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If you’re curious how your bones work when you’re doing yoga, Hybrid Medical created this video that shows off what the skeleton is doing in all those poses under an x-ray. The 3D animation was made to be as realistic and as accurate as possible. Hybrid Medical writes: Our goal for this piece was to…
As you can see here, the more the US spends on science, space, and technology, the more people kill themselves by hanging, strangulation, and suffocation. Of course, this is just a spurious correlation: Correlation doesn’t mean causation. Although Nic Cage films causing people to drown in pools is plausible. Source: Center for Disease Control and…
I forgot how good this song was. I also totally forgot that the entire video is a parody of a Mentos commercial. But it was just the beginning of a whole slew of Foo Fighters parody videos. There’s “Learn to Fly,” which riffs off the movie Airplane. Then there’s “Everlong,” a Michael Gondry-directed take on…
With its sharp peak and angles, thismountain hut designed by Atelier 8000 both mirrors and complements the icy mountains surrounding it. To use the studio’s evocative description, it sits like “an erratic block left behind by the retreating glacier.” Atelier 8000 designed this cube for the Kežmarská Chata (Kežmarská Hut) international competition. The winning hut…
GIFs are the lifeblood of the internet, the reason most of us get up in the morning. But they haven’t really gotten better in the past 25 years—until now. Imgur claims to have “reimagined the GIF” by recreating the traditional animated, looping images we love using the best web video format, MP4. Hold onto your…
If you’re thinking that solar panels face south to capture the most sunlight and thus the most energy, then you’d be absolutely correct. Yet, solar experts are saying that rooftop panels should be installed facing west. This surprising turn can be explained by quirks in our electrical grid. As the New York Times explains, not…
Hello there! In just a few hours, Apple’s expected to announce brand new iPad Airs, possibly a retina iMac, and maybe even a long-overdue Apple TV refresh. And we’ll be covering it all for you as it unfolds, live from the scene. The newest iPads should pack some cool new features, like fingerprint-sensing Touch ID…
Not only does a dull blade make slicing and dicing more difficult, it can actually make working with knives a little dangerous. An unsharpened blade is more prone to slipping off food than cutting it, and then ending up somewhere painfully unwanted. So Joseph Joseph has created a cutting board with a built-in knife sharpener…
It seems kind of silly to me to make a movie based off of Disneyland’s Tomorrowland but hey, the same sort of idea worked out pretty well for Pirates of the Caribbean. And after seeing the very first teaser of the movie, the movie version of Tomorrowland looks like it’s going to be a lot…
A few new images have been released of the upcoming Bionicle theme and I will share them with you. However, while all of this very pretty and great if you look at it from a comic book or animation standpoint, I can’t help but think, is this really Lego? Technically, it is Lego. They utilize…
In its latest adventure, New York Times’Living Cityseries explores the city’s enormous underground steam distribution system. Unlike anywhere in the world, New York hides away the largest steam system that powers all types of humidification sources, preserving museum art to even dishwashers in every restaurant kitchen. A total of 2000 buildings are powered by this…
The backflipping Lenovo Yogasinglehandedly made laptops cool again. The Yoga 2 Proadded a backlit keyboard and a brilliant 3200 x 1800 QHD screen. Now, Lenovo’s going for broke with the third generation of its transforming touchscreen machine. Not only is the new $1,349 Yoga 3 Pro thinner and lighter, it has a freaking watch band…
I could not be more excited for the first Disney-Marvel mashup Big Hero 6, coming to theaters this fall. In a new trailer released today at NYC’s Comic-Con, we get to see more of the action, backdropped by epic San Fransokyo views and superhero suits that were inspired by visits to real-life robotics labs. This…
Ever heard of the Panopticon? It’s a type of prison design that enables a single watchman to see everyone. Now, Ohiois experimenting with an interesting twist on that idea by putting the watchman in the sky with an infrared camera. The state’s Department of Rehabilitation and Correction plans to launch a type of drone into…
In an official press release, Universal has announced its partnership with Lego to create a line of toys to support the release of the Jurassic World movie in the summer of 2015. Which, you know, YAY LEGO DINOSAURS EVERYONE! Very cool! Though the Jurassic franchise sort of fell on its face (though it still made…
I like Finnian MacManus’ reimagination of the worlds of Dune, the 1965 book by Frank Herbert. Above you can see the main palace in Harakkeen—a renamed city of Arrakeen in an alternative ending where House Atreides loses the war against House Harkonnen. The rest of his work is quite cool too. Finnian MacManus is a…
Amazon, the cyber store that sells everything, plans to open its first physical store at 7 W 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan just in time for the holiday season. The experimental store will work as a mini-warehouse for some same day deliveries in New York. It’ll surely serve as a nice little billboard, too. The…
It’s a little-known fact that celebrity Ashton Kutcher moonlights as a Lenovo engineer. At first, it was tolerable: a kickstand here, a bigger battery there. But now, the chisel-cheeked entrepreneur has twisted Lenovo’s latest tablets to his own foul aims: the new Yoga Tablet 2 Pro has a built-in projector. And a subwoofer. And a…
Today, Sony passed on an opportunity to bring its 4.6-inch Sony Z3 compact to the United States, at least for the foreseeable future. With it went any hope of finding a quality smartphone here that doesn’t feel like stuffing a butter dish in your pocket, outside of the iPhone 6. I’m not going to belabor…
Passenger rail has never been known for punctuality (at least in this century), but over the past year, Amtrak’s long distance passenger trains have reportedly gone from being late 35 percent of the time to being late 60 percent of the time. But don’t blame Amtrak—it’s being forced to make way for the thousands of…
