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A Beautiful Lampshade Carved from Solid Granite

This may be a lampshade, but light isn’t what it does best—because this new interpretation of the classic industrial lamp is carved from a solid piece of granite. The brainchild of AStudio, the Mika 350 is a pendant lamp inspired by ancient Celtic forts of the 6th century BC. Carved from a solid piece of…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

This Bag Inflates to Keep Your Gadgets Safe

Good news, klutz: this bag, designed by Royal College of Art graduate Peng You, is capable of inflating in order to keep your gadget safe, however clumsy you might be. The Fugu bag is made from a heavy-duty carbon-fiber fabric which is coated on both sides with polyurethane. Its panels are then welded together to…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Entertainment Tonight Has Figured Out the Secret to Guardians Marketing

It’s Avengers comparisons. How could you see Guardians without knowing which one is the Tony Stark? (Spoiler alert: It’s Rocket!) This Entertainment Tonight video is so stupid that I think I love it. Yeah, there’s some new stuff here, but the big thing is that they’re convinced that they need to explain everything in terms…

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

Uruguay Claims the Luis Suárez Soccer Bite Is a Photoshop Hoax

Earlier this week, Luis Suarez—Uruguay’s talented but controversial soccer player—appeared to bite Giorgio Chiellini in a World Cup match. Now, though, Uruguay’s Football Association claims that he’s on the receiving end of a cruel Photoshop hoax. https://deadspin.com/the-gross-things-caused-by-human-bite-wounds-and-luis-1595921937 Speaking with the Guardian, Suárez’s lawyer, Alejandro Balbi, claimed that he was going “to use all the arguments…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Warehouse 13‘s Final Gag Reel Makes Us Miss It All Over Again

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Television Katharine Trendacosta

Seeing a nuclear reactor start up is cooler than my sci-fi dreams

Ka-freaking-boom. The piercing blue flash reverberates through the water and looks cooler than my imagination. If watching movies has taught me anything, it’s that when you see that particular shade of glowing blue, something superhuman is happening. And yes, a nuclear reactor starting up is as powerful as it gets. Why does it glow blue?…

Sploid Casey Chan

Nikon D810: Subtle Improvements For One of the Baddest DSLRs Around

The Nikon D800 is commonly held in high regard as one of the best pro DSLRs out there. When it was released back in 2012, it made news for its unique 36 megapixel sensor. This time around, the focus is on minor improvements for some added firepower in an already fiery camera. https://gizmodo.com/nikon-d800-review-a-major-hd-upgrade-but-is-it-the-be-5897968 The $3300…

Tech News Michael Hession

Incredibly realistic 3D renders of fighter planes

Anders Lejczak loves airplanes. He’s also a great 3D artist capable of capturing every detail of anything from Spitfires to MiGs to F-16s with incredible realism. So realistic, in fact, that I have trouble distinguishing some of these renderings from real photos. Anders Lejczak is a Polish-born artist based in Malmö, Sweden. He works for…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

This video proves how hard it is to focus for an entire 3 minutes now

It’s pretty much impossible for me. And probably for a lot of you. Before the Internet existed in our pockets, I’m pretty sure all of us could watch a clip for the entire 3 minutes and not feel the blistering need to change tabs or see what the newest picture on Instagram was or tweet…

Sploid Casey Chan

Now That Summer Has Come To Gotham, Batman Dons His Skimpier Suit

Cartoonist Stjepan Šejić reveals the one costume Batman doesn’t display in the Batcave, the one he reserves only when the heat in Gotham has become intolerable. Šejić is a prolific comic book artist, but if you haven’t seen his goofier doodles on deviantART, I highly recommend checking them out. Someone really needs to give this…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Do You Have A Short Attention Span? This Video Knows The Answer Is Yes

We’d all like to think we’re thoughtful, patient, and steadfast, especially in our ability to pay attention to things. We are completely and totally wrong, and this brilliant College Humor video is proof. Just try and watch this video without pausing, skipping ahead, or looking at something else — you’ll see. Here’s the kicker: Even…

io9 Rob Bricken

Here’s liquid nitrogen turning into solid nitrogen in an extreme vacuum

What happens when you put liquid nitrogen in a vacuum chamber? It turns solid. And then it snows. As the vacuum lowers the pressure in the chamber, it decreases the boiling point of the liquid nitrogen which means the nitrogen boils faster. But! The boiling liquid nitrogen is also evaporating which cools itself which turns…

Sploid Casey Chan

Why The Higgs Boson Should Have Crushed the Universe

This may seem a little far fetched — but if our understanding of the physics behind the recently-discovered Higgs boson is correct, our universe shouldn’t exist. It’s funny when two seemingly distant theories conspire to destroy the universe. You may have heard about the controversy surrounding a certain telescope located near the South Pole. The…

io9 Ian O-Neill — Discovery News

What if Your Dream Home Had a View of an Oil Derrick?

