Kuro Cube

If you want an odourless fridge, it used to be that the only game in town was a box of baking soda intermittently changed. It’s not a bad system, but thanks to the Kuro Cube ($25), we have a bit of choice. The Kuro Cube is powdered white charcoal, compressed … Read More

Yellow Jacket iPhone Stun Gun Battery Extender Case

Don’t care for emergency backup batteries? Annoyed that Tasers are prohibited weapons in Canada? Well, take paranoia to new heights with the Yellow Jacket iPhone stun gun / battery  case ($140). They come in black, pink, white, and yellow, so there’s that. Anyway, your surely-illegal-in-Canada-but-par-for-the-course-in-the-States-weapon can do two things. One: … Read More

1939 New York in Colour

In the 1930’s, colour photography was only just starting to take off, with Kodak’s Kodachrome introduced in 1935. Still, most colour footage from the era has been colourized after the fact. Not this film, though. Shot by a French tourist in the summer of 1939, this is what New York … Read More

The Emperor 1510 LX

We don’t care how monstrous you think your battle station is; it can’t compare to MWE Lab’s upcoming Emperor 1510 LX ($21,500). Yeah, you read that price tag correctly. The LX is actually cheaper that their flagship model, the Emperor 200, which comes in at $49,150, but more expensive than … Read More

Password Cracking, Bank Robbing, and Fighting Over Dinosaur Bones

Anatomy of a Hack – Ars Technica Just how easy is it for a cracker to solve a password? Ars interviewed three crackers who demolished a list of 16,000 passwords, one with a 90% success rate. How A War Hero Became a Serial Bank Robber – Buzzfeed One combat medic … Read More

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