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These Robots Are Fighting Ebola in Texas

As the more paranoid among us freak out and reach for the hazmat suits, America is fighting the Ebola threat the only way it knows how: hundreds of thousands of dollars of robots, natch. A ‘germ-zapping’ robot developed in San Antonio is reportedly deployed in Dallas, where doctors are treating the first Ebola patient in…

Post-apocalyptical space shuttle and other great art by Yuri Shwedoff

I love the perfect surfaces and old school style of Russian artist Yuri Shwedoff’s illustrations. I wish I could buy the original of the one above, titled White Castle. Or any of the images below. His alternate fan movie posters for Rambo (yes, Rambo), Guardians of the Galaxy or Fight Club are so good. Yuri…

Surreal Collages of Animals, Plants, and Body Parts Are Subtly Creepy

Put these on your walls for a classier Halloween vibe than the one at my home. (I once recreated the X-Files “I Want to Believe ” poster entirely in pumpkin.) Seriously, though, these are somehow scarier than the fake blood handprints that just won’t come off the walls. (Another decorating decision I’ve made in the…

These Clever Mud Hut Designs Rethink Cheap Rural Living

Mud huts are normally associated with the most basic level of just-scraping-by living: utilitarian, cheap, but hardly the height of design (or even comfort). The Nka Foundation wondered what would happen if the mud hut was modernised: same basic materials, same low cost, but 21st century techniques. The result was a competition for young grads…

The history of all religions explained in one fascinating graphic

I spent some of my college years studying with the Jesuits, which inevitably led to theology classes and the fascinating history of religion. That class is summarized in this new version of a great graphic by Simon E. Davies,a complex tree of myths and traditions continuously evolving into remakes. Even while the dates are approximate—many…

Nexus X ‘Shamu’ Reportedly Benchmarked Being Quite Fast

By this stage, we’ve got a pretty good ideaof what Google’s Nexus 6 will look like, and what fancy silicon innards it’ll be packing. And, according to the latest round of supposed leaked benchmarks, those innards can walk the walk. The folks at PhoneArena noticed that a certain ‘motorola shamu’ has shown up in the…

Chainsaw artist transforms a log into Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy

This is fun. Griffon Ramsey, an artist who works with wood and uses a chainsaw, carved and sculpted a real life Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy from an Eastern Red Cedar tree log. She creates a pretty lifelike version of everyone’s favorite tree person but I kind of wish she made a 20-feet tall…

The Kitty Bank Is So Much More Secure Than the Piggy Bank

On the other hand, I’m not sure how easy it is to get money back out of the bank. The Iron Bank of Purrvos will have its due. Even so, this furry version is 100% better than the one with a “magical” mechanical hand.

The Supreme Court Won’t Hear the Superman Copyright Case

Today brought news from the Supreme Court of the United States, as they announced which cases they would and would not be taking. And in that latter category was an appeal from the estate of one of Superman’s creators, meaning the surviving Joe Shuster heirs have exhausted judicial remedies. It looks like settling with Marvel…

So Far iOS 8 Is Apple’s Least Successful Update in Years

One of Apple’s favorite sticks to poke Android with has always been the sluggish upgrade rate of new versions of Google’s OS. While Apple’s still got the ‘droid handily beat in that respect, it looks like Apple might have a growing problem on its hands with iOS 8 adoption. As measured by Apple’s own metrics,…

How the addictive magic material known as bubble wrap is made

You can have your graphene or your insane non-flammable fabricor some NASA space material, magic material to me will always be bubble wrap. It’s catnip for humans with souls and the process to make it is pretty fascinating. It starts with resin that is vacuumed out and heated to create a film and used to…

Insane car crash somehow barely avoids hitting a group of bystanders

The first time I saw this video of a car crash during the Jolly Rally Valle d’Aosta 2014, I thought it was a scene from Final Destination. The second time I saw it, I thought it was some amateur fake. I’ve watched it multiple times now and I’m still not sure how the out of…

The Eiffel Tower Is The Latest Landmark To Get A Glass Floor

One great way to get adventurous folks amped up about scaling landmarks is to make the act of being way-the-heck-up-high even freakier. The Eiffel Tower is the latest to get a stomach-flipping glass floor 187 feet above the teensy little people on the pavement below. In order to mark the Parisian attraction’s 125th anniversary, Moatti…

Samsung’s issued a warning that it’s Q3 profits are kinda crummy — actually, they’re down 60 per cent on the same quarter last year, which is downright crap. Samsung’s blaming a lower average selling price for devices for the fall in profits, reflecting that the continuing success of iPhones, coupled with the glut of good,…

This Award-Winning Architecture Photo Looks Straight Out of Sci-Fi

The focus with architecture is most often on the design of the building itself, but with most of us not able to jet around the world looking at pretty buildings, it’s photographs that build the vast majority of our impressions of design. That’s the (underappreciated) genre represented by the Arcaid Awards, which recognize the Architectural…

Every single couch gag from 25 years of The Simpsons at the same time

If you ever wondered what all 25 years of The Simpsons couch gags looks like if they were all played at the same time, well, here you go. This video plays the intro from all 554 episodes from 26 seasons (even that bizarre one we just saw) and I kind of wish I could zoom…

Once Upon A Time Returns To Its Throne Of Bad Decision-Making

Once Upon A Time is back and so are the slew of bad decisions that plagues every single resident of Storybrooke. So pull up a chair and check out what is essentially an hour-long advertisement for Frozen. First up, apologies for missing the premiere; I was out of the country. However, it doesn’t appear as…

Don’t Call It Sony: This Is VAIO’s New Prototype Tablet PC

Remember when Sony decided to sell off its entire PC businessin one fell swoop? It looks like that wasn’t the end of the company’s iconic VAIO designs. Today at Adobe’s MAX design conference, the new VAIO Corporation showed off a brand new tablet computer aimed directly at pros. It’s a beefy machine with a 12.3-inch…

It’s the Perfect Time to Re-Watch Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

When we learned last week that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’s sequel would debut on Netflix, I spent an evening curled up re-watching the original. And as someone who professed to hating it as a crotchety 1o-year-old (more on that later), I have to say I’ve changed my mind. Here’s the thing you should know: I…

Insane 73-foot canyon backflip is not the craziest thing in this video

Jeff Herbertson’s backflip over a 73-foot canyon at Red Bull Rampage 2014 is pretty insane. But, somehow, it seems easier and less terrifying than the beginning of his run, which made me grab my chair’s arms. No matter how may of these videos I see, I would never get use to them. And hey, he…