Its promoters billed it as an exceptional housing tract—buried utility lines, curving concrete roads, and a hilltop site whose ocean views gave the subdivision its name: Monte Mar Vista. With country clubs bordering it on three sides, residents of the so-called “central jewel in a Tiffany setting” could easily play nine holes before breakfast. There…

Tech News Nathan Masters

L.A. Glows Red in This Photo From the International Space Station

Viewed from this unfamiliar angle and in the infrared rather than visible spectrum, Los Angeles reveals itself in new ways. City lights and thermal radiation create an abstract, russet shape that’s barely recognizable as metropolitan Southern California. Black voids dominate the frame; many of these are hills and mountain ranges, but the emptiness at the…

Space & Spaceflight Nathan Masters

Android Auto Hands-On: An Automotive Life-Saver for Android Users

We human-type beings suck at using our mobile devices while driving and we frequently kill and/or dismember ourselves in an attempt to pull off that stupid stunt. To try to keep Android users alive to buy more Android products, Google today unveiled Android Auto. We just got to play with it a bit, and we…

Tech News Brent Rose

Four Asshole Magical Girls Must Stop The Rise Of King Arthur

Kel McDonald, creator of the long-running webcomic Sorcery 101, messes with magical girls in her latest webcomic, Misfits of Avalon. But these superpowered teens would rather cut class and get into meaningless brawls than save the world. Morgan and Elsa are the kind of high school enemies who are almost friends. Dealing with a lousy…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

Was 1984 The Best Year Ever For Summer Movies?

Have you noticed that a lot of really awesome things are celebrating their 30th anniversaries this year? The Macintosh computer, Tetris, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? 1984 was also a really good year for movies, but I’ll go farther than that: This particular week in 1984 was probably the best week ever to see a movie…

Movies Alissa Walker

These Augmented Reality Specs Can Turn a Regular Joe into James Bond

While 007 can seemingly pull off any impossible mission without breaking a sweat, real world field intelligence agents don’t have it nearly that easy. They must maintain encyclopedic mental records of names and faces as well as relay information to and from HQ—all without blowing their covers. To give its agents an edge in their…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

How Comics Readers Finally Got To See Magneto’s Face

In the movies, Magneto has spent as much time out of costume as in it. But there was a time when comic readers only saw Magneto’s face from behind his helmet. Here’s the story of how readers finally got to see the man behind the mask — plus the original pencil drawings of the reveal!…

Movies Ria Misra

A Beautiful Lampshade Carved from Solid Granite

This Bag Inflates to Keep Your Gadgets Safe

Entertainment Tonight Has Figured Out the Secret to Guardians Marketing

Uruguay Claims the Luis Suárez Soccer Bite Is a Photoshop Hoax

Warehouse 13‘s Final Gag Reel Makes Us Miss It All Over Again

Seeing a nuclear reactor start up is cooler than my sci-fi dreams

Nikon D810: Subtle Improvements For One of the Baddest DSLRs Around

Incredibly realistic 3D renders of fighter planes

This video proves how hard it is to focus for an entire 3 minutes now

Now That Summer Has Come To Gotham, Batman Dons His Skimpier Suit

Do You Have A Short Attention Span? This Video Knows The Answer Is Yes

Here’s liquid nitrogen turning into solid nitrogen in an extreme vacuum

Why The Higgs Boson Should Have Crushed the Universe

What if Your Dream Home Had a View of an Oil Derrick?

L.A. Glows Red in This Photo From the International Space Station

Android Auto Hands-On: An Automotive Life-Saver for Android Users

Four Asshole Magical Girls Must Stop The Rise Of King Arthur

Was 1984 The Best Year Ever For Summer Movies?

These Augmented Reality Specs Can Turn a Regular Joe into James Bond

How Comics Readers Finally Got To See Magneto’s Face

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