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When GIFs Rule the Living Room
If you could cut out a colorful rectangle out of the Internet and hang it on your wall, what would it look like? That’s the question raised by Electric Objects, a high-definition, web-connected screen...
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Bioluminescence in a Bottle
If you’ve ever wanted to bottle the magic of the ocean and dance around with it as though it were a glowstick, you’re in luck. A company called BioPop is designing a line of products—lamps, some sort...
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The Mason Jar, Reborn
In the mid-1970s, my parents fled the New Jersey suburbs to build a house in rural New Hampshire, where my mother tended a large vegetable and herb garden. The growing season in New Hampshire is...
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Orbital View: Fall Equinox Edition
#EarthArt autumn leaves remind me of the good things that come with change. Happy #FirstDayofFall! #YearInSpace #autumn #leaves #earth #change #fall #space #spacestation #iss #photo A photo posted by...
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The Ethical Ad Blocker Magically Solves All Ethical Ad-Blocking Problems
Last week, my colleague Adrienne and I examined a digital moral quandary: whether or not to install an ad-blocker. Ad blockers make browsing the web faster, more secure, and less of a drain on a...
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Sorry, Moon
Here I am. Again. @ISS lunar transit. Great shot, @ingallsimages! #YearInSpace #spacestation #moon #space #nasa A photo posted by Scott Kelly (@stationcdrkelly) on Aug 2, 2015 at 1:56pm PDT Poor moon....
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Could a Bank Deny Your Loan Based on Your Facebook Friends?
It seemed straight out of the evil-tech-company playbook. In August, Facebook secured an otherwise innocuous U.S. patent about how to analyze a user’s friend network to let them do something. Most of...
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The 3-D View of Swimming Through the Sky
From my Cirrus pilots’ bulletin board, this delightful video, from professional pilot and flight instructor Caitlin Farley, of an approach to the Mountain Air airport in North Carolina in a Cirrus...
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How to Fake Your Workout
If you get life insurance through John Hancock—and you happen to be a gym rat—you’re in luck. In April the company started offering discounts and perks to members who agree to wear a FitBit tracker...
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Is Mars Contaminated?
Scientists tend to get cagey when you ask them to quantify the likelihood of finding life on other planets. Until there’s evidence, probablys don’t get you very far. But, you know, there’s probably...
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What Are Those Kids Doing With That Enormous Gun?
Hani Mohammed / AP / Kara Gordon / The AtlanticIn the summer of 2013 my friend Maura lost her iPhone in the Hamptons. (Maura asked me not to use her last name because of the sensitive nature of this...
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Why Would Apple Make an Electric Car, Not a Driverless One?
A woman touches the display in a Volvo with integrated iPhone voice control. Arnd Wiegmann / ReutersApple is doubling down on developing an electric car, and has assigned a 2019 ship-date to its secret...
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Sorry, Moon
Here I am. Again. @ISS lunar transit. Great shot, @ingallsimages! #YearInSpace #spacestation #moon #space #nasaA photo posted by Scott Kelly (@stationcdrkelly) on Aug 2, 2015 at 1:56pm PDTPoor moon....
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Pumpkin Beers Are Already Here Because Climate Change
Jim Young / ReutersIt was scorching in Oregon this summer. So hot the autumn pumpkins ripened early.Which meant the brewers at Rogue, best known for Dead Guy Ale, found themselves picking pumpkins five...
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The Ethical Ad Blocker Magically Solves All Ethical Ad-Blocking Problems
Last week, my colleague Adrienne and I examined a digital moral quandary: whether or not to install an ad-blocker. Ad blockers make browsing the web faster, more secure, and less of a drain on a...
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Moon Bloopers, a NASA Study
NASA / The AtlanticFeeling the moon underfoot is like walking on “moist talcum powder,” the astronaut Buzz Aldrin once said. It’s also not the easiest terrain to navigate. Not for a human accustomed...
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Engineering Humans for War
An engineer demonstrates a robotic arm at the Pentagon. Kevin Lamarque / ReutersRetired four-star general Paul F. Gorman recalls first learning about the “weakling of the battlefield” from reading...
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About Those Fingerprints Stolen in the OPM Hack
Kacper Pempel / ReutersThe government hack believed to be the biggest in U.S. history just got worse.The Office of Personnel Management said Wednesday it underestimated the number of people whose...
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When GIFs Rule the Living Room
Courtesy Electric ObjectsIf you could cut out a colorful rectangle out of the Internet and hang it on your wall, what would it look like? That’s the question raised by Electric Objects, a...
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Orbital View: Fall Equinox Edition
#EarthArt autumn leaves remind me of the good things that come with change. Happy #FirstDayofFall! #YearInSpace #autumn #leaves #earth #change #fall #space #spacestation #iss #photoA photo posted by...
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