Feb 08
With up to two feet of snow expected to dump itself on the east coast today, how prepared are you for snowmaggedon? More »
Jan 27
If you’re watching the Winter X Games this weekend, you might see that insane Super Pipe course and wonder how they cut something that big (22 feet tall) out of snow and make it so perfectly symmetrical. The answer is the Zaugg Pipe Monster. It’s like a Zamboni for frozen half-pipes. More »
Jan 23
27 Bone-Chilling Photos Of Winter
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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 »
Jan 23
Snowman Cam Lets You Experience What It’s Like To Be Mauled By a Tiger (Spoiler: Adorable?)
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The zookeepers at England’s Longleat Safari Park were curious what it will be like when its resident tigers finally turn on their captors. So taking advantage of the snowy weather, they stuck a hidden camera inside a snowman and let the big cats have at it. More »
Jan 16
Shooting Challenge: Freeze!
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For most of us, it’s winter. Which means it’s soul-suckingly cold. But for this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’re celebrating all of those frozen motifs—ice, snow and frosty breath. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, show us freezing cold. More »
Jan 13
You’d imagine that it would take quite a few plows to clear a snow-covered highway, but not quite this many. Keep count as they go through and you’ll see a whole 21 plows in formation (and a couple of sand trucks) painstaking passing piles of grey road-sludge to the right and to the right again and to the right again on this highway in Toronto. More »
Jan 10
The Boeing EA-18G Growler is designed to jam enemy electronics from the air so that the US can kill people. But here, it’s just sitting in the Japanese snow, looking pretty as can be. More »
Jan 04
AKKA Ski Retriever detects where you lost your skiing gear with waterproof radio tags
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AKKA wants you to find your snowsports gear, minus hours lost digging in the snow. Its Ski Retriever project, being pitched on Kickstarter, pairs a handheld 1-inch OLED display with multiple tags, with audio and visual feedback delivered as you get closer to your lost property and visible notification for both distance and direction. The tags can be connected into the base plate of your skis, through a cold-weather adhesive mount, or simply lashed to your equipment through lanyard loops. The creators have even have a list of wants they’re hoping to add to the Ski Retriever if they get the necessary funding, including security geo-tagging, and certification to be used in search efforts after an avalanche. Kickstarter preorder customers will pick up a handset and two tags to start with — the founders are hoping to raise $100,000.
Filed under: Wearables
Source: Kickstarter
Jan 02
What are crop circles trying to tell us? I have no idea, but I know that this HUGE Space Invaders art that takes up a whole mountainside can only mean one thing. The aliens are finally invading. And this is likely a signal for their human collaborators.
Remember when you used to make words or shapes in the snow by stamping your boot tracks or lying in the snow? Well, you never created anything halfway as cool as this. Sorry. This just blows your stupid snow angels away. Simon Beck is a snow art boot tracking pro. I mean that pro part. This guy walked and walked and walked, creating each little pattern piece until he created these incredible gigantic Space Invaders on the side of a mountain.
What the hell did you do today? Did you make aliens on the side of a mountain? With your feet? That aliens can see from space?
[Inhabitat via io9 via Obvious Winner]
Dec 15
As winter rests its icy keister upon our heads things get cold, dark, and downright depressing. The only—literally the only—thing I look forward to come wintertime is playing in the snow. Here’re some items to help you maximize your frozen fun. More »
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