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You could live in this NYC apartment that looks like a 1960s spaceship

There is some hot-ass retro spaceship design going on inside this New York City apartment. For only 14.95 million, this blast from the past (but straight into your future) could be yours. According to Street Easy, this gorgeous private elevator, wood burning fireplace has a lot going on: Designed by F.H. Dewey and Company in…

Why an Oklahoman restaurant has a monument to the dark god Azathoth

Dear Oklahoma City: There is either an extremely dangerous cult in your town, or there’s someone with a sense of humor. Either way, if you aren’t prepared for your soul to be devoured by a Lovecraftian horror beyond imagining, you might want to cancel your reservation at the Paseo Grill. The restaurant discovered a three-foot…

NBC is basing a show on the movie Outbreak

Remember Outbreak, the 1995 disease thriller that was less about science, and more about monkeys and heartfelt Dustin Hoffman speeches? Well, that movie is getting its own television drama! Why? Because coming up with new ideas is HARD, OK? According to Deadline, John Wells and Jack Orman (the crackpot producers behind ER) are ready to…

Look at the Insane Number Button Layouts Our Telephones Could Have Had

The year was 1960, and phones were changing. It was the beginning of the end for rotary dialing, and buttons were the future. But engineers faced an important, looming question: what order do you put those buttons in? Turns out there were a lot of options. Note: A ton of these are super wrong. What…

Samsung Smartwatch Leak Suggests It’ll Be a Dashboard for Your Phone

The frequently reliable Ev_Leaks Twitter account just posted a pair of screenshots that give us a peek at the setup app for Samsung Galaxy Gear, which Samsung is set to announce on September 4th. If these Gear Manager shots are real, the smartwatch will likely rely heavily on your phone do anything. If we believe…

Is there anything cooler than a car with a giant propeller?

If so, we’re not even sure we could handle it. Throughout the twentieth century, some of the finest automotive engineers have experimented with putting propellers on the front of cars, and the results look brilliant. Here’s our gallery of the coolest propeller cars in history. A motor car at Brooklands race track with a propeller…

A new director attempts to climb J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise

A new director is trying to take on the forever-in-development adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s superbuilding novel High-Rise. We guess this means Splice’s Vincent Natali is off the project. Empire is reporting that Ben Wheatley of Kill List and Sightseers is taking on the movie adaptation of the 1975 novel. Set in an extremely isolated island…

This “Ionic” Speaker Is Stretchable, See-Through and Mind-Blowing

Ever get that feeling that the speakers in your living room are too, well, opaque? Wouldn’t it be cool if it looked like they were just floating there in mid-air blasting jams for all to hear? It’s a heck of a dream, and thanks to a team of Harvard scientists, it might just come true…

Enormous canyon discovered lurking beneath Greenland’s ice sheet

If the ice sheets on Greenland ever melt, this is what you’ll see. It’s an enormous canyon cutting through the center of the island, the size of the Grand Canyon. Scientists recently discovered it with ice-penetrating radar. Over at Discover magazine, Becky Lang writes: The canyon is up to 2,600 feet (800 meters) deep, and…

Phoenix Gives You a Drone Tour of Versailles in Their New Video

No trip to France is complete without seeing the grand gardens and spectacular palace at Versailles, the place that epitomizes the excess of 18th century France. Who better to lead the tour than everybody’s favorite 21st century French band, Phoenix. Plus also too, drones. Phoenix’s “Entertainment” is the latest Take Away Show produced by La…

A Mega-Canyon Bigger Than the Grand Canyon Is Hiding Under Greenland

We may have our eye turned towards exploring space, but apparently, there’s still very much here on Earth we have yet to see. After collecting data for years, scientists have just announced the discovery of a 460-mile-long canyon underneath Greenland’s ice sheet, making it even longer than our own Grand Canyon—and no human has ever…

What’s the worst misunderstanding of computers in pop culture?

You know computers? Those magic boxes that can do anything — unless the entire Internet is taken down by a virus of course. Pop culture often has a fuzzy idea, at best, of how computers actually work. But what’s the most heinous misrepresentation of how computers work in pop culture? Please include a picture or…

This Re-Purposed Mining Cart Hauls Drinks Instead of Coal

Nothing helps fill the silent void at an awkward dinner party like a piece of furniture with an interesting back story. Whether it’s the couch you found inexplicably just abandoned next to a dumpster, a bookshelf that started life as a stolen stack of cinderblocks, or this truly unique mine cart coffee table that spent…

World’s Most Frustrating Puzzle Has No Edges and 5 Extra Pieces

Whoever made this puzzle is a bad person. A terrible, rotten person with an ugly soul. May karma come crashing down on your head. This Impossible Puzzle is 750 pieces — including five that are extra. And it has NO edge pieces. Do not be fooled by the adorable cats and dogs raining inside this…

Thank God Famous Art Doesn’t Have YouTube Comments

There is some fantastic art on YouTube. There are also some hideous comments on YouTube. Probably more of the latter than the former. But hey, at least there aren’t YouTube comments on all art. The folks over at Buzzfeed decided to gaze deep into that horrific alternate universe and whip up this amusing glance into…

These fascinating hidden places are forbidden to most mortals

Mysterious structures in the Chinese desert, abandoned subway stations that look like doorways to a steampunk future that never was, top secret nuclear submarine bases built by Stalin in the heart of mountains, hidden bunkers all over the world, forbidden headquarters for spy and military organizations… take a look at some of the places forbidden…

How Einstein’s theory of relativity makes you smaller

Relativity is best known for giving us a new view of time. The faster you go, the slower time moves. There are other effects as well. For example, the faster you go, the more squished you get. The most famous consequence of Einstein’s work with relativity is the idea that time slows down as an…

Asimov’s 2014 Predictions Were Shockingly Conservative For 1964

In 1964, sci-fi legend Isaac Asimov penned a piece for the New York Times with his predictions for the world of 2014. Looking at the World’s Fair of 50 years hence, Asimov imagined 3D TV, underground cities, and colonies on the moon. Many people online have hailed this as an incredible example of prescient thinking,…

Marvel execs rejected the Spider-Man musical as “entirely wrong,” after they saw an early draft that featured the supervillain Arachne, according toa new tell-all book by the long-suffering playwright who worked on the book.

Biggest Box Office Hits and Misses of Summer 2013

Was this the most brutal movie summer? It certainly felt that way. Tons of massive films completely tanked at the box office, and some of our most highly anticipated movies were huge disappointments. But this summer also beat last summer for total ticket sales. Here are the summer’s biggest winners and losers. Back on May…