Latest

Gal Gadot cast as Wonder Woman in Batman Vs. Superman

Long have we waited for a Wonder Woman movie or television show that didn’t make us want to flay the very skin from our flesh. Now it looks like we just got one step closer. Warner Bros. and Zack Snyder have cast their Wonder Woman for the Batman Vs. Superman movie, and she’s both Fast…

Hanjie Wanda Square, a high-end mall designed by Dutch architects UNStudio, opened in the Chinese city of Wuhan this week. There are 42,300 stainless steel orbs strung along the facade, each embedded with an LED that, together, turn the building’s skin into a multi-colored screen at night. [Domus; image by Edmon Leong]

Some horrible person left a dead deer in a New York City trashcan

Some days I lose all faith in humanity: DNAinfo reports on the finding of a taxidermic deer in a trashcan in Washington Heights, a New York City neighborhood in northern Manhattan, on the corner 159th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. The deer was stuffed upright into the garbage, with its front legs curled into a resting…

13 Ways to Make Legend of Korra‘s Third Season Amazing

With book two of Legend of Korra closed, it’s time to look ahead. We already know that book three will be called “Change” and deal with the after-effects of Korra’s decision to leave the human world connected to the spirit world. There’s a lot of potential there, and the good news is the team behind…

Play Chess And Plant Herbs on This Bauhaus-Inspired Game Board

In the ultimate power ranking of common domestic herbs and succulents, which would you say reigns supreme? It’s an important question that deserves serious consideration before playing the green-themed Micro-Planter Chess Set, which ingeniously doubles as a mini indoor-outdoor checkerboard garden. The husband-and-wife duo behind XYZ Workshop looked back about 100 years to Josef Hartwig’s…

Daughter of Smoke and Bone is the next YA book-to-movie adaptation

With the success of The Hunger Games movies, it’s no wonder that studios are hot to greenlight the next big young adult series. And the newest book to fuel Hollywood’s YA fire is Daughter of Smoke and Bone, which just nabbed a director. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that director Michael Gracey (who we are…

Gifts for the Camera Obsessed Photo Nerd

Everyone has that friend or relative who you never see without a camera. Here are some gift ideas for sure-fire ways into their photo-snapping hearts. You’ll find all of our recommendations below. Go ahead and add your own if there’s anything we missed!

A Rehab Machine That Lets Patients See Their Muscles in Motion

A skilled physiotherapist can get your body working again after an injury, but even they can’t see your inner workings while you’re rebuilding muscle. So a team of researchers from Saitama University have developed a rehabilitation machine that generates a virtual representation of the muscles in your arm letting you, and your physician, see them…

How to make a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster (on Earth)

We’re missing more than a few ingredients on this planet to make the infamous cocktail from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — unless someone has a reserve of Arcturan Mega-gin they’re not telling us about — but this enterprising young man has concocted a recipe that may give Earthlings a semblance of the drink…

Hollywood to force Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark into one movie

Sounds messy. That being said, no movie could be as scary as the horrifying illustrations by Stephen Gammell. Deadline is reporting that CBS Films has picked up the rights to the classic horror anthology Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, with Saw screenwriters Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton on to translate the many, many…

This beautiful orchid is a deadly predator

Orchids are beautiful flowers—until you see one of them opening a pair of deadly arms and jaws to kill a butterfly who was just looking for some pollen to eat. That’s what the orchid mantis does, the “first known predator to lure prey by mimicking flowers.” Now, this process has been documented for the first…

Ogle These Screws Used To Hang Famous Works Of Art

What is art? Well—it’s subjective, that’s for sure, and context can have a heck of an impact on how we think about what we see. Marcelo Pena Costa decided to have a bit of unauthorized fun following the ArtRio fair earlier this year: once the show had closed down and shipped out, the Brazilian creative…

SpaceX Just Made History. Again.

SpaceX scored a spectacular launch success last night when the maiden flight of their upgraded Falcon 9 rocket scorched the sky of the Florida Space Coast and successfully delivered a commercial space satellite to geostationary orbit for the first time ever – thereby revolutionizing the commercial space industry from this day forward. Top Photo via…

Would you let this woman keep her dead husband’s sperm?

In February 2012, Beth Warren’s husband Warren Brewer died of a brain tumor. His sperm was stored in 2005, prior to radiotherapy, and Brewer made it clear that his wife could use the samples following his death. Now, legal regulations could prevent Warren from using the samples to conceive a child, should she choose to…

What a Habitable Planet Twice the Size of Earth Would Be Like

To date, astronomers have catalogued over 1,000 exoplanets — some of them rocky and parked within their host star’s habitable zone. But a good portion of these planets are bigger than Earth, prompting us to ask: What would it actually be like on a habitable planet twice the size of ours? Structure A first complication:…

SkyJack Lets You Hunt Down and Hack Other Drones From the Air

It was only a matter of time before someone started hacking drones, and now Samy Kamkar has released all the hardware and software required to build a drone that can hunt and hack others as it flies—creating an army of zombies along the way. SkyJack uses a Parrot AR.Drone quadcopter with a Raspberry Pi, running…

​Why do we hate so many female characters so much?

I seem to recall in 2013 there was a big deal about Thanksgiving and the first day of Hanukkah coinciding. Well, since the post-apocalypse happened so soon after that, I guess that’s why we kind of ended up merging Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas into a month-long celebration of gift-giving, drinking, and good cheer (because of…

This Dual-Screen E-Ink Phone Is Now Real (But You Can’t Have It, Yet)

It’s the sort of concept that seemedtoo adventurous to ever make it to market, but this dual-screened YotaPhone is now available. At least, it is if you live in Russia, Germany, France, Austria or Spain. The YotaPhone, priced at €499, runs Android and combines a standard 4.3-inch 720p LCD touchcreen up front with a 4.3-inch…

Watch an entire building transform into a playable Rubik’s Cube

Spanish artist and designer Javier Lloret has managed to convert Austria’s Ars Electronica Center into a gigantic and functional Rubik’s Cube. Called Puzzle Facade, it works by sending signals to a ready-built LED-lit wall using a 3D-printed interface-cube. The six-floor building is located in Linz, Austria, and is often referred to as the “Museum of…

Humans are becoming more carnivorous

Ever wondered just where humans fall on the food chain? Wonder no more. Researchers have calculated our precise location (somewhere right next a pig or an anchovy, apparently), along with another surprising trend: While we’re firmly omnivores, we’re also becoming more and more carnivorous. Top image: mayhem. In a study published in PNAS, researchers took…