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A Wearable SIM Could Let You Use One Number With Any Device

Japanese carrier Docomo has announced an interesting concept design that could change the way we use mobile devices: a wearable that takes the SIM out of your phone and puts it onto your wrist to create an authentication device for all your hardware. It’s calling it the Portable SIM, and it takes the SIM card…

Apple Is Banning Apps That Reward Social Sharing and App Promotion

Apple has always been strict about what makes the cuts in its App Store, and the arrival of iOS 8 seems to be ushering in some extra rules. It seems Cook & Co. are looking to remove apps that rewards social sharing or provide in-game credit for watching videos. A number of developers have reported…

Look at the Weird and Wonderful Worlds That Exist Beyond Neptune

From tiny balls of rock to giant egg-shaped objects, there’s a rich and varied array of alien worlds that sit outside the orbit of Neptune. You’re looking at the ones that the European Space Agency’s satellite Herschel has spotted. In fact, there are 1,400 cold worlds in a region of the Solar System beyond the…

Life’s Tough For Main Characters Whose Works Are Named After Others

Guys, Inspector Clouseau and the Doctor feel your pain. [Depressed Alien]

How Well Do You Know Your Fictional Maps?

Now, this specific map isn’t in the quiz, but The Guardian has a quiz that tests your fictional geography knowledge. What really stands out is that some books have need of very elaborate maps where others have sketches you can easily imagine being done on napkins. Oddly, the elaborate ones are way easier to identify…

All the many horrible ways that animals can kill you with venom

Take a look at these fascinating videos explaining the many horrible ways that animals can use their hollow fangs, grooved teeth, lip glands, claws, spurs, spines, stings, and tentacles to deliver venom for the sole purpose of paralyzing and killing other animals—including humans. It’s all part of the The Power of Poison, an exhibit that…

In the Future, We Will All Wear Fiber Optic Dresses

Designer Natalie Walsh says this design was inspired by seeing a “bloom of fiber optic jellyfish” at a festival. And that’s absolutely a style that you should aspire to. The San Francisco-based artist first started by making a white dress with pouches to hide the handle of the outfit’s light source. The fiber optic cables…

The top 10 practical special effects of all time

This top 10 list of best practical effects of all time is pretty much spot on. Not a single bit of computer graphics were used in these spectacular shots and some of them will really surprise of you. Like the airplane heist in The Dark Knight Rises, which was filmed in real life, with real…

This burger has 17 different types of beef in it

I mean, I don’t even think I could name 17 different types of beef and yet one delicious, blood thickening burger will have all that in between its buns. Totaling in at over 2,500 calories and costing more than 40 bucks, the Holy Cow burger is basically like sandwiching an entire cow. With that much…

Sigourney Weaver’s In the Avatar Sequels Despite Dying In the First

Yes, she died in the Avatar. But James Cameron’s coming up with something. Or so he says. Look, no one’s really going to complain about more Sigourney Weaver, but she died. For some people, that might be a problem. For Cameron, that’s just a challenge to be overcome. Said Cameron: Sigourney and I have a…

Playstation TV Is a Tiny, Streaming Companion for Your PS4

Playstation TV, a tiny streaming box released as PS Vita TV in Japan, will be coming to the US and Canada this fall for $99. The tiny box will let you stream games from your PS4 proper to another TV in the house, while also letting you stream PS3 games and older classics via the…

People play soccer barefoot with a ball that’s on fire

Getting excited for the World Cup? The whole world is! So much so that they’re doing ridiculous things like playing soccer with flaming coconuts that basically shoot out flames whenever they kick it around. Oh and they’re doing all that kicking barefoot. It’s not just for the World Cup, Indonesians apparently love playing this fireball…

Playstation Now, the service that will let you stream old Playstation games on your new Playstation (and pretty damn well) will be going into open beta on July 31st. It’ll come to PS4 first, but later PS3, Vita, and select Sony smart TVs (Dual Shock 3 controller required).

Holy crap, the new Star Wars Battlefront game looks incredible

Even while you can only see a few glimpses of the in-game engine of Star Wars Battlefront, the new game by Swedish studio DICE seems impossibly good. They say they are making the game that, as Star Wars fans, they always wanted to play. I think they may succeed. Just look at the motion, the…

The Worst Thing About Mondays Is That Beauty and the Beast Is Still On

How is this possible? How is this show still on television? More importantly, how did it get renewed? There’s not a lot on television that’s new. But last week, after a three-month hiatus, Beauty and the Beast returned to the CW’s Monday line-up. Now, we stopped recapping this show because a) no one cared and…

This colorful image disappears completely if you keep staring at it

It’s always fun to play a trick on your eyes. They’re so easily fooled! Take this illusion, for example. It’s an old favorite. If you stare at the image long enough, the colors in the picture start fading away and eventually disappear. The colorful blobs shrink like evaporating water puddles Just focus on the middle…

Mike Mills Asks Kids of Silicon Valley Workers About the Future of Tech

“Well, my mom works at Apple. And my dad? He, like, started his own company. But I think he like doesn’t really want to do it anymore.” That’s one quote from a short film by Mike Mills where he talks to children of Silicon Valley employees about changes in technology and how it will affect…

Flying this Nazi glider from 1938 seems incredibly fun

This dude is flying a Schulgleiter SG38 over Baden-Württemberg, in Germany, an extremely rare glider built in 1938 for the National Socialist Flyers Corps, a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. 10,000 of them were made, and many of the pilots who learn to fly on it became Luftwaffe pilots. In fact, according to the…

​How Wildfires Are Fought And What You Can Do If One Threatens You

It’s only June and 2014 is already a record fire year out west. We asked a wildfire fighter how fires are fought, what causes them and what you can do if you find yourself in their path. IndefinitelyWild: Who are you and what do you know about fighting fires? Jake Novitsky: I graduated from Penn…

Increase Mather Gives Salem The Shot In The Arm It Needed

Salem can be fun, but it often lets its plot meander in favor of big, bloody spectacles. But now that Cotton Mather’s father, the fearsome Puritan minister Increase, is in town, these witch trials are finally starting to get interesting. Increase’s presence in Salem has two immediate effects: First off, it disrupts Cotton’s life. Increase…