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This Hack Gives Your DSLR 9 Hours of Battery Life

Take a 10,000mAh Anker battery and a DC coupler from Amazon, add a hot-shoe plate and some industrial strength velcro, and throw it all at your DSLR. Nope, it’s not a craft project—it’ll give your camera an amazing 9 hours of battery life. This hack, by Chris Winter, gives a standard DSLR about 9 times…

Chromecast has been updated to show Google Drive presentations. Which is pretty handy: shove the dongle into your projector, make sure you’re on the same Wi-Fi network, and go present like a corporate rockstar. Perhaps.

This Noir Cartoon Is the Best Explanation of Fractals You’ll Ever See

Math is way more fun when it’s lent some narrative, some purpose—and we’ve never seen a better example than this stunning noir cartoon which explains fractals. You have to watch it. Starring a private eye called Manny Brot, it’s a brooding tale which kicks off with a bump on the head, a mysterious femme fatale…

The Mermaid Wasn’t Quite What He’d Expected

You hear about mermaids all the time, and they’re supposed to be these delicate, floating creatures — like graceful tropical fish, with flowing hair and bras made of anemones. But the reality is different. Imagine megalodon crossed with a mixed martial arts fighter. That’s what you’re dealing with. This amazing mermaid drawing was made by…

Stop What You’re Doing And Watch This Teenage Mind Control Trailer Now!

There have been some pretty silly TV movies on the Disney channel in the past. But they may be setting a ridonkulous new benchmark with Zapped, in which a teenage girl discovers that mind-control can be fun! Sadly (or maybe luckily), Zapped is not a remake of the Scott Baio movie about a nerdy dude…

The Squishy Side of Vigilante Justice Is Still No Place for Kids

If you thought The Raid was a white-knuckle thrill ride, just wait until the fur starts to fly in The Mega Plush II (The Stuffening?). Armed with nothing but his blades and the reflexes of a jungle cat, Mega Tiger decimates a corrupt SOC monkey hit squad faster than Sly Stallone can mumble “Why no…

Dumb and Dumber turned into a serious movie

How do you transform one of the funniest movies of all time in Dumb and Dumber starring two of the goofiest characters in Lloyd and Harry into a serious movie? By creating a movie trailer that expertly slices together previously hilarious scenes into a love drama called Love and Lover. That’s what Josh Rocklage did.…

How To Train Your Dragon 2 Featurette Shows Hiccup All Grown Up

Ever wonder what happened to that wily little boy and his beautiful dragon from How To Train Your Dragon? Well this sequel featurette shows a lot more of what happened five years later — and Hiccup is kind of a cartoon hottie. How To Train Your Dragon 2 will hit theaters on June 13th.

What happens when a normal guy gets to fly in a Thunderbird F-16

You can just see it in his eyes. It’s a combination of fear, disbelief in what he’s seeing, discomfort and general awesomeness blended together. It’s like he’s saying, “Holy crap what did I just get myself into oh my god this is fantastic wait how long can I last before I pass out.” Photographer Blair…

The Train Tunnel in This 1898 Film Is Now Part of Pacific Coast Highway

Santa Monica’s McClure Tunnel—is there a more dramatic 400 feet of roadway in all the Southland? First, the daylight fades as you leave behind the Santa Monica Freeway and plunge through the tunnel’s eastern portal. The road curves through the darkness, and then a new world flashes before you. As your eyes readjust, it all…

Two Previously Unknown Octavia Butler Stories Are Getting Published!

Great news for fans of Octavia Butler’s mind-expanding fiction: two previously unpublished stories of hers are coming out this June, in a single volume called Unexpected Stories. Here are the synopses of the two stories, according to Open Road Media, which is publishing the book: “A Necessary Being” tells of how the leaders of two…

A motorcycle crash at 140mph from the motorcyclist’s point of view

Well, this is absolutely terrifying. This helmet cam footage shows a motorcyclist crashing his bike at 140mph, hitting the car in front of him and having his body catapulted and spun for what seems like an eternity on the road. Amazingly, he survived the crash. Incredible. Unbreakable. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…

What the Hunt for IEDs Can Teach Us About Stopping Wildlife Poachers

The World Wildlife Fund is sending Google-financed drones to African national parks to track down illegal poachers. But computer scientist Thomas Snitch believes he can do a better job—by applying a mathematical model he developed for the military to find insurgents making improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Iraq. According to an article in Defense One,…

Love And Wishful Thinking Ruin Everything, On Warehouse 13

Warehouse 13 continues to race forward in its final, shortened, season, trying to wrap up all its plotlines in a hurry. Last night’s episode mostly dealt with Claudia’s comatose Carrie-esque sister, but also showed in general how our attempts to lift up our loved ones tend to backfire. In the episode’s ostensible “A” plot, a…

You’re Never Too Young To Start Playing The Game Of Thrones

Many of the characters in A Song of Ice and Fire are already quite young, but Patrick Ballesteros ages everyone down, with the exception of poor Ned Stark, who has been transformed into a child’s plaything. The latest entry in Ballesteros’ Nostalgia series, “King Me” is available as a print from his shop. King Me…

Cosmos and the Clash Between Academic and Popular Science

Over at Symmetry Magazine, DOE Office of High Energy Physics scientist Glen Crawford remembers how the original Cosmos show affected him as a college student. His comments are fascinating in light of the new show. Crawford describes being a physics student when Cosmos aired, and then what it was like to be in the same…

Doctor Who Finally Enters The Mainstream With Porn Parody Doctor Whore

Congratulations, Doctor Who! You’ve finally done it! You’ve penetrated the American public consciousness enough to warrant a porn parody! It may seem a bit tawdry, but rest assured, if people want to see your characters fucking each other, you know you’ve reached a major pop culture milestone. There are few details about Doctor Whore, other…

This Transparent Jumping Spider is the Stuff of Nightmares

There are more than 5000 species of jumping spider. This one, spotted in an Ecuadorian reserve by zoologist Wayne Maddison is both fascinating and terrifying. One thing that unites all jumping spiders is their four pairs of eyes, with one larger pair set a bit farther back from the others. What’s delightfully creepy about this…

Tomorrow People Are Superior In One Respect: They Are Better At Dying

Sorry, but the Dalek quote seems way too apt in this situation not to use. We’ve been hearing for months about how superior the Tomorrow People are, while also witnessing their atrophied reasoning skills. At this point, not only are they mostly unfit to live, they’re also terrible, horrible people. Spoilers ahead… I think someone…

Seriously, Though, Who Is Andy Serkis Playing In The New Star Wars?

So, we’ve gotten a look at the cast list for the upcoming Star Wars, and put together a working theory on just what roles we can expect to see them in, but one question still remains: Just what is Andy Serkis doing? So who do we think Serkis might be playing? RawheddRexx Serkis as a…