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Why Platinum Will Be Worth More Than Gold In An Automobile Dystopia

We know that in a Mad Max type of dystopia, people will need “guzzoline,” water, and a way to avoid poisons. The good news? Platinum can, and currently does, provide all three of those. Here’s why people will be killing each other for jewelry after the collapse of civilization. When a car burns fuel, it…

The New X-Files Series Could Include A Sequel To A Classic Episode

Robert Kirkman teases a new Fear the Walking Dead character. R. L. Stine talks monsters in the Goosebumps movie. Star Trek 3’s focus is on new worlds and new aliens, rather than referencing the past. Plus even more returning characters on Heroes Reborn, and new Mission Impossible footage. Behold, Spoilers! Goosebumps R. L. Stine teases…

Legoizer makes free instructions that turn any photo into Lego mosaics

Lego murals can look amazing, but for the inexperienced it can be difficult to know where to start. Fortunately, Legoizertakes any digital image and turns it into a grid that you can create from Lego bricks—along with a shopping list and instructions to make the whole process super easy. For free! The website’s simple: upload…

You Might Not Believe This Beautiful Satellite Image Is 50 Years Old

This stunning image of the Florida Straits and Grand Bahama Bank — with its bright blue waters, moody grey seas and fluffy white clouds — looks like the kind of image NASA may publish on any given week. In fact, it was taken on June 4th 1965. The image was captured by the Gemini IV…

Periscope now has a map view to help you find broadcasters based on location, which might make it easier to find content that you’re actually, y’know, interested in.

Are Hospitals the Safest Place for Women to Give Birth?

There is a good chance that your grandparents were born at home. I am going to go ahead and assume they turned out fine, or at least fine enough, since you were eventually born too and are now reading this. But since the late 1960s, very few babies in the United Kingdom or the United…

Future Versions Of Chrome Will Kill Flash, In The Name Of Battery Life

It’s no secret that Google Chrome hogs RAMand battery life like an Overly Attached Browser. In an effort to reduce the strain on your poor overwhelmed laptop, Google is introducing a feature that will auto-pause ‘unimportant’ Flash elements on a webpage. Hell yes. In a blog post, Google’s Tommy Li, a Software Engineer and Power…

Microdia Somehow Fit 512GB Onto A MicroSD Card

MicroSD cards are ridiculously, laughably, annoyingly tiny. (No, seriously: they’re small enough to be stolen by three slightly strong ants.) They’re about the same size of your baby fingernail, only with half a terabyte of storage now crammed in there. CNET spotted the packaging for a 512GB microSDXC card from Microdia at Computex. Microdia is…

This ISS to Earth ‘Handshake’ Was First Space-To-Ground Remote Control

Humankind has remote-controlled plenty of objects in space before, but up until this week, no space-to-ground control —a vital component in mankind’s future invasion of other planets—had happened. The demonstration of remote control was conducted by ISS astronaut Terry Virts and the ESA this week, and was pretty basic: Virts moved a joystick on the…

Towers Proposed For Paris Would Be The World’s Tallest Wooden Structures

At first glance, the warm, luminous development proposed for a Paris site doesn’t look much different than any other mixed-use project rising in other cities. But this village of high-rises is unique in that it would be made completely from wood—even the 35-story tower at the center. If completed, the skyscraper named Baobab would be…

The Army Is Finally Releasing Its New, Old Camo Design

It’s been more than a decade since the Army adopted its first pixelated camo pattern—it was the start of the Iraq War, and the blocky digital pattern seemed to signal a new era of futuristic warfare. One problem: It didn’t work. At all. The fast realization that this pattern didn’t work led to something called…

Now Google Street View Can Take You Deep Under The Oceans

To celebrate World Oceans Day on June 8, Google has released a bunch of gorgeous new images of ocean life as part of its Street View feature in Maps. Now you can contemplate what it means, metaphorically, when your mapping app suggests that oceans are just as important as cities. Google recommends you check out…

The US Is Cutting Down Its Forests to Feed Europe’s Biomass Fuel Craze 

Since 2012, the US has held the title of world’s number one wood pellet exporter. What’s the big deal with wood pellets? Well, Europe has very keen on replacing coal with more environmentally friendly wood pellets—except, well, depending on who you ask, wood may not be that great either. The Washington Post has a fascinating…

Can an olympic cyclist cycle hard enough to toast bread?

It’s an easy joke to say that you can power your electronics by just getting on a hamster wheel or riding a bike but the truth is, it’s really, really tough to do in real time. And we’re not even Olympic athletes. German track cyclist Robert Förstemann is and even with his watermelon-sized thighs, he…

Maybe The Matrix Ruined Science Fiction Movies

The Matrix was a hugely influential film, which helped launch a million black-clad wuxia-fueled adventures. But maybe it had an even bigger impact? Josh Friedman, creator of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, suggests The Matrix ruined science fiction movies. Tomorrow sees the release of Sense8, the super-ambitious epic from the Wachowskis — so it’s perfect…

What’s The Worst Subscription That You Pay For?

Our Chatroom on cutting the cable cord got me thinking about our subscription culture. In recent years there has been an explosion of products delivered monthly in boxes, alongside a variety of streaming media paywalls. Some of us keep shelling out even when we don’t find the product to be that useful. What do you…

Assembling a huge Cat 797 dump truck is like building a mechanical giant

The CAT 797 mining truck is one of the largest haul trucks in the world and putting one together requires giant machinery that makes the truck look like a humungous Transformer or starship or alien planet station or mech or anything that’s comically oversized being built. The skeleton build out is cool to see that…

Make an Amazing Watermelon Slushy Using a Drill and a Coat Hanger

It’s summer. It’s hot. You need a drink that’s cold, refreshing, and very alcoholic. Grab a watermelon, a coat hanger, a drill, and a bottle of your favorite vodka and be prepared to absolutely crush all the other offerings at the barbecue. Thanks to our friends at Lifehacker, you now know how to make an…

SNORT Is Where NASA Engineers Destroy Next-Generation Parachutes

The fantastically-named Supersonic Naval Ordnance Research Track, or SNORT, is a naval facility in the heart of the Californian desert. It’s also where NASA engineers let their evil side run free by wreacking havoc on innocent objects, using a rocket sled to destroy prototype parachutes destined for Mars The Supersonic Naval Ordnance Research Track uses…

Riding a motorcycle on mirrored salt flats looks like flying in the sky

Here’s an awesome video from Speed Society that shows a motorcycle riding across the world’s largest salt flat, the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. The ground basically mirrors the sky which makes it look like the motorcycle is just gunning it through the clouds. Not a bad way to spend a day. SPLOID is delicious…