Today, the Supreme Court has reversed the decision of the Second Circuit in ABC vs. Aereo. Translation? Aereo lost big. It’s now illegal. And that sucks.
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Conductive Foam Darts Turn Your iPad Into a Shooting Gallery
Even with incredibly-realistic first-person shooter video games that make you feel as if you’re in an actual war, toy guns that shoot innocuous foam arrows still remain popular. There’s just something about nailing a target with an actual projectile
that’s incredibly satisfying, and that’s why Snipe—a tablet game that interacts with special foam darts—seems like so much fun.
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Why There’s an Electric Blue Lake in the Middle of the Utah Desert
Next time you’re flying over Moab, Utah—okay, maybe the next time you’re checking out Google Maps—look over to see this lake of unnatural shape and color. You can’t miss it; it’s the electric blue smudge in an ocean of brown rock.
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Netflix first original anime series looks Robotech-level awesome
Netflix is launching its first original anime series on July 4: the futuristic Knights of Sidonia. The first season, already broadcasted in Japan, is 12 episodes of space opera epic drama that apparently is full of cool spaceships and mechas. Here’s the synopsis:
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Fighter jet loses front landing gear, lands vertically on padded stool
What happens when your front landing gear fails and you are flying a AV-8B Harrier that can land vertically? You ask your ship crew to place a comfy padded stool to softly put your airplane’s nose down. That’s exactly what happened to this Harrier on the Wasp-class USS Bataan on June 7.
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This PVC Pouch Folds Up Like Origami To Protect Precious Things
An origami-inspired purse sounds needlessly complex. Futzing around with folds when you’re trying to find your keys in the abyss of a bag? No thanks. But! But: The reality of this Distortion clutch, designed by tech-friendly
design icon Issey Miyake, is rad. Like, I-would-definitely-carry-the-hell-out-of-this rad.
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UK government wants to end mobile deadspots with ‘national roaming’
Mobile operators might be doing more to put an end to signal blackspots in rural areas, but large parts of Britain’s countryside remain underserved. BBC News reports that in a bid to change this, the government is thinking about forcing carriers to…
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