A Printer You Won't Hate, 3TB External for $90, and More Dealsh
It doesn't have wireless networking, a scanning bed, or even color, but by golly if you want a printer that just works, and doesn't require new ink every month, it's tough to beat this Brother laser printer. [Brother HLL-2320D Mono Laser Printer, $60]
Fight Club: A Fantastic 15-Year-Old Film Inspired By Real Fights
Fight Club is a work of fiction by Chuck Palahniuk, a famous author who once described his life as "very blue-collar." Fight Club is also a (fantastic) movie, directed by David Fincher, that hit theaters exactly 15 years ago today. Watch it again tonight, but with an extra little piece of knowledge: Fight Club is not…
The Matrix Trilogy summarized in less than 3 minutes
Red pill or blue pill. This TL;DW 2.5 minute summary of The Matrix Trilogy hilariously compares those opposing views on how to interpret The Matrix and nails the important parts of The Matrix 2 and 3: the Oracle does things, the KFC guy shows up with TVs and there is a crazy DragonBall Z fight scene.
How We Got to Now: PBS Celebrates Science Heroes You've Never Heard Of
In 2014 we live pretty comfortable lives, free of rampant disease and inconvenience that plagued our not-too-distant ancestors. The people who helped us get to this point are not necessarily rich or famous but they're no less important for it. PBS celebrates these folks in its new series, How We Got To Now, hosted by…
Report: Christian Bale Will Play Steve Jobs
Yes, we've known for a while that Christian Bale might be the next actor to portray Steve Jobs, but Variety now seems mighty sure: the publication is reporting that our favorite Batman will indeed play our favorite technology pitchman in Sony's new movie.
Start Your Online Store with Shopify and Get 20% Off Any Plan
If you have a store in need of a new or boosted web presence, Shopify is the platform that will give your store online personality and power. Start today and you can get the plan of your choice at 20% off.
McDonald's new customizable gourmet burgers look absolutely delicious
Holy crap, look at this thing. Believe it or not, this delicious vision is a real life McDonald's burger ordered by some dude in Australia, not a marketing photo. It is one of their new gourmet burgers that you can fully customize using a cool touchscreen app. Check it out:
Inside The Galaxy Note 4's Virtual Reality Ambitions
The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is now the best big phone you can buy, but it's also something more. It's the first smartphone designed with virtual reality in mind — just slot it into the Gear VR headset and a whole new world opens up. I say "the first" because I learned something intriguing at Oculus Connect last month:…
Belle & Sebastian: Piazza, New York Catcher
A couple years ago, I was leaving New York, the city I considered the center of the world, for San Francisco, a city I had only the vaguest impressions of from reading Joan Didion. (Naturally, I was composing my own version of a leaving New York essay in my head.) I also spent the time obsessively listening to Belle…
Fantastic book reveals Adventure Time secrets—and we're giving it away
Even if I didn't love this series so much, I would still buy the awesome Adventure Time: The Art of Ooo, a beautiful 352-page large format tome that tells the series' genesis. It's fascinating. I've been reading it and it's a must have if you like the series or animation in general. And we're giving five away!
UberPLUS: Like UberX But For L.A. Cliches
Uber launched a new car service in Los Angeles today. It's basically the old one that everybody uses. But it's more expensive and perfect for people who reinforce stereotypes about vapid Angelenos only obsessed with shiny, expensive cars!
Teenager recreates Hollywood classics in stop motion Lego video
Commissioned by Warren Elsemore, author of the book Brick Flicks: 60 Cult Movie Scenes & Posters Made from Lego, Morgan Spence has created a two-minute stop motion video of several iconic movie scenes. From Breakfast at Tiffany's to Dirty Dancing there are some really creative builds and this short video is just great.
Venmo Racial Profiling: Account Frozen for Typing the Word "Ahmed"
The PayPal-owned app Venmo has very quickly become easiest way to pay back your friends if you don't have cash. It's lightweight, simple, frictionless, and it always works. Unless you have any Middle Eastern friends.
The Most Important Nexus 6 Feature Is the Price
The Nexus line has distinguished itself for two ways since its 2010 debut. First, it's a vessel for the purest expression of Android's capabilities. As a very close second, it's dirt cheap. One of those things is still true.
Mopping Is No Longer a Chore With a Penguin Gliding Across Your Floor
Even if you get a lot of satisfaction from standing back and looking at your freshly cleaned home, no one really likes all the work needed to get to that point. And while there are countless products promising to make cleaning easier, maybe we need to start focusing on making it more enjoyable, and this adorable…
A 250 Megapixel Camera Designed To Spot Early Signs of Skin Cancer
To help speed up screenings for spotting Melanoma, the most deadliest type of skin cancer, dermatologists already use digital cameras with wide-angle lenses to capture images of a patient's body. But to ensure there's enough resolution to zoom in close and visually examine a specific area, researchers at Duke…
This Photographer Documents the Faces Of a Single Harlem Street Corner
Taking pictures of strangers is hard no matter where you are photographing. On the streets of Harlem, Khalik Allah takes the utmost care to approach his subjects with confidence and purpose in order to capture his wonderfully evocative portraits of the New York neighborhood. This video from Time's Lightbox…
Why We Still Haven’t Killed Off the High Heel
As a fashion object and symbol, the high heel shoe is weighted with meaning. It's also weighted with the wearer's entire body weight. The stiletto might be one of the only designs that is physically painful but has somehow has persisted for centuries.
Self-Contained Motorized Wheels Could Give Us Autopilot Shopping Carts
Here's an innovation you probably never realized you wanted until just now. Japan's Denso corporation has created a compact, self-contained wheel that includes a motor, a battery, and wireless communications allowing it to be driven and controlled remotely. The company could use it for a personal mobility device, but…
Saving This Sinking City Will Cost $40 Billion
Venice? Sure, it's sinking. So is Mexico City, Bangkok, and Ho Chi Minh City. But none of them are being submerged as fast as Jakarta, which is sinking as much as a few inches a year—for comparison's sake, Venice is sinking by .08 inches every year. Now, Jakarta is undertaking a three-decade-long plan to save its…
Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 (2012) Will Also Get Android Lollipop
At its initial announcement, Google neglected to detail the software fate of two of its aging devices—the Nexus 4 and the Nexus 7 (2012). Luckily, Android Lollipop will also extend to include its more senior family members.
How To Photograph The Northern Lights
One of nature's most incredible phenomena are the aurora borealis, more commonly known as the Northern Lights. We've been photographing them in Iceland and we're going to show you how to shoot them yourself.
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