NASA’s About To Release a Mother Lode of Free Software

NASA's About To Release a Mother Lode of Free Software

If you’ve been thinking about getting started on the rocket project that’s been on your mind for ages, now is a good time to get serious. Next week, NASA will release a massive software catalog with over 1,000 projects. It’s not the first time the space agency’s released code, but it is the first time they’ve made it so easy.

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Watch the Navy parachute team jump and land inside a baseball stadium

Watch the Navy parachute team jump and land inside a baseball stadium

Because most of us will never take the literal leap of jumping off a damn plane, here’s POV footage from the Leap Frogs aka the Navy’s parachute team. For the San Diego Padre’s home opener, the jumpers took off in a plane and landed right smack inside Petco Park. You can hear the roar of the crowd grow louder as they get closer.

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The time travel movie 12 Monkeys is becoming a TV show in 2015

If you’re so enamored with time travel in TV shows that even Doctor Who isn’t enough, we have good news: you’re about to get a lot more of it. Syfy has ordered production of a series based on Terry Gilliam’s classic movie 12 Monkeys. While the show…

Google Play Store People: seeing friends buy things

Starting this week you’ll begin to be able to see a new section in the mobile (and eventually the desktop) version of the Google Play store. This is People, and … Continue reading

Oh Great, Surgeons Want To Shove These Robot Snakes Down Our Throats

Oh Great, Surgeons Want To Shove These Robot Snakes Down Our Throats

In addition to completely freaking us out , it turns out that the robotic snakes being developed at universities like Carnegie Mellonsome serve some practical purposes as well. A company called Medrobotics Corporation will soon begin marketing robot snake-assisted surgical device designed to crawl down a patient’s throat. Yeah, that’s far less creepy.

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Google Play’s ‘People’ section highlights apps your friends like

You trust your friends for restaurant recommendations, so why not apps as well? That’s the idea behind Google Play’s new “People” section, which attempts to leverage Google+ as a way to show which apps your friends like enough to award a +1 (you’ll…

Quakes, Brands, 7-Story Buildings: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

Quakes, Brands, 7-Story Buildings: What's Ruining Our Cities This Week

This week! Why a huge earthquake didn’t actually cause all that much devastation in Chile. How a not-so-tall building could be the end of a New Orleans neighborhood. And where brands killed Manhattan. Let’s take a look at What’s Ruining Our Cities.

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Amazon Dash: scan or speak to order what you need

There’s a device appearing this week going by the name of Amazon Dash, one that’ll enhance the way users will be able to work with Amazon Fresh. Amazon Fresh is … Continue reading

Gadget Lab Podcast: There’s Never Been a Better Time to Talk to Your Stuff

On this week’s podcast (#206), Mat and Mike discuss Microsoft Build, Windows Phone and Cortana, Apple’s WWDC Lottery, and the debut of Amazon Fire TV.



This Rolling Bear Trap Makes Awkward Flat Materials Easy to Move

This Rolling Bear Trap Makes Awkward Flat Materials Easy to Move

A large sheet of plywood isn’t necessarily heavy, but its massive dimensions can certainly make it unwieldy to carry. And since there’s nothing wrong with the whole "work smarter not harder" mentality, this gravity-powered clamping trolley makes it super easy to just roll everything from sheets of wood, to drywall, to basically anything that will fit inside its grasp.

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