24Hz Sound Wave + Video + Water = Insane Optical Illusion
Video is just as capable of forming optical illusion as ink-and-pen drawing or photography. Like, for example, the latest video from Brusspup, an experienced optical illusionist. This time he’s created...
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The Phaser Has Officially Been Invented. Sadly No Redshirts Were Killed.
You could probably get a graduate thesis out of this image. Also, phasers are real now. Sorta. It turns out that the phaser is actually a sound-based device. Who knew? Also it’s really tiny. OK, we’re...
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos May Have Found Apollo 11’s Rocket Engines
You’ve likely seen them countless times on video: The rocket engines that drove America to space and even to the moon, the F-1 engine. But you’ve never seen the actual engines themselves. They were...
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Course Of The Force Relays A Lightsaber To San Diego Comic-Con
Good news, fans of sick kids getting their wishes granted: A bunch of dedicated Star Wars fans will be doing a relay race to raise money for Make-A-Wish again this year. The original Course of the...
View ArticleToddler Survival Horror Game ‘Among The Sleep’ Goes To Kickstarter
A while back we told you about Among The Sleep, a survival horror game told from the perspective of a toddler. Apparently it’s hard for an original idea to get privately funded, so they’re going to...
View Article‘Batman: Arkham Origins’ Gets A Trailer For Its Trailer
Remember when teaser trailers were trailers, instead of being sources for teasers to the teaser trailer, because the teaser trailer is usually leaked once the teaser trailer for the teaser trailer goes...
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Come With This Life-Sized Lego Terminator If You Want To Live
Nerds love Lego. And while this isn’t quite the achievement of a life-size X-wing out of Legos, this Lego Terminator all the more impressive for being something these guys did in their spare time....
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Dad Builds Complete 737 Flight Simulator In His Son's Room
Laurent Aigon is not a flight engineer, or a pilot. He’s a waiter, but he has a young son who’s obsessed with airplanes and Aigon is an airplane fan himself. So Aigon built him a fully functioning...
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Phonebloks Is A Modular Phone Concept With An Odd Ad Campaign
One of the problems with smartphones is that they’re inherently disposable. They’re simply not built to last more than two years, because at the end of the two year cycle, you buy a new phone. But how...
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Reddit Spotted The Granddaddy Of All ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ Easter Eggs
A Redditor has spotted the granddaddy of easter eggs in the “Predator” mission of Grand Theft Auto V. Don’t look at anything below the cut if you don’t want it spoiled for you. Still there? Cool....
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Here’s A Guitar Designed To Be Played One-Handed
Ben Heckendorn, better known as Ben Heck, is a beloved modder and engineer among nerds, mostly for his hobby of cramming game consoles into portable spaces. But in recent years, Heck’s turned his...
View ArticleChristian Bale talks Bat-kid and the ongoing legacy of Batman
It was hard to avoid mention of the Bat-kid online this weekend, and for good reason. It was an enormously sweet story with some amazing images available, a pretty great combination. Earlier today, I...
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Meet Cubli, The Cube That Walks
We joke about robots a lot around here, but often the scientific advances are more impressive for their implications than their ability to make confounding YouTube videos. Fortunately, the Cubli...
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NASA Has Discovered A Bizarre Mystery Rock On Mars
Opportunity was supposed to spend three months poking around the surface of Mars and showing us some stuff before breaking. That was ten years ago. It’s been trundling along, exploring the surface and...
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Celebrate The 30th Anniversary Of ‘Ghostbusters’ With This Very Important...
For those unfamiliar with it, the LEGO CUUSOO project allows us regular Joes to dream up our wildest LEGO creations and pitch them to the entire LEGO-loving community for approval. Once a design gets...
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Whee! Two Fun-Loving Dogs Took Their Owner’s Truck On A Joyride
Two Tulsa, Oklahoma dogs, Roscoe and Luna, went on a super fun joyride earlier this week when their owner left them unattended in his pickup truck for 15 minutes. One of the dogs somehow managed to...
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Another Reason Why Dogs Are The Best: Meet This Golden Retriever That Saved...
Getty Image Otis Orth, a 52-year-old Trapper Creek, Alaska resident, owes his life to his two-year-old Golden Retriever, Amber, after a snowmobile crash left him unable to move Sunday afternoon. Orth...
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NASA Wants You To Vote On The Z-2 Spacesuit Design
It’s your tax dollars at work when we fling highly trained pilots/scientists into the cold, terrifying void of space, so the least NASA can do is let you vote on how they look. Hence, NASA is looking...
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DEKA Arm, The Mind-Reading Prosthetic Limb, Is Approved For American Consumption
Via Flickr/MilitaryHealth Dean Kamen will go down in infamy as the inventor of the Segway, but in truth his inventiveness has saved a lot of lives. It was Kamen who invented the first drug infusion...
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The Sun Never Sets On The First Vine From Space
Via Flickr/NASA Vine is a social network that exists mostly to show us short clips of dogs and Will Sasso vomiting up citrus. But it can also be used for sheer beauty, as the first Vine from space...
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