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These guys made a $2 million Lamborghini with only $15,000 and a Volvo

If it looks like a Lamborghini, if it smells like a Lamborghini… it still might just be a Volvo. Yep, the $2 million supercar you’re staring at above was made at home from guys at Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan using a thirty year old Volvo 740. The total money they spent to make a carbon copy of…

Those brain implants may be trickier than you realized

Ramez Naam, author of Nexus and Crux, has speculated a lot about humans being merged with machines — but he’s actually quite skeptical about how quickly this will happen in reality. He’s also not sure the Singularity is coming in his lifetime. Naam is guest blogging over at Charles Stross’ blog AntiPope, and all of…

Playing Flappy Bird inside this box is way more fun than on your phone

Missed out on your chance to download Flappy Bird? It’s okay. You can just make a DIY box version of the same game. It looks way more fun. That’s what Fawn Qiu did. She made an IRL version of Flappy Bird using an Arduino sensor, two servo motors, a reed switch and magnets. Oh and…

Watch Spike Jonze argue with an anchor who thinks Her is about tech

This is fascinating. Spike Jonze went on the BBC and became petulant with a reporter who asked him about his movie Her’s theme of “falling in love with software” — something that Jonze didn’t appreciate, since he sees the film as a pure love story. Worth seeing for yourself. https://jezebel.com/watch-spike-jonze-get-really-whiney-in-this-interview-a-1524417464

In the ’60s, Disney Almost Built a Ski Resort in Sequoia National Park

Today, Mineral King Valley is a remote hideaway within California’s Sequoia National Park, accessible only by foot-trail or a winding, treacherous automobile road. But in the 1960s this mountain paradise of snowmelt streams, white-fir forests, and hulking granite peaks nearly became home to a massive ski resort developed by the master of mass entertainment: Walt…

Ballet of bullets: Firing a fully automatic rifle in super slow motion

Peaceful isn’t the right word, obviously. Quiet isn’t exactly correct either. Cathartic may be closest. That’s what it feels like to see a fully automatic assault rifle be fired in super slow motion. The bullets come one after the other in a relentless barrage but there’s a certain amount of detachment to its power and…

Perusing the Meat Counter at the Intergalactic Night Market

“The trick to preparing Xenomorph at this life stage,” the butcher said as he sawed off another leg, “is to cut out the ovipositor. Otherwise, your dinner’s just going to be hungry again in an hour.” Night Market Galaxy by Horim [CG Hub via Xombie DIRGE]

RIP Bob Casale, Founding Member and Guitarist of Devo

Devo’s Bob Casale, founding guitarist of the genre-defying new wave band, electronic music pioneer, and wearer of the best hat in music, has died from heart failure at 61. In his honor, drop everything and dance to their breakout hit “Whip It,” which might just contain one of the most memorable guitar riffs of all…

The UK Is Crowdsourcing Its Next Map Of The Ocean Floor

Believe it or not, we don’t know how deep large parts of the ocean off the British coast really are, and this is obviously not a good thing for the many sailors who cruise around those waters. A new project funded by the European Community is using technology to solve this problem—technology and lots of…

High school student’s argument for ammonia-fueled cars is awesome

Carbon emissions from cars and other vehicles are a huge part of what is driving current climate changes. Now a high school student has made a passionate argument for ammonia-fueled cars, and he even got it published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Doo Won Kang is a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School…

​Watch a futuristic family inexorably destroy itself… in 3D!

FYI: The Joyners in 3D is going to be on all the “Best Comics of 2014” lists, so you’ll want to pick it up tomorrow. It’s set in 2062 and is printed in 3D, but the story is not flashy — it’s a grim tragedy of how sex, jealousy, work and hate can tear a…

Seriously, why aren’t we eating bugs?

They’re nutritious, easy on the environment, and plentiful. So, why aren’t we eating more — or any — bugs? Earlier today, we looked at the limited range of meats Americans were eating (pretty much just chicken, beef, and pork), and all those uneaten rabbits and goats that we were missing out on. But there was…

This Website Lets You Turn Yourself Into a GIF in Seconds

We know what you’re thinking. If there’s anything the internet suffers from (narcissism, insecurity, obscenity, an uncomfortable affinity for cats), it’s certainly not a dearth of websites dedicated to GIFs. But surprisingly, of all the websites out there created for the sole purpose of flooding the internet with more GIFs, there’s none quite like “And…

Seeing the original 1928 Mickey Mouse animated in 3D is terrifying

Some things are better left untouched. Really3D, the hilarious YouTube channel that animates classics into ridiculous 3D renders, proves that with a gagful 3D animation of the 1928 classic Steamboat Willie. You know, the short film that first introduced the world to Mickey Mouse. The 3D version of the classic is so bad and terrifying…

Disney dumps Tomorrowland’s famous Talking Trash Can, “Push”

Because it was garbage. BA-ZING! If you’re a hardcore Disney fan, then you’re probably aware of the remote controlled, talking trash can that interacts with guests at Tomorrowland and Walt Disney World. It has an adorable voice and a happy demeanor. According to Inside the Magic, PUSH has been “permanently closed,” due to the expiration…

Computers are providing solutions to math problems that we can’t check

Good news! A computer has solved the longstanding Erdős discrepancy problem! Trouble is, we have no idea what it’s talking about — because the solution, which is as long as all of Wikipedia’s pages combined, is far too voluminous for us puny humans to confirm. A few years ago, the mathematician Steven Strogatz predicted that…

One of four shortlisted designs shortlisted for a new arts center in Arnhem, the Netherlands, this twisted cube by Bjarke Ingels Group curved upward at each midpoint to create public park space underneath its eves. Let’s just hope those mirrored louvres don’t light any fires. [Rijnboog]

This Woman Secretly Dubbed American Movies During the Cold War

In the 1980s Irina Margareta Nistor worked as a translator of TV programs in Romania under the Communist regime. But in her spare time she secretly dubbed over 3,000 banned movie titles, all VHS tapes smuggled in from the West. These tapes quickly spread throughout Romania. Nobody knew Nistor’s name. But everybody knew her voice.…

The mammoth asteroid set to fly by Earth last night just disappeared

Last night, a giant asteroid was supposed to streak by the Earth, close enough for us to catch a glimpse as it zipped by. Except it never showed, and now astronomers say they have no idea just where the 900-foot asteroid has gone. https://gizmodo.com/watch-a-live-feed-here-of-a-giant-asteroid-as-it-zips-b-1524530893 So, just how does one misplace an asteroid the size of…

This Tiny Chip Could Give Doctors a 3D View From Inside The Heart

Remember that great episode of The Magic Schoolbus, where the class took a field trip through the human body? This little chip could be as close as we ever need to get to that dream, by providing a real-time 3D view from within the heart and blood vessels. The device, whipped up by a team…