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Robert Charles Wilson’s Spin Could Be Your Next Favorite TV Series

This is great news. Robert Charles Wilson’s mind-blowing, Hugo Award winning novel Spin just got optioned by Universal Cable Productions. Which means we may be due for a Spin TV series sometime soon. The premise isn’t simple, but it’s fascianting. Think an infinitely more interesting Under the Dome. Out of nowhere, the Earth is surrounded…

Small Town Police Are Getting Leftover War Vehicles and Machine Guns

As America’s wars wind down, the troops are coming home and so are the M-16 rifles. Armored cars, land mine detectors, silencers, aircraft, and other leftover military equipment are flowing to police departments big and small. Free stuff is tough to turn down, but does a small Wisconsin city that hasn’t seen a homicide in…

Out-of-control elevator crashes into building roof in terrible accident

Chilean newspaper Publimetro(in Spanish) reports on the terrible accident suffered by 30-year-old José Vergara: A malfunctioning elevator launched him across an entire building and into the roof, going through 34 stories in just 15 seconds. Reportedly, he suffered major fractures on his back and hips. It happened last Friday, when Vergara got into one of…

Sony’s A7s Could Be the New Champion of Low Light Cinematography

4K has securely replaced 3D as the buzzword feature on new TVs, and as content producers scramble to churn out genuine ultra HD content, it looks like Sony’s new A7s just might be their weapon of choice. It trades the 36.4 megapixels of the A7R for a 12.2 megapixel sensor optimized to shoot incredible low-light…

Watch An Out-Of-Control Elevator Climb 31 Floors In 15 Seconds

This is horrifying: A Chilean man was seriously injured when the elevator he was riding malfunctioned and shot up 31 floors in just 15 seconds, smashing right through the ceiling. The man, José Vergara Acevedo, was seriously injured by the incident. He reportedly suffered head and leg injuries. It’s not known what caused the malfunction,…

A 3D Printing Pen That Uses UV Light Instead of Dangerous Heat

If you’ve ever used a hot glue gun for a craft project, you already know how tricky and messy they can be to work with. And this is partly why the handful of 3D printing pens already on the market aren’t the easiest tools to use. So maybe the CreoPop pen, which instead uses UV…

Animated short shows epic match between soccer stars and cyborgs

Nike has produced a cool new 3D animation short to promote the World Cup and the value teamwork and human creativity: What would happen if an evil organization tried to replace soccer players with cyborgs that never fail and the world’s best stars had to fight back? An epic match, that’s what. Maybe this is…

Nike’s World Cup Short Has All The Charm Of A Mini Pixar Movie

With the World Cup starting on Thursday, countries around the globe are preparing for some insane competition. But before everyone has a chance to duke it out for national pride, Nike has made this short to remind everyone to celebrate the beauty of the game itself. Made with help from Wieden+Kennedy and Passion, this short…

The Tallest Elevators On Earth Are Being Tested In an Old Mineshaft

Jeddah’s Kingdom Tower will be taller than any other structure ever built. At more than one kilometer high, this supertall will require feats of engineering that, until now, have been the stuff of science fiction. Like the world’s tallest, longest, and fastest elevators—which are being developed in a mine shaft in Finland. Kone, a Finnish…

Did Somebody Just Explain Magic in a Way That Actually Made Sense?

A lot of fantasy and horror tales contain magic, or at least supernatural creatures, and never explain how they got there. But once in a while, we get an explanation for how magic entered our rational world — and it just works. What’s your favorite example of a story that actually explains magic well? Illustration…

Here’s a Chart to Help You Identify That Strange Light in the Sky

With ever-brighter skies reducing our ability to stargaze, and ever more bright objects soaring over-head, it’s increasingly complicated to identify just what is that awesome thing you’re looking at. The League of Lost Causes understands your pain. To solve it, they’ve produced this handy identification flowchart. Image credit: HK/The League of Lost Causes Although I…

Rising Pacific Sea Levels Unearth Remains Of WW2 Soliders

The bodies of at least 26 Japanese soldiers from the Second World War have been washed from their graves by rising sea levels in the Pacific. This is not the first time that climate change has been implicated in the re-emergence of buried soldiers. Earlier this year, melting ice exposed the frozen remains of World…

What If Disney Made An Animated Doctor Who Movie With All 13 Doctors?

Would the House of Mouse be able to squeeze every Doctor into a single animated film? Artist Stephen Byrne imagines what that movie poster might look like. You can see the full-sized image at Byrne’s Facebook page. He also has a rather cheeky response for folks complaining about the inaccuracies in his illustration. [The Artwork…

The Climate Prediction Center’s latest prediction for whether this year will be an El Niño one is out and it’s likely than ever that it will be, with an 80% by this fall. But there’s surprisingly good news: it may also be a weaker event than previously thought, especially compared to the similar conditions in…

No, A Paris Bridge Did Not Collapse Under the Weight of Its Love Locks

Reports that a Paris bridge “collapsed” due to the weight of thousands of padlocks placed by lovesick tourists have been wildly over-exaggerated. A bridge did not “collapse,” Not even “partially.” In fact, there are people walking over the “collapsed” bridge right now. Indeed, local residents complained a few weeks ago about the exceptionally high number…

At East Texas University, Demon Hunting is On the Curriculum

In the Texas town of Pinebox, football is king and something with tentacles is lurking in the local swimming hole. In this variant for the Savage Worlds RPG system, you might battle chupacabras or zombies, but you still have to ace your anthro final tomorrow. East Texas University positions the players as students at the…

This Glass-Bottomed Hotel Room Lets You Sleep With the Fishes

Bali is a beautiful place, but one of the drawbacks of beautiful places is that it’s hard to consume all of the beauty at once. That’s why the Bambu Inda Hotel built a glass-bottomed hotel room on top of a fish-filled pond. It’s supposed to create a “fishing village experience.” They must have some pretty…

This is why car chases are bound to become obsolete

This hilarious Volkswagen commercial shows why car chases will become as obsolete as those old movies that depend on telephone landlines to make their plots work. Think about it. What’s going to happen when, in the near future, anti-collision safety technology comes standard and obligatory in every car? No more car chases! Although, if you…

Moscow’s Replica of Times Square Looks Startlingly Realistic

Russia might not be doing much business with the US government right now, but that doesn’t mean it’s not interested in the foremost symbol of consumerism in America. VEGAS Crocus City, a Moscow mall, has unveiled a surprisingly realistic model of Times Square. It even features the forever-swamped TKTS podium—now bereft of crowds. The scale…

Did Male Faces Evolve To Take A Punch?

A controversial new theory claims that many features of the human face are the result of evolved defensive measures against fist fights. This is not the first time that fist-fighting has been implicated in the development of our physiologies. Back in 2012, scientists made the claim that fists changed the course of human evolution, arguing…