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Holy Crap, Is Zordon Speaking at SXSW? (No, It’s Just Kim Dotcom)

A crowd of lucky SXSW attendees were treated to a rare honor today as the powerful wizard Zordon agreed to address a crowd about the dangers facing the Earth and the urgent need for the Power Rangers to assemble and save the day. Actually, this is just Kim Dotcom taking questions from a SXSW audience…

X-Files veteran plans show that sounds exactly like the X-Files

Long-time X-Files writer James Wong has a new show in the works titled Occult, about a crazy FBI agent who teams up with another FBI agent to investigate supernatural mysteries. It may sound a little familiar, admittedly, but there are a few differences. The male FBI agent, played by Josh Lucas, will be returning from…

If You Can Fold a Paper Airplane, You Can Assemble This LED Lamp

If your decor choices aren’t governed by concerns over child safety, then the stark angles and pointy corners of Mirco Kirsch’s origami lamp just might land it a home on your desk. It’s another flat-pack engineering marvel that assembles in just five minutes with nothing but a few strategic folds. All of the wiring and…

Interactive map shows all the spots on Earth that have been photographed from the ISS

If you want to see what the Golden Gate Bridge or the delta of the Nile looks like from space with the click of a mouse, head over to Our World From The ISS. This interactive map, created by Dave MacLean of the Centre of Geographic Sciences, collects the gorgeous photos tweeted by Chris Hadfield…

Thus Passes The ISS In Front Of The Moon

Look at this awesome photo shot by amateur astronomer Mariano Ribas . That bright thingy on the right is the International Space Station transiting between the Earth and the Moon. Simply amazing. This is how it was made: For the first time in my life, today, just 90 minutes before sunrise in Buenos Aires, I…

Comparing the Universe To the Pixels In This Video Puts Its Massive Scale Into Perspective

Taking advantage of its medium of choice, Minute Physics makes the incredibly vast scale of the observable universe a little easier to comprehend by comparing it to the 2,073,600 pixels in this 1080P video. But be forewarned: drawing similarities between the earth and a single pixel in this clip isn’t going to help if you’re…

A Snail USB Drive Is the Most Adorable USB Drive

Be careful with this snail USB drive—it’s so cute someone might try to steal it from you. The 8BG drive is $22. At first glance, you don’t even really expect it to be a tech accessory. It’s all one piece—the mouth of the critter is the cap on the drive, so you don’t need to…

For just $50 million you can live in Bob Hope’s giant UFO House

Dreamt up by the legendary architect John Lautner, this 24,000 square foot retro-futuristic masterpiece is on the market — for a whopping $50 million. The house was finished in 1973 for comedian Bob Hope and his Martian offspring, located in Palm Springs, California (the perfect place for a desert alien meetup.) Act now, or kiss…

The Artist Who Helped Invent Space Travel

If Lucian Rudaux was the Grandfather of space art, Chesley Bonestell was the father. He was born on January 1, 1888, 15 years before the Wright brothers first flew and 38 years before the launch of the first liquid-fuel rocket. When he died 98 years later, men had walked on the moon and spacecraft had…

Report: Sprint Will Get an All-Touchscreen BlackBerry That’s Not the Z10

We already heard that Sprint would launch BlackBerry’s (maybe) QWERTY savior the Q10 sometime this year, but the company has bee very silent about the new flagship Z10, even as each AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile have all have already announced plans. Now, ATD reports that Sprint will get an all-touch screen phone that’s not the…

Here’s your chance to finally figure out who framed Roger Rabbit

This week’s DVD and Blu-ray releases has something for everyone! Tiny magicians! Busty cartoon ladies! Nautical tigers! A blob! If you can’t find something you like in these listings, then… well, you’re probably just waiting until The Hobbit comes out next week. • Who Framed Roger Rabbit 25th Anniversary Edition The long-awaited Zemeckis classic —…

Snap Up This Renegade App and Hide Your Stock iOS Icons While You Can

Hate having that “Stock” icon hanging out on your iPhone? Even if you shunt it over to its own page with all the other misfits, it’s still there and you can’t get rid of it. Well, lucky for you, there’s an app in the App Store right now that’ll let you hide it, but act…

Everything You Need to Know About SFWA’s Clash With Random House

If you’re an aspiring science fiction or fantasy writer, you’ve probably heard that the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has come to blows with one of the biggest publishers in SF over the past week. But what’s all this about? And how does it affect you and your dreams of being published by…

17 One-Man Submarines That Will Take Your Breath Away

The world got you down? Wish you could escape to somewhere calm, beautiful, and quiet? No problem! Just hop into one of these amazing one-man submersibles, take a deep breath, and propel yourself down into the deep blue sea. Serenity awaits. This is the Nordenfelt I, 1884 brainchild of Swedish inventor and industrialist Thorsten Nordenfelt…

Microsoft is updating IE 10 in Windows 8 and RT to allow Flash content to run by default tomorrow.

Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet 2 Review: Just Barely a Laptop

Lenovo probably did Windows 8 the best of anyone so far with the bendy, twisty Yoga. Now it’s got the Thinkpad Tablet 2 and keyboard combo. If the Lenovo Yoga is a laptop that’s sort of a tablet, this is the tablet that’s sort of a laptop. https://gizmodo.com/lenovo-yoga-review-this-is-how-you-build-a-pc-tablet-f-5956349 What Is It? An Intel Atom-based, 10.1-inch…

Watch the Real-Life Terminator Hand Tie Shoes, Deal Cards, and Improve This Man’s Life

The last time we saw Bebionic’s V3 prosthetic hand in action was in a sterile promotional video showing it doing everything from buttering up a slice of bread, to manipulating a Rubik’s Cube. It was rather impressive, but this clip is even moreso since it demonstrates how life-changing the prosthetic hand can actually be in…

These Otherworldly Theaters Will Showcase Chinese Arts and Culture

While they may look like renders for a Mass Effect 4 cityscape, these futuristic buildings actually constitute the proposed Changsha Meixihu International Culture & Arts Center. Located in Changsha, China, the capital city of the Hunan province 410 miles North of Hong Kong, and designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, the Changsha Meixihu is comprised of…

Could these meteorites hold the first evidence of extraterrestrial life?

Scientists in Wales are claiming that they may have found fossilized microbes in meteorites that crashed to the ground a few years ago in Sri Lanka. The meteorites have a geological composition characteristic of comets, but when the researchers cracked them open they found something unexpected. They discovered microscopic structures that look an awful lot…

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