Latest

This Machine Generates Electricity From Humidity

This silver cube looks like it belongs on a spaceship—but actually, it’s way more exciting than that. In fact, it can create electricity from humidity, as water condenses on its internal surfaces. It may sound implausible, but in fact it exploits the physics of a finding made at MIT last year: when water droplets spontaneously…

First Description Of Avengers 2 Footage! But Who’s Andy Serkis Playing?

Serkis will only say who he’s not playing in Avengers 2 and Star Wars. Kate Mara says that Fantastic Four is going with a wholly original plot, not adapting one from the comics. Zachary Quinto explains why the next Star Trek will please the purists. Plus, what are the Easter Eggs in Constantine? Spoilers now!…

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes portraits are scarily human

Stunning portraits and concept art of apes in their ceremonial attire from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. The artwork was created by The Aaron Sims Company who already worked on Rise of the Planet of the Apes and other movies like The Transformers. ASC worked closely with Weta on both films to design…

A Carbon Fiber Eames Sofa Combines Amazing Design and Exotic Materials

We wonder whether furniture can really get any better than this: an Eames-style sofa, woven from the awesome material that is carbon fiber. This might be living room heaven. The brainchild of Matthew Strong, the sofa uses 12k carbon fiber tow to form what looks like a woven caning pattern. The geometry of the weave…

Imagine if gadgets worked like something out of Pixar film, and you could inflate them by blowing down the power cord. It’d bring fresh new meaning to the name MacBook Air. [XKCD]

Hero Raccoon Makes Off With 28 Pound Bag of Food

The average raccoon weighs about 14-23 pounds. That bag’s going to last a while. Hopefully, it will be used the way all family-sized bags of food are meant to be: Shared with a whole family of raccoons. The best part of this video may actually be the end, where both raccoon and bag disappear into…

NYT: Chinese Hackers Are Turning Attention to Smaller Federal Agencies

Sometimes, you can find secrets in the strangest places—and it seems Chinese hackers are well aware of that fact. According to the New York Times, digital attacks from China have recently been focussing on more obscure federal agencies. The newspaper notesthat, according to senior American officials, the Government Printing Office and the Government Accountability Office…

Mashup art puts Kaiju into classical paintings

Illustrator and digital artist Oliver Wetter photoshopped Kaiju and other big beasts into classical landscape paintings, mimicking the artists’ styles . He nails the lighting, brush strokes and mood, all hand drawn with a stylus—a skilled tribute to the original painters as well as the cult icons he added. The original paintings Oliver remixed were…

Google+ No Longer Require You Use Your Real Name

Following years of criticism, Google has announcedthat it’s scrapping its requirement that anyone using Google+ uses their real name on the network. The policy was put in place when Google+ launched three years ago, intended to make the network more… well, more like Facebook, really. But last night Google admittedthat “it also excluded a number…

Parasyte Trailer Shows the Horror of Your Body Turning Against You

This is the trailer for the first part of the two-movie adaptation of the manga Parasyte. The manga had some intense body horror going on, which, if the trailer is any indication, the films will faithfully show. Parasyte takes place in a world where alien parasites take over humans bodies by entering our noses and…

This restaurant might have the best bread and butter in the world

The bread and butter at Razza Pizza Artiginale is made by James Beard Rising Star Chef semi-finalist Dan Richer. He’s the chef behind the restaurant and might be more obsessed with bread and butter than any person on the planet. This video shows how he made his restaurant’s bread and butter the most delicious. It’s…

Amazing photos from NASA’s vaults show how they assembled Apollo 11

45 years ago today—on July 16, 1969—astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins launched to the Moon on top of the mightiest spaceship ever built. These amazing photos from NASA’s vaults show how they built and launched that spaceship—I look at them in awe and admiration. It was the most important trip in the…

Watching ceramics masters do their work is incredibly soothing

I wish there wasn’t any music to this video. I wish it would just be the sounds of the pottery wheel spinning, the hands shaping the clay and the quiet focus of the ceramics masters resonating. But even with the music, watching masters of their craft actually perform their craft is an incredible sight to…

The Original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Are Terrified of the New Ones

This drawing by Jeff Victor is appropriately titled “Rebooted.” While you could see this as the specific problem with the upcoming film’s designs, it works just as well as a general commentary on the “gritty,” “dark,” and “realistic” bent of most reboots. This piece is part of a larger show of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle-inspired…

Here’s how the wheels of the supersonic car are made

When you’re trying to build the fastest car in human history, like the guys making the Bloodhound SSC, you have to make wheels that basically re-invent the wheel. To reach 1000mph and go supersonic, the wheels they’re using weigh over 230 pounds, nearly 3 feet wide and spin four times faster than a F1 car.…

These giant pipes help keep an entire city safe

You may think this is some real life level of Mario Bros. Or that it’s an organ pipe made for a robot giant but it’s actually one of the pump stations that keep beautiful New Orleans safe from flooding. It sucks in water from one side and spits it out on the other. What you’re…

Seth Rogan Reveals Preacher‘s First Song. It’s Willie Nelson, Of Course

Seth Rogan tweeted another look at the storyboard for the Preacher television pilot, and he keeps proving that they’re hewing really close to the source material for it. This time, it’s the opening song. The last tweet there was a card reading “Daily Breakfast, Jesse w/” on the board, which could refer to the opening…

Sling’s New Slingbox Is Better (and Cheaper) Than Ever

After nearly two years, Slingbox has just announced its newest boxes, and a brand new look. Welcome to SlingTV. An update to the previous Slingbox 350, the new Slingbox M1 comes with built in Wi-Fi (thank god) but still relies on old school component cables to hook up to your TV proper. It’s also fully…

Turns Out Ghost-Hunting Is WAY Less Glamorous In The Suburbs

Check out the first trailer for Suburban Gothic, a new indie movie featuring Matthew Gray Gubler as a guy who has the power to see ghosts and shit. And he tries to train a surly barmaid (Kat Dennings) in the art of ghost-hunting. In the suburbs. In Suburban Gothic, Raymond’s high-powered MBA doesn’t save him…

Watch La Jetée, the Incredible Experiment That Inspired 12 Monkeys

Syfy’s forthcoming 12 Monkeys TV show is actually more than 50 years in the making. If you read the previews, you’ll know that the show is based on the 1995 Terry Gilliam flick starring Bruce Willis. What you might not know is that that the Gilliam movie is based on a much older, much weirder…