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Holy crap. The John Hancock Tower in Chicago rolled out a snazzy scary new attraction for people who visit the top of the skyscraper: windows that tilt down to give you a better view of the ground beneath you. It's like ...

Netscape's story reads like a proper fairy tale: takeovers, fierce and hostile competition, split-ups, a giant payout and even a dragon! While Netscape may now only be a sweet, sweet memory to those who used it to first ...

Price: $38 Step out in a storm like a true Jedi while you carry the Star Wars Lightsaber Umbrella. Inspired from Yoda's ever-famous lightsaber, this is an umbrella built for those who fantasize to live in a world like St...

Sometimes there's no better way to respond to a story or a comment than with an animated GIF. Specifically, a reaction GIF, which should be no stranger to anyone who's ever spent a significant amount of time in online ch...

Solar panels have become cheaper and more efficient in recent years, but you can't say the same for the big, costly inverters turning their energy into usable electricity. Google isn't happy with this lack of progress, s...

I love this Sunday's Simpsons couch gag because it's really dark comedy--like life itself. Take a look.

The hotly anticipated iPhone 6 is being "leaked" again, with this latest round promising actual schematics from the supply chain. An unsurprisingly anonymous tipster is saying the shots are pulled …

Waterproof smartphones aren't unheard of, but scoring one will usually involve investing in a higher-end smartphone than some people are willing to do. It is those consumers in particular that …

Price: $66 Here comes a bright opportunity to flaunt your walls with the iconic wall plate art but with a twist in time using this Clock Plate Clocks by Mineheart. These are nothing but three white wall plates which func...

Along with announcing that the White House's newest solar array has become operational, the administration has also revealed its latest set of solar and energy initiatives. The new presidential array covers only the part...

When the clock strikes 5 in the evening, you know that it is time to clock out and start the weekly pub crawl on a Friday evening to let loose and enjoy the weekend. The thing is, such a lifestyle can take its toll on th...

Holograms are super cool , but they're hard to make at home. Pepper's Ghost, on the other hand, is a relatively simple 19th century optical trick that looks like a 3D hologram and brought a very dead Tupac Shakur back to...

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If you're having DOTA 2 problems, I feel bad for you, son. But so are thousands of other potential players as there's a queue for the game today. The reason …

Geek.com seems to have spotted an experimental new web Gmail layout that replaces the left-side control panel with a slide-in menu, uses pins instead of stars, and adds a "reminder" feature--all within a heavily-redesign...

New York-based Artist James Haggerty creates crazy mosaics out of staples. Thousands and thousands of staples. The amount of detail in his series of Star Wars characters is insane! The Darth Vader piece alone was made wi...

Agents from the Agencia Tributaria--the Spanish IRS--announced the find of a priceless Van Gogh which disappeared from the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Vienna, Austria. Dated in 1889, the painting "Cypress, sky and fiel...

Most fitness wearables wrap around your wrist or clip to your belt, but the folks at OMsignal have distilled the category down to its most basic form: the shirt. "We've been wearing clothing all our lives," company CEO a...

Dean Kamen's DEKA Arm is an electronic prosthetic that mimics natural arm and hand movement with an amazing level of finesse. It's controlled by electrical signals from the wearer's muscles. This week, the DEKA Arm becam...

Dean Kamen's robotic prosthetic limb, the DEKA Arm System, has been granted FDA approval, with the DARPA-sponsored project controlled by electrical signals from sensors where it meets the wearer's limb. …

If the proposed merger between T-Mobile and Sprint fails to pass the watchful eye of the FCC, T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom wants to cash in. A new report suggests …

Super-sharp 4k video, in the right hands, is powerful technology . Witness the grandeur of New Zealand's dreamlike landscapes, brought straight to you by Martin Heck.