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Awesome F-35B Video Shows US Marines Already Have Transformers

While we have seen glimpses of how the F-35B-the short take-off vertical landing variant of the F-35 Lightning II-works, here’s an amazingly detailed video showing its transforming capabilities in flight, which was posted anonymously in YouTube last week. According to Flight Global, this sophisticated war machine-which is now in its testing phase-won’t see real action…

The Horde Makes Mobster Zombie Pie And Feast III Details

Welcome back! This week, we’ve got the first storyboard still from Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher’s film La Horde (The Horde) which puts together, cops, robbers, zombies and skyscrapers. The image is fantastic and in full below. Plus footage John Gulagers’ Feast III has been screened and it’s got three times the blood and guts…

We Saw This Asteroid Coming from a Mile Away

Click to viewWith all the hullabaloo about giant asteroids that could destroy us, we tend to forget the little guy. Luckily, NASA’s Catalina Sky Survey has it covered. Last Monday, CSS astronomers caught sight of an incoming object zooming toward the Earth, and by the time of the asteroid’s impact on Tuesday, NASA engineers had…

Would You Let These People Into Your League of Evil?

Did Joss Whedon and co really know what they were letting themselves in for when they invited fans of Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog to apply to join the Evil League of Evil by posting audition videos to YouTube? The answer may be yes – but that doesn’t stop us being surprised, amused and in some…

Black Silicon Discovery Could Change Digital Photography, Night Vision Forever

With the accidental discovery of “black silicon,” Harvard physicists may have very well changed the digital photography, solar power and night vision industries forever. What is black silicon, you say? Well, it’s just as it sounds. Black silicon. It’s what this revolutionary new material does that’s important, starting with light sensitivity. Early indications show black…

MacBook and MacBook Pro Repair Document Leaked, Confirms “Late 2008” Update

In case you needed more, here’s a proof that seems to completely confirm that—as expected—both the MacBook and MacBook Pro will be updated this Tuesday at the Apple MacBook 2008 event in Cupertino, where heads may be rolling after a PDF document referring to the “MacBook/MacBook Pro (Late 2008)” line was accidentally posted today in…

20-Foot-Long Lego Battlecruiser Can Probably Sink Oil Tankers

This is a 20-foot-long Lego model of the HMS Hood, a Royal Navy battlecruiser built in 1920 and sunk by the German Kriegsmarine Battleship Bismarck in 1941. This stunning piece of brick engineering, built to minifig scale, has a robotized mast and is actually bigger than the 16.4-foot-long Lego U.S.S. Harry S. Truman. Check the…

Spectacular Video of Jules Verne Apocalyptical Re-Entry

Here’s the video of the fiery re-entry of the Jules Verne Autonomous Transport Vehicle, the huge European Space Agency spacecraft that carried almost five tonnes of food, air, water and fuel on board the International Space Station. It was taken in high definition from a NASA’s DC-8 at 37,000 feet, 90 miles north of the…

Recycled Robots Refuse To Resort To Type

Last week, we told you about Nerdbots’ method of recycling, but they’re not the only ones making finding new things to do with yesterday’s debris – Jeremy Mayer is also finding new ways to turn trash into a particularly beautiful robotic art.Mayer has been making sculptural robots out of typewriters for more than a decade…

America Can’t Help But Fall For Zombies

The box office hit of the weekend is definitely Quarantine, which took the top spot on its first day of release with a $5,350,000 haul, despite showing on fewer screens than its closest competition (Disney’s Beverly Hills Chihuahua; Quarantine earned $2174 on average per screen, against $1398 per screen for the little dog movie). Don’t…

$56,000 Four Arm Turntable is an Octopus DJ’s Ticket to Fame

DJs or other beat mashing fiends with more than two arms are being held back by today’s traditional turntables, so it’s a good thing Highwater Sound is around to create $56,000 four arm Frankensteins like this thing. The table is built around a TW-Acoustic Raven AC and implements three motors. The arms were assembled from…

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Computer Nearly Passes Turing Test for Artificial Intelligence

Today, the machines became a little smarter, as a computer named Elbot managed to achieve a 25% success rate when convincing a human being that they were talking to another human. The experiment is called the Turing Test, after mathematician Alan Turing, and Sunday’s saw six Artificial Conversational Entities (ACEs) trying to ace the exam.…

My Own Worst Enemy Fails To Live Up to Admittedly Meager Expectations

My favorite episode in the 10-year run of Alfred Hitchcock’s famous anthology series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, is “The Case of Mr. Pelham.” It concerns a man being stalked by a person who he believes to be his double. By turns frightening and utterly insane, the drama builds with just a few sets and actors. And…

AirPod is Like a Smart Car Full of Hot Air, and That’s the Idea

This post is almost half a Retromodo, in that compressed air cars have been peddled by companies like MDI for the last 20 years. But this compressed air-powered pod, the AirPod, is all new. The three-seater is powered by MDI’s proprietary compressed air system, which uses electricity to force the air to power the engine’s…

5 Ways To Make Star Trek More Like Star Wars

So we’ve been told that the writers of next year’s Star Trek reboot want to “bring more Star Wars” to Gene Rodenberry’s brightly-colored vision of America’s interstellar tomorrow. But what does that actually mean? We’ve given it some thought and come up with five ways in which the crew of the Enterprise should model themselves…

CarTel Device Attacks Traffic Jams with Fleet of Networked Smart Cars

Researchers at MIT are using computer networks and cabbies to tackle a routine problem that I, personally, can attest to: Boston area traffic jams. Called CarTel (get it?), the system creates a network by way of cell phone-sized black boxes. The boxes currently sit on board 50 cars and taxis in the Boston area. Drivers…

The Alternate History of the Discovery of America

We all know that Leif Ericson beat Christopher Columbus to the New World, but Chris gets his own holiday because his voyage marks the beginning of Europe’s influence in the New World. But what if someone had beaten the Europeans to the punch? What if no culture ever developed the technology or drive to find…

Robot Prototype Finds, Attacks and Kills Breast Cancer Cells

Here’s one in the plus column for the looming robot uprising: a prototype developed by University of Maryland professor Jaydev Desai could one day diagnose, hunt, and destroy breast cancer cells all in one sitting, and in a much more efficient manner than we ham-handed human beings.The beauty of this prototype is that it can…

New MacBook 2008 Alleged Aluminum Case Photos Hit the Web

Chinese blog MacX is showing some very legit looking pics of what they allege is the MacBook Pro casing today. We will have to wait for the MacBook 2008 event this week to see if it is real or not, but they are crystal clear and in line with both series of previous leaked images.…