Tech

Illinois founder mortgaged it all for floor mats and later wrote an $80,000,000 check for a Ferrari

David MacNeil didn’t set out to change the world, he just rented a car in Scotland and got weirdly obsessed with its floor mats. Back home in Illinois, he realized American mats were basically sad rubber pancakes. Most people would’ve just complained and moved on. But MacNeil took out huge loans and bet his entire […]

The world's first text message was sent 33 years ago today, this is what it said

The first text message featured a simple holiday greeting

Japan just unveiled a human washing machine and it cleans you with microbubbles and soothing music

Imagine jumping in here after a long day

Utah man buys fake Apple products before they disappear to see what they're actually like

He took a closer look

Audio company unveils world's first electrostatic speakers which offer 10 times bigger in-car sound

It will change in-car audio as we know it

Canada’s iconic Christmas train is back on its cross-country journey

The holidays have arrived in Canada

Ex-Google employee bought Google.com for $12 after glitch lists it as available, Google paid him a whole lot more for it back

He gave the money to charity, though

iPhone users mind-blown at Clock app's incredible hidden detail when you put phone into Low Power Mode

This iPhone feature will change the way you view your homescreen in Low Power Mode. The mode saves many of us when out and about with a rapidly draining battery. But it turns out that the Clock app is also affected when your battery tries to preserve energy. All it takes is one tap to […]

Valve makes $50,000,000 per employee with gaming company set to generate $17,000,000,000 this year

Valve, the gaming company behind Counter-Strike and the online game store Steam, has been confirmed as one of the most profitable businesses in the world and is set to pull in $17 billion this year from just 350 employees. As far as gargantuan tech companies go, Valve runs an extreme skeleton staff that really shouldn’t […]

Man buys parts from AliExpress to see if he can build a working iPhone for cheaper than buying one

The Apple iPhone is one of the best technology products of the decade, and with the release of the 17 Pro Max and Air, the range only gets more intricate. But can you build your own from AliExpress for cheaper? Toe-to-toe with Samsung as the biggest smartphone distributor in the world, the iPhone range is […]

A GoPro fell from a plane and wasn’t found for eight months, but the hilarious footage was worth the wait

What’s shakin’ bacon?

To celebrate 40 years of accessibility at Apple, it released an accessory with Bailey Hikawa to create something good for everyone

The new accessory aims to make holding an iPhone easier

WhistlinDiesel spent $80,000 on a robot but soon made disturbing realization about it

YouTuber WhistlinDiesel has shared another one of his unusual experiments, and this time it’s all to do with a robot and its behavior. It’s no secret that AI and robotics are taking over in more than one industry, and now this robot has been put to the ultimate test. The artificial companion was snapped up […]

Google StreetView car driver answers common questions about what the job is actually like

What’s it like behind the wheel?

Man manages to power his entire house using 500 disposable vapes

Running a house on 500 disposable vapes sounds like internet nonsense, but one YouTuber wanted to know if it was actually possible. Chris Doel had noticed how many discarded vapes get tossed on streets and into bins, each one hiding a real lithium-ion battery people barely think about. Millions of these devices are thrown away […]

Florida man arrested after building his own giant hamster wheel to try to cross the Atlantic Ocean

He didn’t make it very far