In the tiny arctic village of Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, dusk lasts most of the day at this time of year. Against the dramatic and ever-evolving pink and purple sky sits a structure that looks like a cross between a sleek nightclub and an igloo from outer space: Lapland’s storied IceHotel, the world’s largest and longest-running luxury hotel made entirely of frozen water. More »
Opera is celebrating the news that it’s hit the 300 million monthly user milestone with a big announcement. It’s going to dump Presto, the current Opera rendering engine, in favor of WebKit. The company gave the impression that it’s exhausted after swimming against the tide of an internet designed to work for Chrome and Safari for so long. Instead, the firm will devote its considerable resources toward “innovation and polish” on its browser products. Opera’s already hinted at its future by demonstrating Ice, its WebKit-based experiment for iOS and Android devices, which it’ll be showing off in more detail at MWC later this month.
Someone left the hose out overnight when it was freezing, and in the morning, he had awesome cylinder ice. His wife probably yelled at him, but that is one happy accident. More »
For a recent winter ice and snow celebration in the chilly city of Perm,Russia, somebody (presumably from Toyota), built this amazing ride entirely out of ice (plus a few red LEDs.)
I’ve had the opportunity to drive a loaded $80,000+ Land Cruiser, and while it was a great truck, I can tell you that I could probably sooner afford to build one entirely out of ice too. Plus, this one probably gets better gas mileage than the actual suburban assault vehicle.
[via English Russia via NewLaunches]
Firefighting is an extremely dangerous job on par with helicopter linemen and DC pizza delivery boys. But when fighting a Chicago-area warehouse inferno earlier today, crews had to endure both fire and ice caused by temperatures hovering just above 0 degrees F. Check out shots of the fire’s aftermath over at WSJ. More »
“Damn, it’s freezing. I know I said I’d go for a run, but in this cold it’s probably unhealthy, right?” More »
It’s winter, which means nature has once again ceased to care about our survival for another few months. The good news is that most of us have heat. And cameras. Here are the icy results of this week’s Shooting Challenge. More »
Dropping your iPhone in the drink is always an unfortunate thing but if you drop Gamago’s iOS icon ice cubes ($8) in your glass, you’ll be the opposite of sad because your drink will be cold and your phone safe. Ice bath, good. Damaged phone rice bath, bad. More »
Opera has been in the mobile web browser game for some time now, but it looks like it’s set to soon shake things up considerably. As detailed in an internal video obtained by Pocket-lint, the company has been working on an all-new mobile browser dubbed “Ice,” which ditches the company’s own Presto engine in favor of WebKit (bringing it in line with the likes of Safari and Chrome). What’s more, Ice looks to fully embrace a touch interface optimized for smartphones and tablets, with gestures replacing buttons and icons on a central home screen replacing tabs. You can apparently look for it to land on both Android and iOS sometime in February, with a new desktop version of Opera set to follow in March (details on it are comparatively light). Head on past the break for some highlights from the video.
Filed under: Cellphones, Internet, Mobile
Via: TechCrunch
Source: Pocket-lint
These skull ice molds are awesome. How better can you say danger than skulls and alcohol? Add a gang of smoking, unsupervised tweens who text while riding motorcycles? Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. More »
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