So Into Darkness was fun
TwelveSouth’s new GhostStand is a Houdini for your MacBook—the clear lucite computer stand looks like it has suspended your laptop in mid-air.
The shuttle program is dead
FLIR, or Forward-Looking Infrared, has long been a staple technology for militaries around the world, allowing operations under the cover of night without the blinding shortcomings of conventional night vision goggles. And slowly but surely, this heat-sensing imaging technology is working its way into the consumer market. Specifically, onto your iPhone.
There’s nothing worse than getting set for a fun-filled day of Trike Drifting
When it comes to pasta, you better know your rotini from your rotelle, cuz if you just go around calling everything "spaghetti" until you’re like 21, people are going to make fun of you. Believe me; I know. Fortunately this perfect pasta poster can pump up your proficiency.
A city’s street plan isn’t just the canvas that we paint our lives on—it’s a work of art on its own. This is true regardless whether the avenues and thoroughfares were meticulously arranged into an anal-retentive grid, or whether they just, ahem, happened over time as residents sprawled away from the center of town.
Digital cameras are great and all, but it’s OK to miss good old fashioned film if for no other reason than it looks nice in canister form. This lovely digital print by Peter Hamilton shows off some of the best old-school beauties in all their antiquated glory.
There is no way my parents could have known what a world of pain they were dropping me in by simply giving me the name Mario. It was 1984, and Mario was my dad’s name. THEY COULD NOT HAVE KNOWN WHAT WOULD HAPPEN. But now all the Super Mario/Where’s Luigi/ItsAMe/Wario jokes I’ve ever been the butt of are worth it because this lamp is so damn cool. That’s right people. With the pull of a lamp chain, I am free.
I don’t have any superpowers. Neither do you. But we can both salivate with envy at all the marvelous flavors of superpowers we could have, if they were real. And to aid us in that noble pursuit, Pop Chart has put out their Giant-Size Omnibus of Superpowers, a (fairly) comprehensive menu of powers and their associated owners.