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Everything Wrong With Jurassic Park

A lot of us remember Jurassic Park as the perfect summer blockbuster. It had everything you could ask for: CG dinosaurs, Samuel L. Jackson, CG dinosaurs, an awkwardly shirtless Jeff Goldblum, CG dinosaurs, and of course Spielberg behind the camera. But 2o years later, as hard as it is to admit, there are a few…

The Roller Coaster That Sandy Dumped Into the Ocean Is Being Torn Down

While most of the world has moved on since Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc late last October, countless communities are still reeling and recovering from its utter devastation. And today, the Jet Star roller coaster of Seaside Heights, NJ, one of the more iconic landmarks from Sandy, is being laid to rest for good. According to…

Making Your Laser a Flashlight Is the Lamest Way to Make It Useful

Wicked Lasers has made a name for itself by building incredibly powerful handheld lasers that it’s still legally able to sell to the public. At the top of the heap is the Wicked Lasers Arctic which blasts forth a full watt of focused blue light. But when you tire of getting in trouble with the…

We just used the theory of relativity to discover a new planet

In a manner of speaking, Albert Einstein just helped an international team of astronomers find a hot Jupiter that’s 2,000 light-years away. It’s the first time in history that the theory of relativity was used to locate another planet. Normally, astronomers use the transit method to detect exoplanets, a technique that tells astronomers a planet…

ABC’s new streaming app—the one that lets you watch live TV on your iOS device if you live in NYC or Philly—is now available in the App Store for your downloading pleasure.

Drinking Away the Day Is Acceptable With a Calendar Made of Tea

What has your calendar done for you lately? Just reminding you of the day isn’t going to cut it anymore—that’s why god gave us smartphones. So if traditional calendars want any hope of staying relevant, it’s time to start pulling double-duty. Which is exactly why we love this ingenious—if perhaps mildly unsanitary—drinkable tea calendar from…

Yes, the official Bing Translator has just added Klingon to its many languages. Maybe today is a good day to switch search search engines.

J.J. Abrams to hold Star Trek chat with the ISS crew… IN SPACE

Star Trek director J.J. Abrams and the rest of his Enterprise crew and cast are setting up a live chat with astronaut Chris Cassidy aboard the International Space Station. This Thursday, May 16th, from 9:00 to 9:45 AM PST Abrams, Damon Lindelof, Chris Pine, John Cho and Alice Eve will live video chat with Cassidy…

Gogo has just announced that the FCC has granted the in-flight Wi-Fi provider with a “blanket license to operate up to 1,000 Ku-band Satellite aircraft for international and domestic service.” What? Basically it just means that Gogo will soon have expensively slow service on transatlantic flights.

Costco UK Will Happily Sell You This Awesome $115,000 F1 Simulator

What do you rely on your local Costco for? Gigantic boxes of diapers? Bulk packs of chicken fingers? In the UK, when you’re stocking up on bangers and mash, you can also go home with a full-size $115,000 Formula One simulator. Although, sadly, they’re not sold in bulk packs for bigger savings. The simulator is…

Can This RGB Dotted Reflector Really Improve Digital Camera Shots?

A photography lighting accessories company called B2PRO claims to have come up with a simple way to improve digital photos taken with an external flash and reflector umbrella. Instead of just being covered in a highly reflective fabric, the RGB Umbrella actually features a complex pattern of red, green, and blue dots across its surface—like…

This Liquid Hydrogen UAV Just Flew for Two Days Straight

In 2009, the Office of Naval Research’s super-endurance drone, the Ion Tiger, flew for a record 23 hours, 17 minutes—the longest ever for a fuel cell-powered UAV. But late last week, the ONR demolished its own record with a 48-plus hour foray into the great blue yonder. The original Ion Tiger relied on hydrogen compressed…

Mathematician Makes Astounding Prime Numbers Breakthrough

A partial solution to a centuries-old problem known as the twin prime conjecture now affirms the idea that an infinite number of prime numbers have companions — and that a maximum distance between these pairs does in fact exist. Prime numbers are those non-composite numbers that can only be divided by one or itself. On…

What the hell is happening on the Sun?

In less than 24 hours, the Sun has unleashed a trio of X-Class solar flares. They are the first, second and third X-class eruptions of 2013, making them the most powerful of the year by a substantial margin. What’s more, each burst has been more violent than the last. So uhh… what the hell is…

BlackBerry Is Bringing BBM to iOS and Android This Summer

Today, during the BlackBerry Live Keynote, the company announced that it will be launching BlackBerry Messenger—BBM—on iOS and Android this Summer. This is a big move for the company, which has found itself increasingly trapped in a badly-built prison of its own making. Now, BlackBerry will make one of its most popular features to users…

Intricate, Ultra-Accurate Blueprints of Botanical Life

Illustration and science have always gone hand in hand. If you want to understand something, drawing it is a good place to start. Macoto Murayama, a 29-year-old botanist and designer, goes even further: he carefully dissects and models flowers using 3D drafting software. Murayama, who has a degree in spatial design, started buying flowers and…

Windows “Blue” Is Officially Called Windows 8.1 and Free

Microsoft just announced on a call with shareholders that the Windows Blue update will officially be called Windows 8.1, which will be a free update. It’ll be available for both Windows 8 and Windows RT. A preview will be available to the public after the Microsoft Build conference. Windows 8.1 is expected to fix a…

Sleepy Hollow trailer gives the Headless Horseman an assault rifle

Fox’s new Sleepy Hollow series upgrades Ichabod Crane into a time-traveling Robert Langdon-type character who must save us all from the reincarnation of the Headless Horseman and make Starbucks jokes. WOOF. Ichabod Crane has transformed from the nebbish cartoon characterinto a secret soldier in George Washington’s army. Tasked with killing one of the four horseman…

How the Nokia Lumia 925 Stacks Up to the Competition

Confirming yesterday’s gorgeous leaked images, Nokia’s finally unveiled its newest flagship Windows Phone, the Lumia 925. And just as the photos promised, this latest Lumia incarnation comes to us in a sleek, aluminum-cased beauty of a body. Now that’s all good and dandy, but the real test comes with what it’s packing under the hood.…

The Construction Lamp: An Oil Derrick Look, Inspired by Tinker Toys

The Construction Lamp looks like oil derricks you see dotting the landscape in parts of Texas. Their industrial aesthetic is the result of the designer Joost van Bleiswijk playing with the nuts, bolts, and tools in his workshop as though he was still a kid. In fact, van Bleiswijk says the lamp was inspired by…