Why spend thousands of dollars on World Series tickets for a game that's going to end in a couple of hours, when you can put that money towards a real investment like this multi-million dollar estate that comes complete with a private baseball diamond? It turns out that if you build it, they don't... More »
Earlier today, we broke the news that Dubai has become Star Wars. I regret to inform you that this dispatch was factually flawed: Dubai is, in fact, Blade Runner, as proven by these exclusive pics from photog Gerald Donovan. Less Bespin and more dystopian LA, these night shots of the fog-shrouded... More »
The Galaxy Nexus, the new Android flagship phone from Google and Samsung is finally out of the bag. I am like, omega-level excited about that screen, and Ice Cream Sandwich looks tasty, too. More »
Want to make this Lego DeLorean BTTF set a reality? Lego is finally crowdsourcing designs with its new Cuusoo platform; it's basically a Lego Kickstarter. More »
Featured comment by stavosws6: "The best part about the BTTF model is it's almost to scale!" More »
Apple's earnings call began with new CEO Tim Cook offering homage to Steve Jobs. He went on to note it set new records, sold a fuckton of phones, tablets, and computers, and made a huge pile of money. More »
You're going to read this, and you're going to say, how is this about tech? I'm gonna head you off at that pass: This is a message from Internet, the generation that became the voice that set the tone for everything you love about the Net. More »
You might think a cellphone, a light jacket, and an opinion are all you need before heading down to your local Occupy Wall Street protest. But here are seven other useful tools that will keep you prepared for whatever happens while you're taking it to the streets. Protest Stencil Toolkit Patrick... More »
Featured comment by troglodad1: "Where's the bottle of vodka all good commies need? Or how about a digital copy of Karl Marx' works?" More »
There's a lot to look forward to in Need For Speed: The Run. They've got Porsches, an interesting plot, and, oh, did we forget to mention a completely digital Christina Hendricks? [Jalopnik]
Featured comment by zerobandwidth: "They had to scale her back because consoles don't tend to have enough video mammary. ... MEMORY! Oops." More »
After crashing and burning in a blaze of mediocrity, the once-legendary RAZR lineage has a new successor. The Droid RAZR is a 4G LTE, 1.2 GHz dual-core-CPU-powered, kevlar-constructed wafer of a phone. More »
Featured comment by Badmofo: "Water resistant maybe, but oh my God does it get smudged!" More »
Motorola has just unveiled their new MotoACTV, a compact fitness monitoring MP3 player that tracks your performance, heartrate and even provides motivation through song selection and an audible fitness coach. At first glance it's hard to distinguish the MotoACTV from Apple's touchscreen-equipped... More »
Featured comment by LordObento: "So RAZR goes from being a thin flip phone to a thin smartphone, where as MOTOACTV goes from flip phone..." More »
Dubai shrouded in fog. The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal puts it perfectly: "I don't know that I've ever seen a city look more like 'the future' than this one at this moment." All that's missing is Lando Calrissian. Urban consultant Noah Raford tweeted this pic while on a trip to Dubai, high above the... More »
Featured comment by tiptip1: ""Dubai shrouded in fog." No no, thats not futuristic at all... "Dubai shrouded in smog." Much better." More »
Cnet has found postings on Apple's support forums with users complaining of an excessively yellowed display on the new iPhone 4S when compared to the iPhone 4. More »
Featured comment by Bs Baldwin: "What is with apple displays being yellow." More »
We're always being promised a future that never quite gets here. It's time for a change. Take a look at these ten automotive innovations, chosen by Jalopnik readers, that haven't gotten off the ground yet, but we're told they still could. [Jalopnik]
Featured comment by Avastmateys: "You can buy almost everything on the list, it doesn't mean you should though. Solid rubber wheels are used in..." More »
Want to have your brain blown for a few minutes today? Dip your head in some physics, and realize that there's no such thing as pink. Scientifically speaking, that is: More »
You're not helping your case here Samsung. That's blatantly a photoshop screenshot hack-job you've got there on your Galaxy Player 5.0 and you didn't even take the time to create the screenshot yourself. No, instead they ripped the iPhone screenshot straight from Laura Scott's blog back in 2008; More »
Featured comment by Avastmateys: "This would never have happened if Obama showed more leadership. I'm calling FOX News!" More »
There are a lot of reasons the 1D X might be the most ridiculous DSLR ever made, but the numbers seem like a good place to start. A full-frame 18-megapixel sensor. More »
Featured comment by FlameCell: "MFW I realized that I could never afford this camera." More »
Remember in Predator when Jess Ventura is unleashing his M-134 Mini-gun into the forest? It was being fed by an ammo box strapped to his back. Turns out, that wasn't an actual piece of Army kit, at least until members of the Iowa National Guard created it themselves. The National Guard division had... More »
Featured comment by Chip Skylark of Space: "I love the guys at Natick. Everything from Astronaut chow to weird-ass stuff like this. All on the..." More »
