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I wish dogs would always move in slow motion like this corgi

Screw Google Glass. What I want is to see the world slowed down, shot at 500 frames per second and played back at 24 frames per second whenever I want. Or see time-lapses by blinking twice and accelerating time. Example: This corgi. Just imagine being able to watch anything in the real world and be…

This Genius App Would Turn Your Smartphone Pics Into Prints, For Free

Where are the dozens of pictures on your smartphone or tablet going? Nowhere, probably. Printing them at home looks chintzy, and getting professional prints is expensive. Flag wants to change that, with an app that would give you high-quality prints and mail them wherever you want, all for free. Cool! The app, which is currently…

New Cosmos trailer shows how Carl Sagan’s series got upgraded

Neil deGrasse Tyson has picked up where Carl Sagan ended, and his newly rebooted Cosmos series look pretty astounding, as you can see in this trailer with the first actual footage. We are exceptionally excited for the 13-episode series titled Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey, produced by Seth MacFarlane and Sagan’s original 1980s collaborators —…

This mesmerizing timelapse shows an entire year’s worth of weather

Behold EUMESAT’s first annual global weather overview! Over the course of eight minutes, the narrated video reviews all the global weather 2013 had to offer, from arctic blasts to super-typhoons. The video was put together by EUMETSAT using images taken by European, Japanese, and U.S. satellites. The background was provided by NASA’s Blue Marble Project.…

The new From Dusk Till Dawn TV series looks oddly light on vampires

Here’s the first trailer for Robert Rodriguez’s From Duck Till Dawn TV series, which… reimagines his 1996 movie, and I say reimagines because I don’t know how else to say “completely rewrites Quentin Tarantino’s original script and made it a dramatic story about two horrible criminals who take refuge in a vampire brothel.” I’m actually…

Alien monsters or awesome spiders, I just love these little guys

I can’t stop looking at the extraordinary photos by Thomas Shahan, an Oregon-based artist and microphotographer who creates amazing portraits of arthropods, including these awesome jumping spiders. His beautiful monsters don’t make me run in fear, but make me smile (knowing they are tiny, that is.) In fact, some of their faces are hilarious. Above:…

Scarlett Johansson Chooses SodaStream Over Humanitarian Group

Scarlett Johansson’s SodaStream endorsement just came at a price; she’s been ousted as an Oxfam International ambassador, with a spokesman citing “a fundamental difference of opinion” as her reason for stepping down (read: fired) from the international humanitarian organization. Controversy started surrounding the actress’s partnership with the group as soon as she came out in…

Drilling surprise opens door to volcano-powered electricity

Can enormous heat deep in the earth be harnessed to provide energy for us on the surface? A promising report from a geothermal borehole project that accidentally struck magma – the same fiery, molten rock that spews from volcanoes – suggests it could. Above: One of Iceland’s geothermal power plants | Photo by Gretar Ivarsson…

An Entire City Under Construction to Save Another from Climate Change

The African nation of Nigeria is experiencing many familiar problems in our age of climate change: rising sea levels, storm surges, devastating flooding. Now its coastal city Lagos is going to outrageous lengths to protect itself, both environmentally and financially, by building an entirely new city the size of Manhattan between it and the ocean.…

There’s a Solar Eclipse Happening Now That Can Only Be Seen From Space

This is a photo of what’s happening right now above our heads. It’s a solar eclipse near the moon. You just can’t see it, because you’re not in space. In-space solar eclipses are fairly common, but they’re not always caught on camera, and they’re not readily visible to us Earthlings. Besides, there’s always room in…

Insane Russians jumping off 1,000-foot rock walls

Here’s another heartbeat-accelerating video courtesy of your usual bunch of suicidal Russians: Ropejumping off the rock walls of North Nassrani, in Jordan. The crazy thing about ropejumping is that you really risk your physical integrity by doing it. The ropes are not elastic, like in bungee jumping. It all depends on physics: [Unlike bungee jumping]…

Lockheed takes a major step toward bringing lasers to the battlefield

Defense contractor Lockheed Martin has successfully demonstrated a 30-kilowatt fiber optic laser for military applications. It’s one of the most powerful lasers ever seen — and a major step forward to getting directed-energy weapons on the battlefield. Described as a “weapons grade” laser, the 30-kilowatt beam combines many fiber lasers operating a slightly different wavelengths…

Can Motorola Still Be Awesome Without Google?

You can make all kinds of guesses about why Google sold Motorola. Did it only want the patents all along? Is it making nice with Samsung? But a more pressing question has been weighing on our minds: “So uh… what about the Moto X?” In a year where more and more manufacturers surrendered to stock…

A map of ​how much snow it takes to cancel school across the U.S.

How much snow does it take to cancel school in your area? This map takes a look at just how much snow around the country it takes to have a snowday. Redditor atrubetskoy made this map by using a combination of local news reports, a survey, and average snowfall levels from NOAA maps to make…

Wastewater from Cheese is Generating Electricity in Wisconsin

As the country’s largest producer of cheese, Wisconsin is also the country’s largest producer of cheese waste. But why think of that as a bad thing? In the hands of some enterprising Wisconsinites, what was once wastewater is now electricity. This is, after all, the same state that’s using salty cheese brine to de-ice its…

We’re getting a TV pilot out of comic iZombie

iZombie was a wonderful and canceled-too-soon comic from Vertigo, about a secret zombie named Gwen who has to eat brains to keep from becoming a mindless monster, but gets their memories, and ends up having to solve their murders. And The CW has just ordered a pilot. If you’ll recall, the show is being championed…

Mayan Modernism: Designs for a huge museum of Mayan Culture, planned for completion in Guatemala City by 2017, are “inspired by the language of Mayan temple architecture,” according to its architects. I wonder if the jungle overgrowth comes included. [Over,Under and Harry Gugger Studio] Courtesy Harry Gugger Studio and over,under. Rendering completed by Neoscape.

This Wonder Tub Has a Built-in Sink, Speakers, and Digital Controls

It might reduce the number of bathroom fixtures you need to scrub come cleaning day, but the built-in sink on this curvaceous Symbiosis bathtub from Desnahemisfera hopefully doesn’t drain into the tub to conserve water usage—because that would be disgusting. Thankfully, the designers didn’t feel that anyone would want to bathe in toothpaste spit either.…

Han Solo completely redeems podracing in new Star Wars Lego commercial

Lego is releasing a new line of Star Wars sets called Microfighters, where characters get awesome mini-versions of ships like the Millennium Falcon and Star Destroyers to jet around in. The reason you care besides the fact that Star Wars Legos are great, is because this new commercial for them rules. Seriously, Disney. When you…

20 Awesome Stickers From When Your Suitcase Told Stories

There was a time when well-traveled luggage looked like the suitcase above: covered with travel stickers, trophies of every adventurous explorer. My father, who spent his youth traveling across Europe in the 60s and 70s kept his weary suitcase for a long time; as a child, I admired all those well-aged little pictures of remote…