web-connected computer. What it lacks is a way to take a seamless ride through a Street View-powered world, but now there's a site that can stitch together images directly from your route.
A Big Theory About Supergirl's Next Big Villain, Debunked
Pacific Rim 2 gets a new title. Tom Holland reveals just how long he's contracted to play Spider-Man. Shawn Levy talks about casting Uncharted's Nathan Drake. Plus, our first look at Taron Edgerton as an orc cop in Bright, new footage from Underworld: Blood Wars, and Legends of Tomorrow goes '80s. Spoilers!
Google's VR Headset Is So Comfortable I Never Want to Take It Off
It isn't the games that really wow me when I slip on the Daydream View VR headset. It isn't the worlds that the Google Maps app allow me to visit. It isn't even the immediate sensation of wonder that VR still instills me. It's how comfortable the headset is.
Newly Discovered Oviraptor Suffered a Slow, Miserable Death
Behold Tongtianlong, a new species of oviraptor uncovered in China. The fossilized remains of this feathered, bird-like dinosaur were preserved with its limbs outstretched, and its head raised—suggesting it was hopelessly stuck in a patch of mud, where it eventually died.
iPhone Bug Can Force Phones to Repeatedly Call 911
Last month, we covered the arrest of a teenager who utilized a bug to spread a malicious link on Twitter that forced iPhones to repeatedly call 911. And now, we finally know how the bug actually works.
Luc Besson's Valerian Looks Like All Your Scifi Dreams Come True
The first trailer for Luc Besson's Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is finally here and it's got everything you could want in a big science-fiction movie.
Watching a Water-Filled Exercise Ball Explode Will Make You Feel Better
It is deeply satisfying—momentarily, anyway—to watch a bloated exercise ball filled with water explode as it hits the ground. It reminds me of something I watched recently, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Huh!
Snap Up Anker's Cordless, Convertible Vacuum Cleaner For Just $86
Anker's HomeVac vacuum transforms from handheld to upright, has the impressive runtime you'd expect from the brand that makes your favorite battery packs, a washable HEPA filter, and a great warranty. That's quite a package for $86 (with code ANVACUUM), an all-time low.
Donald Trump's Plane Gets a Water Cannon Salute at LaGuardia Airport
Two emergency fire trucks at LaGuardia airport sprayed water haphazardly in the air today over the President-elect Donald Trump's plane. It's called a "water cannon salute." And I can't think of a more fitting picture of waste for a man whose entire life can be summed up by decadence and empty gestures.
Tech CEOs Respond Like a Bunch of Helpless Robots to Trump's Election
We've had a little over a day to process the reality that yes, Donald Trump is our new President-elect. We've already talked about what this means for women's bodies, education, public health, space, and the environment, and the short answer is that we're all scared.
What People Who Make Video Games Think of Westworld
We don't know all the secrets of HBO's hit series Westworld, but we do know the park inside the show is essentially just like a video game There are quests for the players to go on, NPCs to interact with (the robot "hosts"), the guests discuss various playstyles of interacting with the park, and even get "upgrades." The people behind the scenes create the narrative, program the hosts, and control the environment, crafting the experiences for the players. So what do the designers who actually make video games for a living think about the show?
The New Robots in Disguise Toys Are Inspired by the '80s Transformers You Grew Up With
Few toy lines have thrived as long as the Transformers have, but those of us who grew up in the '80s probably barely recognize the Autobots and Decepticons you'll now find in toy stores. Over the decades the toy line has evolved immensely, but 32 years later, it's taking inspiration from the characters and toys that first appeared way back in 1984.
Rudolph Giuliani, a possessed sack of human flesh and crooked teeth, wants to take up the cyber reins in President-elect Donald Trump's administration. Installing someone with such questionable experience would likely be a complete disaster for America's cybersecurity woes.
Escape Cruel Reality for Three Minutes With This Glorious Desert Night Time Lapse
One of the simple wonders of living on a spinning ball with a thin atmosphere in a densely packed corner of space is the view. Many of us dream of settling down by a picturesque coastline or a rugged mountainscape, but we so often forget that the best scenery on planet Earth is located directly overhead.
Throughout this year's presidential campaign, journalists have focused, correctly, on the power of Facebook to shape, distort, and ultimately control the news and information that inform and educate voters. They've writtendozensof stories about the proliferating number of anonymous, low-rent websites that publish bombastic and clearly inaccurate stories designed to spread throughout Facebook's platform as quickly as possible. Because so many of those stories were so heavily slanted toward the Republican nominee, some of those very same journalists are now beginning to blame Facebook, rather than actual voters, for yesterday's earth-shaking election of Donald Trump.
Tech Stocks Continue to Plunge as Investors Worry About Silicon Valley After Trump's Election
Yesterday the stock market did exceptionally well. But tech stocks weren't so lucky. And it looks like the impending Donald Trump presidency is continuing to spook investors about Silicon Valley, as tech stocks continue to plunge today.
Prepare for flight delays at LaGuardia. The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a new no-fly zone over Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan until January 21, 2017, the day President-elect Trump moves into the White House.
If Marvel Needs a Show Explaining Its Comics, Maybe Its Problem Is the Comics
Tomorrow, Marvel will premiere a web series called TL;DR, ruining that particular internet neologism for the rest of us. In it, the company will turn its event comics and most famous stories into "fun, hilarious short episodes."
Take Advantage of This Pretty Decent Discount on Your Favorite Router
If you need convincing as to why this router is so great, just read this. Then head over to Amazon to grab it right now and experience WiFi like you never thought you could before. And while this price is not quite as good as the insane T-Mobile deal we saw at the beginning of the week, but it also doesn't come rebranded.
British red squirrels are being afflicted by a medieval strain of leprosy that was thought to have disappeared from Europe over 700 years ago, according to a new DNA analysis.Researchers say the chances of the dreaded disease spreading to humans is low, but the discovery suggests this strain of leprosy has been lingering for quite some time.
'What Do I Say?': Stories From the Classroom After Election Day
Teachers have been dealing with the specter of Donald Trump long before he was actually elected President of the United States. They've apologized for assigning the presidential debates as homework, faced frighteningly emboldened bullies, and comforted the terrified children of immigrants. This was imagined, by many, to be a temporary problem.
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