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A Neurosurgeon Critiques Latest James Bond Film’s Grasp of Brain Surgery

The James Bond franchise is entertaining and lucrative, but it’s not a very good way to learn about anatomy. That’s the conclusion of a neurosurgeon, who noticed that Spectre, the latest film in the franchise, fails rather spectacularly in its depiction of practical neurosurgery. Note: Spoilers for Spectre. When Dr. Michael Cusimano isn’t performing neurosurgery…

How To View Your Saved Chrome Passwords

Google Chrome comes with a decent password manager that remembers all of your online login details, if you want it to—you can call them up any time from the Settings tab in the browser. This same database of username and passwords also lives on the web, letting you to bring up a password you’ve forgotten…

Here’s the Most Complete Ocean Floor Map Ever Made

What lies beneath the deep blue sea? So much more than you might think. The results that let this new, marvelously-detailed map of the seafloor from NASA’s Earth Observatory be made were actually first published last year as part of a paper in Science from researchers at NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. They were…

Robotic Critters Make Excellent Rescue Dogs

DARPA’s BigDog is a four-legged robot that’s too noisy for covert ops on the battlefield. But a different beast-inspired bot from Italy could have use elsewhere: Its legs allow it to trek through tough terrain in disasters, and springs up if it gets knocked over. The Italian Institute of Technology brings us HyQ2Max, a robot…

The Machinery Used to Build a Snowblower Is So Cool

Who knew that building a snowblower looks like building your own damn Terminator crossed with some gnarly Battle Bot? Or at least, that’s what it feels like to me. The red painting process is intimidating, the way the blades get shaped in one stamping motion is impressive, and the finishing assembly process is like putting…

New Concept Art Shows Off Batman v Superman‘s Batcave

While Ben Affleck’s Batman may be letting Wayne Manor fall into disrepair, the Batcave remains a high-tech and up-to-date haven, as you can see from the concept art dropped by Entertainment Weekly. EW also has a still from the movie showing Bruce Wayne and Alfred (Jeremy Irons) in the Batcave, with Alfred in an apron…

Magellan’s New Aftermarket Dash Cams Can See All the Way Around Your Vehicle

Many luxury vehicles offer a 360-degree view around your car on the dashboard which makes squeezing into tight parking spots much easier. Magellan now offers the same omnipotent vision to your junky ride with a new GPS nav unit that can connect to cameras mounted all around a vehicle. Given GPS navigation units now have…

Watching This Drone Fly Through Venice Beach Is Really Breathtaking

The beauty of Venice Beach lies in its culture and in the people that go there and the uniqueness of what’s happening on the ground and all around the area. It’s a special place, a true treasure of California’s beach culture, and it’s like no where else in the world. This drone flyby of Venice…

A Mirror Made of Fuzzy Pom-Poms Is a Creepy, Beautiful Thing

Daniel Rozin is obsessed with making mirrors, but instead of using glass or silver paint, he takes a more unorthodox approach to creating reflections. Using data from a Microsoft Kinect sensor Rozin manipulates everything from animated plush toy penguins, to his latest subject, a wall of fuzzy pom-poms. Packed into an octagon just a few…

Here’s The Most Mind-Blowing Theory About Terry Gilliam’s Twelve Monkeys

We’re coming up on the 20th anniversary of Twelve Monkeys, still one of the best time-travel movies. But we’re only just beginning to get to the bottom of what’s really going on in this film. There’s one wild, tantalizing theory that could explain Cole’s time-travel and the plague—watch us try to make sense of it!

Russell Crowe Came Up With a Much Better Name for Hoverboards

Phone-throwin’ bloke Russell “Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the TRUE emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife” Crowe took a stance yesterday against the BOGANS of Virgin Australia for confiscating his hoverboard. Only he didn’t…

10 Movies That Used the Same Exact Sound Effects As Other Movies

Avatar and Jurassic Park. Lord of the Rings and Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Star Trek and The Jetsons. What do those films have in common with each other? They used the same exact sound effects in their movies. Obviously some of those sound effects are done as an homage for movies that came before…

Disney’s New Rolling Robot Climbs Walls Like a Gecko

Not even walls can stop Disney’s and ETH Zurich’s new four-wheeled robot called VertiGo that can quickly transition from rolling on the ground to climbing obstacles like a gecko—and without those sticky feet. So how does the VertiGo seemingly defy gravity? Atop the robot is a pair of steerable propellers that generate thrust, which pushes…

Even More Details About The “Trippy” World Of Doctor Strange

Civil War teasers hint at not one death, but two. Chris Carter explains why Mulder and Scully can’t be together in the new X-Files. Plus, filming from the set of Wonder Woman, cool new Legends of Tomorrow footage, and a new clone on Orphan Black. So many Spoilers! Doctor Strange As part of Entertainment Weekly’s…

Ford Wants to Turn Your Car’s Back Wheel Into a Batpod

A patent filed by Ford a few weeks ago reveals a rather unorthodox alternative to throwing a bicycle in your trunk. Like the Batpod that ejected from the Batmobile in The Dark Knight, the back wheel of your car could quickly transform into a self-balancing electric unicycle. The design resembles the one-wheeled self-balancing RYNO we…

Bismuth Could Stop Farts From Smelling, If Someone Could Make It Safe

We avoid mercury, arsenic, and lead exposure, but there’s one heavy metal that we gulp down in smaller doses: bismuth. And if it were less toxic, bismuth could one day keep us from stinking up elevators and other public places with our farts. Heavy metals are exactly what they sound like: metals of relatively high…

China’s Dark Matter Satellite Sends Back First Data

There’s a new player in the hunt for dark matter: China’s Dark Matter Particle Explore (DAMPE) satellite, which launched on December 17. Ground stations have just received the first data beamed back from DAMPE. With all systems fully operational, the satellite officially begins its three-year mission. The planets, stars, galaxies and everything else that we…

The Golden Ratio Holds the Key to This Spinning Egg’s Peculiar Behavior 

If you’re looking for an elegant, unique, and entertaining desktop accessory to enhance your desk at the office—something a bit classier than a drinking bird, and less familiar than a Newton’s Cradle—the PhiTOP could be the toy you’re looking for. Its creator, Kenneth Brecher, prefers to think of it as a “philosophical toy” that “does…

13 Story Ideas That Were Dropped from Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Star Wars: The Force Awakens is absolutely bursting with cool set pieces. But you didn’t see half the insane stuff the movie’s production team came up with. Early versions of the story were full of Darth Vader’s ghost, an underwater Death Star, and more. Here are 13 things they left out of Episode VII. Warning:…

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