This video, featuring members of the public getting wrongly blamed for breaking a Macbook during a demonstration of the flexible Lenovo Yoga laptopย doesn’t appear to be a promotion for Lenovo. Instead its the work of improv group the Upright Citizens Brigade. You’ve got to say that if theย victims aren’t actors, it’s a pretty harsh prank […]
The Pewย Research Center has surveyed Americans on their tech knowledge to celebrate 25 years of the World Wide Web. The results are bafflingly mixed: 69 percent correctly identified URL as standing for Uniform Resource Locator (albeit as a multiple choice answer) but only 23 percent knew that the web and the Internet are not one […]
The BBC has released this teaser image for what appears to be a Christmas special to air in 2015, precedingย a regular series in 2016. There’s no additional information provided, so whether the pair are in period dress for a party or have discovered time travel remains to be seen. This is actually the second […]
This appears to be an upside down truck: an upside down 1995 F-150 pick-up if you know your trucks. That’s half true: it’s actually the body of a 1995 F-150 flipped over and attached to the body of a 1991 Ford Ranger.
Staff at Leicester University in the UK have uncovered a terrible secret: Super Mario Galaxy couldn’t exist because the gravity involved would cause the planets to explode. Writing in the Journal of Physics Special Topics, they explain the problem in great detail. The quick and dirty version is that Mario is able to walk and […]
Well, it seems some folk just don’t learn… The idea of the movie being based on “real” dinosaurs is gone (possibly for merchandise licensing reasons), and the plot seems to come down to “something something genetic modification something” but if you’re looking for the ultimate in special-effect-laden summer blockbuster, 2015 looks to be sorted already.
ThinkGeek is selling this beautiful set of 10 glasses, each bases of the appearance of a body from our solar system. There are eight planet glasses with a 10oz capacity, a 16oz glass for the Sun, and a 4oz one for poor old Pluto. Available for $49.99 from Think Geek.
A leading Twitter executive has mistakenly tweeted about plans to buy an unnamed company. It’s an embarrassing blunder, but it could have been worse. Anthony Noto, the company’s chief financial officer, posted a tweet that read: I still think we should buy them. He is on your schedule for Dec 15 or 16 — we […]
Officials in London are considering turning part of a street into a lengthy trampoline to boost fitness and even cut down commuting times for pedestrians. An official document from Transport for London notes: The Bounceway will be the world’s longest urban trampoline. This iconic and inclusive new public space in the heart of London will […]
The dynamic nature of the traffic in GTA V means occasionally you’ll see a traffic jam or a collision and some angry NPC responses. But sometimes things spiral totally out of control. YouTube user Naswas says this video is of what happened when he left the room for a few minutes to get a snack. […]