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DC’s 2015 Event Will Preempt All Regular Comics For Two Full Months

While Marvel has been busy announcing — or I guess re-announcing — every major event in their history for 2015, DC has been setting the seeds for what co-publisher Jim Lee calls “in many ways the most meta epic event we’ve done.” It’s a nine-week miniseries called Convergence, due next april and May, and DC…

See The Original Actor Cast As Freddy Krueger In His Nightmare Makeup

While Robert Englund’s made-up face haunted A Nightmare on Elm Street, Wes Craven originally cast actor David Warner in the role of Freddy Krueger. Warner had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts, but not before sitting for the makeup test. Warner may not have played Freddy Krueger in the end, but he has had…

Threezero’s 12-Inch RoboCop 1.0 Definitely Looks Better Than the Remake

It’s rare that a remake of a movie lives up to the original, and the recent RoboCop reboot was definitely no exception. What it did have going for it was some awesome robot designs, and while we’re still partial to Peter Weller’s RoboCop, the 2014 version still translates to an impressive 12-inch figure courtesy of…

Photographer transforms women into beautiful metallic statues [NSFW]

Italian Photographer Guido Argentini hired some dancers, gymnasts and aerialists, coated them in silver paint, and ended up with this beautiful collection of pictures that transform the girls into beautiful metallic statues. [NSFW] Guido Argentiniwas born in Florence, Italy. He studied Medicine for three years at the university of Florence. At 23 he decided to…

UN: We Must Eliminate Fossil Fuels By 2100 To Avoid “Worst Impacts”

In its starkest warning yet, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared that we need to drop carbon emissions down to zero by the end of this century if we’re to have a decent chance of keeping global temperatures below dangerous levels. The report — the fifth and final volume of the UN…

Mirror Prank Shocks People With Horrifying Demonic Reflections

October 31 has come and gone and it’s now time to start thinking about turkey and stuffing and shopping, but not before mentioning this wonderful Halloween prank by Pepsi that had moviegoers seeing more than just their faces reflected in these special haunted bathroom mirrors. Using a hidden camera, sophisticated real-time face tracking software, and…

Samsung’s bizarre Galaxy Note Edge will be available on AT&T, Spring, T-Mobile, and Verizon beginning November 14th. Pricing is TBD. The huge 5.6-inch curved quad-HD display caught our eyewhen it was announced two months ago. Now we’ll finally know if all of that weird comes with any wow.

These Surreal Images Envision Nature and Cities Colliding

Given the advent of Photoshop, most of us don’t bat an eye at wildly creative photographic collage. But Croatian visual artist Tanja Deman‘s still have the power to shock even the most jaded eyes—and point a surreal spotlight on the relationship between nature and humans. Deman’s recent work focuses on the built environment and community…

This 1:2 Lego Iron Man bust is absolutely gorgeous

George Panteleon’s Iron Man bust is amazing – but the fact that it’s made entirely out of Lego just makes it even better. Just look at it! Panteleon used around 700 bricks to build his 24cm-tall masterpiece – a relatively small amount for what is such an intricate build. A great use of curved pieces…

This Week’s TV: Ashanti Is Our Last Hope In A World Ruled By Mutants

This week, the singer Ashanti shows up in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by mutants, while Clara and the Doctor have major problems in the Doctor Who season finale. Plus, Cartoon Network’s new miniseries runs this week and it looks utterly charming. See all the details below! Tonight Over the Garden Wall (7 PM, Cartoon Network)…

Tri-Fold Touchscreen OLED Could Give You Way More Smartphone Real Estate

In addition to satellites and computers smaller than a giant room, Arthur C. Clarke also predicted mobile touchscreen devices that could be crumpled up like a handkerchief and stuffed in a pocket. Thanks to researchers at Japan’s Semiconductor Energy Laboratory company, we’re almost there. At a recent display-focused trade show in Yokohama City in Japan,…

How All Of American Horror Story‘s Seasons Are Connected

Horror TV series American Horror Story reboots itself every year, re-casting the handful of regular players in entirely different roles, in an entirely different location during an entirely different time period. So imagine our surprise when show co-creator said each season was connected! In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, creator Ryan Murphy revealed the return…

John Oliver Knows Exactly What Horrors Robot Store Clerks Will Lead To

Now that Lowe’s is using robots to guide its customers to the plumbing aisle, it may have lost its most important failsafe: Human beings who can stop other human beings from tearing each other apart when they’re shopping for drill bits. I’ll watch pretty much anything with Nick Offerman and H. Jon Benjamin and Sarah…

SpaceShipTwo’s Descent System Deployed “Without Being Commanded”

Investigators looking into Friday’s tragic crash of SpaceShipTwo are saying that a safety device on the Virgin Galactic spacecraft had been deployed prematurely — and that it may have gone off spontaneously. According to federal investigators, SpaceShipTwo’s unique tail section, which “feathers” at an angle to help the spacecraft make a safe descent, unfurled as…

A supercut of people in movies hitting gadgets to fix them

I don’t know the scientific reason why broken things sometimes get fixed when you hit them but the truth is that this seems to be the case. Duncan Robson put together this neat supercut using movie scenes of people doing just that, transforming them into the drum track of a song. SPLOID is delicious brain…

Nvidia’s Next-Gen Grass Simulations Are Mesmerizing

When developers are looking for the next jaw-dropping gaming visual to show off their newest titles with, the responsibility usually falls on some shiny, photo-real car porn or a wavy mullet with individual strands blowing in the wind. But the sizzle reels of the future may turn their cameras ground-ward if Nvidia’s new grass-mimicking effect…

Parrot Zik 2.0 Hands-On: The World’s Most Advanced Headphones? Maybe.

The first time I tried the Parrot Zik headphones, my jaw dropped. The world around me disappeared. I felt like I was right there in the sound studio with the artist. So you can imagine my excitement to try the updated Zik 2.0. If you don’t mind paying $400 for headphones, you should be excited…

All The Best, Spookiest, And Most Adorable Halloween Costumes!

The candy has all been passed out, the jack-o’-lanterns are way past their prime, and any cobwebs you run into are almost guaranteed to be real. Halloween is over. There’s only one thing left to wrap up: checking out all the most amazing entries in this year’s Halloween Costume Show! Here are our favorites from…

Mozilla has announced that it’s launching a new browser, dedicated to developers, on November 10th—that’ll allow them to “debug the whole Web.”

What Is the Scariest Disease?

Whether you’re personally afraid of Ebola or not, you have to admit it’s a scary disease: no vaccine, no cure, and high fatality rate are just a few of its distinguishing features. Recently I polled my friends on what diseases they were afraid of, and many of the ones that made the list were things…