The only reason I stopped wearing contacts was because I was too lazy to renew my prescription. Stores have strict rules about only selling to you if your prescription is valid, and most are only valid for two years. But…
Right now, the Earth is being slammed by fast-particles shot out by the sun, and that means tonight the northern lights could put on quite a show for people as far south as New York and Iowa. Assuming the storm…
The concept smartphone from Xiaomi and colorful French designer Philippe Starck, revealed on Tuesday, has won praise for its minimalist form and bezel-less screen. And while Starck is world-renowned for his design prowess, many smartphone users may not realize just…
Intel has been investing in IoT for years, playing catch up to compete with companies like Qualcomm that got to the market early and saturated it with their chipsets. But a declining PC market pushed them to make more drastic…
Buried on page 86 of the October J. Crew catalog is a sentence to chill the blood of any man who has shopped for clothing in the past five years: “We widened our ties by ¼” to keep up with…
Uber has had developer tools for reaching riders for over two years, but not it’s also letting third-parties build products tailored specifically to its driver community, via a new Driver API revealed Wednesday. The Driver API will provide developers a…
Until I came across this footage of windsurfing in extreme hurricane conditions I’ve always considered the sport of windsurfing to be the red-headed stepchild of the board sport and extreme sports world. In fact, if you’d had asked me yesterday…
BASE jumper Eric Dossantos, 30, from San Diego, California, is lucky to be alive after a horrifying wingsuit crash left him with multiple broken bones. Dossantos was “flying” using a wingsuit at a speed of 90 mph in picturesque Chamonix,…
GIF Lots of kids are terrified of thunderstorms, but not Zoey. Her dad, who you might remember from the glowing stick figure costume he made her a few years ago, is back with this over-the-top Princess Cumulus thunderstorm costume that’s…
The FlashTorch Mini is an impressive piece of equipment, especially for campers, but it needs to be handled with care. Thanks to lithium technology it is capable of producing 2300 lumens of light – which is powerful enough to…