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Deals: 2015 City sets on sale at Amazon

Though these are brand new, just launching on January 1st, two of the City Swamp Police sets on sale at Amazon. The 707 piece Swamp Police Station (60069) is on sale for $79.99 (reg. $89.99) and 473 piece Crooks’ Hideout (60068) for $59.99 (reg. $69.99). Both of these sets are excellent builds and the two…

What Whitney Houston Would’ve Sounded Like As a Disco Queen

Oliver Nelson is a Swedish electronic music producer with a decidedly disco touch. Whitney Houston was an American singer with a decidedly golden touch. What happens when you combine the two? Magical things, I tell you. Almost exactly one year ago, Oliver Nelson uploaded his remix of Whitney Houston’s “How Will I Know.” It gives…

This Lego-inspired furniture shouldn’t just be for children

When you were a kid, did you ever imagine living in a house filled with Lego furniture? Well, thanks to the Lola Glamour, now you can—sort of. The Spanish designer has created a line of Lego-inspired furniture for kids. Of course, fun-loving adults are obviously allowed to buy it, too. The collection is all handmade…

3D Printing Your Own Lawn Mower Sounds Like a Great Idea Until It Fails

After building a garage-sized high-speed 3D printer called the Cheetah, Hans Fouche decided that he needed to actually print something useful to convince people to buy his new machine—especially given its $10,000 price tag. So as a proof-of-concept he created what has to be the world’s first—and quite possibly its last—3D-printed lawn mower. Surprisingly his…

There’s a Netflix For Vinyl Records Now 

Digital music sales have taken a dive, and meanwhile, vinyl is in the midst of a huge swell that probably won’t let up anytime soon. So what has 2015’s vinyl surge wrought? VYNL, or Netflix for records. The service is pretty straightforward, although rather than picking particular albums you want to rent, a la Netflix,…

Silicon Valley’s T.J. Miller and The Transporter Legacy’s Ed Skrein (he also was the first Daario Naharis on Game of Thrones) are rumored to be up for roles in the long-awaited Deadpool film. Anyone care to speculate wildly? I’m guessing Miller as his nerdy pal/tech guy Weasel and Skrein as… uh… Domino. [Via CBR]

Kepler Just Found the Most Earth-Like Exoplanets Ever Discovered

Kepler just can’t stop discovering exoplanets. Nearly two years after scientists said it was crippled, the planet-hunting telescope recently identified eight new planets. But that’s not all. They’re all in the Goldilocks zone of their respective stars, and two of them are more Earth-like than anything astronomers have ever seen. This is exciting. If you’ve…

You Can Now Buy Dell’s Incredible Android Tablet

Remember when Dell made Android tablets interesting again? Four months later, you can finally buy the Dell Venue 8 7000 tablet. While it’s still listed as “coming soon” on Dell’s website, Best Buy is now carrying the slate which wowed us with a beautiful screen, crazy camera, and ultra-thin chassis. It’ll set you back $400.…

Harman’s New Headphones Listen To Your Ears

At CES, Harman just announced a bold-looking new set of AKG headphones designed by Quincy Jones. The involvement of a musician who’s won 27 Grammys isn’t what’s most impressive, though. Harman says the AKG N90Q are “the world’s first headphone with personalized sound.” How does that work? The headphones literally listen to your ears and…

I Fought a Dragon In a Head-Mounted Holodeck

VR is coming, for real this time, and everyone wants a piece of the pie. Me, I want to put every dumb-looking headset I see onto my face. Today it was the Sulon Cortex, a big ol’ camera-toting headset that claims it’ll turn your living room into the holodeck. It can’t quite pull it off,…

A Whole Bunch Of Free Science Fiction And Fantasy To Download Right Now

If you’re looking for something fun to put on your Kindle or other e-reading device, Tor.com has just published their annual collection of some of their best stories. You can read them all for free on the web, sure, but now they’re in a handy free ebook. The stories include a lot of our favorite…

Oculus Brings 3D Audio To Virtual Reality, And It Sounds Great

Sorry folks, there’s no new version of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset at this year’s CES, and no word on when the fabled consumer version might appear. So why am I writing this post? The company has added 3D positional audio to its already mindblowing Crescent Bay demo, and it’s even better than before.…

Why Apple Could Leave Ports Behind

While rumors of a 12-inch MacBook Air have been merrily percolating these last few months, the most interesting aspect of Apple’s upcoming redesign turns out not to be the size after all. It’s the apparent abandonment of ports. As Cupertino Whisperer Mark Gurman showed today, the rumored redesign isn’t just a matter of size. Apple…

I must have this delicious burger with latke buns

I’ve spent almost a month out of the US eating the most delicious things, but right now all I want to put in my mouth is this delicious pornburger: Smokey shiitake mushrooms, caramelized onions, kimchi thousand island dressing, seared beef patty, swiss, and a couple of crispy root vegetable latkes as buns. Maximum drool age.…

One Man Recreated The Blizzcon Warcraft Trailer With Gorgeous Art

Last November, Blizzcon attendees were treated to a very special surprise – a trailer for Duncan Jones’ Warcraft movie, that no one but them got to see. Harumph. Good job artist Yanmo Zhang was there though, because he decided to recreate the whole thing shot for shot with some incredible art. Zhang, who was invited…

Stunning Andromeda galaxy photo clearly shows over 100 million stars

Overwhelmed. That’s how I feel when I zoom into this new panorama of the Andromeda galaxy. Yesterday it was the mind-blowing new photo of the Pillars of Creation. Today isthis view of Andromeda with over 100 million stars in it. Yes, that is not noise. Each of those dots is a star! You really have…

June 30 Will Be One Second Longer This Year, and That Could Be a Problem

Because Earth’s rotation is slowing ever so slightly, we occasionally need to add an extra second to re-sync our super-precise atomic clocks to our planet’s rotation. But you know who’s not on board with that? Those damn computers, whose operating systems just can’t handle it. The last time we added a leap second in 2012,…

Paul Revere’s 1795 Time Capsule Will Be Opened Tonight (Again)

People are understandably excited to see what’s inside Paul Revere’s time capsule when it’s opened tonight in Boston. The capsule was first interred in a cornerstone by Revere and Samuel Adams in 1795, and many news outlets are playing up the idea that the contents are a complete mystery. Except that it’s not. Because it…

2,400 MS-DOS Games Are Now Free Online (Some of Them Are Porn)

The Internet Archive just dumped nearly 2,400 old MS-DOS video games into an easy-to-navigate repository. Every single one of the games is free to play in your browser. Some of the games are classics. Some of them are hilariously obscure. And some of them are porn—which is something you probably didn’t realize existed on MS-DOS.…

David Cronenberg Says Rotten Tomatoes Is Wrecking Film Criticism

David Cronenberg, director of culty arthouse classics like Videodrome, The Fly and A History of Violence, says film criticism is no longer “effective.” And he blames sites like Rotten Tomatoes, that offer aggregate opinions rather than reasoned ideas. Photo by charles taylor via Shutterstock A movie critic’s job is to offer informed analysis of a…