Tesla just revealed a crazy charger that springs out of the wall and...
Late last year, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk said his company was working on a wild idea for its car chargers: The charger would automatically come out of the wall and connect to the car like "a solid...
View ArticleA 17-year-old invented an ingenious way to instantly stop bleeding
Imagine this: You're gushing blood. Nothing seems to make it stop. Then you apply a gel to your wound, and the bleeding stops within seconds. You're healed in minutes.This is the premise of VetiGel, an...
View ArticleFOOD WARS: I tried a bunch of different grocery delivery services, and one is...
Food delivery services are a rapidly expanding business, whether it’s entire meal kits delivered to your door or take-out from your Uber driver.One of the most competitive fields though is grocery...
View ArticleThis app could be the future of psychological therapy
An app asks, “How are you?”To respond, you swipe to make a virtual face on your iPhone happy or sad.Welcome to the future of therapy.What if we could use our phones to improve our state of mind, or...
View ArticleI calculated my approximate age at death — and found something totally...
When I saw the online quiz that predicts how long you'll live, I was psyched to take it.That might sound a bit death-obsessed for a 28-year-0ld, but I've planned with my loved ones what they should do...
View ArticleThe best designed kitchen gadgets of the year
We can't hate on traditional pots and pans, but times are changing.Working in the kitchen has become a high-tech experience, from the way we brew our coffee to how we cook our meat.In 2015, we saw no...
View ArticleThere are 2 genius ways to cool your beer down in under 15 minutes
There's nothing worse than going to grab a beer and realizing you don't have any cold ones. Warm beer? No thanks.You might think you only have 2 options: Put the beer in the fridge and wait for an...
View ArticleWhat Barbie would look like if she had the body of an average 19-year-old
Lammily is the brainstorm of artist Nickolay Lamm, who was tired of seeing the unattainable body image that Barbie dolls conveyed. Taking the measurements of the average woman, he created his own...
View ArticleA Dutch designer wants to build the world's largest air purifier — and use it...
Air pollution kills 80 people every day in the Indian city of New Delhi. In London, nearly 9,500 people die in a year due to the air they breathe. In fact, dirty air is responsible for one in eight...
View ArticleA new study proves that you can check if a battery still has a charge by...
While many of our devices have evolved beyond the battery, there are still plenty of things — from remote controls to handy calculators — that need trusty AA batteries to function.That means your junk...
View ArticleThese gorgeously designed glasses will make your beer taste extra-amazing
Since it's International Beer Day, let's take a moment to reflect on the history of the humble beer glass.When millions of people were dying of the plague in the 14-century Germany, brewers tacked on a...
View ArticleChemistry explains why grilling meat makes it taste so good
Humidity is rising and thermometers are creeping into the triple digits — all signs that summer is here.Between pool parties and delicious cold brews, millions of people are firing up their grills and...
View ArticleA Dutch designer wants to turn smog into ultramodern jewelry
Air pollution kills 80 people every day in the Indian city of New Delhi. In London, nearly 9,500 people die in a year due to the air they breathe. In fact, dirty air is responsible for one in eight...
View ArticleLiving near trees could make you feel as good as being seven years younger
Living in leafy neighborhoods is visually pleasing. It also can make you feel healthier.In fact, the positive health effects of having an additional 10 trees on your block are equivalent to getting a...
View ArticleIntelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us
Last week Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and more than 16,000 researchers signed an open letter warning against the dangers of autonomous weapons.A top signatory who studies artificial intelligence (AI)...
View ArticleResearchers analyzed data on explosive Twitter controversies — and then came...
A storm is always waiting to blow up on Twitter. It happened when a Baltimore cop shot an unarmed African-American man in April, or when an Indian state banned beef in March this year, and, most...
View ArticlePixar figured out the recipe for making perfect movies — now it's unstoppable
The first reaction test audiences had to "Monsters, Inc." wasn't the bottomless sense of wonder drummed up by most Pixar movies: It was boredom."I thought, 'Oh, a film about monsters who scare kids for...
View ArticleIf the SkyMall catalog still exists in 2025, it will probably look like this
What will the near future look like? Chances are, it will be somewhere between the techno-utopia that Silicon Valley startup founders like to talk about and all-out disaster. Unless there is a hugely...
View ArticleAnthropologist explains why we cheat on people we love
Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher has a pretty perfect description of what it's like to be in love with someone:Simply put, she says, that person becomes the center of the world. You have an...
View ArticleHere's how to light up your living room with glowing marine plankton
Microbes make our lives better in countless ways. They are the reason yogurt and cheese taste delicious. These tiny beings also fight deadly diseases — in fact, they made penicillin, the "wonder drug"...
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