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Watch These Water Drops Levitate and Form Spinning, Pulsating Stars

If you play around with an ultrasound field for long enough, you can set up standing waves that allow you to levitate water drops in mid-air—but that’s only where the fun starts. The drops, held in a node of low pressure and supported in mid-air by a high-pressure zone sat beneath them, can be excited…

Deep Space Exploration Trials Sure Look Boring

In order to prepare for the human exploration of the furthest reaches of our solar system, space agencies often run experiments to see how our bodies can cope with long periods of sedentary behavior. And my, it looks boring. The latest of the European Space Agency’s such tests have just come to a close. The…

Did an Inspirational Apple Really Fall on Newton’s Head?

In grade school you probably learned Newton’s apple story around the time you learned that George Washington chopped down a cherry tree, that people in Columbus’ time thought that the world was flat, or that the Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving in America and invited the Native Americans to join them. Since literally none of…

Aereo is now available for Android! At least, it is if you’re running 4.2 and live in New York City, Boston, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, or Salt Lake City.

4K, 12-Inch Tablet Screens Are on Their Way

If the iPad Mini’s new Retina display isn’t enough for you, how d’you fancy a 4K, 12-inch tablet display instead, hmm? Because that’s exactly what Japan Display—a unified team of manufacturers including Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi—has just announced. They claim to have shrunk 4K resolution—3,840 x 2,160 pixels—into a 12.1-inch TFT panel suitable for tablets.…

Samsung’s new Android 4.3 update will bring Galaxy Gear compatibility to the S3, S4 and Note 2, instead of just the Note 3. Good news if you enjoy looking like Inspector Gadget.

By 2019, Humans Will Be Outnumbered By Lego Minifigs

Since their introduction in 1978, Lego’s Minifigs have, um, reproduced at a rapid rate. In fact, the toymaker has been making the little fellas at such a pace that they’ll outnumber humans by 2019. As of 2006, there were 4 billion Minifigs in the world; projecting forward both human and Lego populations suggests that tiny…

This Curved LG G Flex Phone Sure Looks Beautifully Bent Up

Here’s a closer look at LG’s upcoming curved banana phone, known as the G Flex. You can see the curved OLED display curl up like the Galaxy Nexus once did but at an angle that’s slightly more dramatic. https://gizmodo.com/is-this-lgs-new-curved-phone-1444678491 The pictures, were given to The Verge by journalist Federico Ini, and they supposedly show off…

The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Pitch Videos

Take your favorite TV spot. Cut out all of the post-production effects, professional actors, props, CGI, and anything even resembling a budget. What do you have? This collection of unintentionally hilarious clips from director Tony Benna.

Spitfire spits fire. Beautiful image of a Spitfire TE311 performing a hot start, taken by RAF Senior Aircraftman Graham Taylor, from the 2013 RAF Photographic Competition Awards.

Everything Apple Didn’t Announce at Yesterday’s iPad Event

Two new iPads! Better MacBook Pros! The finishing touches on the cylindrical Mac Pro. OS X Mavericks for free. iLife. iWork. Apple announced a ton of stuff during its iPad event. Stuff that’ll dent your wallet. Stuff that’ll make your life better. Stuff that’ll keep you happy. But what about all the stuff Apple didn’t…

What Do You Guys Think of the New iPad Air and iPad Mini?

A new iPad Air. It’s significantly lighter, skinnier, easier to hold and faster all the way around. The iPad mini now finally comes with a retina display. And it has the same A7 processor that powers the iPhone 5S and iPad Air. Aside from screen size, their guts are practically identical. What do you guys…

Everybody needs a sleazy scifi t-shirt sometimes

Looking for the perfect sleazy geek tee to wear on your next sexy away mission? We’ve got you (mostly) covered. Because we all want someone who is totally rational by day, and a howling uniform-ripper by night. Yum! These babies are $27 over at Human.

Behold the incredible, gorgeous future of energy production

You’re looking at an astonishingly huge and gorgeous solar energy plant that’s being built by Brightsource Energy, an American firm, in the Negev desert. It looks like something out of Star Trek, but it’s actually from Earth’s near future. According to Inhabitat: The Ashalim power plant will be located in the Negev desert near Kibbutz…

Comment of the Day: Afrofuturism Edition

In today’s comments, we parsed out the procedure for the perfect selfie, chose the historical figures we wished would just stay in the past, and looked at the global reach of afrofuturism. Today, we hosted a Q&A with the author of Afrofuturism, Ytasha Womack. In response to a question from commenter mxyzptlk, Womack told us…

Amazing and Inspirational Women’s Costumes to “Take Back Halloween”

It seems like lately the Halloween stores are full of “sassy” costumes or sexy spins on random staples (yep that’s a “sexy” Michael Myers outfit). Hey, not that there’s anything wrong with that, but what about championing the real heroes every once in a while? Writer and activist Suzanne Scoggins is helping “Take Back Halloween”…

Ancient tattoos may have been used as medicine

We know that many ancient peoples practiced tattooing, based on the body art we see represented in figurines and wall carvings. But these tattoos found on the skin of the mummified 5,000-year-old body of Ötzi the Iceman reveal that body art wasn’t just ceremonial. Over at Archaeology magazine, there’s a fantastic article on ancient tattoos,…

What do Death’s daughter, revenge and a dead rabbit have in common?

They’re all in Pretty Deadly, Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios’ new Western-horror-fantasy comic from Image. A butterfly and a dead rabbit relate the story of Death’s daughter’s quest for vengeance, and it’s weirder, more brutal and simply more amazing than I can describe here. That and more, in this week’s comics! New Issues Dark…

Facebook Changes Its Mind Again: It’s Now Re-Banning Decapitation Videos

After flipping to ban brutal, gruesome decapitation videos six months ago and then flopping to allow such videos to appear in the ‘book yesterday, Facebook has flipped again (or is it re-flopped?) in less than 24 hours and will reinstate its previous ban on such decapitation videos. It’s an ugly tug of war between free…

A Stick-On Speaker That Uses Your Windows To Silence Noises Outside

That suspiciously cheap apartment you just moved into? Turns out to be right next to a deafening hourly commuter train—and since you signed a one year lease, you’re looking at either twelve months wearing noise cancelling headphones. Or desperately hoping Rudolf Stefanich’s Sono noise cancelling window device comes to fruition. We’ve probably all seen those…