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Samyang Introduces New Lenses For Your Wide Angle Pleasure

Adding to its slew of affordable, manual-focus glass, Samyang announced some new options for super wide-angle shooting in both DSLR and mirrorless mounts. First up is a 10mm f/2.8 lens that will come in almost any popular mount including Canon, Nikon, and most mirrorless systems. It costs $529. Super-duper wide. Then there’s a 12mm f/2.0…

The Evolution Of The Bicycle, Beautifully Animated

Loving this wonderful 90-second short from the folks at Visual Artwork. Through a series of beautifully animated transitions, it highlights the evolution of the bicycle, from the wooden horse to the modern racer, and the mechanical differences between each iteration of this iconic mode of transportation. Can’t wait to see what tomorrow’s bike designs look…

The Walking Dead‘s Lizzie And Mika Wrote Their Own Theme Song

While things didn’t work out quite to well for their characters, actresses Kyla Kennedy and Brighton Sharbino are the best of friends in real life. They even wrote a song together, inspired by last week’s Walking Dead episode “The Grove.” If you haven’t seen it, don’t watch this. They got a bit of help from…

Watch Fallon and Billy Joel Form a Doo-Wop Group With an iPad App

It’s Friday, and if there’s even an ounce of joy in your heart, drop everything and watch this delightful clip of Jimmy Fallon and Billy Joel nailing a four-part harmony rendition of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” with an assist from an iPad app. You could make your own solo barbershop quartet using the same iPad…

What Bitcoin Would Have Been Like If It Existed in the 90s

Bitcoin! It’s wild! It’s crazy! It’s all the rage! But what if instead of bubbling up to the surface and making waves here in the twenty-teens it had gotten popular way back in the 90s? Well, it would have looked a little something like this. This mock-up by the ever-talented SquirrelMonkeyCom who has talked similar…

Just Tap Your Phone On Every Wall and This App Will Draw a Floorplan

It’s not a bad idea to measure a room before you go out and buy a bunch of new furniture. And if you’ve got an iPhone, that becomes less of an ordeal because you can trade your tape measure for this slick app called RoomScan. It automatically generates floorplans by simply tapping your phone on…

First Tantalizing Clues About The Storyline For Star Trek 3!

Have all the Star Wars auditions we’ve been hearing about for months just been for new TV shows? Set photos may show the return of a classic series monster to Doctor Who. Roberto Orci describes Sleepy Hollow’s season two villains. And are the Lego Movie directors taking over Ghostbusters 3? Spoilers now! Top image: Star…

14 Radical Skyscrapers That Are More Than Just Buildings

These days, we think of tall buildings as profitable, if predictable, tools of real estate. But at one time, skyscrapers were as technologically exciting as the Space Race. The eVolo Skyscraper Competition, now in its ninth year, aims to recapture some of that excitement. The annual competition asks designers to imagine new ways in which…

Disordered Hyperuniformity: A Weird New State of Matter in Chicken Eyes

Despite what you learned in school,there are way more than four states of matter. One possible new one, disordered hyperuniformity, was recently found in the weirdest place – the eyes of chickens. Classical States of Matter To better understand an exotic state of matter like disordered hyperuniformity, it may be helpful to review the characteristics…

This Is the Clearest Infrared Panorama of the Milky Way Ever Captured

You’re looking at the clearest infrared panorama of the Milky Way ever captured. At 20 gigapixels, it’s going to take you a long time to check the whole thing out. Unveiled at the TEDActive 2014 Conference in Vancouver, Canada, yesterday, the panorama of our galaxy is constructed from more than 2 million infrared images taken…

A Guide to Programming for Non-Programmers

Coding: how hard can it be? Take a few ideas, type a few lines of letters and numbers, sprinkle with some rarely used punctuation marks and—boom—you have software! Right? https://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-happens-when-your-non-coding-boss-asks-you-1541110357 Wrong. This PHD Comics guide to programming for non-programmers is wonderful, though—and anyone who’s ever had to write a real line of code will know…

Bitcoin Software Fixed to Avoid Another Mt. Gox

In a bid to avoid another Mt. Gox, the software which drives Bitcoin transactions on the Internet has been updated to fix the weakness which contributed to digital vault’s downfall. https://gizmodo.com/the-bitcoin-exchange-mt-gox-has-disappeared-1530395202 Version 0.9.0 of the “Bitcoin Core” software includes five significant changes to help prevent attacks on the currency. The weakness which appears to have…

Turkey Has Banned Twitter

Turkey’s Internet watchdog has blocked Twitter, following threats by its Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan fuelled by the network’s ability to carry rumors about government corruption. It’s a bold and draconian move from a country desperate to join the EU—which means it joins the ranks of Syria, North Korea and Iran on a list of…

How and Why the NSA’s Been Hacking Sys Admins Worldwide

A new report from The Intercept reveals that the NSA has been hunting and hacking system administrators the world over in order to gain access to the networks they control. A handful of screengrabs supplied by Edward Snowden reveal that the endeavor was probably worth it for them. Seems the NSA was able to monitor…

Medium has finally launched an iPhone app for reading its stories on the hoof—though there’s no search function, and you can’t write content through it. Interesting.

Mt. Gox Found Over $100 Million In Bitcoin In a Random Wallet

Bitcoin is big money. When Mt. Gox went belly up, hundreds of millions in bitcoin up and disappeared. Now, the troubled exchange just happens to have stumbled into 200,000 ‘coin it thought was lost, or roughly 116 million dollars. https://gizmodo.com/the-bitcoin-exchange-mt-gox-has-disappeared-1530395202 According to documents from Mt. Gox Chief Executive Officer Mark Karpeles and cited by the…

The history of movies from 1878 to 2014 in just three minutes

Here’s a wide ranging film montage that shows the evolution of film from its conception in 1878 to the whizbang movie trailers of today. It covers over a hundred years of film, with a new movie representing a new year starting from 1920 and on. Made by Scott Ewing, the compilation clip comes quick at…

A Fantasy Film Noir About A Beautiful Thief Who Steals Ideas

Combining 3D and 2D animation, short film Dark Noir plunges us into a visually striking world where ideas exist as monstrous beings that can be stolen from their owners. When a detective goes in search of an old man’s ideas, he learns something about his own past. Comic book creator Rafael Grampá wrote and directed…

Seeing penguins get confused and trip over a rope is hilariously cute

I don’t know if this makes me an awful human but I can’t stop laughing and saying aww (also known as awwwfu-laughing) when I watch this video of a group of penguins tripping over a rope. Those poor guys can’t fly so to cross the beach they just have to trip. Imagine the conversation. “No,…

What if crash test dummies became sentient right before the car crash?

Here’s a fascinating 3D animation short from Malek Rizkallah. Called Crush, it entertains the idea of crash test dummies becoming sentient from a timely spark in the precious moments before the car crashes. The execution is crisp and clean but the concept is so interesting that it makes you feel real emotions in the eyes…