This Is NASA’s New (and Effing Awesome) Deep Space Rocket

NASA got a new deep space exploration system, the Space Launch System. A new heavy rocket designed to take astronauts well beyond planet Earth’s orbit. It’s beautiful. It’s like the Saturn all over again, but better. More »

Everything You Need to Grow Weed Tomatoes Indoors

Out here in Northern California, tomatoes* are cheap and abundant. But that’s unfortunately not the case in many other parts of the country. These seven tools will let you grow tomatoes* in the privacy of your own home. More »

What Is an RPG?

The Diplomatic District of Kabul, Afghanistan is under attack right now. Reports are that the area—including the US Embassy— is taking heavy RPG fire. But what is an RPG, exactly? More »

Motorola Droid Bionic Review: It’s Superfast, But…

It’s funny, the way that Motorola keeps awkwardly scraping away at the future of computing. The Atrix was a phone with a dual-core processor-like your laptop!—that also turned into a laptop. The Droid Bionic is the next step—a dual-core transforming thing of a phone, but it pulls down real internet from the sky. More »

74 Photos Capturing the Most Striking Colors Possible

Orange and blue aren’t just great for mascots; they’re complementary colors—or opposites, really, that cancel one another out when mixed. But when placed side-by-side, they’re striking. Here are 74 incredible examples from this week’s Shooting Challenge. More »

Windows 8 Slate Hands On: It’s Fantastic. (But Don’t Sell Your iPad.)

A Microsoft tablet with Windows 8 has been a long time coming, but it’s finally here. Sort of. We got our hands on a developer’s preview yesterday and while flawed, it’s extremely impressive. More »

Warner Bros. Copyright Clowns Take Five Spoons of Their Own Medicine

According to Hotfile, a guy by the name of Michael Bentkover and his cronies are copyright dicks, crooks and liars. Not with those words, but that’s the executive summary of their copyright fraud lawsuit against Warner Brothers. More »

The Best Ways to Kill Your SMS Plan

Your phone company is screwing you on text messaging. SMS messages cost them next to nothing, yet they charge you up the yin-yang. So how’s about sticking it to the phone company with some viable alternatives to SMS messaging? More »

Wacom Cintiq 24HD Review: a Digital Artist Heaven On Earth

I played with the gigantic Wacom Cintiq 24HD last week. It is so well designed and it works so incredibly well that I found myself giggling like a little girl. I drew and drew and I became addicted. More »

The Most Wicked Optical Illusion I’ve Seen So Far

This is sick. Sick because the spiral effect is making me sick and sick because it reminds me how flawed/awesome/trippy our color perception is. Believe it or not, the green and the blue in this spiral is the same color. More »