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First Orphan Black season 2 trailer has more clone-on-clone violence

It’s so close to the premiere of the second season of Orphan Black (so close!) and to celebrate here’s a short teaser trailer from Space. Watch as Tatiana Maslany gets super-pissed at her own clone spawn. Kick your own ass, Tatiana! The new season of Orphan Black will air on BBC America on April 19th,…

The Exosuit: What Tony Stark Would Wear Underwater

Meet the Exosuit. It’s a $600,000 atmospheric diving suit capable of taking a human 1,000 feet underwater at surface pressure, and it’s the first of its kind. If you have dramatic music handy, you should go ahead and play it, because this thing is insane. What is it? It’s what Tony Stark would wear to…

What Comcast Really Thinks About You (Hint: They Don’t Give a F-ck)

Have you been frantically petitioning for signatures against the Comcast-Time Warner merger? Do you tweet profanities at @TWCHelp and @ComcastCares in the hopes that someone will see your words and feel even the slightest pangs of regret? You’re wasting your life! Because Comcast doesn’t give a fuck. https://gizmodo.com/why-the-comcast-time-warner-cable-merger-is-even-worse-1522096469 Funny or Die’s newest video poking fun…

Odd Thomas is the type of feel-good horror movie they made in the 80s

Odd Thomas is an adaptation of a successful novel by Dean Koontz. But the actual movie has a breezy, quippy tone and a small-scale storyline that remind me of nothing so much as a low-budget 80s adventure film. It’s not a great movie, or even a particularly good movie, but it’s fun and cute and…

Gorgeous Lotus C-01 bike is half retro, half Tron, full awesome

Legendary car maker Lotus has produced a long line of exotic sports cars as beautiful as they are fast, but never motorcycles. Until now, that is. The company’s first foray into two-wheeled transportation is a work of art—the Lotus Motorcycle C-01. Created by genius designer Daniel Simon and developed by Germany’s Kodewa Performance Motorcycles, this…

This Guy Had a TV In His Taxi Before Most People Had One At Home

Less than 1 percent of American households had a TV set in 1948. But if you were lucky enough to hail a special cab in Chicago during the summer of ’48, you got a brief taste of America’s television-obsessed future. Chicago taxi driver Charles De Lorne was able to give his passengers quite a show,…

More Bad News From Mt.Gox: All Your Bitcoin Money Is Gone

The Mt.Gox saga just gets sadder and sadder. Not only did the company file for bankruptcy, but Mt.Gox CEO Mike Karpele went on Japanese TV a few minutes ago and admitted that everybody’s money is gone. Gone, gone, gone. How much money? According to one translation of the press conference: “The 750,000 bitcoins we kept…

Americans waste over 140 trillion calories of food a year

For the first time, scientists have generated a calorie-count for just how much food we waste in a year, and it is an insanely high amount: over 141 trillion calories, almost a full third of the total food calories produced in a year. You can parse out that calorie count data a lot of ways:…

Nissan’s Smart Rearview Mirror Isn’t Blinded By Passengers or Cargo

Have you ever been hesitant to over-pack a vehicle with luggage or passengers because it would obscure the sightline for your rearview mirror? Nissan’s Smart rearview mirror solves that problem by alternately displaying a live video feed from a camera mounted on the back of the vehicle. Rearview cameras of course aren’t new in the…

Israel Is Putting Frickin’ Lasers on Its Commercial Airliners

It’s not just IDF forces and Israeli settlements that come under rocket fire; militant groups have been known to take pot shots at commercial airlines as well—such as when a pair of SAMs narrowly missed an Israeli charter shortly after it took off from a Mombasa, Kenya airfield, in 2002. To protect vulnerable aircraft from…

George Takei describes his experience in a Japanese internment camp

Actor and activist George Takei recently made an appearance on Democracy Now! where, in addition to discussing Arizona’s recent anti-LGBTQ bill and his role as Mr. Sulu, he talked about his family’s experience inside a Japanese internment camp during the Second World War. The clip above is about seven minutes long, but here’s the transcript:…

Cool thingamajig lets you have your books flying around your home

This Harry Potterish floating book thingamajig designed by Kiril Gitman lets you display your favorite volumes flying around your living room. Useless awesomeness. He says he was inspired by the 2012 Oscar-winning animation The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

Watch Wind-up Toys and Walkmen Create Intricate Mechanical Drawings

Art can happen where you least expect it, which is definitely the case with the work of Echo Yang, who uses small toys and everyday electronics to create detailed drawings. Yang is a student of information design at Design Academy Eindhoven. In an effort to put a twist on the trend of generative design based…

Venezuelan anti-government protesters are cobbling together home-brew gas masks from just about anything they can find—including empty water bottles packed with cloth, stuffed into larger water bottles—to defend against tear gas attacks from their nation’s riot police as clashes between the two sides grow more violent by the day. Image: AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd

This dude has eaten only cheese pizza for the last 25 years

This is Dan, a 38-old-year old woodworker from Maryland who claims he has only eaten pizza for the last 25 years. Cheese pizza. Exclusively. He says he didn’t stop eating it despite being diagnosed with diabetes. That’s when doctors told him he had to change his diet if he didn’t want to lose his life…

America’s first settlers were trapped in Beringia for 10,000 years

The ancestors of Native Americans came to the New World by walking over a land bridge across the Bering Strait. But there’s a rather glaring 10,000 year gap in the story — one that could be explained by a migratory pause that lasted for millennia. Genetic evidence proves that Asian populations made the trek across…

This stunning animal looks like a glitch in reality’s programming

It belongs to the genus Sapphirina, and its skin – which can flicker from brilliant blue to near-invisible in an instant – is something you truly need to see to believe. Deep Sea News’ Rebecca Helm calls it “the most beautiful animal you’ve never seen.” The tiny marine crustaceans have shimmering, crystalline skin that derives…

The Jim Henson Creature Shop Highlight Reel Reinforces Our Muppet Love

The work done by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop doesn’t only just show up on Sesame Street and in the latest batch of Muppet movies. Any time you see a convincing looking creature in a commercial that wasn’t brought to life through CG, odds are the Creature Shop had a hand in its creation. So if…

Auto-Pause When You Fall Asleep Is the Best Netflix Hack

Falling asleep while watching Netflix is the worst. Invariably you miss all the meat of whatever you’re watching, and snap awake to the closing credits (or your morning alarm). Ugh. But a bunch of Netflix engineers have a (theoretical) solution: a Fitbit hack that pauses your stream when the wearable senses you’ve fallen asleep. Netflix’s…

I wish they made this amazing version of Dune

“Alejandro Jodorowsky’s unbridled enthusiasm for the project doesn’t seem to have waned in the thirty years since he began assembling what might be the greatest story never told on the silver screen,” says Jordan Kushins in Gizmodo. I don’t blame him—it would be so awesome. https://gizmodo.com/incredible-concept-art-from-the-most-amazing-sci-fi-mov-1531018019