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10 Addictive Games For Killing Time on Your Phone
Last week, we put out a call for the best games for killing time with your little pocket computer, and you, the time-wasters of Kinja, delivered. Here are some of your favorites—plenty of fodder for...
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The Craziest Designs For London's Newest Pedestrian Bridge
The great city of London currently has something of a fascination with pedestrian bridges to span the waterway that bisects the city. The latest project is for a bridge that will connect Nine Elms to...
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Massive Spacecraft Transport Vehicles Are Still Going After 50 Years
NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has two of the largest vehicles ever built on treads. Crawler-transporter No. 1 and crawler-transporter No. 2 (CT-1 and CT-2) have carried rockets and spacecraft...
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Your Most Crushing Stories About Smashing Your Phones
Nothing feels dumber than smashing your phone out of sheer carelessness and stupidity. No one knows this better than me . A few weeks ago we asked you to share how you destroyed your expensive pocket...
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These Insane Labs Recreate Frightening Forces of Nature
Knowledge is the key to survival when nature turns hostile, whether because we're living on trembling ground, building homes along vulnerable coasts, or navigating through dangerous water. That's why...
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A Fond Farewell to the Neon Sign
I simply can't help it; I am a sucker for neon signs. I just love their clear glowing lines, their curves and bends, their warm though discreet presence in the night. And I hate to see them go. Read...
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Politicians Shaking Hands With Robots, Ranked
Politicians love to shake hands with their constituents. It's basically half their job. But over the past two decades we've seen the rise of a surprising new constituency that they need to engage with...
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Iconic Images of Space Taken From The Ground
Photographer Edgar Martins' book, The Rehearsal of Space and the Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, is a must-have for space enthusiasts. But for those without the hard copy, the European...
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21 Bizarre Maps That Depict Nations As Animals, People, and Monsters
Allegorical, satirical, and comic or serio-comic maps were one of the most popular ways of distributing political propaganda leading up to the Second World War. With countries depicted as human...
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Relive the Internet of the 1990s in 6 Gifs
Thirty years ago, on March 15, 1985, the first .com domain name—symbolics.com—was registered by the technology company Symbolics, marking the birth of the commercial internet. But things started...
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7 of the Most Horrible Technology Sounds
Not long ago, I asked you for your picks of the worst sounds that technology has cursed us with. You answered with the shrill, shreiking screams of text across the internet. And here are a few of the...
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The Fantastic Wrist Gadgets That Came Way Before the Smartwatch
Humans have been putting technology on their wrists for a long time—and not just to tell the time. The Apple Watch and others are just the latest in a long line of wrist-borne devices, so here's a...
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5 Unsettling Works of Encryption Art
Encryption is the process of encoding a message, and today we have incredibly sophisticated software and algorithms that make our encrypted messages almost impossible to decode. But how does it work?...
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Today's Solar Eclipse in 22 Stellar Photos
This morning, a total solar eclipse was visible from the Faroe Islands and Svalbard, Norway, and a partial solar eclipse from many parts of Europe, Northern Africa and Northern Asia. These stellar...
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4 Instant Cities That Are Still Empty
Cities are like organisms. They're the product of unthinkably complex forces, and they wax and wane based on more than just us humans. But that hasn't stopped humanity from trying to force them into...
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The Origin of Color Bars on TV, and Other Standard Test Files
Occasionally, we get to catch a glimpse of the hidden tests that ensure our technology-infused world runs smoothly: color bars on TV or blocks of "lorem ipsum" gibberish text. There's a fascinating...
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7 Machines That Are Meta As Hell
What’s better then a monster machine? A meta machine. Here are a bunch of machines that really took the advice “Just do you!” to heart. Read more...
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Inside the Most Futuristic Science Labs in the World
Last month , we took a look at the headquarters of the most beautiful science laboratories and research institutes in the world. Now it’s time to go inside. As it turns out, scientists and their...
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Coachella 2015 in photos
This past weekend, thousands and thousands of attractively dressed Instagram hashtag abusers rushed to the desert of Indio to willfully dehydrate themselves in a united effort to save California from...
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A Hidden Treasure Trove of Dead .Gov Websites
DolphinSafe.gov. CouldIHaveLupus.gov. GovGab.gov. These were real, registered websites at one time until they were terminated. In some cases—take CyberSafe.gov or Americorpse.gov for example—it’s easy...
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