Here's a relatively useless yet undoubtedly impressive trick you can pull the next time you go to the beach: make a sand castle that's so unbelievably sturdy that it can hold up an entire person. Seriously. What's it take? Read More >>

You've probably been impressed with playground kids jumping rope (or is it jump roping?). You've already seen boxers whip the jump rope fast enough to create a wormhole. But you've never seen a person jump rope like this. This woman is absolutely incredible. Read More >>

The digital music revolution continues at a frenetic pace — we'd only just turned in our CDs for MP3s when streaming services came along to upturn the apple cart again. There are now a whole host of streaming apps to choose from, but the original pioneer Spotify remains the biggest and the most well-known. Read More >>

You know how the heat drives you mad? Makes you all itchy and impulsive? That's the only explanation for the trend known as sidewall skiing, which sees bored youths flipping their vehicles onto two wheels then standing on the sides. Read More >>

Dropbox is a robust independent file syncing tool (which Apple once tried to buy) that recently hit the 100m user milestone. It's arguably the most popular cloud service around, and for good reason. Read More >>

Scooters, as a whole, aren't exactly the coolest thing a person can ride. Maybe you had some 'fun' with them when you were a fifth grader but if you brought your scooter to the skate park now? The insults hurled at you would re-arrange the English dictionary. Well, unless, you rode scooters like these guys. The tricks they pull are brain hemorrhaging amazing. Read More >>

If you've got an iPhone, then you'll have a junk folder. The place where you store all the Apple apps you can't actually delete, but would never use in a million years like Apple Maps. Unfortunately Newsstand won't fit into that. But wait, you can now actually use Newsstand as your junk folder, no jailbreak required. Here's how. Read More >>

I can't solve a Rubik's Cube. All the spinning I do, all the rejiggering I try, all I end up with is a mess of colors with no idea how I got there. It's okay though! I can now fake it like I know how. Matt Parker has figured out a way to cheat and make it look like you can solve a Rubik's Cube—even though you have no freaking clue. Read More >>

There's no better time than the holidays—when everyone's all together—to scam, grift, and alienate your friends and family. So Richard Wiseman has returned with another series of unloseable bets that guarantee you victory thanks to basic science and physics. Read More >>

Richard Wiseman will probably go down in history as the accomplice to thousands of amateur grifters. He's back with another collection of science experiments, physics demonstrations, and simple cons to impress your friends—if you have any left by now. Read More >>

Not-quite-forgotten magician Paul Daniels has released an iOS app he describes as being a calculator, only it's a bit more exciting than that. It's a MAGIC CALCULATOR. Read More >>

You know what's better than an evening bar crawl where you drink yourself silly? An evening bar crawl where you recoup every last penny you spent on booze with this series of nine pub bets you're always guaranteed to win. Read More >>

Richard Wiseman is back with another collection of clever tricks and simple science experiments that you can finally use for profit — not just entertaining your friends. Read More >>

Android is awesome and powerful, but it has, shall we say, a learning curve. That scares some people away. After all, iOS is so intuitive that babies can use it. Literally. But you're not a baby. Read More >>

Marketers. Exes. Bosses who somehow got ahold of your personal email address. Sure, you could make a filter or click 'report spam' (as if that actually does anything...), but wouldn't it be better if they just stopped emailing you altogether? Read More >>