Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action 
This Is How You Will Connect Everything In Your Home To The Internet 
The Most Terrifying Drug In The World 
The 7 Weirdest Creatures Under The Sea 
Why Building The Death Star Is A Bad Investment 
John Cleese: 'Most Of The Gadgetry Is Of No Interest To Me At All' As a baby, I was diagnosed with celiac disease — my body is unable to process gluten, the protein found in wheat, barley, rye, and malt, that gives bread its elastic quality. If I eat it, I throw up, so I avoid gluten entirely. It’s mostly easy; avoid breaded foods and sadly, beer.
Last week we posted a story about a tiny Android-powered computer packed into a shell not much larger than a thumb drive. With its 1.5GHz single-core Cortex-A8, 512MB of RAM and 4GB of Flash storage, it’s not hard to imagine myriad uses for this ultra-ultra portable machine. Now we have a video showing off exactly what it’s capable of.
In John Malkovich’s iPhone ad, Siri tells him a joke. The only thing is, it’s not that funny. Good one, Siri (forced laughter, forced laughter).
An 80-year-old Brit named Laverne came startlingly close to death when things went horribly wrong during her maiden skydiving attempt. If the video doesn’t deter you from ever jumping out of a plane, I don’t know what will.
Ivan Agerton, at Deep Space Reconnaissance/Special Ops, sent us this incredibly crisp footage of the F-35 shot for Lockheed Martin using a Red Epic camera and a Canon zoom.
Furniture designers love chairs. More than any other piece, it’ s a fertile ground for expression and innovation. A well-designed chair is essential to our comfort in a way a table or lamp isn’t.
This man is not Tom Hanks. Or Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the Iranian who lived in Charles de Gaulle’s Terminal One from August 1988 to July 2006. This guy’s name is Parameswaran. He’s from Sri Lanka and he was stranded in Caracas’ international airport in Venezuela for four months.
It would be even cooler if the games were playable, but Tonner Vi’s retro gaming-themed video-mapping installation called Visuatari is still pretty fantastic to just sit back and enjoy. Particularly since it features Mario wandering into other classic titles like Pac-Man and Duck Hunt. Forget the Virtual Boy and the 3DS, this is the only kind of 3D gaming we’d like to bring home.
Once NASA’s Curiosity rover safely touches down inside the Gale crater in August (*crosses fingers*), the real challenge begins. The 907kg, 3m long rover will begin searching for traces of a wet Martian past. But first, researchers at the JPL needed to make sure its sampling arm was up to snuff — here’s how they did it.
We make no secret of our love for Muppets, so we’re psyched that these new augmented reality Band-Aids are bringing our favourite puppets into the 21st century.
