Once she has lowered herself into the mouth of the cannon and slid down to the base of the barrel, Gemma “The Jet” Kirby performs a series of breath-synchronized movements that seem more suited to yoga or lamaze than to one of the deadliest stunts in circus history. This sequence is the culmination of hours of preparation, the final item on a human cannonball’s pre-flight checklist.
Head over to Microsoft’s how-old.net, upload a photo of yourself, and the site will spit out a prediction for how old you are—as well as your gender. Did it guess right? Probably not. But that doesn’t mean it’s not fun.
As unnerving as it is to hear, air traffic control has always been pretty piecemeal. Relying on a combination of instrumentation—namely, radar, radios, and GPS—as well as good old fashioned eyeballs, pilots do a pretty good job navigating the sky. But they’re about to get a lot better with a new satellite-based system.
The Dr. Seuss classic Green Eggs and Ham is about to become a Netflix Original television series, it has been revealed. The series will be the streaming service’s first original programming with Warner Bros., if you don’t count the fourth season of Longmire via Warner Horizon. This new element of the two companies’ relationship will (hopefully) prove well for subscribers, … Continue reading
So you want to get a drone and make it spray a fantastic mural on your local public wall, yes? That’s what KATSU did this week, right on Kendall Jenner’s face. It was about this time last year that this same graffiti artist demonstrated his newfound love of drones for their ability to deploy spray paint whilst flying. Apparently it … Continue reading
Microsoft has a facial recognition tool called ‘How Old’ that aims to guess your age based on a picture of your face. It’s a fun little novelty…or it would be if it were accurate. Rather, many users find the guesses to be inaccurate, sometimes very much so, and as a result the Internet has done what the Internet often does: … Continue reading
Welcome to the new masochism! For a decade now, games have held our hands and walked us patiently through their soft hallways. Playing BioShock Infinite? Try easy mode, darling. Rollicking your way through New Super Mario Bros. U? Fail too many times…
Carroll Shelby’s iconic Cobra roadster has been making jaws drop for half a century now. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Cobra’s debut the US Department of Energy built one of its own. The new Cobra’s entire chassis and bodywork–from the pa…
Earlier this year, Uber launched an in-app panic button for people in India, which lets any user easily alert local police in case of an emergency. And now this safety feature is getting improved. The ride-sharing service announced today that the rea…
I’ve never known anyone to wear a robe on a normal basis other than people in movies. The only time we ever wore robes growing up was Christmas Day so mom could take pictures that didn’t involve kids in their underwear.
If you are the robe sort of person, or just want to be prepared early for the holiday picture season, check this out. This is a World of Warcraft Bloodfang Rogue Robe. It certainly won’t let you steal any nookie from your female friends, unless they happen to be WoW geeks too.
It has pockets, a hood, and a removable belt sure to be lost in a few days. What’s with hoods on robes anyway, I think it’s so we can pretend to be boxers instead of a guy alone in his house wearing a dress. You can pick one of these up at ThinkGeek for $129.99.
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