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I'm still pretty smitten since trying out this pair of bike lights that mount permanently to the headset and seatpost--but I still gotta remember to charge them. So I'm dying to try out Pixio by Rydon; these little illum...

Payphones are all but entirely obsolete, relics left over from an age where a smartphone wasn't found in nearly every pocket. Back in the summer of 2012, New York City …

Don't worry, that's not a typo. You can actually swipe across this poster to hear what a handful of spices sound like. The interactive artwork is the result of a collaboration between the creative agency Grey London and ...

Uber's ridesharing service has primarily catered to an adult crowd that rarely needs to bring more than a suitcase, but it may soon offer a solution for those whose kids have to tag along. VentureBeat hears from a source...

Boom. What an explosion. Even though it's a tight fit to get through, you totally don't expect the overhead line to blow up the way it did when you're watching this ship try to pass through this railway bridge in the Net...

Hey, what's this? Sony said that it would only sell the Xperia Z2 in the US as an unlocked model, but the company has briefly teased Google+ followers with a picture of the high-end Android phone sporting a conspicuous V...

NASA scientists says that the largest moon in the solar system may harbor life in its inner oceans. Previously, scientists thought Ganymede only had one ocean between two ice layers, but data reveals that its structure i...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of BASIC, Steve Wozniak has written some memories about his first experiences with this popular language--and how he created his own BASIC from scratch for the Apple I and Apple II compu...

Despite our long wait for a next-gen Sega Channel, the rise of gaming on new platforms and recent push of cloud gaming services, our cable and satellite TV boxes mostly stick to just video. That could change soon, accord...

Urban legend confirmed. Atari did dump a pile of its E.T. game cartridges into a landfill in New Mexico and it's thanks to Microsoft's recent documentary efforts that we've gotten some closure. This leads your hosts to p...

Cigarette butts are the bane of a city's existence: you can find them almost everywhere, smashed flat on the sidewalks, stubbed into planter boxes, drifting into the gutters like tube-shaped snow. While some public space...

Each year a test is done across the nation by everyday users like you. The test is part of "Fastest Mobile Networks 2014," ultimately showing how mobile device networks (AT&T, …

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How does it make you feel to read Electronic Arts and Comcast in the same sentence? Frustrated? Apprehensive? Well for once two bads might make a good. Reuters reports that EA and Comcast are working on a deal that could...

Turns out that all you rock-paper-scissors champions who chalk it up to skill over luck may be on to something. Because according to science, there might actually be a winning strategy to this greatest of metacarpal matc...

Like many privacy advocates, the Electronic Frontier Foundation isn't a big fan of advertisers and sites following you around the web. So, it's doing something about this nosy behavior -- it's launching a browser add-on,...

#TSA #FAI discovered this cane sword belonging to a pax headed to #ANC on Thurs. Cane swords go in checked bags, pls. pic.twitter.com/YfIsK2VceR -- TSAmedia_Lorie (@TSAmedia_Lorie) May 2, 2014

And now for a delightful reminder about the pure, unadulterated magic of moving line drawings. This little bouncer above is demonstrating the ol' "Squash & Stretch," one of the 12 basic principles of animation laid out i...

Dumt & Farligt (Stupid & Dangerous) is a Danish TV program that really lives up to its name: They do lots of dumb and hazardous things while filming using a Phantom camera in slow motion. Like firing big fireworks in a l...

Over on Southland, Nathan Masters shares incredible images that illustrate how Disneyland has changed over the last 59 years, going from an oasis amid endless orange groves to an oasis amid endless sprawl.

Right now, there are six people living and working in the International Space Station as it hurtles around our little oasis among the stars. That thought alone is astonishing/freaky enough until you realize the sheer num...

Billboards of the world, you can aspire to be more than signs pointing to cheap motels and sleazy roadside attractions. An engineering team in Peru has created a billboard that they say can purify 100,000 cubic meters of...