Apple's move to buy Beats for $3 billion (£1.7 billion) is a big deal, and not just because it's the biggest acquisition in the company's history. But for Monster's Noel and Kevin Lee, the original brains behind Beats, all it means is extra salt in the wound.
As the post-conflict cleanup from the first Iraq War demonstrated, oil well fires are nearly impossible to put out without taking extraordinary measures. Luckily, this extreme measure is both super effective and totally badass.
John Brooker is a retired English gardener who one day got tired of looking at a straight hedge. After ten years of meticulous work he has transformed that straight hedge into an awesome 100-foot-long, 10-foot-tall dragon.
After weeks of rumours and speculation, Apple has officially bought Beats Electronics for $3 billion (£1,795,656,000).
Watch free climber James Kingston beat another London landmark plus the crane that sits on top of it. All this with absolutely no safety equipment, despite a 490-foot drop and a leap over a massive gap. James then hangs on with just one arm for a view that puts everything in perspective.
To promote an upcoming charity bike ride for the local Heart and Stroke Foundation, Toronto-based ad agency Agency59 turned a wheelchair into a fully functional bicycle. It took the brains (and fabrication know-how) of an expert designer, but the finished product is completely rideable, as its creator demonstrates in this video.
The Leap Motion controller has always looked awesome, but its performance didn't quite live up to the promise. A software update is about to fix that, making every Leap Motion controller out there better in an instant.
CineFix's 8-bit cinema combines the nostalgia of childhood video games with the memory of movies that I should watch more often. This time, it's Donnie Darko that gets the 8-bit treatment. As you can imagine, there's a lot of confusion, conversations and rabbits.
On July 23, 1983, in the small Canadian town of Gimli, Manitoba, Captain Robert Pearson and Co-Pilot Maurice Quintal expertly glided a 100-ton Boeing 767carrying 69 people to a safe landing without engines, air brakes or flaps, and minimal control of the aircraft.
Beer coolers are a pain in the arse. First of all, you have to find a load of ice. Then, you have to pour all the ice into the cooler. And that's just the build up for a wet night full of melting ice. Thank God some zany Danes found a better way.
In the last year, Samsung has released three different smartwatches, in an apparent attempt to iterate and get out ahead of the pack with a viable product that's actually useful. Today, Samsung's showing off a concept for another, the Simband, a wristable designed for interchangeable body sensor modules. This is future stuff, but Samsung thinks this is future of how we understand our bodies.
Sydney is a beautiful city on its own, but this light show fully transforms it into a magical wonderland. Some of the projected lights are also interactive.
Sixty per cent vehicles in Paris run on diesel, and the city is struggling to curb emissions—banning half its cars for a day, making public transport and bike shares free for a weekend, and pedestrianising large swathes of the urban grid. Now, a new proposal by Mayor Anne Hidalgo will cap the speed limit at 30 kilometres (about 19 miles) per hour. For the entire city.
Phosphorus is an essential element for life. Forms of it are found in DNA, RNA, and all living cell membranes. It is the sixth most abundant element in any living organism. Phosphorus can also be highly poisonous and combustible (white phosphorus is used in many destructive weapons, such as napalm). It was also the first element discovered since ancient times. The person who made this discovery was Hennig Brand in 1669, who did so while he was playing around with large amounts of human urine.
Here's your dose of mind-bending physics for the day. In 1970, a young Soviet physicist named Vitaly Efimov proposed a trio of ultracold particles could arrange themselves in an "infinite nesting-doll configuration." Scientists have now published compelling evidence that this state of matter, once dismissed by physicists, does indeed exist.
As summer approaches and the temperatures start to soar, it's time to get serious about staying hydrated. Your body relies on H20 to help keep you from overheating, and just carrying around a water bottle as a fashion accessory isn't enough. You actually need to drink it, so Vittel created a bottle cap alternative that reminds you every hour to keep drinking.
