Brian Heater

Elastic Precision is a Kansas City-based workshop that creates beautiful handcrafted semi-automatic rubber band guns from locally sourced hard wood. The studio currently produces a…

  Location-aware guided audio tour app Detour (previously) is now available for iOS, following a six-month closed beta. The app, which offers up stories and…

Eero is a small home-networking box produced by the San Francisco startup of the same name that aims to make home Wi-Fi simpler by combining…

In a clip from The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon once again dons a harmonica and guitar as Neil Young, performing the Canadian folk-rocker’s song “Old…

Spinnner is a silly new app for the iPhone developed by ad agency Gents that compels the user to spin around in circles, counting the…

In his latest video, Chicago-based musician Rob Scallon (previously) cuts off eight of the strings on a nine-string guitar to play “00000,” a metal-style song…

In the latest video in the series, Numberphile (previously) speaks to Stanford University professor Persi Diaconis about the randomness of tossing a coin. Diaconis explains…

The Washington Post’s Wonkblog has published a pair of maps detailing the distribution of goats throughout the United States according to data collected by the…

Priceonomics writer Roseann Cima has written a thorough breakdown explaining why so many contemporary movies lean so heavily on a blue (or teal) and orange…

In week four of their ongoing 2015 Dial-a-Song project (previously), Brooklyn-based nerd rockers They Might Giants lash out against a very specific form of poetry…