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We’re Dying to Enter the Gorgeously Bizarre World of The Lobster 

Imagine a dystopian world where single people—like Colin Farrell’s recently divorced architect—are forced to find a new mate in just 45 days. If they don’t, they suffer the fate of being turned into an animal (bright side: they get to choose the animal!) That’s the premise of The Lobster, which looks absolutely nuts. Naturally, we…

Glowing Antineutrino Map Shows How Radioactive the Earth Is

It’s often said that we know less about Earth’s deep interior than we do about the surface of Mars (or at this point, maybe even Pluto). A new global map of subatomic particles called antineutrinos is helping to change that. It’s showing scientists just how radioactive our little Blue Marble is. The neutrino and its…

Stare This Talking Yoda In the Eyes and You’ll Never Be Able To Look Away

We’re not seeing a lot of new Yoda toys this Force Friday, and that’s probably because we all remember the character dying during The Return of the Jedi. There is one, though, and with its intense set of animated eyes it will stare deep, and uncomfortably, into your soul. But leaving you feeling chilled and…

New Star Wars Crap That Makes Me Want to Cut My Hand Off With A Lightsaber

Happy Force Friday! Today’s the official day that new Star Wars merchandise begins spewing forth from Lucasfilm and Disney. Too bad there are so many horrible The Force Awakens products floating around like Imperial garbage in a Death Star trash compactor. Have you seen a Force-disturbing Star Wars product that should be expedited to the…

You Can Never Count a Good GIF Party Out

Just when you think the GIF Party has been forgotten, or maybe ignored in all the Star Wars merchandise craziness, then you turn around and discover it was right behind you all along, getting schwifty with it! So join in, and tell us all your thoughts, your feelings and how your week was, all in…

Lasers, Body Armor, Conspiracies: The Momentum Trailer Looks Insane

We could all use a little more Olga Kurylenko in our lives, don’t you think? The former James Bond co-star has been the best thing about a few recent movies—and in her new movie, the sci-fi action film Momentum, she gets to kick a whole bunch of ass. And run. Run a lot. The film,…

Get the inside scoop on Star Wars’ hard-working model-makers! In honor of Force Friday, we’re hosting a giveaway of two copies of Sculpting a Galaxy: Inside the Star Wars Model Shop. To enter, you just have to sign up for the Insight Editions email list, and two winners will be chosen. Good luck, and may…

A Remote Control Walking AT-AT Is the Perfect Zero-Maintenance Pet

Who wants to be bothered walking a dog, changing a cat’s kitty litter, or cleaning a fish tank when all this remote control walking AT-AT needs is an occasional new set of nine batteries? It’s the perfect pet, and is guaranteed to never go crazy during a thunderstorm. At $130 it isn’t quite as cheap…

This Futuristic See-Through Fridge Is Finally Going to Be a Real Thing

Haier’s been teasing its Smart Window Refrigerator for a couple of years now, but it will finally hit stores in Europe and Asia next year. It’s a crazy invention. You walk up to the fridge, and motion sensor-powered lights illuminate the inside of the inside which you can see through the translucent door. The Wi-Fi-enabled…

The striking launch of a satellite

Here’s a wonderful photo from the US Navy showing their launch of a Mobile User Objective System communications satellite. The US Navy says the picture shows “a 5-meter payload fairing lifts off from Space Launch Complex-41”. I say the picture looks like it perfectly captures the idea of shooting for the stars. SPLOID is delicious…

The Best Star Wars Loot From Force Friday

OHHHHH hell yeah. Star Wars toys galore. Welp. May the Force be with your credit card. Our resident toy nerd Andrew Liszewski is sleeping off a long day of amazing coverage over on Toyland, but here are the very finest posts from the Force Friday haul. Pottery Barn’s Millennium Falcon Star Wars Bed Nerf’s Chewbacca’s…

Bloodsucking Bastards is the Office Horror Comedy We’ve Been Waiting For

Between What We Do in the Shadows and Bloodsucking Bastards, it’s an excellent time to be a fan of deadpan vampire comedies. The latter, which features Game of Thrones’ Pedro Pascal as the bloodthirsty new sales manager at a corporate office, boasts a clever script, a hilarious cast, and rivers of gore. What else do…

The Real Death Star Was Far Less Complicated Than This Perplexus Maze

It’s almost impossible to grasp how much design and engineering would be required to build a space station the size of a moon. But it’s probably still easier than navigating a tiny metal ball through the twists, ramps, and other obstacles inside this Death Star Perplexus maze. At $40 this Death Star version of the…

Two Teens Arrested for Sexting Each Other

Imagine getting arrested for flirting or foreplay. That’sthe nightmare scenariofor two North Carolina teens, who got slapped with felony charges for having a consensual sexually explicit SMS exchange. It all started when local police looked through the male teen’s phone for evidence involving a statutory rape case they are investigating (he is not the suspect,…

Video: A portrait of a chef opening a restaurant

Life and Thyme continues its excellent video series about food and chefs by taking a look at Chef Timothy Hollingsworth and his upcoming Otium restaurant. In this chapter, we see Hollingsworth take a visit to the fish market and cook a splendid looking dish while talking about what food and more importantly, passion means to…

German Chocolate Cake Isn’t From Germany and Everything You Believe Is a Lie

If you eat German chocolate cake, you might be under the impression that you’re eating a regional delicacy. What you’re actually eating is the remnants of a famously popular chocolate recipe, a brand name, and a Texan innovation. In 1852, Samuel German, an Englishman who came to Massachusetts, found work at a chocolate mill and…

A Foggy Morning Adds Surrealism to the Wonder of Spaceflight

November 30, 1982: A foggy morning before the inaugural flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger offered no hint to the troubles that would plague the mission. On top of an over two-month launch delay, a malfunction placed the shuttle in a too-low orbit for the first shuttle-based spacewalk and satellite deployment. Space Shuttle Challenger pierced…

The Steve Jobs Documentary Apple Doesn’t Want You to See

Remember when Steve Jobs abandoned his daughter and refused to pay child support despite being worth millions of dollars? Alex Gibney’s new documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, which hits theaters, iTunes, and VOD on Friday September 4th, is at once a study of the late visionary’s unrelenting optimism about the power of…

13 Ways That Science Fiction’s Vision of the Future is Closer Than You Think

Now that we’re reaching the date depicted in Back to the Future, there’s inevitably a lot of good-hearted ribbing about how we want our damn hoverboards. Plus where’s our flying cars? And so on. But while a few pieces of the science-fictional future have yet to materialize, plenty of others that are already here. The…

Kylo Ren Lightsaber Chopsticks Look Impossibly Uncomfortable To Hold

It might look cool in all the Star Wars: The Force Awakens teasers and trailers, but the tri-blade design of Kylo Ren’s lightsaber just doesn’t work elsewhere. Take these novelty chopsticks, for example, that look like the most uncomfortable thing you could ever try to hold in your hand. They probably work just fine for…