Activity Corner

• Back to the Future's auto-lacing shoes come closer to reality. Related: Nike files patent.


• Cellphone camera pictures aren't instaneous, due to their rolling shutter, which leads to a stroboscopic effect. See pictures here and a video here. Example of how it works.


• You always have your iPhone with you, right? Then you can drink beer as long as you have the iBottleOpener.


• For men only, a combination sink and urinal: the Eco Urinal. Also here.


• Animation/video of discovered asteroids, 1980-2010.


• Top 10 lost technologies.


• How do you test space garbage bags? By creating space vomit.


• Crippling the US military may be as simple as using PowerPoint.


• Get that damn song out of your head with a random tune at Unhear It.


• Color pictures of Russian life, 100 years ago.


• Can you spot the ghost in this video?


• Portal bookends.


• Automaker family tree.


• The winner is obvious.


• Pomplamoose, Ben Folds, and Nick Hornby.


• The double rainbow guy does a Microsoft commercial.


• Nerd stuff: the anatomy of a Rickroll (made with Packet Flight).


• Predator's teenage son.


• 12 bad-ass chess sets.


• 16 best sci-fi cartoons. Man, I used to love Beast Wars, but it looks so cheesy now.


• How many do you recognize? Dancing at the movies.


• Top 10 Star Trek languages.


• Revenge products. Wow.


• The beer popsicle: the Hopsicle.


• The 10 greatest fictional inventors.


• Facial jewelry. Uh, what?