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What an insane 343x camera zoom would look like zooming in from 3 miles

In the future, we might be able to zoom in from an impossible far off distance and see a target like some insane sniper. Daniel Taylor made this simulation that shows what an extreme 343x super ridiculous zoom would look like and it’s crazy to imagine that this could be real. In the future, they…

A Cheap $6 Toothbrush With a Display That Reminds You To Replace It

Our dentists constantly remind us to replace our toothbrushes every 90 days so they’re most effective at battling plaque, but how often do we really remember to do that? To make it easier, Brush Buddies has created the 90 Day Brush featuring a timer and built-in LCD display that reminds users exactly when it’s time…

The first exoplanet ever discovered is now the first exoplanet ever observed in visible light. 51 Pegasi B, a super Jupiter located about 50 light-years from Earth, was detected by comparing the light bouncing off its highly reflective surface to the spectral signature of its host star. It’s hoped the new technique will lead to…

Harley Quinn’s Alter-Ego Is Getting An Action Figure For The First Time

In a industry of endless variant figures, I was honestly kind of surprised that Harleen Quinzel, the Psychiatrist that becomes Harley Quinn, has never had an action figure before — and yet, 23 years after her début, here we are: the toy for people who prefer craziness in a lab coat rather than a harlequin’s…

Apple Is to Tech as Star Wars Is to Movies. Just Think About It.

We’re right in the middle of simultaneous Apple and Star Wars product orgies, and it’s suddenly become clear to me why Apple and Star Wars are pretty much the same brand, only in different industries. They Were Born in the Geek Grassroots Before the days of Star Wars mania and Apple obsessives, entrepreneurs aimed to…

Build a pair of gravity-powered walking Lego animals

You usually see these kinds of gravity-powered walking toys made out of wood, but Jason Allemann has come up with a way to construct them out of Lego instead. And all you need to build your own walking duck and kangaroo is the proper Lego pieces, and the laws of the universe to still be…

Disney’s Film Slate Is Heavy With Sequels, Remakes, And Nostalgia 

It’s good to be Disney right now. Why? Because Disney owns everything you want to pay money to see, and their brand new slate should scare the hell out of all other studios. It’s not only impressive but basically a victory lap of remakes, sequels and Marvel blockbusters. Oh, and Star Wars, too. The new…

Project Fi: Google’s Plan To Fix Your Wireless Service Is Here

Google’s Project Fi is the company’s long-rumored wireless carrier service for mobile devices. But far from a traditional plan, Google’s might be the most flexible out there—while also saving you a bundle of money. Unlike Google’s other public infrastructure program Google Fiber, for which the company is physically putting fiber in the ground, Google isn’t…

Facebook’s Latest App Is a Dialer With Caller ID For Android 

Facebook’s quest to conquer your phone continues with Hello, a new dialer app that replaces the one that comes natively installed on your Android phone. And if you’re not partial to anything, it’s probably worth a try. Facebook’s endless app proliferation is tedious. (Tedious people call this proliferation “unbundling.”) But the new Facebook dialer app…

Surgeons Discover Woman’s Embryonic Twin Lodged Deep Inside Her Brain [Updated]

During a surgery to remove an apparent brain tumor in a 26-year-old woman, doctors in Los Angeles were shocked to discover an embryonic twin instead. Update: April 24, 2015: Some scientists are saying there’s no way this is an embryo or a twin. As LiveScience reports: Although these tumors can originate during embryonic development, they…

These Vases Are Actually Made From Liquified Smartphone Byproducts

It’s not something anyone likes to think about, but your smartphone—or your laptop, or the battery in your hybrid car—created a huge amount of toxic and radioactive waste. And now we know what happens to that waste in the long term. It returns to the earth, mingles with sludge, and finds its way into clay…

Why Game Of Thrones‘ Ygritte Is The Most Powerful Person On Westeros

What? You don’t believe that the lovely Wilding played by Rose Leslie could match the raw physical strength of, say, The Mountain Gregor Clegane? Please let YouTuber Lindybeige explain why Ygritte’ longbow skills prove she could tear the Mountains’ limbs off like they were fresh bread. [Via The AV Club]

Top 10 Most Horribly Mistreated First Wives In Gothic Fiction

In Gothic fiction, it never pays to be the first wife. The things these women go through are awful, and are made worse by the fact they usually end up as the backdrop of someone else’s story. Here’s our ranking of the 10 Gothic first wives who suffered the most — and what you can…

How I Finally Learned to Love 3D Printing

I started thinking about 3D printing, I mean really started thinking about it, in 2012. I was eking out an existence as a penny-pinching grad student at the time, so a $3,000 machine that squirts out hot plastic and builds frivolous knick-knacks wasn’t exactly fixated in my cerebrum. In September of that year, I picked…

So This Is What Space Coffee Brewed With Pee Looks Like

Good to the last drop! NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly has just posted this photo of a perfect ball of orbital coffee on Facebook. (And on Twitter. And on Instagram.) This tiny bowling ball is a large drop of freshly brewed espresso sitting peacefully at the end of a drinking straw in the form of an…

LA Is Turning Wazers Into Hit-and-Run Vigilantes

Waze works by requiring its users to manually report what they see on the road: traffic jams, potholes, speed traps. Now the City of Los Angeles will ask its Wazers to be vigilant about reporting one more thing: The vehicles possibly involved in hit-and-run collisions. Much like the Amber Alerts which are delivered to phones…

NECA’s Next Gigantic Pacific Rim Figure Is A Fabulous Striker Eureka

We’ve known for a while that Striker Eureka would be NECA’s next plus sized Pacific Rim toy — but now that the figure is hitting shelves next week, the company have released more pictures of the toy, and it’s looking rather lovely indeed. https://gizmodo.com/looks-like-striker-eureka-is-the-next-plus-sized-pacifi-1667179332 The 18” figure isn’t just packed with amazing details and a…

Anti-Vaccine Group Compares Vaccinations to Rape

An anti-vaccination group in Australia is facing backlash today over a Facebook post that claims vaccination is just like rape. The page, associated with the Australian Vaccination Skeptics Network, featured an image that’s offensive to pretty much anyone with eyes and the ability to read. The post showed a man holding his hand over a…

NASA Is Seriously Revving Up The Search For Alien Life

A few weeks ago, NASA chief scientist Ellen Stofan made news by saying, “I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years.” It was a bold statement, but NASA is now backing those words with…

Shooting Challenge: The World Has Eyes

We’ve all seen anthropomorphic objects. But what would it look like if everything around you had actual eyes and was looking at you? For this week’s Shooting Challenge, let’s find out. The Challenge Take a photo of a manmade object or element of nature on which you’ve added a pair of eyes. The Technique OK,…