Don Wright was diagnosed with myeloma—cancer in his blood cells and bone marrow—two weeks after running his first marathon. His doctor gave him a five-year survival estimate. Eight years later he has run 59 26.2-mile races in 41 states and takes just one pill per day to keep his cancer at bay.
Earlier this year a man lost a £36 million jackpot when a casino alleged a "software glitch" on the slot machine. Well, that's nothing compared to the backlog of £6 billion in unprocessed payments that happened in Japan on March.
I thought I would be bored with silly Siri videos by now but nope! Not even close. I'm still laughing my ass off. This one shows a make-believe feature in Siri that I wish was really real: Siri can rap any Notorious B.I.G. song.
Despite its pending legal problems, Olympus makes some of the best Micro Four Thirds shooters out there. This brand new lens has a motorised zoom for video shooters and middle ground specs that combine a wide f3.5 aperture with 4.2x zoom.
Sometimes a story or idea goes viral because it's too big to be ignored. But more often it's because a single human being passes it along to an audience that's either massive, highly influential, or both. There aren't too many people who can do that.
Every year, PNC calculates the Christmas Price Index—how much it would cost to actually purchase the cascade of of gifts the hapless sap in The 12 Days of Christmas gives to his true love. This year's tally: more than 100K on the 364 gifts. Seriously dude? Here's a much better plan of a attack.
Oh look at you with your finger trying to play a game on your smartphone. Bearded dragons play games with their tongue and they will destroy your high score.
This is pretty stupid but kind of funny too:Deck the Halls sung by 64 iPhones. It's kind of amazing that they got them singing in sync. But you know what's even better? They are donating $0.05 (3p) per view to charity.
Holy Optimus Prime this is one gorgeous instrument, and not just because it's shaped like the seal of the Autobots. What better way to celebrate the future of mechanical warfare than with a made-to-order ukulele.
In the popular imagination, spies and gadgets go together like strawberries and cream. The reality of spying is probably much more mundane, involving stacks of paperwork and the occasional bit of lying to a state official. But when it comes to books, films and games, we've been trained to expect state-of-the-art tech that's also wildly impractical. A Large Hadron Collider concealed in a hair-dryer, for example.
If you're after Apple-compatible earphones that have a mic, volume and call/end buttons but won't break the bank, the Klipsch Image S4is have been the favourite of many for some time. Now the company has brought that same Apple-compatibility to a pair Active Noise Control cans, which are now available in the UK.
Was 2011 a memorable year for the movies? I didn't think so until I watched this 5 minute video of 230 films that released this year. So exciting! So fun! The full list of movies used in the clip in the order they appear can be found here.
Feather knives. Jelly grenades. Bread knuckles and popsicle dynamite! I would love to live in a fairy tale world where weapons are fanciful and probably edible. These weapons were created by awesome designer Kyle Bean for CUT Magazine.
There aren't many things more dull than watching the proverbial paint dry -- so why not turn it into an endurance competition? Watching paint dry will be the everyman's sport; weedy, short, fat or just plain inferior, it will matter not as long as you can fix your gaze and stay the distance.
Nokia's doing a limited release of a special Dark Knight Rises edition of the Lumia 800. There are only 40 being made with the laser etched logo on the back, so unfortunately you're not going to be able to trot down to your local Phones 4U to pick one up. But the eagle-eyed Jon Choo managed to sneak a few shots ahead of the Batman preview in London today.
