WiFi Boosting Phone Case

Matt Groening's early work for Apple, bands to watch at SXSW, chasing the Higgs Boson and more in our look at the web this week

Only sightly larger than a standard iPhone case, Linkase both protects your phone and claims to boost wireless speeds. Simply slide up a little EMW stick and boom, your WiFI download and upload speeds will double. We haven’t tried it yet, but the brand’s demonstrative video does well to convince.

Chasing the Higgs Boson

Matt Groening's early work for Apple, bands to watch at SXSW, chasing the Higgs Boson and more in our look at the web this week

Following the landmark multimedia experience “Snowfall,” the New York Times has released another multi-chapter investigation of the Higgs Boson. While not as graphically sophisticated as its predecessor, “Chasing the Higgs Boson” is a beautifully thorough look at the so-called “god particle.”

How The Outsiders Came To Be

Matt Groening's early work for Apple, bands to watch at SXSW, chasing the Higgs Boson and more in our look at the web this week

In 1980, on behalf of her class, California school teacher Jo Ellen Misakian sent Francis Ford Coppola a letter—along with a petition signed by 110 of her students—in an effort to encourage the legendary director to make a move adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders. After a brief written exchange between producer Roos and Misakian, it actually worked.