Want to know a good way to test your cellphone battery life?

October 25, 2009 @ 7:02 pm

Call US1photo.com at 877-300-5070.

God only knows how long you’ll be on hold for. If I were you I wouldn’t even bother getting an actual question ready for them because chances are you’ll never get connected or you’ll just hang up out of frustration.

The Clock I Can’t See by sonodesign

October 16, 2009 @ 8:43 pm

This crazy looking clock, based on a simple color-blindness test, is available now at sonodesign for over $50 USD. [via]

Delayed gratification as an indication of success in the future

September 16, 2009 @ 11:11 pm

the-marshmallow-test-again

Yesterday I posted a cute video of a bunch of kids attempting to resist the urge to eat a marshmallow during an experiment. The video posted yesterday was actually a remake of an experiment by Joachim de Posada that looks at delayed gratification in young kids and the link it has to how successful those kids will be when they become older.

Joachim de Posada found that most of the kids who resisted the urge to eat the marshmallow for 15 minutes while an adult left the room became successful in their later years while the same was not true for those kids who ended up eating the marshmallow right away.

You can watch the video in hi-res here.

Earthquake Quiz

June 3, 2009 @ 4:29 pm

quake-quiz

The San Francisco Department of Emergency Management set up this wonderful website to educate people on how to properly react in the event of an earthquake. The website is very fluid and almost humorous when the earthquake animation begins. I don’t live in an earthquake danger zone, but I actually passed all of the earthquake tests on the first try. Most of it seems to be common sense.

GM crash tests from the 60’s

June 1, 2009 @ 7:12 pm

Man, I really am glad I never drove a GM vehicle from the 1960’s. Those cars don’t look like they hold up very well at all. Note how the bodies just fly all over the place and end up getting run over. Ouch.

Bus crashes through guardrail during test

May 6, 2009 @ 12:27 am

There’s obviously no driver in the bus so it just keeps rolling straight into the crew once it’s gone over the guardrail. Scary! [via]