The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is no stranger to making generally awful (and excessive) patenting decisions, but that doesn't make its latest grant any less absurd. Amazon has officially been granted a patent for its brilliant idea to... take photos on a white background.
No matter how fast you're driving, no matter the weather conditions, if someone fires a Brimstone missile from a MQ-9 Reaper drone and you're the target, you're dead. This slow-motion test compilation shows its terrifying precision and the destruction that follows. Just look at that shockwave moving.
Who else had a flip phone back in the early ’00s? Those were the golden days of the Motorola RAZR, a time when you actually talked on the phone to your friends, and answering and hanging up was the coolest thing ever. But how has the flip form factor evolved with the rise of Android?
