In the near future, this tiny pet drone helicopter could hover over your shoulder and monitor everything you do for just 50 bucks. Always Innovating, the company behind the MeCam, isn’t planning on mass producing, but believes a larger company could license the technology and sell the device at bargain prices. Coupled with Twitter’s new […]
After months of badgering by activists groups and politicians alike, the MTA has announced it will consider making service improvements to the oft-maligned G train–adding more trains, better communication about outages and service changes, and free above-ground transfers to other lines at certain stops. The authority also officially voted to make the line’s extension to […]
The police department of Wichita, Kansas is still searching for a culprit in a case of missing weed from their evidence department. They have no specific suspects yet, but they’ve at least been able to narrow things down to a particular species: peromyscus maniculatus, the common mouse. That search produced the above image, perhaps the most […]
The New York Times has got the scoop for you. It turns out that living costs in Manhattan are more expensive than other parts of the country, like, for example, Kansas. This revelation really sucks for Manhattan’s middle class, because now they no longer exist, according to the Times. Rest in peace, middle class. The […]
The skateboards in Mounier Fatmi’s Maximum Sensation installation at the Brooklyn Museum look like Muslim prayer rugs… but EXTREME! (Photo: Saya Sings/Flickr) […]
This week, the topless Ukrainian protest crew FEMEN have done something quite ballsy, or rather… titsy? As the Pope was reading the Angelus blessing in the Vatican, the activists stormed through St Peter’s Square chanting “homophobes, shut up!” with only the slogans “In Gay We Trust” on their bare torsos. Video is NSFW. Wow. We haven’t always seen eye-to-eye… […]
For entrepreneur Troy Dayton, providing basic services like insurance and capital management amounts to revolutionary business. The support his firm ArcView supplies might sound standard, but the businesses it works with are anything but: ArcView coordinates investment for the booming number of legal, cannabis-focused companies taking root across the United States. “I always thought that […]
Last year, we caught a glimpse of Christmas trees hanging under the BQE in Brooklyn and found it intriguing. The installation was created by artist Michael Neff and for 2013, he went even bigger. He also gave us some background on the unsanctioned project, telling ANIMAL: After December 25th, New York sidewalks are crowded with […]
Pyrex Visions, an upscale streetwear brand run by Virgil Abloh, Kanye West’s creative director, recently sold out of the above right flannel shirt, at $550 a pop. An exorbitantly high price, to be sure (especially when you factor in the huge, tacky screenprinting on the back), but apparently not unheard of in the world of […]
The Holy City has a seriously unholy plight to deal with nowadays. Starting this Wednesday, visitors to the Vatican have not been able to use credit and debit cards for purchases due to a new decision by Italy’s central bank, brought on by concerns over inadequate money laundering. Italy’s central bank has refused clearance to […]
