A high school sub usually means your teacher's sick and you get a free period to screw around. But for one student, its meaning is a little more literal. Eighteen-year-old Justin Beckerman could be considered the reincarnation of Thomas Edison. In his brief life, Justin's created a remote controlled cleaning machine, a helmet home theater, and now a fully functional one-man submarine that can dive as deep as thirty feet. It kind of puts your... [ Continue reading... ]
Beer is a staple of Americana, so it's only suitable that the buildings where it's brewed are often classic examples of American architecture. Even though some breweries eventually fall into disrepair, either because the brewer shuts down or because it moves, many of those have been given second lives as loft apartments, hotels, restaurants, and shops.Read... [ Continue reading... ]
From Sunday, Best Buy is knocking $50 off the price off the price of iPhones for four weeks.Read... [ Continue reading... ]
A Homeland Security intelligence bulletin has warned that it could be "impossible" to stop 3D-printed guns from being made. Astute, guys. Very, very astute.Read... [ Continue reading... ]
This is a clever little concept design by New York-based Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects: a perfectly normal chair with a tiny little table top, that turns a functional piece of furniture into something rather more sociable.Read... [ Continue reading... ]
Intel has just made one very, very big claim: it reckons that its new Haswell chip will boost the battery life of laptops by a staggering 50 percent.Read... [ Continue reading... ]
The Ring Nebula is a common image in astronomy, but new images from Hubble reveal something rather strange inside the cloud of swirling gas.Read... [ Continue reading... ]
Speaking last night, Digg CEO Andrew McLaughlin explained that Digg's Reader won't be a standalone app, and will allow you to sort and rank content, unlike a normal RSS reader.Read... [ Continue reading... ]
Google is apparently facing a fresh antitrust probe from the Federal Trade Commission to find out if it's been abusing its dominance in display-advertising to illegally curb competition. Naughty.Read... [ Continue reading... ]
Every so often when the Moon is especially ginormous or we can see Venus or Mars from Earth, humans collectively freaks out. So cool three exclamation points, we scream. Look how big with thirty i's, we yell. And it's warranted! Seeing things that don't belong in the sky pop up, well, in the sky is fun. So could you imagine if one day Earth developed rings like Saturn? It would be insane.Read... [ Continue reading... ]