For all the power and connectivity that modern mobile devices offer these days, why are we still typing on screens (or, God forbid, numerical pads) barely three fingers wide? More »
Featured comment by Ben Zvan: "Didn't MIT do this a few years ago only smaller and better and internet-connected with a barcode reader?" More »
Featured comment by saxgod: "Wow. I will admit I was gonna slam Google+ while reading this article calling it Twitter on Facebook LOL,..." More »
You don't need to be a physicist, a PhD student, a geek, or even a member of the Insane Clown Posse to appreciate the awesome capabilities of superconductors and magnets as demonstrated in this video by Tel-Aviv University. An unidentified member of the university's Superconductivity Group School... More »
Featured comment by tylerbrainerd: "I would imagine it's relative to size. Given that his hand is easily able to apply more force then mass,..." More »
Apple is filthy rich. It sold four million phones in three days. It's worth more than Exxon. It's got a staggering stockpile of cash, just sitting around. More »
Featured comment by versatilias: "as far as the iphone is concerned... they don't need to spend a lot of r&d because they copy 1..." More »
Today is Bosses' Day. And though the day is nearly over, it's not too late to score brownie points with El Jefe. Send a card. Give a gift. Pretend you appreciate their whip cracking! More »
Featured comment by Kiljoy616: "ROFL have not kiss a boss ass in 15 years, but I guess if your on minimum wage it could..." More »
This morning Motorola threw up a teaser page for a new phone being revealed tomorrow. Droid-Life did a little sleuth work and pieced together none other than the very svelte RAZR reboot with Droid branding. More »
Featured comment by prometeum: "People are still buying RZRS." More »
On August 12th, 1883, a pack of life-extinguishing comets came within a few hundred miles of slamming into the Earth, nearly killing everything on the planet. More »
We know the iPhone 4S is a killer still camera—perhaps its greatest selling point—but how about video? Do the new guts and 1080p bump make a big difference? More »
The DeLorean's long been associated with technology and performance, despite being saddled with a French-Swedish powerplant that made those associations slightly laughable. [Jalopnik]
Modern haunted houses don't feature rubber bats and bowls full of peeled grapes masquerading as eyeballs, they screw with your phobias and recreate nightmares. More »
SquareTrade really likes breaking new things. And true to form, they've gone and abused not only the new iPhone 4S, but also Samsung's Galaxy S II. But which one proved more durable? More »
I missed the multi-camera replay from yesterday's horrific IndyCar race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway where Dan Wheldon died. After watching it this morning I can't help but think just how lucky it was that only one driver lost their life. Small blessing sure, but a blessing nonetheless. [Jalopnik]
Comic Con NY is wrapping up this weekend and it's mostly a nerdfest shit show with the occasional girl dressed in cosplay, creeps who don't know they're being creepy creeping and the same people over and over again. More »
There's something going on with Occupy Wall Street—good, bad, monumental, anarchy, I don't know—but there is a clear disparity between the 1% and the 99% and the voice of the 99% is slowly ringing louder. More »
Photographer Jan von Holleben came up with a clever way to re-create his famous "Dreams of Flying" series by photographing a girl sleeping on her bed and having the girl's dreams fully displayed around her. More »
The Situation, from the MTV hit freak show Jersey Shore, was apparently trying to get an iPhone 4S from the Apple Store but got kicked out instead. Was the fake tan and hair gel combo smell unbearable? More »
Baseball, America's past past time, is a pretty quirky game with quirkier players and quirkiest traditions. Chew tobacco! Sunflower seeds! Rally caps! More »
TorrentFreak recently published a list of the most pirated movies over BitTorrent of all time and apparently, what we watch in theaters is what we like to pirate off the Internet. More »
Rolling Stone has a great cover story on Steve Jobs that included an essay from Chrisann Brennan, Jobs' first girlfriend and the mother of Lisa. It reveals a side of Jobs before Apple—the Bob Dylan-loving romantic poet madly in love. Most of the stuff Brennan writes, we've already known. More »
Europeans have all the fun: lower drinking ages, funner beaches, easier lifestyles and... dinosaur skeletons having sex in their museums. This exhibit, which clearly shows two T-Rexes "mating", is located in the Jurassic Museum of Asturias in Spain. A Reddit user recently found the exhibit, which,... More »
This time lapse video shows 5 weeks of Burning Man 2011 in 5 minutes. It covers the entire event—from set up to everyone leaving—at about 3 hours every second. More »
Since the earthquake and subsequent tsunami, Japanese companies have been focusing their efforts on creating products that can be useful in an emergency. More »
With what has to be the first crop circles officially confirmed to be related to space travel, NASA is continuing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of manned space flight with a series of complex corn mazes highlighting their achievements. Space Farm 7, as the program's called, has enlisted seven... More »
