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Sharp 8K Glasses-Free 3D Eyes-On: Future Is Hard

Sharp has been showing off an 85-inch 8K TV for years, and now the company is taking absurdly high-resolution to an ambitious new level with a prototype of an 85-inch 8K TV with Dolby glasses free 3D. That’s a lot of unproven tech in one concept. So let’s be straight up: The glasses-free 3D on…

NASA spots a ‘potentially hazardous’ new asteroid

Say hello to 2013 YP139 — a newly discovered 0.4 mile (650 meter) wide asteroid spotted by NASA’s recently re-started NEOWISE spacecraft. Preliminary calculations show it’ll come within 300,000 miles from Earth — thus qualifying it as a potential headache. Above: The six red dots in this composite picture indicate the location of the first…

Which science fiction classic is best read before the age of 18?

We try all sorts of things to introduce our children to the books we love. But maybe part of getting your kids into classic science fiction and fantasy is picking the right books. Which science fiction and fantasy books should people read before they turn 18, in order to appreciate them fully? Please include a…

Some idiot paid $42,000 for a one-hour webcam session with this lady

Her name is Maîtresse Madeline. She makes bondage, domination, and sadomasochism videos (NSFW) for site Kink.com. And now she’s going to charge a single person $42,000 for one hour of webcam sex, perhaps the most expensive private sex webcam session of all time. Who is this crazy person? Did she or he spend all his…

As the polar vortex puts an unprecedented deep freeze on America, it’s business as usual at Sweden’s Icehotel, where people have been paying to experience a night in the cold for 24 seasons. This year, French architects Les Ateliers des Germains carved out a Parisian skyline in one suite—the perfect setting for visitors to act…

The 10 Most Unsubscribed Email Lists of 2013

Whether you willingly signed up in the naive hope that maybe this one would prove useful, or your email address just magically appeared on the list, chances are your email inbox is plagued by an onslaught of undesirable newsletters on the daily. So it takes a lot to make it into the most-hated list. Unsubscribing…

How ignoring a Facebook friend request actually works

Poorly Drawn Lines has become my favorite internet cartoon. Wonderfully quirky and absurd, beautifully designed, it always hits a sweet spot. Like this one, explaining the mental processes at both sides of a Facebook’s ignored friend request. I confess I click ignore all the time. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…

A Thousand Dollar Flash Drive, A Massive Battery Pack [Deals]

Leave the external hard drive, take theflash drive. This Kingston DataTraveler HyperX Predator 1TB USB3 drive puts a whole lot of your stuff in a very small package. With an MSRP of $2310, it might be the deepest discount we’ve ever posted. [Amazon] For the rest of us, here’s a PNY 128GB USB3 drive for…

This webcomic captures the day-to-day horrors of living with depression

Depression can be a difficult illness to understand if you’ve never experienced it, and depressive episodes can be incredibly isolating experiences. But the webcomic Depression Comix offers a peek into the depressed mind while helping a lot of depressed folks feel less alone. Trigger warning: Folks who are triggered by depictions of self-injury and suicidal…

How Conservatives Hijacked a Pro-Obamacare Facebook Meme

We all have those Facebook friends—friends with Very Strong Political Opinions they just can’t keep to themselves. While the political memes popular on Facebook pander shamelessly to people who already agree, sometimes the memes get twisted. And mutated. And even co-opted by the opposite party. Facebook’s data science team has a fascinating post about the…

The amazing courage of a skater boy who lost his legs under a train

It takes a special kind of courage and willpower to see yourself with no legs and decide that you’re going to be awesome at skateboarding. That’s the case of skater Italo Romano, a guy who lost his legs in a train accident when he was 13. As a teenager he lost his legs playing between…

This crazy device will power your machines after the apocalypse

A group of bicycle-obsessed inventors have created the ultimate power source for the environmental apocalypse. As you can see in this video, you can use a simple bicycle to power everything from your laptop to your butter churn and wood chopper. James Hamblin interviews the minds behind Pedal Power, makers of this awesome form of…

Watch this pod of dolphins get completely stoned on puffer fish

Last week we reported on how dolphins like to get high by ingesting the nerve toxin released by puffer fish — but there was no video. The BBC has now released the footage, and it’s just as awesome as we hoped.

The Clone Wars cartoon will get an ending, courtesy of Dark Horse

Dark Horse may be losing the Star Wars comics license next year, but they’re clearly trying to end it right — including the new announcement that the Clone Wars cartoon will get a real, official ending courtesy of a new four-part comic miniseries, beginning this summer. I don’t need to tell Clone Wars fans that…

50 Cent Would Like to Talk To You About His Headphones

I became aware of 50 Cent’s favorite Instagram hashtag before the headphones they’re promoting. A snapshot of a statue orgy? #SMSAudio. A picture of Claire Huxtable? #SMSAudio. Everything #SMSAudio, all of the time. Curtis Jackson knows a thing or two about social engagement. We live in a world where people judge the quality of a…

Laura Vandervoort reveals the sexy werewolf secrets of Syfy’s Bitten

Are you tired of watching vampires hump each other’s brains out? Are you ready for a totally different set of horny monsters? Well, wait until you get a load of Syfy’s hot new Bitten series starring the astoundingly gorgeous Laura Vandervoort and a whole pack of hot, bearded wolf men. We got all the details…

Okay, DC Comics is straight-up lying to children now

I don’t know what young comics fan Spencer expected when he wrote in to DC Comics, his favorite publisher, to ask what DC plans to do now that “Marvel seemingly dominates the live action superhero movie industry?” (His words!) But I bet he didn’t expect to get an answer that was pretty much just bullshit.…

Science Finds the Universe’s Best French Fries Would Come From Jupiter

Just because we can’t fry food in the vacuum of space doesn’t mean that the entire universe has to be devoid of its greasy wonder. In fact, turns out us Earthlings live in an environment damned to produce subpar french fries without even realizing it. According to a new study, if you’re really jonesing for…

Never-before-seen Alfred Hitchcock’s Holocaust documentary unearthed

The film you can see over these lines has never seen the light. It was made by Alfred Hitchcock after being traumatized by the images recorded by the British Army Film Unit at the Nazi concentration camps of Dachau and Mauthausen. It’s a devastating film that should be shown at high school everywhere. Directed and…

See for yourself how Coulson came back to life after The Avengers

Warning: This video is actually pretty horrifying and gnarly. Turns out that Agent Coulson’s return from the dead after The Avengers wasn’t quite as straightforward as he (and we) were originally told, judging from this clip from last night’s Agents of SHIELD. Spoilers ahead… The video above actually shows the seventh surgery Coulson had after…