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China Will Build the Tallest Building In the World in Just 90 Days (Updated)

According to its engineers, this will be the tallest skyscraper in the world by the end of March of 2013. Its name is Sky City, and its 2,749 feet (838 meters) distributed in 220 floors will grow in just 90 days in Changsha city, by the Xiangjiang river. Ninety days! It’s not a joke. According…

Nintendo Wii U Teardown Brings Lots of Good News for Consumers

Watch This Wedding Photographer’s Hair Catch on Fire (Because Apparently It’s Fun)

Photographer Jacki Bruniquel’s hair got too close to a candle and caught fire while shooting Murray and Emma Burton’s wedding ceremony. Thankfully, one of the groomsmen quickly ran after her to extinguish the flames and everyone started to laugh. Because, let’s admit it, people burning is fun. At least in South Africa. The moral of…

Apple says that they want to negotiate a global patent agreement with Google’s Motorola. Let’s hope it works out!

Video of Earth Painted by Atmospheric Particles Looks Like a Trippy van Gogh

We saw a still earlier this week, but this NASA visualization video is truly awesome. It shows how aerosols—fine particles suspended in air—travel around the world in a van Gogh-ish dance of color. This is what you are seeing here: https://gizmodo.com/nasas-beautiful-climate-picture-makes-you-forget-extrem-5960523 • The red tones represent dust dispersed by the wind, some coming from African…

That Steve Jobs Action Figure Just Got Even Creepier

Holy mother of Moof. Remember the ultra-realistic Steve Jobs action figure? I thought it couldn’t get creepier until its creators decided to make it pose on the arm of the full size Madame Tussauds’ Steve Jobs—which you can see here completely finished. https://gizmodo.com/the-latest-steve-jobs-action-figure-is-a-horrifying-mut-5957770 It also has a name now, according to what Legend Toys told…

What the Hell Is China Building Here?

Not happy with building mysterious gigantic structures in the desert, the Chinese are now building inter-dimensional portals in the middle of their cities. What the hell is this 515-foot (157 meters) high metal structure in the the city of Fushun, in northeast China’s Liaoning province? https://gizmodo.com/why-is-china-building-these-gigantic-structures-in-the-5859081 Oh wait, I know, it’s just another example of…

The Most Grotesque Fanless CPU Cooler I’ve Ever Seen

Official description: “The Zalman CNPS FX100-Cube is fanless and noiseless CPU cooler, which does not draw dust or generate vibration due to its passive operation.” Unofficial description: LOOK AT THIS FREAKING MONSTER HEATSINK! Made of copper and aluminum, this 1.94-pound (880 gram) cooling thingamajig works with 77W TDP (Thermal Design Power) processors, “including Intel’s i7-3770K.”…

This Is What a Shrink-Wrapped Space Shuttle Looks Like

I’ve seen the space shuttle in every possible way and angle. Even at the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. But I’ve never seen it completely shrink-wrapped, as if someone just ordered one from Amazon. Atlantis is now at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, where it arrived at the beginning of November. Since…

Terrorists Can Take Down an Entire City’s LTE Network for Just $650

According to a critical document filed with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, you can take down any LTE network with a simple $650 piece of gear. Every cellphone grid is vulnerable to this technique, including FirstNet, the emergency communications network designed after 9/11. According to the authors, “it’s relatively easy to do” by anyone.…

This Dubbed Delta Safety Video Is F*cking Hilarious

This deliciously absurd parody of Delta Airline’s safety video starts a bit slow, but it skyrockets into laughing my underpants off altitude in a few seconds. Please, you watch. To be honest, if the original announcement said something like “and ponies are not allowed unless they fight” I wouldn’t flinch. That video freaks the hell…

7 Deadly Crazy (But Fun!) Urban Ideas

Robert Rickhoff. You are a cruel bastard but I love you. Your sick Photoshop manipulations—from the slide that ends on a street to the half-pipe across a road to the volleyball court in a highway—are all great ideas. Keep them coming! [Robert Trickhoff—Thanks Karl!]

This May Be the First Confirmed Errant Planet Detected by Humans

This bright blue marble is CFBDSIR2149. Located only 100 light-years away from Earth, this lonely cyan gem may be the very first errant planet detected by humans. And apparently it’s quite beautiful, looking similar to Neptune* while being four to seven times as big as Jupiter. CFBDSIR2149—I’m just going to call it Melancholia, even if…

This Was the Real Political Map of America After the 2012 Election

This post from 2012 resurfaced after the 2016 election, so we’ve updated the headline in order to avoid any confusion. This is the real political map of the United States of America after the 2012 presidential election. A fascinating view, much different from the maps you saw that night, which showed an artificial, binary divide.…

This Lego Tesseract Starship Is Worth Its Own TV Miniseries

Lego fans are always making truly amazing models, but lately I’m getting obsessed by sci-fi creations, like the greatest Lego mecha I’ve ever seen. Or this formidable starship, called the Tesseract. It reminds me a bit of the old 70s and 80s spaceship illustrations by Chris Foss. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-greatest-lego-mecha-ive-ever-seen-5957729 While the Tesseract is not as bit…

Perpetual Energy Wasting Machine Is Nine Parts Absurd, One Genius

This is dumb. This is so goddamn dumb. Dumber than a bag of hammers. So dumb it’s making my ears bleed. Dumb, dumb, dumb. DUMB. But I love it. Perpetual energy wasting machine, I love you. [Thanks Karl!]

This Dream House Was Entirely Built Around a Giant Three-Story-High Bookshelf

I love this house, built in Rotterdam by Dutch architectural firm Shift. What a wonderful and perfectly executed idea: to build an entire four-story-high house around a gigantic bookshelf that goes across all floors. It really looks beautiful—and useful too. They call the project vertical loft.. It was part of the restoration of an old,…

Giant Smiley Discovered In Mercury

NASA scientists are having a lot of fun with Messenger, the spacecraft now orbiting Mercury. Not only they are documenting the planet at a resolution of 200 meters per pixel, but they are spotting all kinds of fun stuff. A few weeks ago it was the Sesame Street’s cookie monster. Today it’s a smiley crater.…

Watch the New Battlestar Galactica Series Right Here

There’s a new Battlestar Galactica series starting today. Called Blood & Chrome, it’s the first part of SyFy movie that will premiere next February. It looks like an action packed war and adventures movie. Update: it’s out. You can watch it above. The new series and movie follows the adventures of the young Admiral Adama,…

The Effect of College Education On the Presidential Election

These are—according to Fox Business data—the best and worst educated states in the United States of America, ordered by percentage of residents 25 or older with at least a bachelor’s degree in 2011. The table also shows how those states voted. Can you see any pattern? Perhaps there’s no correlation. Perhaps it is just a…