It’s a touch super natural, which is why light painting, also known as light drawing or light graffiti continues to dazzle us. Technically speaking, light painting is a photographic technique made at night or in a darkened room by moving a light source in front of a moving camera with a very long exposure. You may have seen it on art blogs, on friend’s Flickr reels and in pop advertisements. It’s a fun effect, and relatively easy to do....

Australian security consultant Gordon Maddern has discovered a bug in Skype for Mac that could potentially give attackers complete access to OS X, reportsThe Register. All an attacker would have to do is send a message with an attachment in a Skype chat session to gain control of the victim’s Mac.Update below. The bug is apparently present in the most current version of Skype for Mac and was discovered accidentally while Maddern was chatting with a colleague....

You are dying. The reason why doesn’t matter. Maybe it’s that you spent all your best years with your nose to the grindstone, burning that midnight oil, ha ha. Or maybe it’s that, for the past fifteen years, you’ve subsisted exclusively on coffee and Soylent. Complete Nutrition Backed By Science, they said. No way to prove them wrong! Ha ha ha! Or maybe it was those fumes. You are going to give yourself immortal life....

When I think about all the American purchased plastic crap made in China, I imagine they must think we’re pretty crazy. Now the tables have turned. Introducing a giant shoe shaped electric 2 passenger car, the latest promotion of the Kang Shoe Company, headquartered in Wenzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province. This crazy shoe car can drive up to 250 miles at 30 mph on a single battery charge. It measures 10 feet long and is more than 3 feet high, featuring leather bodywork in the same fashion as a normal Kang Shoe....

This article was originally published byChristopher CareyonCities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today onTwitter,Facebook,LinkedIn,Instagram, andYouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. The City of Boston is piloting anew schemethat will offer free public transport and shared-bike passes as part of an experiment into how financial incentives can impact commuting behavior. Workers in five Main Street Districts can apply for the pilot, which gives credits of up to US$60 for Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) services and a two-month pass for the city’s bike-share scheme,Bluebike....