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A Mesmerizing Pixel-Littered Performance Blends Technology and Dance

Imagine layering a world of interactive digital pixels over the athletic, poised movements of dancers—and, actually, you get this. Put together by French dance company Adrien M / Claire B, this performance uses light projection technology to create an interactive world that doesn’t get in the way of dancers yet enhances their performance. Called Pixel,…

Live in Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco or Seattle? Then it may pay to ditch Uber in favor of its rival Flywheel for New Year’s Eve: rides between 8PM and 3AM that night, which would usually cost up to $50, will be charged at a flat rate of $10 in the four cities.

AirAsia Debris Identified Off the Coast of Borneo

The ongoing search attempt to discover AirAsia Flight 8501 is edging closer to a discovery. Indonesian officials have announced that they’ve discovered airplane debris in waters near the island of Borneo—and officials are “95% certain” it’s from the missing plane. Update: Indonesian authorities have now confirmed that the debris is from AirAsia Flight 8501. Reports…

The Walking Dead is the show with the most tweets and readers of tweets in 2015. A Nielsen report revealed that the show had an average of 576,000 tweets per episode and 4.93 million people reading at least one tweet before the next morning. This reflects the show’s popularity and the high value viewers place…

Superfan edited all the Marvel superhero movies into chronological order

A dedicated comic book superhero super fan just did God’s work: he stitched together all the Marvel Phase 1 and Phase 2 movies into chronological order. Which means you could theoretically watch the entire story unfold in one consistent timeline that makes sense. Since movies that were released later sometimes occurred before other movies and…

Did Venus Once Have Oceans of Liquid Carbon Dioxide?

A new study suggests that it is possible that the planet’s past included strange bodies of liquid carbon dioxide. Image: Pioneering Venus/NASA Venus is a hot hellscape that make it difficult to imagine it ever being covered in the water that may have been in its atmosphere — the water probably could not have cooled…

Watch a Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet land without one of its landing gears

A Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 had to make an emergency landing earlier today at Gatwick Airport, London, when its right landing gear got stuck. Amazingly enough, the pilots managed to keep control with only three of the four gears in place. That means that one of the plane’s wings wouldn’t have any cushion when it…

Our Best Photography Posts of 2014

As 2014 chugged along, photographers of all inclinations did their best to fill the world with awesome pictures of every kind. Here on Reframe, we tracked the best new gear as mirrorless cameras came into their own, showcased the most intriguing bodies of work beyond the repetitive internet fare, and spewed our two-cents about topics…

Watch Rats Own a Cat and a Dog in a Trick Competition

The cat Kaiser and the dog Nana once went head to head in a competition to see who was the best trained animal around. And now, years later, they’ve teamed up to show a pair of rats named Raven and Famous who’s boss. But, for sheer number of tricks, the rats win. They also win…

Samsung’s New Speakers Are Basically Portal Guns

Samsung says these fancy wireless speakers were created at a “state-of-the-art audio lab in Valencia, California.” We know better. They’re clearly the product of Aperture Science, the secret think tank responsible for a hilarious murderous artificial intelligence, not to mention one hell of a teleportation tool. Unless Aperture is in Valencia, I mean. I guess…

The mesmerizing beauty of a thousand hand dance

These types of dances are an old tradition but they’re always so mind tickling to see. The choreography is perfect and it’s like seeing art in motion. This particular Thousand-Hand Guan Yin dance was performed by deaf dancers which makes the timing of it all even more incredible. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…

This Table Protects You From Burning Hot Beverages

What if your dining room table could show you when your coffee or cocoa is too hot to drink? That could be a reality today: hacker Ken Kawamoto shows us how with a technique called thermal projection mapping. Basically, it’s just a combination of two things we already love: 1.) the FLIR ONE case that…

The Village Was Built on the Eroded Pillars of an Ancient Canyon

Who knows how it first started? Maybe the village was once on solid ground that washed out from under our ancient homes. Or maybe our ancestors knew how to climb and build in ways that we have forgotten. Now we just weave more rope for the bridges and ladders, and hope the floods never come…

Our deepest darkest fears turned into terrifying cartoons

We all have deep dark fears that are almost always irrational and probably rooted from our childhood and most likely festered when we were alone and trapped in our thoughts. Deep Dark Fears illustrates those fears in a comic form and they’re funny to see but also exposes us to a whole new set of…

LG’s Got a New Fleet of Colorful 4K TVs

LG will be showing off its latest lineup of 4K UHD televisions at CES next week with the promise of richer colors, thinner screens, and Harmon/Kardon audio. Now if we could just get some decent 4K content already, we’ll be set. LG will be showcasing eight models at the trade show—specifically the spectacularly named UC9,…

Finding The Tallest Mountain On Earth Is Strangely Elusive

It seems like a 8,848-meter mountain would be easy to spot, but it’s oddly challenging to find Mount Everest from a few hundred kilometers higher in elevation. The famous mountain is visible in each of these photos from the International Space Station, but can you find it? December 2014. Image credit: NASA/Butch Wilmore Mount Everest…

The “Rule of 50” Helps You Know When To Give Up On A Book

Life is just too short to keep reading a book that’s not compelling or rewarding to you. But how can you know when to quit? Austin Kleon (Steal Like an Artist) recommends the Rule of 50, lifted from Nancy Pearl’s book Book Lust. Here’s how Pearl describes the Rule of 50: I live by what…

Clearest photo yet of the new Millennium Falcon—featuring Darth Iger

Fortune got to work with ILM on their December cover story, featuring Disney’s CEO Bob Iger. The cover itself has Iger against a computer generated version of the Millennium Falcon. The opening photo, however, it’s a shot of Iger composed over a photo of the set with the real Falcon. Pretty damn cool. Obviously, the…

It’s So Damn Cold, So Let’s Watch a Movie About Summer 

Swimming pools. Cotton candy. Roller coasters. Sunscreen. Summer seems like an infinity away on this dark, cold day, so indulge in some seasonal escapism and watch Adventureland, a lovely summer movie that features Jesse Eisenberg at his most adorkable and Kristen Stewart at her most bearable. Adventureland takes place the summer after Eisenberg’s character, James,…

Now the CIA Wants to Take Responsibility for All UFO Sightings

One of the most popular documents released by the CIA in 2014 was an account of U-2 testing from 1954-1974. In a creepily sarcastic comment, the CIA’s Twitter rep wrote, “Reports of unusual activity in the skies in the ’50s? It was us.” You can imagine what the citizens of Twitter had to say about…