An update to Grand Theft Auto Online for both PS3 and Xbox 360 gamers should fix missing cars, mods that disappear, and an exploit which allowed the same vehicle to be sold multiple times, as developer Rockstar Games addresses the issues in the overwhelmed multiplayer title. The glitches were down to a cloud save failure, […]
A couple of weeks ago we saw a car that changes color when it’s wet, thanks to a coating of thermochromic paint. Icelandic designer Thorunn Arnadottir used the same kind of paint to make a radiator that, together with its twisting tubes, makes it appear organic. She calls it Blush, and it’s easy to see why.
Blush clearly mimics the appearance of a capillary, the smallest type of blood vessels. They facilitate the exchange of nutrients as well as waste materials and are often depicted in illustrations as having blue and red halves. Thorunn said, “Blush is a very important organ of the house. Regulates the temperature and keeps it warm and alive.”
I’d love to see more appliances that change color depending on their state. Perhaps a fridge that turns gray when there’s spoiled food inside. Or a bathroom door that turns brown to tell you that someone just dropped bombs inside.
[via Street Anatomy via Laughing Squid]
I am 99.9% sure that there will never be commercial production of genetically engineered wine grapes ("GMO" to use the common misnomer). Even so, I’d like to indulge in imagining what could be if we lived in some parallel universe where rational scientific thinking prevailed.
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If you’re after a little more creativity in your Micro Four Thirds shooting sessions, Lomography is looking to oblige with a trio of lenses aimed at just that. The outfit’s Experimental Lens Kit offers three options for image capture: 160-degree fisheye, 12mm wide-angle and standard 24mm glass. …
(Credit: Geoffrey Morrison) You can’t take pictures. Well, not normally. During a regular tour, there’s the tour guide, and a separate minder who keeps an eye on you and your phone or camera.
Welcome to the Vault, the sprawling underground storage of some incredible and historic cars, beneath the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.
By special arrangement, I got to take my camera, so I can show you some of the cars on display. From a 1903 Cadillac to a 1953 Ferrari, to a gold-plated DeLorean, there’s lots to see.
If you’re a fan of cars, or even just history, I recommend checking out the Petersen if you’re in LA. Since the Vault is a guided tour, there’s a separate fee and specific tour times (two times a day on weekdays, four times on weekends).
If you can’t convince your significant other to go for the cars, the LA County Museum of Art is across the street.
At your appointed time, your guide shepherds you into the elevator. Through another set of doors at the bottom is the underground garage that is the Vault.
Because it’s not a show space, per se, the lighting isn’t ideal for photography. The closeness of the cars was occasionally an issue for some shots. Excuses aside, here are a few dozen cars in all their amazing gl… [Read more]
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This week the folks at NVIDIA unveiled several pieces of technology not many could have predicted, but one thing sticks as it is with essentially any of the company’s gaming events: a brand new graphics card was shown. This card goes by the name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti, and though we’ve not got one […]
Bet you didn’t have this marked on your calendar: today is World Vasectomy Day, a holiday celebrated not with parades or fireworks, but with the delicate snip of two tiny tubes. But is such a largely permanent step really our only male birth control option? Where’s the male version of the pill?
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NFL commentator Rich Eisen has, for reasons unknown, created a dating app for football fans. And if the only good it brings the world is this joyously unhinged review from KissingSuzyKolber’s PFTCommenter, it will have been worth it. Read it below, in all its [sic]’d glory:
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Say you’re surfing around online and come upon an interesting promo for a new TV show. You could stop what you’re doing, find the show on your DVR and hit record, but most likely you’ll just make yourself a little mental note to catch it later. The problem with mental notes, of course, is that …
Yamamoto says its underwear (left) protects against gamma rays, while its swimsuit blocks beta rays.
(Credit: Yamamoto)
We’ve seen plenty of bizarre fashions from Japan, especially in the underwear department.
There have been briefs that eat your farts, mini underwear for iPhones, and bras that grow rice or become industrial fuel.
Those are all nearly, but not completely, jokes. As would seem to be the case with some new anti-radiation underwear and swimwear from Osaka-based materials company Yamamoto. But it’s for real.
Developed in response to the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster, the underwear would protect the most sensitive parts of the body from harmful gamma rays.
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