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An ultra-bloody short film about a detective who can peer into murder suspects’ memories

In the crime ridden future of the short film Memorize, everyone is implanted with a chip that records their every memory—a handy device for officers looking to bring criminals to justice. But when one detective goes on a hunt for the person responsible for a grisly murder, he comes up against not only a lot…

The Secret, Subtle Power of Graphic Design

They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but that’s not true; you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. You can, and chances are you do it all the time, so better make sure that cover is good, right? They also say a picture’s worth a thousand words, and that’s where graphic…

Google bought BufferBox. Looks like it’s getting ready to step up its e-commerce game. [BufferBox via Financial Post]

Life-sized chocolate baby heads are this season’s creepiest confection

For the cannibal with a sweet tooth and a strong stomach come these massive white chocolate sculptures sculpted to look like infants’ heads. Want to keep yourself from overindulging in sweets this holiday season? Every time you pick up a piece of chocolate, imagine on of these creepy things staring up at you. Cake maker…

BitTorrent Wants To Be Hollywood’s New Best Friend

Torrenting, it’s the tool of thieves and pirates, right? The evil protocol no honest person should ever dare touch? Not quite, but it’s got that reputation with some, and it’s trying hard to shake it. According to BitTorrent’s executive director of marketing Matt Mason, they plan to take it all the way in the other…

R2-D2 and a band of astromech droids fly into a secret mission on Clone Wars!

This week in the world of cartoons, Adventure Time’s Finn gets stabbed in the rear by a well-meaning porcupine, we get a very cool droid-centric episode of Clone Wars, and there’s a duel on My Little Pony! Yeah, really. A duel. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is off this week, but will return on December 8th.…

Watch This Army Of Cassette Tape Players Sing a Song of Days Gone By

Remember cassette tape players? Unlike the mp3 players so prevalent today, they didn’t just play music; they made some white noise too. This art installation called Binatone Galaxy by Stephen Cornford takes advantage of that fact to create a neat but eerie soundscape that’s totally living in the past. So take a little trip back…

Here Are All of Nintendo’s Video Game Consoles

Nintendo has an eternal soft spot in my heart. The NES, SNES, N64, GameBoy and DS had a lasting impact on my childhood. The original Wii was the most fun I had playing video games in a long time. Nintendo probably means the same for you! (unless you were a Sega and Sony guy). Watch…

The Stoner Channel: The World’s Biggest Binger, Snowblind Puppets, and the Finka Palmalera Challenge

Jimmy Kimmel’s Finka Palmalera Challenge With Starbucks’ recent announcement that it will soon carry a $7 cup of coffee made from a rare breed of caffinated bean, Jimmy Kimmel took to the streets to see if people could actually tell the difference. Boy could they ever. You’re Going to Need a Hand Lighting the World’s…

Apparently No One Knows Who Tim Cook Is

Brian Williams, the go to newsman for any sane American, recently interviewed Tim Cook about Apple and all things going on at Cupertino. It’s the first interview “of its kind” and will be shown next week on Thursday. But that’s not why we care! What’s hilarious is that Brian Williams says no one recognizes the…

I’m Sad That No Kid Will Ever Know What This Coffee Table Really Is

Can you imagine the conversation you would have with a child, hell, a tween, about this coffee table? “You see, son. Before the cloud and usb sticks. Before hard drives and iPhones and Androids. Before the iPod and even before the CD player, there was something called the floppy disk. And it stored 1.44MB. Yeah,…

This Week’s Top Comedy Video: Old Girl

Whether you love Zooey Deschanel’s New Girl quirkfest, hate it, or have never even heard of it, I think we can all agree that it’s much improved by swapping out the twee thirtysomething with a crass octogenarian. No, seriously. I’d watch Old Girl in a heartbeat. And you would too. The rest of this week’s…

In news that is indisputably, 100% true, North Korea found a “unicorn lair”

People give North Korea a hard time, mostly because its ruler is a lunatic whose people live in poverty while enduring countless human rights violations. But has anyone ever stopped and considered that maybe that’s how a divine creator might want things to be? Because otherwise, why would he/she/it put the world’s only known “unicorn…

This Redray 4k Cinema Player Looks Like Something Out of Terminator

The much lusted after Redray, which looks like the blu ray player Terminator and Darth Vader would use, can now be pre-ordered for $1450 and will start shipping in December. That’s damn expensive but 4K! 4K! 4K! https://gizmodo.com/red-ray-drive-plays-4k-2k-hd-video-from-red-disc-red-379566 The Redray can play HD, 3D and 4k media and has a 1TB hard drive to store…

Watching People Give Compliments to Each Other Will Make Your Heart Melt

It’s probably the soundtrack this video has going on in the background but this phonebooth/giant headphone setup where people give compliments to one another is so aww inducingly sweet that you won’t be able to not be happy. And you have a lot to be happy for! It’s Friday! People are great! Well, some of…

Real-Life Pixar Lamp, Herman Miller Couch, and More

Make it out of that turkey coma yet? You’re just in time for something that is completely unrelated to the holiday madness about to commence. An edible lamp and a stacking bookshelf, and so much more are here to save you from your stupor. These are the most beautiful items of the week. Clock Box…

Amazing News: The BBC is adapting Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell for television!

Susanna Clarke’s fantasy novel set during the Napoleonic Wars, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, is being adapted for BBC television — and let’s hope we get it pretty quickly here in the United States. The six-issue miniseries is being directed by Toby Haynes, who directed a bunch of Matt Smith’s Doctor Who stories in a…

The Future Is Not Accelerating

I have some bad news and some good news for you about the future. First, the bad news. The future is not coming at us any faster than it ever has. We will not become immortal cyborgs with superintelligent computer friends in the next twenty years. The good news is that means we have a…

A Dozen Short Buses You Wouldn’t Make Jokes About

The gleaming 40-foot behemouths that shuttle suburban American kids to school and back are useless on the crowded streets of Delhi. Throughout the developing world kids get to their daily lessons by any means possible—trike, rickshaw, even ox cart. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 12 of the coolest home brew tike transports. When you’re…

Glare ruins NASA’s photos, too. But not for the same reason it ruins yours.

If you have ever angrily deleted your photos because of inappropriate glare, imagine how astronauts must feel. In this photo, which admittedly turned out well, they have to contend with the sun’s glare off miles-long sections of ocean. The picture above is a very good example of space-based landscape porn, but it’s also a good…