Mobile Beetle Shark Observation Cage

Roving Mars, sharks, sexy food, Hemingway's take on JavaScript and more in our weekly look at the web

Nerd humor at its best, professional coder and lover of literature Angus Croll imagines how Hemingway and four other literary legends would have handled writing JavaScript. Each luminary responds accordingly, with Hemingway getting straight to the point and Shakespeare beating around the bush.

Lapka

Roving Mars, sharks, sexy food, Hemingway's take on JavaScript and more in our weekly look at the web

As official sponsor of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, Volkswagen created an underwater shark cage in the shape of their iconic VW bug. Built from the ground up, the open-air Beetle Shark Cage can be driven on the ocean floor courtesy of four wheels and a set of rear propellers.

Mars Panorama

Roving Mars, sharks, sexy food, Hemingway's take on JavaScript and more in our weekly look at the web

Aiming to do more than extend battery life and liven internal speakers, Lapka is an iPhone accessory that acts as a “personal environment monitor.” The wood-and-plastic components can measure humidity, temperature, radiation and electromagnetic frequency—though the most interesting feature is likely the “organicity” probe that tells users whether or not their food is organic based on the amount of nitrate levels detected.