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One Day You’ll Tell Your Grandkids of a Time When Chewbacca Crocs Didn’t Exist

With a new Star Wars movie on the horizon, the next few months are going to be an overwhelming onslaught of merchandising. But thankfully we’ve already hit rock bottom now that you can buy fur-lined Chewbacca Crocs—and not just in kid sizes. Available in up to a size 13, the only one who won’t be…

One of History’s Great Polymaths Shows Us the Wisdom of Owning Our Mistakes

Pierre-Simon Laplace lived from 1749 to 1827 and was busy the entire time. He wrote books, worked in politics, and figured out the secrets of the universe. One of those secrets he quietly withdrew from later copies of his books. Pity. If you read the later copies of Pierre-Simon Laplace’s famous work, The System of…

This Video of a Soyuz Redocking at the ISS Is Better Than Any Scifi Film

The Russian Space Agency published this stunning video a few weeks ago, showing how a Soyuz spacecraft dedocks at the International Space Station—from the perspective of the spacecraft. The sped-up footage below was shot on November 1, 2013, and shows the redocking maneuvers of the Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft from Research Module “Rassvet” to Service Module…

You Might Not Want To Hold Your Breath For George Miller’s Man Of Steel 2

Quentin Tarantino still wants to make a science fiction film. American Horror Story: Hotel finally drops some story details. Plus, new information on Agents of SHIELD season 3, Teen Wolf’s midseason twists, and why Felicity doesn’t have a code name on Arrow. Behold, spoilers! Man Of Steel 2 The recent rumors that George Miller might…

A Superman Toy On a Flying Drone Is More Entertaining Than Man of Steel Was

Sorry, Zack Snyder, your $225 million take on Krypton’s favorite son can’t hold a candle to this fun aerial footage of a Superman figure attached to Barry Craig’s flying Phantom 3 drone. Following suit, who will be the first to strap an Aquaman figure to a remote control submarine so we can experience what it’s…

AMD’s Powerful New R9 Nano Graphics Card Fits In Small Places

This year, I bought myself an Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 graphics card. It was time to upgrade. And I was pleasantly surprised to find I could buy a mini version of one of the best cards ever made. Now, I can potentially fit my beefy gaming PC into a console-sized case. But a new card…

Is Star Wars: The Force Awakens being set up for disappointment? You may have seen Deadline’s report claiming the film will obliterate box office records. Exciting stuff, but Scott Mendelson over at Forbes breaks down just how unlikely that is, and why such predictions might make success look like failure.

This Map Shows the Worst Roads for Drinking and Driving

Driving under the influence isn’t a good idea on any stretch of road, but if you’re heading off to drive the I-90 in Montana after a few shots, better make sure your will is up to date. The map was assembled by Avvo, using data from the NHTSA’s Fatal Accident Reporting System — specifically, road…

I Need LG’s Foldable Keyboard In My Life

“Hello, LG? Yes, this is Luke. Go ahead and take as much of my money as it takes to get this keyboard-based sorcery into my travel bag.” Folding keyboards are nothing new, but this is actually really special. It folks itself after each row of keys, so combined with the controller and built-in stand it…

This Charging Station Might Help My Cable Nightmares

Tangled cables are an unfortunate staple of my life, thanks to the five different devices I have to juice up every night. Until good wireless charging is a thing, I suspect that will never change; but this USB hub with its neat cable-management system might stave off insanity a little longer. The Fishbone, currently just…

Canon’s EOS M3 Is Its Latest Shrug of a Shot at Mirrorless in the US

Canon’s original EOS M was a disaster. Two years later, the company is pushing its third generation compact mirrorless camera into the US, six months after swearing the little shooter wouldn’t come to America. Why should anyone care? No manufacturer has been slower to develop mirroless interchangeable-lens cameras than Canon, but as DSLR and point-and-shoot…

Amazon’s Gadget Lab Is Secretly Building These Three Things

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon’s Lab126—makers of the Kindle, Fire Phone, and Amazon Echo—is laying off dozens of engineers. That’s a shame. Some consolation: now we can hear about the gadgets they were secretly building! Here are the projects still brewing in Amazon’s Silicon Valley lab, according to the WSJ report: 1.)…

Here’s a Drawing of a Guinea Pig on a Skateboard From 1899

I don’t know what to tell you. It is what it is. As always, the British Library’s flickr gallery of public domain images is a delight. There are over ten thousand pages of things to sift through. This is “Image taken from page 152 of ‘Lilliput Lyrics … Edited by R. Brimley Johnson. Illustrated by…

Here’s What Microsoft’s Next Big Phones Might Look Like

Windows Phone enthusiasts have been waiting years — in mobile phone time, decades — for the launch of a new flagship device that can go toe-to-toe with the iPhones and Galaxies of the world. Well, thanks to the @evleaks Twitter account, we’ve got a good look at the two new Lumias Microsoft is supposedly announcing…

How Your New Favorite Star Wars Character, BB-8, Went From Concept To Set

From the moment we saw it rolling across the sand in the first teaser trailer, we’ve all been fascinated by BB-8. The new droid who’ll be palling around with the characters in Star Wars The Force Awakens is unique, adorable, and now we know its story. The official Star Wars website has posted a long,…

Engineering Students at Purdue Can Take a Class In Hyperloop Design This Fall

The Hyperloop is not real. But that won’t prevent it from being taught at institutions of higher learning. Now Purdue University is offering a Hyperloop Design course through its three engineering programs. The first class was yesterday and apparently 54 students showed up. The course is being offered at an interesting time in Hyperloop’s development.…

Almost None of the Women in the Ashley Madison Database Ever Used the Site [Updated]

When hacker group Impact Team released the Ashley Madison data, they asserted that “thousands” of the women’s profiles were fake. Later, this number got blown up in news stories that asserted “90-95%” of them were fake, though nobody put forth any evidence for such an enormous number. So I downloaded the data and analyzed it…

Twin Jet Nebula is a Marvelous Cosmic Butterfly

Deep space is a wonderland of strange and awe-inspiring sights, but few astronomical curiosities match the exquisite beauty of the Twin Jet Nebula, a dying, binary star that looks like a pair of iridescent butterfly wings. The image above, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and released to the public today, shows off the remarkable…

In 1979, An Entire Science Class Went ‘Berserk’ After Being Hypnotized

The bizarre case has gotten new attention thanks to a new Discovery+ documentary, The Devil's Academy .