Last month, Apple’s crazy-lax password reset protocol allowed Wired’s Mat Honan to be hacked. Hard. It was a wake-up call for the company and its customers, a breach so severe it demanded an immediate solution. More »
I know you guys might have forgotten to get your favorite robotic horse a gift today, but this is International Creepy Robotic Boston Dynamics Robotic Horse Day, and it’s important to get out there and celebrate the magic of the creepy robotic horse.
This new Boston Dymanics robot, the Legged Squad Support System, is a new robot based on Big Dog designed to support squads in the field as they roll through enemy territory. This horsey can carry 400 pounds of payload and travel 20 miles on one charge. It also follows its human master around without the need for external controls.
The important thing here? This monster looks entirely untethered, and if I were coming up against a squad assisted by a creepy robotic horse, I’d probably run the opposite direction. As it stands, however, these creepy robotic horses deserve our praise and admiration if only because they’re so freaking cool.
Here’s a picture of Barack Obama campaigning in West Palm Beach, Florida yesterday. Except you can’t even get a great look at the prez because of all the amateur idiots taking idiot pictures with their idiot tablets, getting in the way of the real professional photographers. This disruptive behavior has to stop. More »
Man, I don’t even know where to start with this movie. Released in 2009, Dogtooth is a Greek film, so get ready for subtitles, but there’s so, so much more you also need to prepare yourself for. More »
Sure, maybe Philip Roth won about a hundred literary awards, and maybe he’s one of the most accomplished living American authors, but thanks to Wikipedia’s moronic rules about needing secondary sources, he wasn’t allowed to correct factual errors about his own book. So he took up his mighty pen and did something about it—he created his own source. More »
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What good is a Gmail account if you love crispy fried chicken and can also have a customized @CrownFriedChicken address? Because if you consider yourself a member of the Crown Fried Chicken Family (and even if you don’t think you are, you totally definitely are), you can soon have your own email address proclaiming that you belong to House Crown. Seriously. Seriously. More »
Robotic arms haven’t been the same since Tomy stopped making the Armatron but that doesn’t mean you have to live your life without a robotic helpmate. The Fixbot Robotic hand is a DIY project that requires a bunch of time, servos, and 3D printed parts, but it’s easy to make if you have a little time. It’s part of a marketing campaign by Sugru, a self-setting moldable rubber for repairing electronics.
The video shows the Fixbot repairing things around the house (Note: Fixbot will not fix your house or car) but you can use this little guy to wave at people across the room or scratch your back for you with its gentle plastic claw.
It requires an Arduino board, 4 Hitec HS-422 servos, and a microservo. You also need access to a 3D printer. A little buffing, a little screwing, and some electronics know-how and you’re ready to rock.
Here’s a nominee for silliest way to get caught for committing a horrible crime of the year: A man stabbed a woman in a domestic dispute in Los Angeles and then stole her iPhone. Unfortunately for him—you already know where this is going—the police used Find My iPhone to determine the man’s location and promptly arrested him. More »
Discover Magazine has an amazing story about how a woman needed to be carried upside down in order to stay alive. It sounds crazy but it’s real. The reason she had to be held upside down was because her pacemaker had become disconnected from her heart and holding her upside down led the pacemaker to be reconnected. More »
When you want to cool a can of soda (or beer) quickly, what do you do? Stick it in the freezer! Wait a little bit and then boom, bang, icy deliciousness. We all do this. We don’t expect the can to explode in our face and cut us up until we need 38 stitches like this poor boy in China. More »
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