Tech

  • Barbie IRL Is Actually From Outerspace

    Remember Real Life Barbie Girl? Me too. And how could I forget? The images have been burned into my memory forever. But now it…

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  • A Blog of Ice and Embroidery

    With all the violence, sex, and violent sex happening on Game of Thrones, it’s easy to miss some of the small details about the…

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  • How German Sounds Compared to Other Languages

    In this video people pronounce words in French, English, Italian, Spanish and German to illustrate the contrast between the languages. A word like butterfly…

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  • Machine Makes Coffee When You Yawn

    Coffee Roaster Douwe Egberts recently set up a vending machine at the O.R. Tambo International Airport. But this isn’t any old stinking vending machine…

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  • An Exoskeleton To Make You Taller

    This is the Powered Jacket MK3, a $123,000 exoskeleton suit that makes you taller and stronger. The thing weighs 55 pounds and will make…

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  • Chair Hugs For Facebook B-day Wishes

    Ad agency Lew’Lara\TBWA and Outback Steakhouse in Brazil have come together to bring us the Outback B-Day Chair. The birthday boy or girl is…

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  • We Didn’t Start The Viral: 8 Years of YouTube Gold

    Remember Badger Badger? How about Numa Numa? If these questions sound like nonsense, clearly you’re not a big YouTube fan. Either that or you’re…

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  • Single mountain bike rider on electric bike, e-mountainbike rides mountain trail. Man cycling on bike in Dolomites mountains. Cycling e-mtb enduro trail track. Outdoor sport activity.

    Sounds Dangerous: iPhone Bike Mount

    Like bicycling? Have a death wish? Then you definitely want this Bike Mount Holder for the iPhone! It attaches directly to your bicycle handlebars…

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  • New Photo Meme: Vadering

    For a brief stretch in spring 2013, Kamehameha-ing was soooo last week. (Literally, we’d talked about it last week.) The next photo meme on…

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  • Kamehameha-ing Is The New Planking In Japan

    (And just FYI, baguetting is the new planking in the US.) When Japanese teenagers aren’t busy making their foreheads look like bagels, they’re apparently being really awesome. Schoolgirls in Japan are posting photos of themselves doing Kamehameha attacks and other moves from the popular manga and anime series Dragon Ball. And these aren’t just pictures of people standing around pretending to shoot energy blasts. The students are staging entire anime battles, with one person posing as the attacker while everyone else jumps backward at precisely the right moment. Snap the picture, and suddenly it looks like the whole group has been blasted through the air by some invisible superpower. AMAZING. The photo craze took off in Japan in March 2013, with the most famous version becoming known as Makankosappo, a reference to Piccolo’s Special Beam Cannon attack from Dragon Ball. On March 25, a Japanese student posted a group photo on Twitter showing her classmates apparently being sent flying by a powerful energy blast. The picture spread rapidly, inspiring other students to create their own gravity-defying scenes. (And just FYI, baguetting is the new planking in the US.) When Japanese teenagers aren’t busy making their foreheads look like bagels, they’re apparently being really awesome. Schoolgirls in Japan are posting photos of themselves doing Kamehameha attacks and other moves from the popular manga and anime series Dragon Ball. And these aren’t just pictures of people standing around pretending to shoot energy blasts. The students are staging entire anime battles, with one person posing as the attacker while everyone else jumps backward at precisely the right moment. Snap the picture, and suddenly it looks like the whole group has been blasted through the air by some invisible superpower. AMAZING. The photo craze took off in Japan in March 2013, with the most famous version becoming known as Makankosappo, a reference to Piccolo’s Special Beam Cannon attack from Dragon Ball. On March 25, a Japanese student posted a group photo on Twitter showing her classmates apparently being sent flying by a powerful energy blast. The picture spread rapidly, inspiring other students to create their own gravity-defying scenes. j-cast.com+1 The trend became so popular that Capcom USA, the company behind Street Fighter, even launched a Hadouken photo contest in April 2013. That’s right. Pretending to blast your friends across a schoolyard became an actual competition. What a time to be alive. The trend became so popular that Capcom USA, the company behind Street Fighter, even launched a Hadouken photo contest in April 2013. That’s right. Pretending to blast your friends across a schoolyard became an actual competition. What a time to be alive.

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  • Make Your Own Shetland Ponies Music Video

    So what have you been doing at work all day? If your answer is “actually working” then obviously you haven’t come across the Pony…

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  • Machine Seperates Creme From OREOS

    Physicist David Neevel created a machine to separate the OREO cookie from the creme. This is a video of the thing in action. It’s…

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