Rarely does fitness gear prioritize form over functionality (understandably) and that's why most of the time exercise machines and ellipticals are hidden away in a basement workout room. But wouldn't you be more inclined to exercise if your workout gear was in the living room next to the TV? This stylish set of woo and leather weights makes it more convenient to stay in shape because you won't feel you have to hide it away.
Ever wonder who said something first on Twitter? Now that Twitter's opened up its archive of tweets, you can easily figure that out. Who Said It First is a search tool that'll help you do just that.
Today, some idiot introduced my grandmother to yoga pants. FML
If you are going to sit down tonight and watch a post-turkey movie with the assemblage of humans who share your genetic matter, I highly recommend Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. The 1987 John Hughes flick is funny and touching. Watching John Candy play a well-meaning but obnoxious slob is like watching Michael Jordan play basketball or Maria Callas sing opera. You are watching the master at the top of his game.
[Update: Our Russian friends in the comments are reporting that the people in the video are saying that the Samus Amiibo doesn't work with the Moscow Subway. I guess in Soviet Russia, green means stop and red means go.]
Like this trailer for Star Wars Episode VII, it's possible that this video of someone using the Samus Amiibo to gain access to Moscow's subway system could be an elaborate fake. It's pretty convincing though. It it's real, chances are either Moscow or Nintendo are going to have to change the way their NFC systems work in the near future.
If this leads to an official press conference between Vladimir Putin and Satoru Iwata on Amiibo politics and the right to freedom of near field communication speech, I will literally die and go to heaven that very instant. The only way it could get better is if Pussy Riot reforms as an all Amiibo punk band with a new album called Settle it in Smash.
RUMOR - Amiibo used to hop a free ride on the Metro [GoNintendo]
Some of the world's best threat detection platforms have been bypassed by custom malware in a demonstration of the fallibility of single defence security.…
Now that Far Cry 4 has been out for a while, players have had a chance to experience its absurd chaos. So it might not surprise you to hear that people have a lot of amusing things to say about Far Cry 4.
Judging from Far Cry 4's Steam reviews, people seem particularly taken with the wildlife found in Kyrat. That makes sense—the animals are a huge chunk of what makes Far Cry 4 so good. But that's not the only thing people like to mention. Let's take a look, shall we?
You can check out more Far Cry 4 Steam reviews here, or check out our ongoing "As Told By Steam Reviews" feature here.
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scout → nathan vetterlein
soldier → rick may
pyro/spy → dennis bateman
heavy/demoman → gary schwartz
engineer → grant goodeve
medic → robin atkin downes
sniper → john patrick lowrie
administrator → ellen mclain
ms. pauling → ashly burch
Yes, a Blu-ray copy of Police Story 3: Supercop was destroyed for the sake of science. It turns out that the nanostructure of Blu-ray disc makes them especially well-suited to soaking up light—exactly what you'd want with a solar panel.
According to the Federal Trade Commission, Sony deceived consumers by falsely advertising the PlayStation Vita's "game-changing" features when the console launched in the US. And, perhaps in an effort to stay out of court, the electronics company has...
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The newest incarnation of Super Smash Bros. is the fastest selling game on Nintendo's Wii U console, the company reported Tuesday, with almost half a million copies sold in the first three days of release in the United States.
Nintendo said 490,000 physical and digital copies of its mash-up character fighting game were sold between Nov. 21 and Nov. 23
Previously, Mario Kart 8 was the fastest selling Wii U game, and though Nintendo didn't disclose how many copies it sold in the first three days, it did sell 2.28 million copies worldwide during its first two months of release. Read more...
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Sorry, Vin DieselEMC just made your Fast and the Furious antics look like child's play
EMC, along with the Lotus F1 Team, recently set the Guinness World Record for longest jump length (83 feet, 7 inches) by having a semi-truck bound over an F1 racer
Professional stunt driver Mike Ryan drove the truck and designed the stunt with Martin Ivanov steering the F1 car, Car and Driver reported. Coincidentally, Car and Driver states that both men have worked as stunt drivers in not only the Fast and the Furious series, but also the James Bond and Bourne films Read more...
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This sea creature may look like some scary 3D animation of an underwater monster but it's not. It's completely real. What you're looking at is a deep sea anglerfish known as the Black Seadevil. This sea monster's existence shows that sometimes reality is crazier and more twisted than our scariest nightmares.
I have always been an unapologetic fan of Minesweeper. I have been playing it for longer than any other single game, and I will be playing it as long as I can imagine. It never changes in any fundamental way, but it always works to pass some time when I just want to switch my brain into pure logic mode. 0h h1 is the same kind of thing; it could be solved by a pretty simple computer program, but the act of going through it is still mechanically satisfying.
It almost works like sudoku or Picross but with only two possible entries, red or blue. There can never be three or more of any one color consecutively, there are always the same number of reds and blues in each row or column, and no two rows or columns can be identical. With those rules, the game is set to run as many times as the player wants to play, and it's all free.
It is adapted from the Japanese logic puzzle (of course) called Takuzu, and since it is a simple digital version of an existing mechanic, it is available to play in browser or through the Android or iOS mobile apps for free. Check it out if you have some time to waste.
This video shows a grizzly bear running in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Can you keep up? The Daily Telegraph (warning: auto-start video) says that grizzly bears can run up to 35 MPH, which is well over Usain Bolt's top speed of 27 MPH.
But as the old joke goes: I don't have to outrun the bear. I just have to outrun you.
This is called Schlieren optics, a cool technique that allows us to see how invisible air moves. Thanks to the difference of density between hot and cold air, light changes speed, bends, and creates visual distortions. Exactly the same thing that happens in the mirages but captured in a controlled environment.
Zen Studios announced a new table for its pinball games based on the popular villain from Marvel's Spider-Man universe, Venom. The table explores Venom's rivalry with Spider-Man as well as Carnage, the offspring of the dark Symbiote, hosted by the fi...
Oh man. I almost couldn't get through this video because the non stop crunch of bones breaking in these fight scenes got to me. Even though I know full well that movies aren't real and that all these broken bones are just visual tricks and sound effects, I still cringed. A lot.
