American Astronaut Reid Wiseman Continues To Dazzle Us With Vines From Space
Twitter When you’re in space and have access to social media, you can basically win the internet on a constant basis with breathtaking views of our planet. Since we posted the first Vine from space,...
View ArticleJohnny Depp’s Bizarre Speech From The Hollywood Film Awards Is Amazing
According to everything I’ve read to this point, the Hollywood Film Awards are a joke. Everyone from James L. Brooks to Ben Affleck were poking fun at it, but it was Johnny Depp who truly set the tone...
View ArticleThe World’s Luckiest Kid Is Now Swinging From This Life-Sized Groot Swing
Via Tumblr According to Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, there’s a new reality show entitled Super Fans Super Builds coming soon. He wasn’t clear about which network it will appear on or...
View ArticleFive Sci-Fi Technologies That Became Reality At CES 2015
Trimark The great thing about the future is that it is constantly arriving. What’s fiction now will be reality with shocking speed. And the Consumer Electronics Show is proof; here are five...
View ArticleThis Seven Year Old Got A Badass ‘Stars Wars’-Themed Prosthetic Arm
YouTube What the people over at E-NablingTheFuture do is nothing short of miraculous. We have spoken of their altruistic awesomeness before, and here we are again with another story that will rekindle...
View ArticleScience Researching Your Bladder’s Wolverine-Like Healing Factor
“It would have been nice to know that before I got fired and went to jail. Just sayin’.” While it’s unlikely your bladder will grow a funny haircut anytime soon, it does manage a fairly neat stunt...
View ArticleScience Researching Your Bladder’s Wolverine-Like Healing Factor
While it’s unlikely your bladder will grow a funny haircut anytime soon, it does manage a fairly neat stunt your other organs can’t. It can lose approximately 75% of its mass and grow back, complete,...
View ArticleScience Builds A Tractor Beam. Well, Kinda.
The humble tractor beam doesn’t get nearly as much credit as the transporter and the phaser in terms of “Star Trek technology” everybody knows, but it actually turns out to be a lot more feasible than...
View ArticleDoctor Sonic Has A New Take On Your Favorite Marvel Characters
Many, many image blogs are fun, but goofy, whether they’re bad superhero cakes or the Avengers being unable to text. Doctor Sonic, on the other hand, is quite literally art. Everything the good Doctor...
View ArticleFamous Pop Culture Gunmen Wielding Zappers? Famous Pop Culture Gunmen...
Kent Sheely has a dream. A dream of taking famous movie stills, and replacing them with Nintendo Zappers. And he’s pretty far along in achieving that dream. What’s most impressive about these, beyond...
View ArticleHere’s The Creepiest/Greatest Ad For An Air Conditioner You’ve Ever Seen
It’s time to play everyone’s favorite game: Argentinian air conditioner ad, or short film by Charlie Kaufman? OK, so, if you read the title, you already know that this is not a (credited) Charlie...
View ArticleMarine Walks 5000 Miles Across Asia Using Only Google Maps
Today in inspiring and somewhat nerdy stories: meet Winston Fiore, a man who, using only Google Maps and apparently bottomless reserves of badass, walked 5000 miles to raise money for charity. Fiore is...
View ArticleAn Astronaut Has The Best Twitter Response To William Shatner Ever
Meet Commander Chris Hadfield. He’s a bitchin’ guitarist, as you can see, and also a Canadian astronaut. Yes, Canada has astronauts. Why wouldn’t it? He was launched back in December to the...
View ArticleThe U.S. Military Is Officially Installing Laser Weapons Into Fighter Jets
Laser weapons have been genuinely viable for a while, but they’ve been huge, heavy, and largely designed to destroy missiles while being schlepped around on a 747. No, what DARPA is going to start...
View Article'Big Ass Spider!' Is The Sensitive Drama It Sounds Like
It’s hard not to have an affection for giant insect movies. Granted, we’re not generally talking classics of film here, but then again, you don’t show up to a burger joint and complain about the lack...
View Article'Presidential Monsters' Turns Historical Figures Into Actual Nightmares
Many would argue you need the mindset of a monster to become a politician. So why not mash up famous presidents and Universal movie monsters? That seems to be the thrust of the Presidential Monsters...
View ArticleScience Makes The Spider-Sense A Reality
Spider-Man’s “spider-sense” may be a power that changes depending on the writer, but it is an actual “power” that insects have to some degree: The ability to sense oncoming forces and skitter out of...
View Article24Hz 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...
View ArticleThe Phaser Has Officially Been Invented. Sadly No Redshirts Were Killed.
It turns out that the phaser is actually a sound-based device. Who knew? Also it’s really tiny. OK, we’re fudging a little bit, here. The phaser in question is not a handheld directed-energy weapon, at...
View ArticleAmazon 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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