| Seafloor Platform Cloaks Big Ocean Waves | |  | Floating offshore oil drilling platforms, offshore wind farms and buoys are vulnerable to waves, especially those from storm swells. But a team of engineers has found a way to make those ocean-faring structures invisible to waves. The technique...
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| 5 Fascinating Facts We Learned From Reddit This Week | |  | Did you know that Abe Lincoln and Hulk Hogan have more in common than odd facial hair? SEE ALSO: 20 Fascinating Facts We Learned From Reddit in 2012 There were so many juicy factoids (or edu-nuggets, as the kids say*) on Reddit this week, we had...
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| Apple's Black Friday Sale Goes Live | |  | Every year Apple has a special one-day shopping event on Black Friday, offering moderately lower prices for many of its gadgets, and this year is no exception. Apple's Black Friday sale is now live in the U.S. and internationally, with savings...
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| Give This MP3 Player to the Underwater Music Fan | |  | If the next Michael Phelps is on your holiday shopping list, we've got the present for him or her. The Finis SwiMP3 player brings music underwater so all those human-fish hybrids can finally jam out while doing laps. The player is completely...
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| 10 Completely Useless Websites We Found in 2012 | |  | Most of us spent an unfathomable amount of time on the Internet in 2012. At Mashable, most of that time was spent productively (look at all of these cool things we wrote). But we reserved a portion of that time to laugh our butts off at some...
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| Cyber Monday vs. Black Friday: How Do You Prefer to Shop? [EXCLUSIVE] | | Thursday, November 22, 2012 7:10 PM | |
|  | With the biggest shopping weekend of the year upon us, consumers are faced with two options: Black Friday or Cyber Monday. While participation in either event isn't mutually exclusive, one infographic pits the two against each other, and breaks...
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| Celebrate Thanksgiving LOTR-Style With This Tolkien Cookbook [VIDEO] | | Thursday, November 22, 2012 6:10 PM | |
|  | Ringers with a taste for pork pies and coney stew may soon be able to transport themselves to the world of Frodo, Merry, Sam and Pippin with the help of a J.R.R. Tolkien-inspired cookbook. Entitled Medium Rare And Back Again: A Tolkien Cookbook,...
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| 10 Adorably Sleepy Animals That Ate Too Much Turkey | | Thursday, November 22, 2012 5:00 PM | |
|  | The tryptophan trance gobbles up unsuspecting turkey eaters every Thanksgiving. And it's not just Uncle Fred slumped on the La-Z-Boy suffering from the food stupor. Animals with a hankering for white meat and giblets may also find themselves...
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| 15 Thanksgiving Day Parade Photos from Mashable Readers | | Thursday, November 22, 2012 4:18 PM | |
|  | This Thanksgiving, we're thankful for your photo submissions of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Many Mashable readers -- some up close and personal, others watching from the comfort of their homes -- captured images of the iconic event, and...
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| Slow Websites Cost Retailers Billions [INFOGRAPHIC] | | Thursday, November 22, 2012 3:33 PM | |
|  | The days of dialup are long gone. Most modern Internet users expect websites to load lickety-split. For e-commerce companies, having a fast website could be the difference between success and failure. Research shows that most expect a website to...
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| Your Tablet-Happy Friends Will Worship This Magnetic iPad Keyboard | | Thursday, November 22, 2012 2:49 PM | |
|  | For those who like their holidays with a hefty serving of Apple, there's a new keyboard for your tablet-happy friends and family. Although the iPad is great for activities on the go, in coffee shops or meetings, sometimes it's nice to use a few...
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| What Does Your Black Friday Look Like? Send Us Your Photos | | Thursday, November 22, 2012 2:01 PM | |
|  | Every year on the day after Thanksgiving, millions of Americans wake up before sunrise, make their way to the local mall and prepare themselves for the insanity that is Black Friday. As the unofficial start of holiday shopping, stores offer...
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| 13 People to Watch Out for on Black Friday | | Thursday, November 22, 2012 1:17 PM | |
|  | The season's most stressful holiday is upon us -- and we're not talking about Thanksgiving with your in-laws. Black Friday is the boss level for all retail customers. It's the one day of the year when retailers allow shoppers to tear displays to...
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| Gina Bianchini: 5 Talks That Inspired Me | | Thursday, November 22, 2012 12:35 PM | |
|  | As the co-founder of Ning, Gina Bianchini was a pioneer in social networking. As the current founder and CEO of MightyBell, she is continuing to help people use social software in a way that connects them both online and off. Bianchini is...
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| Laura Fitton: 10 Talks That Will Fascinate You | | Thursday, November 22, 2012 11:51 AM | |
|  | Laura Fitton knows a thing or two about the transformative power of social media. The author, lecturer, business consultant and entrepreneur was one of the first people to recognize the potential of Twitter a tool that could bring people together...
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