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Sony Is Working On a Camera Sensor That’s Curved Like the Human Eye
Curved devices are hot right now, from TVs to wearables. But a curved image sensor is more than just a fashion gimmick. It actually could drastically improve the way cameras gather light from a lens, improving image quality whether on an iPhone or DSLR. At this week’s Symposium on VLSI Technology in Hawaii, Sony revealed … Continued
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Tech NewsDesign
9 Crazy 3D Typefaces Made From Everyday Objects
Whether we realize it or not, the fonts we interact with on a daily basis can be wildly impactful in some pretty surprising ways. These everyday fonts blend in so seamlessly with the world around us, though, that we hardly even notice them. So instead, what would happen if we tried blending our world into … Continued
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Samsung’s Smart TVs Just Got a Pretty Sweet App (Finally)
For all the promises that “Smart TVs” make, they aren’t really all that smart. Generally, they’re just TVs with glorified streaming boxes built into them, plus a few unwieldy bells and whistles nobody wants or uses. So when a smart TV app comes along that actually looks cool, it’s pretty shocking. That’s the case with … Continued
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Guy waves his hand to stop the attack of a charging elephant
Elephants are really dangerous animals. It is good advice to stay as far as possible from them because of their seemingly random charges. Unless you are this guy and you can calm the animal down thanks to your magic hand waving (and balls of steel.) I can imagine him saying “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!” SPLOID … Continued
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Tech NewsGoogle
Watch The Daily Show Hilariously Troll Six Glassholes Right Here
Last night, The Daily Show aired a piece of biting social commentary on technology. In other words, it mocked a bunch of Google Glass wearers—and you watch it all right here. Speaking to six Explorers—”Excuse me, did you just call yourself an explorer?”—The Daily Show’s John Stewart tried to get to grips with the souls … Continued
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Peer Into the Cockpit of a 1,000 MPH Car
When you’re behind the wheel of a the car designed to hit 1,000 mph, you want the dash to be well appointed. Fortunately, looking at the newly finished cockpit of Bloodhound SSC reveals that it’s fully loaded with tech. As well as the rather essential speedometer, the car’s future driver Andy Green says one of … Continued
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Nine-year time-lapse video shows how to make a nuclear fusion reactor
This time-lapse video shows the assembly of the most modern nuclear rector of its kind by the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany. Work on the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device has taken nearly ten years so far—here it is condensed down to just three minutes. The final module seen being lifted into place … Continued
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The Lego Movie creators make hilarious action movie trailer
The animators of The Lego Movie created this spoof grindhouse trailer featuring Abraham Lincoln and painter Michelangelo as crime fighters in a supposed flick called History Cops. The Lego Movie hits Blu-ray next week but one of the special features is online now and it’s a lot of fun to watch. SPLOID is a new … Continued
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The FBI Is Auctioning Off Its Seized Silk Road Bitcoins
Late last year, the FBI seized Silk Road and the assets of its founder. Now, it’s planning to auction off the hoard of Bitcoin, worth around $18 million, that it took control of. The stash will be put up for public auction between 6am and 6pm on June 27th. The total of 30,000 BTC will … Continued
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How Two Women Made Your Watch Glow in the Dark
On December 21, 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie discovered the radioactive element radium (in the form of radium chloride), extracting it from uraninite. They first removed the uranium from the uraninite sample and then found that the remaining matter was still radioactive, so investigated further. Along with the barium in the remaining substance, they also … Continued
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A New Xbox Ad Is Turning on Consoles By Accident
The Xbox One has a new advert starring Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul. Standard. But what is strange is that as he shouts “Xbox On” near its start, consoles around the world are firing up. It seems that—perhaps unsurprisingly—the voice command triggers the machine’s Kinect voice/motion sensor, activating the console. People have been taking to Twitter … Continued
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The entrance to hell is in the center of Asia and it’s terrifying
You are looking at the city of Mirny, located right in the heart of Asia, in the Republic of Yakutia, an estate associated to the Russian Federation. That terrifying hole is an open quarry 525 meters deep and 1.2 kilometers in diameter right next to the city itself. It looks like the gates of hell … Continued
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Bill Murray’s hilarious costumes in Late Show with David Letterman
A clever imgur user posted a strip with all the costumesthat Bill Murray has used in the Late Show with David Letterman from 2009 to 2014. Murray is always hilarious, but the fact that he has been doing this for five years now is amazing. It makes me sad to know that we won’t see … Continued
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Wow, check out the giant full moon rising
Some may call it the Honey Moon now but, according to NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, June’s full moon is traditionally called Strawberry Moon in North America because of the harvesting of the strawberries. This incredible photo by astrophotographer Göran Strandshows a full moon pink and gigantic over Sweden. NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the … Continued
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Here’s why Frozen sucks
For a while there, it seemed like all anyone wanted to talk about was the movie Frozen. Elsa. Building a snow man. Letting it go. Lip syncing. Saying things like Disney Animation is better than Pixar now. Yadda and yadda. But was the movie that good? Is it a Disney classic? CinemaSins decided to take … Continued
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Perfect photoshops warp the world into mind-twisting reality
Martín De Pasquale is a Photoshop master who twists and teases reality in his wonderful surreal art. We’ve seen some of his magical work before and now he’s back with a lot more images that warps your world view. but in his fantastic planning of his shots.His talent is not only in his Photoshopping skills—which … Continued
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