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This Watch Will Tell You If You're Too Drunk to Drive

Drunk driving is obviously super dumb, but it can sometimes be difficult to tell what kind of effect a beer has had on your body. Fortunately, Tokyoflash's latest watch straps a breathalyzer to your wrist so you can keep a check on things.

Ten international privacy authorities spanning Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Israel and more have

Ten international privacy authorities spanning Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Israel and more have sent a letter to Google asking for it to address privacy concerns over Glass. A letter; yeah, that'll work.

An Insane John McAfee Teaches You How to Uninstall His Software (NSFW)

John McAfee is one weird guy, and this video only serves to bolster that reputation. Uploaded to YouTube last night, it's a hilarious and entirely NSFW video which sees the man himself teach you how to uninstall McAfee Antivirus.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 Benchmarks: This Thing Has a Face-Melting GPU

While most high-end Android phones currently sport Qualcomm's Snapdragon 600, there's another chip announced earlier this year waiting to hit the scene: the Snapdragon 800. Now, the first benchmarks of that new chip are in and its GPU promises to smoke the competition.

There's Something Comforting About A Peanut-Shaped Nursery School

People say that peanuts are healthy. They're a super food or something. But the peanut is apparently good for other things too, like inspiring design. The Japanese architect Hiroshi Ueda overlapped two circles to create the peanut concept for this building, completed last year.

Science Happens In Places That Are Beautiful By Accident

Those spikey deals look pretty menacing. It wouldn't be a bad guess to think that they're abstract art meant to invoke a Medieval torture aesthetic. But that's way off. The infinitely repeating barbs are part of the anechoic chambers at the Technical University of Denmark.

Remember When Big Brother's Only Weapon Was CCTV?

When I was a kid, there was no image more closely associated with surveillance than the CCTV camera. Big Brother is watching, we were warned. The government is keeping tabs on you with video cameras on every street corner. Soon they may even install cameras in your home, they insisted.

London's Triangular "Cheesegrater" Tower Rises In This Gorgeous Video

British architect Richard Rogers is known for putting the guts of buildings on display. In fact, his work has even inspired the scatological style known as Bowellism.

Science Has Built Luke Skywalker's Robotic Hand, Touch and All

Amputees may one day regain actual feeling thanks to Darpa and researchers at Case Western University who have created what we thought was once only possible in science fiction.

The LEGO Movie Trailer Is Here And It Sure Is Quippy

In summer 2012 the news broke that a feature-length Lego movie was actually happening and slated for 2014 release. And it's all true! The first trailer shows LEGO figures and indicates a chosen-one-saves-the-world-type plot. Plus a lot of superhero mentions.