Thanks to the internet and being able to easily share videos of them playing out, those pointlessly complicated Rube Goldberg machines are more popular than ever. But this wonderful kinetic sculpture actually uses the internet as one of its countles…
Lees meerIf you crossed a Super Soaker with a paintball gun, you’d get this wild creation from our friend Mark Rober: a crazy weapon that shoots out streams of paint like a Super Soaker would shoot out water. Read more...
Lees meerDonald Trump is going to be the next President of the United States. And tech stocks, like most stocks this morning, are tanking. The one exception? Twitter—Donald Trump’s platform of choice for spewing hate.Read more...
Lees meerThe future of public health in the United States was a hotly contested topic during the 2016 election, with the presidential candidates making bold promises and several important ballot initiatives up for grabs. Here’s how America voted, and what a …
Lees meerNow that Donald Trump is our President-elect, his best buddy and literal comic book villain Vladimir Putin has sent his congratulations. Read more...
Lees meerJumping out of an airplane with a parachute on your back has its own risks. But at least in the air there’s nothing to crash into until you hit the ground. Speedflying, on the other hand, where athletes like Jamie Lee parachute down mountains just i…
Lees meerSoundCloud has been around since 2007, growing from a simple streaming player to take on podcasting, music discovery, and basically anything else that involves audio. Whether you make use of the site as a listener, creator, or both, here are 10 tric…
Lees meerOne of the most unsettling moments in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is when it’s revealed that HAL 9000 can read lips, leaving no secrets between the astronauts and the ship’s computer. That might have been science fiction, but 15 years af…
Lees meerIf you’re curious about Amazon Dash buttons, there’s never been a better time to stick them around your house. For a limited time, our readers can purchase up to three buttons for just $1 each (with promo code KINJADASH), down from the usual $5. Plu…
Lees meerThe New York Times is currently tracking the state of tonight’s hellish presidential election with what appears to be a ... pressure gauge? Speedometer? SocialFlow resonance meter? ... illustrating the leading candidate’s chances at winning the Elec…
Lees meerAs news agencies called more and more states for Donald Trump Tuesday evening, Canada’s informational website on immigration and citizenship began experiencing repeated outages, presumably due to a surge in traffic. Wonder why.Read more...
Lees meerAn old promoted tweet from Verizon featuring an all-red America is making the rounds again tonight, and boy, people are losing their shit!Read more...
Lees meerOn the final day of this nightmare election, it might feel like the end of the world, but Barack Obama spoke to Buzzfeed News on Tuesday to confirm that, whatever the results, the Sun, our master, giver of all life, will once again kiss this gentle …
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Lees meerBurn metal hot enough and you can do whatever the hell you want with it. Here’s a glimpse of how a coil spring, which is used in a car’s suspension, gets made. It’s interesting that even though the machines do most of the work in shaping the spi…
Lees meerGoPro announced some terrible news, and it comes as polling places are starting to close. The company just announced it is recalling about 2,500 units of its new drone—the Karma—after discovering that the units were losing power during operation. No…
Lees meerWalgreens is suing biotech startup Theranos after the company shuttered all of its labs and wellness centers following reports about problems with its blood testing devices and labs. Walgreens was a major Theranos partner that offered some of its se…
Lees meerJust when we thought today’s historic election couldn’t get any weirder, it appears that both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are being protected by an army of dump trucks. Law enforcement say the trucks—which are loaded with sand—are forming a bar…
Lees meerMuch to our dismay, the final days of the election brought news that famed Twitter personality Donald Trump had his account confiscated as part of his staff’s last-ditch effort to maintain some degree of dignity. But you cannot maintain that which w…
Lees meerNo matter which candidate wins the election today, there are going to be people disappointed in the outcome. So why put yourself through all the stress of watching election coverage, when you can instead spend the rest of the day watching 78,175 dom…
Lees meerWikileaks founder Julian Assange released a statement about the US election on on Tuesday, defending his organization’s decision to post thousands of emails from the Democratic National Party’s senior officials during the height of the US presidenti…
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