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• Storm-Penetrating Drones Could Fly Into Tornadoes
  Engineering students at Oklahoma State University (OSU) have designed three concept drones that could one day help storm trackers and researchers better understand tornadoes. Led by professor Jamey Jacob, three teams of students outlined plans for Storm Penetrating Air Vehicles (SPAVs) that would penetrate thunderstorms, including the supercells that generat […]
  Discovery News
• ZZ Ward's App Uses Facebook to Plot When Fans Discovered Her Music
  ZZ Ward, who Fuse TV recently proclaimed as one of 30 must-see artists at South by Southwest, just launched a web app that plots when fans first discovered her. How? The "365 Days of ZZ Ward" app uses Facebook's Open Graph to browse users' Facebook activity and plot their ZZ Ward-tagged status updates, photos and videos. The moments will […]
  Brian Anthony Hernandez
• Get "Rich" or Pin Trying: New Pinterest Rich Pins Let Brands Share Even More
  Pinterest just made branded pins a bit more engaging. The new rich pins allow brands to include a whole bunch of exciting data including real-time pricing, availability and location for purchase. New rich pins include three varieties (product, recipe and movie) all with their own unique information. We'll get more into that in just a second. Best of all […]
  Thea Neal
• Jif Peanut Butter Weighs In on GIF Pronunciation Debate
  It was only a matter of time. Jif, the popular peanut butter company, has finally weighed in on the debate about how to pronounce GIF: It's pronounced Jif® #Jif #GIF bit.ly/10QjQim— Jif® Peanut Butter (@Jif) May 22, 2013 The tweet links to, what else, a GIF: Jif's tweet came less than a day after the creator of the Graphics Interchange Format (ie G […]
  Seth Fiegerman
• 14-Year-Old Girl Destroys Van Halen Guitar Solo
  Here's a video of Tina, 14, covering Eddie Van Halen‘s “Eruption” guitar solo and absolutely shredding it If the words “Eddie Van Halen’s ‘Eruption’ guitar solo” have no meaning to you, we'll get to the meat of the story: This girl is some sort of guitar wizard. Image courtesy of YouTube, Tina S Read more...More about Music, Guitar, Rock, Watercool […]
  The Mary Sue
• Hovertrax is Like a Segway Without Handlebars
  Vancouver, Wash.-based company Investist has a new idea for rolling in style. It's called Hovertrax, and it's an auto-balancing, electronic transporter with two-wheeled gyro technology — or, more simply, a wiggle board with power. The group is collecting funds for the gadget through Kickstarter, and, as of Wednesday afternoon, has already raised mo […]
  Eric Larson
• Watch Your Heartbeat on Xbox One’s New Kinect
  Two years and millions of units later, Microsoft Kinect motion and voice capture and control system for the Xbox 360 is an unparalleled success. So it came as little surprise that the powerful controller is now an essential part of the Xbox One console that Microsoft will ship sometime later this year. The new, somewhat larger — dare I say boxy -– Kinect is […]
  Lance Ulanoff