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Chibi-fied Lego Vehicles Are Brilliantly Cute

Just look at that lil’ Lego Serenity! The Brothers Brick are running a fan contest to build micro-scaled Lego vehicles fit for one minifigure, and some of the entries are awesomely inventive models on a tiny, adorable scale. Header Image Credit: Captain Mal and the Serenity by Lestranger Absurde The ‘Microfighter’ concept is one borrowed…

How Big A Part Will Wolverine Play in X-Men: Apocalypse?

Mark Hamill talks about coming back to Star Wars, Christoph Waltz denies being the head of SPECTRE, and Cobie Smulders explains what Maria Hill’s up to in Avengers: Age of Ultron. The Flash casts Cisco’s brother and adds another villain to its list. Plus a ton of details about Batman v. Superman’s attempt to address…

This weird medieval instrument sounds like a badass electric guitar

I didn’t know a medieval instrument could sound so cool until I saw this video. French musician Guilhem Desq electrified his hurdy gurdy and connected it to a sampler to create these amazing sounds that seem to come straight out from Tom Morello’s guitar. Go to the two minutes mark to see what I mean.…

This OnePlus Portable Power Pack Only Costs $15

OnePlus just announced a new Power Bank portable power pack. Not much new about that in itself, but the 10,000mAh unit will charge your phone three times—and only costs $15. Obviously, the device will charge any of your gadgets, and allows two devices to be attached at once. The LiPo battery weighs 220g and will…

In The Hobbit‘s Honest Trailer, Even Its Own Characters Are Bored By It

With the last of the three Hobbit movies coming out today, Honest Trailers turned its keen eye on the one that came out this time last year, The Desolation of Smaug. It had not occurred to us just how much of the second movie was made up of flashbacks to the first one. But now,…

Watching dogs eat with human hands never gets old or less hilarious

I’ve seen videos of pets eating with human hands before, but I don’t care. This holiday dinner party with 13 dogs and a cat has to be the best. More, please! SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Google Drive now supports the international OpenDocument Format for text documents, spreadsheets and presentations. They can all now be imported straight into Drive.

Decorate Your Home With Nobel Scientist Snowflakes This Christmas

Uninspired by Christmas decorations this year? Then why not inject a little science in amongst the lights and tinsel with Symmetry’s wonderful Nobel physicist snowflakes? There are three designs, all created by Sandbox Studio for Symmetry (well, it is a particle physics magazine). You can choose from good ol’ Einstein, Marie Curie or Erwin Schrödinger,…

Awesome photos of the Panama Canal lock gates being installed

The new Panama Canal lock gates are now being installed and holy crap they are gigantic to the point of disbelief. Egyptian pyramids-level huge. Imperial Star Destroyer-level massive. Look at those tiny people and the size of those concrete canyons. The 3,285-ton 9-story-high gate is 33 feet (10 meters) wide. Talking to Marine Link, “the…

Apple Halts Online Sales in Russia Due to Seesawing Rouble

The wildly fluctuating worth of the Russian rouble currency has lead iPhone makers Apple to halt online sales in the country, as the tech giant cannot set stable prices for its wares. The rouble has dropped in worth 20 per cent this week, despite the treasury’s dramatic decision to raise interest rates a whopping 6.5…

A tank cut in half is a pretty damn cool thing

There’s never enough things cut in half. My favorite books when I was a kid were cutaway books. Everything in the world should be cut in half and put on display. Like this Leopard I tank, the democratic heir to the Panzer and Tiger tanks that made the Wehrmacht famous and the first line of…

How One Of History’s Worst Taxidermy Jobs Became A Victorian Sensation

Take a look at this walrus. This is what happens when a taxidermist is taxed with mounting an animal he’s never seen before. With no idea that real walruses have copious wrinkles and folds, this Victorian just kept stuffing it and studding it until it looked smooth. Whoops. Image: Horniman Museum and Gardens Currently the…

SpaceX Plans to Land a Rocket on This Barge

SpaceX is working hard to make its rockets land-able and, by extension, reusable. Now, it plans to try and land its Falcon 9 craft on this barge. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-secret-of-spacexs-falcon-9-reusable-rocket-1593483305 The company has landed on water from altitude before and firm ground in tests. But landing from altitude on a floating platform—what won’t be tethered to anything—presents…

I want to live in this cool spaceship from Star Citizen

This is the Anvil Industries’ Carrack, a 403-foot (123-meter) ship and a maximum crew of five. It is not real, but it feels real because every detail in its interior has been designed as if it were a real vessel. It’s one of the ships from Chris Roberts’ Star Citizenpersistent alternative universe, where I’m sure…

Report: Twitter’s Teaming With Foursquare to Improve Location Data

Business Insider is reporting that Twitter is planning to team up with Foursquare in 2015, “adding a location layer to its platform” to make it more relevant and interesting for users. Twitter currently lacks location savvy. Without some level of user involvement, it only knows where you are when you sign up and the location…

Sony’s Clip-On Unit Will Make Any Glasses Smart

Sony has announced a new display module that clips onto the frame of any piece of existing eyewear in order to turn it into something more akin to Google Glass. The new hardware features a control board with Bluetooth and WiFi; compass, accelerometer, touch sensors; and an ARM Cortex-A7 Processor. That all supplies a 640×400…

The Staggering Mass of the Craft We’ve Sent Into Space, Visualized

Ever tried to picture how much one rocket weighs compared to another, or how heavy some of the craft orbiting our planet really are? Well this chart explains all. Put together by XKCD’s Randall Munroe, the chart visualizes the changing mass of spacecraft over time, from the first Sputnik launches to the future SLS Block…

Holiday Lights Are Officially Bright Enough to Be Seen from Space

A joint mission between NOAA and NASA has yielded data showing just how much brighter Earth is during the holiday lights season. In some places, the effect makes the area 50% brighter than on an average day. http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/satellite-sees-holiday-lights-brighten-cities/#.VJEo8GTF_Dt Image: Jesse Allen, NASA’s Earth Observatory/flickr/CC by 2.0 The data comes from a combination of technologies. The…

Outstanding underwater film makes killer whales like magic creatures

Wow. For a few seconds here, the killer whales look like they’ve been animated with CGI. They move so effortlessly that they don’t seem real. But Smithsonian shows how this footage was caught, with a camera invented by photographer David Riggs just to see killer whales and what they’re hunting underwater. The footage comes from…

Get your Hispabrick magazine in English for free!

The newest Hispabrick magazine (issue 21) is now available for download free of charge. This issue is packed full of great stuff including details on the above Star Destroyer, a review of the upcoming UCS Slave I, a bunch of building guides, set/parts reviews and interviews with some great Lego creators. You’re reading Leg Godt,…