Finally, we can use this new ‘Science’ tab on MiddleEasy to talk about something that actually matters on a Friday night. For some of you it actually matters on Friday morning as well. Scottish company ‘Brewmeister’ has just developed the world’s strongest beer with an astronomically high 67% ABV. In comparison, most hard liquor like
The lightbulb illustrated in the banner pic isn’t necessarily what we’re referring to in this article. It’s actually the FireFly LED, a lightbulb that runs for 40 years and cuts energy use by 90%. Now combine that technology with what’s coming out of Shanghai’s Fudan University and you get a 40-year internet router that also
The most extraordinary thing about all of this is that Disney actually has six research labs spread throughout the world and they’re trying to make developments in behavioral science, human-computer interaction, and an ominous topic called ‘computer vision.’ They employ 112 scientists that all look far smarter than any of my friends (sorry Hardeep) and
Boston Dynamics sure is a weird way to spell Skynet. You know all those guys that used to skip lunch in high school to program their TI-83 calculators and phreak into phone boxes using parts they found at Radioshock? All of those guys are now working at Boston Dynamics, and they’re busying creating machines that
A friend on Facebook recently posted a link to a website and declared himself so excited he is almost wetting his pants. I was intrigued, especially since this friend rarely gets this excited. What follows is my investigation into the website he linked me to. Clicking through to Rememberthe13th.com gives me the headline “The Biggest
In psychology there is a motivational/evolutionary theory named Terror Management Theory which posits that all human activity is driven primarily by the desire to both avoid thoughts of our inevitable death and also to craft a life which lives on past our biological age. Children, art, business, charity, philanthropy; they are all ways for humans
Woah! 500mb data, 500 texts and 200 minutes for… $0! The only snag? Users have to purchase a $99 HTC Evo Design. FreedomPop have raised over $5m in order to fulfill the pre-order demand for the service. How can they do this? Apparently by purchasing bandwidth from Sprint and converting voice calls to data. Oh,
Now that Breaking Bad is over, we’re just waiting for the next show that talks about the Krokodil drug trade in depth. We’re not sure if it would air on television because the bodily damage the drug does is just incomprehensible. It’s so gruesome that we’re not even going to publish the photos on MiddleEasy,
The Chaos Computer Club is a group of dudes that are infinitely smarter than you or I, and they’ve been using their brain power since 1980 to generally destroy and rebuild everything we’ve known as pure in the technology sector. I don’t even know if the Iphone 5s is even out yet, but if it
Back when I was in high school, a bunch of guys I knew went through a phase of seeing how much they could steal from the store in our lunch break without getting caught. It only took around a month before it escalated from sleeving a few bars of chocolate to synchronized and well planned
Silly Putty + sand + Sweden + science – Girl With The Dragon Tattoo = Kinetic Sand, and it looks like a lot of fun. Remember when sand was just a bunch of extremely tiny rocks that you may have found near a body of water? Pfft. Those days are over my friend. Let me
MGMT released a single on their new self-titled album called ‘Your life is a lie’ that’s a whimsical start-stop tune which reiterates the many ways in which we’re all just living a lie (obviously). When it comes down to it, if we all are indeed living a lie, then there would be absolutely no way
There is little indie game coming out tomorrow, it’s flying somewhat under the radar, it’s pretty heavy on the ludonarrative dissonance, real avant garde stuff, you probably wouldn’t even like it anyways. It’s this game called Grand Theft Auto V, who knew indie devs make so many damn sequels? Anyways, apparently in past iterations of
This video will either have the ability to make you very depressed throughout the day, or severely depressed. There seems to be no in-between with this one. Sure it’s a stunning piece of animation and the life-like representation of a human is impeccable — but it’s just going to make you realize that despite how
Terence McKenna once said that virtual reality represented a psychedelic merge between reality and technology. If only McKenna were alive to see this demo of the Oculus Rift VR headset then he would undoubtedly respond with something witty, like ‘Wow!’ We’ve told you about Oculus Rift on MiddleEasy in the past. It’s the virtual reality
3D television may have been some commercial fluke that was destined to fail, but if your cable provider offered 4th dimensional television, you would be able to see the progression of time illustrated in some weird elongated tube similar to that scene in Donnie Darko. So if you were watching Breaking Bad, you can visually