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This Extending Table Puts Its Workings on Full Display

Sometimes, it’s good to have nowhere to hide—and this extending table is a great example. With a perfectly transparent surface, its inner workings have to look presentable. And they sure do. The brainchild of Brussels-based designer Alain Gilles, the table has been made for Italian furniture brand Bonaldo. It turns the usually functional extension mechanism…

Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Are Producing A Flintstones Movie

Wow — there’s going to be a Flintstones movie that might actually be good. Huh. THR just announced that Warner Bros. is readying a full-length, animated Flintstones feature, and Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are executive producing. Chris Henchy (who wrote The Campaign) is penning the script. This is great, because let’s be real, the…

Write Us A Six-Word Science Fiction Story!

Whether your story focuses on the little not-quite-a-planet that could (“NOW I’m a planet,” Pluto exclaimed. — richardrae1) or is just perusing the Amazon reviews from an alternate dimension (Cat carrier reviews. Schrödinger’s mixed results. — spocko), write it up for us now. And then settle in for some reading. Image: TazioBettin.

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The Ape-Human War Begins In New Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes Trailer

If you were pleasantly surprised at how awesome Rise of the Planet of the Apes was, then you might not be surprised at how awesome its sequel, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, looks in this second trailer. But it’s still looks unbelievably good. In a world ravaged by the simian flu, the apes…

Experimental Color-Changing Fabric Could Turn You Into a Chameleon

Animals do it, so why shouldn’t we? This experimental textile project by Judit Eszter Karpati allows a fabric to change its color in a snap, based on its surroundings, thanks to some Arduino brains. Her Chromosonic research project is a programmable, electronic, colour-changing textile interface, that could have all kinds of applications. She explains the…

A Stunning Shot Of Our Pale Blue Dot Rising Over The Lunar Horizon

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) experiences 12 “earthrises” every day, but it recently took full advantage of an opportunity to capture this image of Earth — and it’s marvelous. Normally, the LRO has its camera pointing down on to the lunar surface. But in this instance, NASA scientists had it pitch forward while approaching the…

The Official Optimus Prime EVA Unit Revealed

Despite the initial art for the crazy Evangelion x Transformers crossover, which featured Optimus Prime looking truly badass in EVA Unit-01’s colors, the first figure of the collaboration has arrived, and it’s actually EVA Unit-01 decked out in Optimus Prime’s colors. Wacky! Meet Optimusn EVA Prime. I still have no idea how this is really…

How Will The Scarlet Witch And Quicksilver Mess With The Avengers?

There’s casting news from Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, Jurassic World, and The Stand. Godzilla’s screenwriter talks about the character’s relevance in the modern world. And John Barrowman talks Arrow’s finale, and a possible return to Torchwood. Spoilers now! Top image: Concept Art from Avengers: Age of Ultron Avengers: Age of Ultron In a recent…

Why the Military Should Share Its Information

Often, secrecy is considered to be a form of power: if you and only you know stuff, you’re at an advantage. But, as General Stanley McChrystal explains in this video, that isn’t always the case. McChrystal started fighting al Qaeda in 2003, and he considered his secret information to be the lifeblood of his operations.…

Watch Ikea’s March to World Furniture Domination

Ikea was founded in 1943, and its first showroom didn’t open until 1953. Since, though, it’s become an unstoppable furniture juggernaut hellbent on making it into everyone’s living room. This map shows how unrelenting that’s been. Not dissimilar to a map showing Apple’s worldwide retail takeover—though arguably this Ikea one looks a hell of a…

Taser Is Attaching Wearable Cameras to 500 London Cops

In the biggest trial of its kind, 500 London police officers will today be supplied with wearable cameras to record what they, and those around them, do. The cameras, supplied by Taser, boast 130-degree field of view, record over 12 hours of continuous footage, and are tough enough to cope with being run over by…

Why Privacy in Social Media Is So Complex

If you’ve ever been stung by someone sharing something online about you that you’d rather they hadn’t, you’ve experienced the difficulties of maintaining privacy across social networks. In this video, Professor Derek McAuley explains just why it’s so complex. He starts with a very good point. Human social dynamics have evolved over ten of thousands…

See What Your Favorite Webcomics Look Like Animated

There are tons of webcomics out there that would make great animated series, and animator Matt Bixler gives us a taste of what those cartoons would look like. At Webcomics Animated, Bixler takes a single moment or character from a wide array of webcomics and turns it into an animated gif. You can see a…

What Frozen would have looked like if Tim Burton made it

Artist Yoko imagined what Frozen would have looked like if Tim Burton directed it by re-drawing the characters in a style that Tim Burton would approve of. You know, the huge giant eyes, stick skinny bodies and oversized heads. It works pretty well! I wish Yoko would have shown what a Burton-style Arrendelle would have…

Adobe Voice: A Free iPad App For Pitching Brilliant Ideas to the World

Everyone with a cool new idea or vision wants a concise and beautiful video to illustrate their story and broadcast it to the world. But oh, right—you suck at all things visual and just learned how to make something move in After Effects. Adobe’s new iPad app, Voice, is there to hold your hand in…

Watch a Floating Naked CGI Lady Go Full-On Tetsuoooooooooo (NSFW)

At first, you probably think its just some run-of-the-mill organic stalagmites growing out of the nice lady with the shaved head floating in an imperceptible black space. But no, in Relics, it’s much, much worse than that. These two minutes of avant garde nightmare fuel have been brought to you by Merchant and Sons.

These drawings are actually porcelain sculptures

Art that’s unexpected always tickles me. Like these pieces from Katharine Morling. They look like black and white drawings from a comic book but they’re actually ceramic sculptures made from clay and porcelain. Yep, these things aren’t just sketches or made from paper, they’re cheeky fun sculptures. The Awesomer says Morling uses clay and porcelain…

The Breathtaking Beauty of Los Angeles at Night

Has Los Angeles finally found an answer to the title sequence of Woody Allen’s Manhattan? Revealing the beauty of nighttime L.A. in all its glory, Colin Rich‘s mesmerizing time lapse video “City Lights” plays off the interaction between two kinds of night light: the twinkling stars above the horizon and the pulsating city below. In…

The Most Eye-Popping (And Brain-Popping) Scenes From 10.5: Apocalypse!

Say what you want about Roland Emmerich. He’d have to work pretty hard to make a disaster movie as ludicrous (and as ridiculous-looking) as the 2006 miniseries 10.5: Apocalypse. Check out these wonderfully bad special effects, where a couple on a ski-lift get caught by a sudden volcanic eruption! In 10.5, all the earthquakes start…