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Star Trek Captain’s Chair Pool Float: Set Your Phasers To Fun In the Sun

Styled on the iconic captain’s chair that Kirk occupied during his time in command of the USS Enterprise, this inflatable pool float will undoubtedly make you feel more important than everyone else at the pool. So while you’re lounging around soaking up the sun, you can order others to get you drinks, fetch your towel,…

Get Ready for Oculus Rift to Deliver a “Christian Experience”

While some companies try to cash in with virtual reality porn, others are thinking about saving your soul. Most churches haven’t set up outposts in virtual worlds, but some future-focused Christian leaders are already imagining how tech like the Oculus Rift could change what it means to be part of a congregation. Photo: Emilie Ng…

Fit a Washing Machine in Your Apartment, with Help from Science

Washing machines aren’t sexy until you have to choose between two hours or 20 bucks to get your underwear clean. After nearly a decade of that racket, I’m not ashamed to admit I lust for laundry unit of my very own. As it turns out, science is hard at work helping my mundane wet dream…

The Game Of Thrones TV Show Is Gonna Start Killing New Characters Now

We have been warned. George R. R. Martin, with a cruel smile on his face, has announced that when the fifth season of Game of Thrones begins this April, it will be killing characters who don’t die in the A Song of Ice and Fire books (although it’s probably more accurate to say they haven’t…

Mold is surprisingly beautiful when you look at it up close

Russian photographer Nick Lariontsev made this cool time-lapse using macro lens to show how mold grows from up close. At this zoom level, something that normally disgust us transforms into a beautiful alien universe full of life. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Jony Ive’s Lightsaber and Other Stories From Inside Apple’s Design Lab

Apple gave The New Yorker’s Ian Parker unprecedented access to the company’s design lab this year, and what resulted was a fascinating and bizarre look at arguably the most influential designer of our age—whose reach even extends to the new Star Wars. The design studio inside Apple is “happily isolated, like a spa or a…

The Tiny Players On This Foosball Table Have Been Replaced With Air Jets

If the only strategy you ever really developed for Foosball involved wildly spinning your players until the ball somehow appeared in your opponent’s goal, Jet-Ball might be more up your alley. Those spindled soccer players have been replaced with a series of directional vents on the playing surface, and to move the ball around you…

What Extinct Animal Would You Most Like A Chance To See?

Dinosaurs may capture the most attention, but there are all kinds of strange, amazing, and gone animals — ranging from the Wooly Mammoth to giant armadillo Glyptodon —that are just as fascinating. Today, we want to know which one you most would have liked to see. Tell us in the comments which animal it was,…

30 Essential Shortcuts for Navigating Your Favorite Sites

It’s amazing the difference that a few keyboard shortcuts can make to your web surfing. We’ve picked out some of the most essential shortcuts for YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Outlook and Netflix to help you get more done in less time. If you already knew about all of these beforehand, then you have our everlasting…

Watch This Water Droplet Pulse And Form A “Star”

You’ll have heard of this effect in high school, but you probably haven’t seen this manifestation of it. It makes an ordinary water droplet pulse like it has a heartbeat. And sometimes, it makes the drop form into a pulsing star. If you were to know that the water droplet in the clip above is…

Which Member Of The X-Men Is Guest-Starring In Deadpool?

Orphan Black’s new season offers a look at what’s in store for the Clone Club. An alleged extra on The Force Awakens teases some Han Solo dialogue. Plus, news from Fox’s Minority Report show, Preacher and Supergirl. Lo, there are Spoilers in our midst! Top image: Orphan Black. Deadpool Now that this movie is actually…

Now Anyone Can Drive Hot Wheels’ Intimidating Darth Vader Car

If you’re still drooling over the C5 Corvette that Hot Wheels turned into the ultimate ride for Darth Vader, the company will finally let anyone take it for a spin. But not the original, that’s probably driven around by Hot Wheels’ CEO. The rest of us will have to settle for this remote control version…

Hot Toys’ Ben Kenobi Is An Elegant Figure For A More Civilised Age

That ‘Civilised Age’ being ‘that time where you can spend around $2-300 and get an eerily realistic doll of Sir Alec Guinness’, really. If that isn’t civilisation, I don’t know what is, frankly. Yes, it’s the turn of old Obi-Wan to get the luxurious treatment befitting the Jedi Master in Hot Toys’ line of Star…

Is This the Best-Looking Round Android Watch Yet?

LG outs a new Android Wear watch, Android is better than iOS (at least in this one way), and these One (M9) rumors seem more true than false. All this and more in today’s BitStream. LG’s G Watch R goes from sporty to spiffy While everyone wasn’t looking, LG took the opportunity late Sunday night…

Did this mad Russian really shoot his friend’s head to test a helmet?

This insane video shows a Russian guy shooting a pistol at his friend’s head to test the quality of the K6-3—a titanium helmet with bullet-proof glass used by Russian special forces. Some commenters think this may be fake. Many think it’s real. What do you think? If it is not real, it is an extremely…

This Arduino-Style Board Uses Intel’s 37-year Old 8086 Chip

Card-based computers keep getting more powerful, unless you’re Matt Millman. Because this chap has decided to build an Arduino-style board that’s powered by a giant of computing history – Intel’s 8086 processor, which is now 37 years old. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-raspberry-pi-a-turbocharged-quad-core-real-pc-1683199114 He explains that he “always thought it’d be cool to build a single board computer in…

How Many Sailors Does It Take to Change 111 Light Bulbs?

Three! In this picture, a small team of sailors replace 111 light bulbs on the super structure of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Reagan is currently homeported in San Diego, undergoing a Planned Incremental Availability (PIA) maintenance period at Naval Base Coronado. And serving as a punchline for our awful jokes.[Mass Communication…

Only Time Travel Can Make this Perfect BTTF DeLorean Arrive Any Sooner

For toy car collectors who prefer their miniature rides a bit larger than just a few inches long, the Hot Wheels Elite line has been churning out some incredibly detailed models. And at Toy Fair this weekend Mattel gave everyone a sneak peek at its upcoming take on the time-travelling DeLorean from the Back to…

Facial Recognition Code Could’ve Discovered Rare Anne Boleyn Portrait

When Anne Boleyn was executed in 1536, images of the queen were destroyed—leaving only one certain depiction of her in existence. Now, facial recognition software may have discovered another contemporary portrait of Boleyn. The only uncontested portrait of her is atop a battered lead disc, known as the Moost Happi medal, sitting in the British…

Get ready for the Star Wars cruise! Disney Cruise Lines will launch Star Wars Day At Seain 2016, filling their ships with Star Wars activities — including Mos Eisley-themed club night. So book your trip on Western Caribbean sailings, on the Disney Fantasy cruise ship, and for the few dates January through April 2016 that…