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People Might Actually Care Who You Are Thanks To This DIY LED Nametag

The next time you’re at a conference and forced to wear a humiliating nametag, swap that sharpied sticker for this LED badge you build yourself. The soft glow of its 50 red LEDs is sure to have your fellow attendees actually caring what your name is, what you do, and if you’re willing to make…

Fantastic New Look At Avengers: Age Of Ultron‘s Vision

Still pining away for a better look at Avengers: Age of Ultron’s Vision? Well you’re in luck, a new poster for the Avengers sequel has been revealed, and in it is a good look at our new robot friend, Vision! Spotted over at Comics Alliance, this promo art circulated first as a very purple-hued close…

The 9 Most Expensive Buildings Ever Aren’t What You’d Expect

Buildings are expensive but they’re nowhere near as expensive as incompetence, as we learned this week thanks to new revelations about the $4 billion price tag of the World Trade Center transit hub. In the process,we uncovered a list of the most expensive structures ever built—and some of them might surprise you. The building data…

You Won’t Care That This Stunning Bumblebee Figure Doesn’t Transform

Say what you will about Michael Bay’s Transformers movies, in the hands of the talented sculptors at 3A Toys, the re-imagined robots make for some truly impressive action figures. And when the figures look this great in robot form, who would possibly be disappointed that they don’t actually transform? At this point there’s no information…

One Year Captured In 3,888 Tiny Photographs

Photographer Eirik Solheim took more than 16,000 photographs of a single spot in Oslo, Norway, in 2010, and selected 3,888 of those images to make this remarkable picture, which takes us from January on the left through December on the right, showing how the spot changes throughout the year. Solheim performs a number of photographic…

Honda’s Nostalgic Toy adverts go from bad to worse – For a Good Cause

I’m so glad the latest videos in Honda’s bizarre, toy-themed adverts are for good causes, because otherwise… well, these would be just as nightmarishly terrible, but there would be nothing hopeful to feel about after watching them! The two videos see Skeletor singing about his new found ‘friendship’ with He-Man to the tune of Jingle…

Super Glue’s Got Nothing On This Liquid Plastic You Harden With UV Light

Billed as the world’s first liquid plastic welder, Bondic might look like a tube of super glue, but it’s far easier to apply and use—without those loopy fumes. It’s actually a liquid plastic that remains fluid when applied until you hit it with a blast of UV light for about four seconds. That hardens it…

Scientists Prove That Even Dead Geckos Stick To Walls

Geckos, being master of the van der Waals force, climb up glass walls like it’s no big thing. But can they do it when they’re dead? Scientists have found out that they can, and that has important implications for technology. Geckos can climb pretty much anything, no matter how smooth the surface. Scientists at first…

Names and faces of celebrities combined in a series of hilarious mashups

Combining celebrity’s names like Yoko Bono or GandAlf is a lot of fun, but Swedish designer Kalle Mattsson took the joke toa whole new level of hilaritywhen she decided to mashup also their portraits. Check them out: Kalle Mattsson is a graphic designer based in Stockholm, Sweden. She studied Graphic Design at the Gerrit Rietveld…

How Police Bought a Drone in Secret Despite Public Disapproval

You may remember that last year in Oakland, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors held a packed public hearing where members of the community, joined by EFF and ACLU of Northern California, testified for over three hours about worries around Sheriff Greg Ahern’s plan to obtain a drone. The consensus at the hearing was clear—at…

It’s official: AMC has ordered a Preacher pilot. It seemed more than likely when AMC ordered a script from Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg, but this means that, if all goes well, we could see the show on TV in 2015. Rogan and Goldberg will produce the series, and Sam Catlin (Breaking Bad) will be…

Dumping Oil In the Ocean Lets You Literally Master the Waves

Oil in the ocean is a sensitive subject these days, but in the late 1800s, steam ships had stocks of oil specifically set aside to dump in the ocean. This may have saved people’s lives. We’ll tell you why. Emergency Oil on Steam Ships Late 19th-century steam ships carried oil aboard. They didn’t limit themselves…

AURORAGOLD: How the NSA Gets Inside Every Cellphone Network in the World

The Intercept has discovered an ambitious NSA operation called AURORAGOLD—which aims to tap every cellphone network in the world. The finding, discovered amongst an archive of material supplied by Edward Snowden, reveals that the NSA intercepted thousands of emails sent between companies in a bid to identify security weaknesses in cellphone technology. Further documents revealthat…

Nervous About To Into The Woods? Listen To “On The Steps Of The Palace”

If you’re still freaking out about Disney’s adaptation of the classic musical Into The Woods, take a listen to Anna Kendrick’s Cinderella tune “On the Steps of the Palace.” It should help ease your fears. The movie musical has released one of its hits, “On the Steps of the Palace,” where Cinderella (played by Kendrick)…

What Artifact Will Tell Future Generations The Most About Us?

Today’s treasures may be tomorrow’s trash, but give that trash enough tomorrows and it becomes something entirely different: an artifact. Will it be something electronic (perhaps even with some leftover data on it) that tells all? Maybe it will be some large infrastructure project (a canal, a highway) that’s big enough to make it to…

What Is This Strangely Circular Outcrop on Mars?

This oddly circular outcrop has been discovered on Mars. Scientists don’t know exactly what the 1.2 mile-wide feature is—though it appears to be surrounded by mass of smooth, solidified lava flows. Snapped by HiRISE aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA speculates that “perhaps lava has intruded underneath this mound and pushed it up from beneath.…

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Skeletons Found In Ancient Cemetery Still Have Shackles On Their Necks

Archaeologists working in southwest France have discovered hundreds of Gallo-Roman graves dating to the second half of the 2nd century AD, with some of the skeletons featuring shackles still strapped around their necks and ankles. The site, which may have been part of an important Gallo-Roman necropolis, is situated near the amphitheatre of Saintes. The…

This Gleefully Gory Fan-Made Trailer Makes Us Want A Lobo Film

Alien biker Lobo isn’t on DC’s movie slate yet, but this fan-made trailer reminds us how much over-the-top fun a Lobo movie would be. Watch as the Main Man takes out a bar full of gangsters—and has a Fraggin’ good time doing it. Jesse V. Johnson directed this fan trailer, with Jerry Trimble Jr. as…

The Next James Bond Movie Is Called Spectre and Is Out 2015

In a live online announcement event, director Sam Mendes has revealed that the next James Bond move will be called Spectre and hit the screens in late 2015. And he has a new car, too. Mendes explained that Daniel Craig will still play Bond, and will be joined by Andrew Scott (Moriarty in BBC’s Sherlock,…