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Oh Lord, Won’t You Buy Me Janis Joplin’s Porsche?

December 9, 2015

This Thursday, Sotheby’s and RM Auctions will join forces to put on one of the most incredible car auctions ever. Among the 30 “investment-grade automobiles” on the block is a 1956 Ferrari 290 created especially for the five-time racing World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio. He drove this exact car in READ MORE >

10 technologies to look for in 2016

December 9, 2015

Could 2016 really be the tipping point when the physical and virtual worlds finally merge? That’s the dream and TechRadar.com has compiled this list of 10 technologies hoping to make the dream come true. In our personal lives we should continue to find more and more information everywhere and on READ MORE >

Egypt’s “Underwater Pompeii” Heads to London.

December 9, 2015

In the 8th Century, probably due to a massive earthquake, the neighboring Egyptian cities of Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus vanished into the sea. For over a thousand years, they existed only as myths until the 1990s, when a European diving team discovered the remains of a temple that once stood in READ MORE >

Speak Spot, Speak.

December 9, 2015

Spot won’t exactly “speak,” but Georgia Tech researcher Melody Moore Jackson is working to find a way to allow the Spots of the world to communicate a lot clearer. Currently if a hearing-aid dog hears a doorbell or a baby crying, they are taught to lead their master to the READ MORE >

To Get More Creative, Become Less Productive.

December 9, 2015

These days, every company is looking to be as efficient as possible, and milk* is too, but we’re careful to make sure there’s room for creativity. We found this piece in the Harvard Business Review that pretty well sums up our challenge. While highly efficient people move quickly through tasks READ MORE >

Once-In-A-Lifetime Test Drive.

December 9, 2015

What happened when On Cars set out to test-drive the three hottest cars in the world? Well, our resident auto-nut, Joe Sequenzia gasped and automotive journalist, Chris Harris could hardly say more than “It’s Mega!” Last month, On Cars took Harris and the crew out to the Portimão track in READ MORE >

The Three-Minute Cryo-Craze

November 24, 2015

Perhaps you’ve considered standing in a shoulder-height cauldron spewing nitrogen-iced air at minus-264 degrees Fahrenheit. Perhaps you’d rather walk on hot coals or be thrown into an erupting volcano. Either way, it’s hard not to at least notice the latest WBC (whole-body cryotherapy) fad that takes Japanese ice baths to the READ MORE >

Do Salads Make Us Fat?

November 24, 2015

‘Tis the season to drop healthy eating habits, so this piece found in the NYTimes felt extra timely. We’ve all experienced it, “I’ve been so good with my diet,” or “I killed myself in that spin class,” so I earned this chocolate caramel frappuccino. Psychologists call it the “licensing effect” READ MORE >

Uber Burrito

November 24, 2015

There’s only one thing we love more than fresh entrepreneurial thinking and that’s steaming fresh burritos. Former bike messenger, James Jordan dreamt of the perfect burrito, delivered at perfection within 15 minutes at a reasonable cost. Sure, the concept of bicycle delivered burritos isn’t new, but when combined with some READ MORE >

TWA’s Terminal Past and Future.

November 24, 2015

We love The Retronaut, the part of Mashable’s website devoted to amazing photographs from the past. Recent posts feature early color photographs of Paris in the roaring twenties, a courageous all-black WWI fighting regiment and images Ferdinand Porsche’s 1945 “People’s Car” that became Volkswagen. October 27th’s incredible images of TWA’s READ MORE >

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