The Army Will Pay You to Riot [Military]
How does the US Army know if its less-than-lethal armaments are effective without being deadly? Live fire training exercises employing a mob of volunteers, of course. More » ... [ Continue reading... ]
How does the US Army know if its less-than-lethal armaments are effective without being deadly? Live fire training exercises employing a mob of volunteers, of course. More » ... [ Continue reading... ]
To create the NEX-F3, Sony took its predecessor—the best-in-class NEX-C3—loaded it with revamped hardware aimed at everyday consumers, and gave the camera's shooting specs a boost. The finished product looks promising, and the price remains $600. Is it still the best camera in its category? More » ... [ Continue reading... ]
Though the Mac Pro got a half-assed update yesterday that was promptly forgotten today, it's really been on life support for years. But don't worry professional people! Tim Cook has officially said that Apple is "working on something really great" for the Mac Pro and that it'll be coming next year. More » ... [ Continue reading... ]
San Francisco is a food truck mecca. From burritos to Irish/Eritrean fusion—if you can think of it, someone's probably already serving it out the back of a van. But where does one get a sudsy man soda to wash down his artisan lamb sliders? From the only mobile taproom within city limits—Brewtruc. More » ... [ Continue reading... ]
Dan Lyons, the guy who used to be Fake Steve Jobs, has a story today that asks "once upon a time we put a man on the moon. Now we pee our pants over retina displays. WTF happened to us?" The answer is really easy: We're the same as we've always been. We love to watch things change. More » ... [ Continue reading... ]
There's not much to this transforming, pop-up tea house in Sao Paolo, Brazil that the picture doesn't already give away. But if there was ever a retail space to fawn over, it's the one that packs cleanly into a wall. [Dezeen] More » ... [ Continue reading... ]
You may not have realized it, but today is the first inaugural National Jerky Day. And sure, it might be nothing more than a publicity stunt cooked up by Jack Links to sell more product, but we're ok with that. Because dammit, beef jerky deserves more recognition. More » ... [ Continue reading... ]
You may not have realized it, but today is the first inaugural National Jerky Day. And sure, it might be nothing more than a publicity stunt cooked up by Jack Links to sell more product, but we're ok with that. Because dammit, beef jerky deserves more recognition. More » ... [ Continue reading... ]
Atomic clocks are super accurate, but do you know how they work? Probably not! Well, unless you know about quartz vibrations regulated by Cesium energy states at the atomic level, which are separated by magnets and ovens. But assuming you don't know that stuff, here's the engineerguy Bill Hammack explaining how these clocks work, and how they're applied to other technology, like GPS.... [ Continue reading... ]
Thanks to a new partnership between PayPal and Tivo, you could be ordering Girls Gone Wild DVDs Shamwows at the click of your TV remote as soon as this fall. There's just one glaring question, who asked for this? More » ... [ Continue reading... ]