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When You Wish Upon A Star: The Most Gorgeous Cosplay From D23, Day One!

This weekend is D23, a huge celebration of all things Disney. Which now includes Star Wars and Marvel, thanks to the mighty age of corporate mega-mergers. So not surprisingly, the costumes at D23 are pretty damn stunning. Check out a selection of D23 cosplay from photographer Davann Srey, whose work we’ve featured before. Check out…

Watch a Guy Slack Line Between Two Cliffs a Thousand Feet off the Ground

Notorious ninja man Spencer Seabrooke has reportedly broken the world record for longest solo slack lining walk. On August 2nd, Seabrooke crossed a 210-foot gap between two cliffs in British Columbia nearly a thousand feet above the ground — with no safety aids whatsoever. Videographer Zachary Moxley used a drone to shoot the entire event…

This Patch Delivers Drugs When You Flex Your Skin

Doctors have been trying to find simpler and more convenient ways of giving patients drugs for years. Now a team of researchers at North Carolina State University has just developed a device that’s about as hassle free as can be: It looks like a bandaid, and it releases drugs automatically when the skin flexes and…

Working for Amazon Sounds Utterly Soul Crushing [Updated]

Amazon factories, with their insane, round-the-clock delivery schedules, are notoriously hellish places to work. But life at corporate Amazon isn’t exactly a picnic, either. Here, CEO Jeff Bezos’ terrifying workplace manifesto permeates every aspect of life. In a fascinating exposé that interviews more than 100 current and former Amazon employees, The New York Times paints…

Behold The Glorious, Glorious Official Poster For Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Sure, we’ve had teaser trailers and cast announcements and all that hooplah, but it doesn’t really start to sink in that Star Wars: The Force Awakens is nearly here until you get a lovely big movie poster—and here’s the one shown off at D23, looking rather fantastic. This poster, with art from Drew Struzan—who designed…

What Alien Or Droid Is Alan Tudyk Playing In Star Wars: Rogue One? [Updated]

Here’s your first image of the cast from Gareth Edward’s Star Wars film, Rogue One. And it turns out that Firefly’s Alan Tudyk is playing a “performance capture” character in the film. Time to start speculating: Is he an alien, or a droid? Or something else? With the above picture, Lucasfilm has confirmed the cast…

Jurassic World‘s Colin Trevorrow Will Direct Star Wars Episode IX

At the D23 Expo, Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn announced that Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow will direct Star Wars: Episode IX, which is set to be released in 2019. Here’s the official press release from Disney: Today at D23, Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn announced that writer-director Colin Trevorrow will direct Star…

Serial Box Aims To Reinvent Storytelling For The Web

There’s a new start-up company out there that’s looking to reinvent how stories are told on the web: by publishing high-quality fiction serially. From all indications, Serial Box has a pretty incredible lineup of stories coming in the next couple of months. Founded by Julian Yap and Molly Barton in New York City, Serial Box…

Are These the First Official Images of the Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens Sets?

Twitter feed Star Wars Forever has somehow managed to dig up what appears to be official box shots for seven of the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens Lego sets that will presumably be available ahead of the film’s release in December. The sets include the updated version of the Millennium Falcon with its new…

Look At How Science Fiction Maps Out Our Future World

Over on Brain Pickings, Maria Popova writes about a timeline created by designer Giorgia Lupi, who mapped out how novels, short fiction and comics have imagined the future and where we’re headed. The map includes details about the distance between the book’s publication and the years that it imagines, and how said future is depicted.…

Explore the Microscopic World With These Gorgeous Scientific Puzzles

The microscopic world is beautiful and fascinating, but those of us who aren’t molecular biologists rarely get to appreciate it. If you need a little more microscopic flair in your life and on your coffee table, you might want to check out these gorgeous, scientifically-accurate puzzles. These computer-generated, laser-cut wood jigsaw puzzles were put together…

The Best-Ever Bitcoin Cannabis Drone Entrepreneurs in San Francisco

It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in San Francisco’s Dolores Park and kids on gyroscopic single-wheeled skateboards seemed to float uphill. I sat next to the “Fuck the techies!” graffiti, waiting to score some weed. But my eyes weren’t on the park — they were on the skies. Because I was about to get a…

States looking to slash carbon pollution and meet reduction goals in Obama’s new Clean Power Plan: It might be time to double down on wind. According to a new report by the DOE, the price of wind energy has hit an all-time low in the US, dropping below 2.5 cents / kilowatt hour for the…

As major fantasy epics like Lord of the Rings and A Song of Ice and Fire have become incredibly popular, their science fiction equivalents haven’t. Salon speculates that that might change for Dune, given its reputation for focusing on ecology and environmental issues.

Here’s How to Call the International Space Station

Last week, amateur radio enthusiast Adrian Lane sent a call signal to the International Space Station. To his shock and delight, he got a reply. He chatted with an astronaut for about 45 seconds before the station went out of range. Lane’s brief “phone call” with an actual astronaut in space garnered international media attention,…

Here’s How Firefly Would Have Looked As Pulp Novels

Upper Deck is putting together a set of Firefly trading cards, and artist Robert Jimenez is one of the artists involved. He’s put together some stunning cards of Joss Whedon’s series in pulp form. Jimenez noted that when Upper Deck was bringing on artists to draw up some Firefly cards, it was an opportunity to…

Epic Lego Hyrule Castle Took Zelda Superfan Two Years to Build

Lego builder and Zelda superman, Joseph Zawarda spent an insane 2 and a half years building the Hyrule Castle from the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. The19-year old recently unveiled his massive creation at Virginia’s BrickFair this August. The lego castle is so huge it takes two cars to move it. A few specs: The…

England is Exploring Electric Car Charging Lanes

One of the biggest concerns with electric vehicles is whether they’ll be able to hold enough juice to get you from A to B. But what if we didn’t have to worry, because we could charge our cars on the highway? England will soon be pilot-testing tech that could lead to EV charging lanes. Later…

Star Wars Set To True Detective’s Credits Is Pretty Fantastic 

One of the best parts of True Detective has always been the fantastic opening credits: the double exposure and mix between characters and landscapes is eerie and very beautifully executed. When set to imagery from Star Wars? It’s pretty fantastic. Star Wars doesn’t exactly inspire a the same feeling of gothic mystery that True Detective…

The U.S. Embassy in Havana Is a Perfect Metaphor for American Diplomacy

John Kerry watched a soldier hoist the American flag over the United States Embassy in Havana on Friday morning. He’s the first secretary of state to visit the land of Castro, communism, and cigars in 70 years. The embassy itself, an acclaimed example of midcentury modern architecture, has been rotting for just as long. In…