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Owl Survives Collision With SUV, Takes Up Residence Inside Grille

In doing so, it has also become one of the greatest, most appropriate reaction GIFs in recent memory. (Only “one of,” because this.) Please note that the collision reportedly happened near Yeehaw Junction, which… yeah. https://gizmodo.com/watch-this-squirrel-deliver-the-greatest-oh-sh-t-face-5978647 Vehicles pose a serious threat to owls and other birds that like to fly low over roads while hunting,…

The Beautiful Creatures authors give us the rules for creating a believable fantasy

Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s Beautiful Creatures series is a hit. A huge hit. The series has been published in over 40 different countries and the Warner Bros. movie is opening this weekend. But before they were bestselling authors, the two friends made video games (Margaret worked on the Spider-Man Activision game), taught in schools…

HP Is Making a High End Android Tablet (And Maybe a Phone)

HP hasn’t had the best go of it the past few years. According to a report from ReadWrite, though, it’s trying to get off the mat with a new premium tablet, powered by Android. The reported tablet would run Nvidia’s new Tegra 4 processor, and has been in development since before Thanksgiving. HP’s business side…

Keyboard Wine Stoppers: Wine Nerdery Sans Pretention

You love wine and you love nerdy things. Here’s the perfect intersection of the two—keyboard bottle tops. Adorable, right? They’re $11, and they’ll help you fly your boozy, geeky flag while also practicing conversation, a rather noble calling. And an appreciation for oenology is already nerdy as it is, so this takes the pretention out…

5 Dating Apps to Find Last-Minute Valentine’s Love

Valentine’s Day—that cherished celebration of love and its joyful bounty—is just around the corner. But for the lonely-hearts littered across the country, seeing couples enjoying all the love and the happiness and the not-being-perpetually-alone-for-eternity can, perhaps, pour a little salt on a long-standing wound. Fortunately, and as with everything else in life, the Internet has…

Duet Vibrator Comes With Up to 16GB of Storage—Wait, What?

This is Crave’s Duet, a dual-headed vibrator that charges via USB and can store up to 16GB of digital stuff. Half of it is the rechargeable battery with the Flash memory—convenient to store all your porn—and the other half is the dual-headed vibe. Strangely enough, if you live in San Francisco and order one today,…

Sheffield Kevlar Shear Review: The Invincible Scissors that Will Outlast Your House

With modern manufacturers’ breakneck product release cycles fueled by consumers’ vapid demand for the latest and greatest technological trends, there’s very little incentive to build anything to last—why bother when it will be replaced in six months anyway? However these steel shears don’t abide such wasteful notions. They’re built to cut through everything but your…

How Stupid Are You Willing to Look for Apple’s Amazing Magical iWatch?

There’s no such thing as the Apple iWatch, and maybe there never will be. But if Cupertino does start selling futurustic Jetsons wrist wear, you need to prepare for one thing: looking like a jackass in public. Worth it? Let’s not ignore the fact that we’re in dumb, murky waters here, discussing the fashionable future…

Android Google Search app updated for Jelly Bean users. Adds Google Now widget, Fandango tickets, and more.

These Modern Rabbit Ears Are Your Free-TV Deal of the Day

One of the most frugal ways to watch TV is to simply pluck public channels from over-the-air broadcasts. Public channels include the majors — NBC, CBS, Fox, ABC — plus other great free programming, like shows on PBS, often broadcasting with better image quality than cable. That means you don’t miss many major events. Last…

The Rolling Hut Is the Best Alternative to an RV

When you hear “mobile home” you don’t think of this cluster of modern rolling huts. The huts were created to be an alternative method of camping—a fancier yurt, if you will. They have minimal impact on the environment and despite their beautiful design, they’re pretty low tech. Each hut has a sleeping platform with room…

Fit This Radio Into Your Classic Caddy, Play It With Your Smartphone

You have a vintage car, but you have normal ears and want a sound system that’s up with the times. RetroSound’s new classically styled Model Two in-dash radio runs like a new-fangled modern setup because it is a new-fangled modern setup, with Bluetooth and all. The Model Two has bunch of custom enclosures and bezels…

These $8 Million-Worth of Silicon Wafers Are The Brains of Satellites

European Space Agency (ESA) just released this nice photo of €6 million-worth of silicon wafers (8,068,800.00 US Dollar), crammed with the complex integrated circuits. These tiny brains are empowering ESA satellites with intelligence. The image shows a collection of six silicon wafers that contain some 14 different chip designs developed by several European companies during…

Sea Slug’s Detachable Penis Grows Back Again and Again After Sex

A penis would rank pretty high on any list of body parts you’d want to be able to grow back if lost. The more replacement penises the better. And for the first time, Japanese biologists have found an animal that can do just that. The animal in question is the Chromodoris reticulata, a red and…

Why finding love is like finding alien intelligence

Current estimates put the number of stars in the Milky Way at well over 100 billion, each of which is thought to have at least one planet in its orbit. Assuming at least some of these planets have given rise to intelligent life capable of communicating with Earth, why haven’t we heard from them yet?…

Shooting Challenge: Food As Art

We’ve all seen our share of food porn. But what can we do with food when it’s off the plate? That’s the space of food art. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, your task is to elevate food beyond smut. The Challenge Photograph food pretty much anywhere but on a plate or in a mouth.…

Holy Crap, Check Out This Awesome F-18 Cockpit Video

I love the GoPros or whatever cameras the people at the Carrier Strike Group 8 used to make this awesome video. It shows the complete experience of flying a VFA-103 Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet on the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower. [Flight Global]

Is Hollywood About to Dumb Down the Dystopian British Series Black Mirror?

Robert Downey Jr. has bought the rights to “The Entire History of You,” one of the episodes from the first season of Black Mirror. It’s a pitch-dark tale of a future where people record their memories into brain implants, and can replay them for friends on their computers, mobiles, or whatever. The story centers on…

Astronaut Sheets Guarantee the Best Dreams Ever

What kid doesn’t dream of growing up to be an astronaut one day? It’s the one fantasy job that always manages to beat out professional athlete and ninja—but not everyone is destined to visit space. If your life path has led you to a more earthbound job, you can still dream about the stars with…

Ask an OkCupid Founder for Any Last-Minute Valentine’s Day Advice

OkCupid: you use it to find both love or random hookups, and since tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, you’re probably looking for at least one of those. Accordingly, we have Sam Yagan, one of the dating site’s founders, here to answer all your burning (let’s hope not) questions. Looking for a last minute date? Want to…