Twitter wants to help you step up your livestreams. The social network’s livestreaming app Periscope is opening up its app so that users can live stream directly from cameras other than the ones on their smartphones. The effort, called Periscope…
A year or so ago a new type of drone hit the (preorder) market. It was the self-flying camera drone – a device that promised to combine camera and AI technology to create a drone that you could essentially throw in…
GIF When you’re caught in a downpour, you never stop to think about the scale of the storm that’s soaking you, you’re just trying to stay dry. But through Mike Olbinski’s timelapse camera, we get a rare glimpse of raging…
Pax Labs This summer, Pax Labs reinvented the e-cigarette with its best-selling device Juul. Now, the San Francisco-based startup dubbed the “Apple of vaping” is back with a device that aims to bring the same simplicity to marijuana smokers that the Juul delivered for tobacco…
During an overnight trip last month in the Colorado Rockies with Andrew Skurka, it was quickly evident to me that he’s not your average backpacker. Hiking a high route with Andrew Skurka in Colorado A renowned hiker who’s circumnavigated Alaska…
Wait… is it… standing on its own? (Image by the author) The BMW Motorrad VISION NEXT 100 concept motorcycle is designed to show us what a 2116 model year motorcycle could look like. It’s a dream. It’s pretend. That’s why…
Today is the day I’m going to die was the thought permeating every crevasse of my mind on that warm Hawaiian afternoon last February. You see, I had just jumped awkwardly out of a plane and was hurling toward the ground at 120 miles…
GIF We’ve seen skydiving aerobatics performed inside a wind tunnel before, but Jeffrey Provenzano and Amy Chmelecki of Red Bull’s “Air Force” take it to the next level using flight suits upgraded with glowing LEDs, and photography tricks that create…
Google just announced that it’s partnering with Facebook to lay a 12,800-kilometer (7,953-mile) cable from Los Angeles to Hong Kong — the fastest underwater cable ever built, beating its own record. In June 2016, Google started using FASTER, a network…
Remember Danny MacAskill, the Scottish stunt rider who filmed himself casually leaping between very high buildings in Spain last year? Well he’s back with a whole new collection of wince-inducingly epic stunts, and this time he’s filmed them all in…