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Finally, A Stadium Shaped Like A Crocodile

I’m as baffled as you are that it’s taken so long, but it seems someday we still might get the stadium we’ve all known architecture really needs: Turkey’s Burasapor soccer team, nicknamed the “Green Crocodiles,” could soon be getting an architectural masterpiece, a structure that will rival the greatest palaces of the last 200 years,…

Tech News Geoff Manaugh

Walk on a Magic Carpet of Light in this Moroccan Cathedral

Watch out, the ground will change beneath your feet at the Sacré Coeur in Casablanca. As part of the installation Magic Carpet 2014, an interactive light show swirls, swarms, and shimmers under the cathedral’s vaunted arches. It’s even more thrilling to watch the lights in action in the video below. Magic Carpet 2014 is the…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Rejoice, the weekend’s here. Whether you sprinted or hobbled across the finish line, we made it. Now let’s download some apps! Android Distiller We loved Distiller for iOS, and praise the heavens, now it’s here for Android. This handy app suggests a whiskey based on where or how you’ll be enjoying it, and helps you…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich

This Rug Encases Han Solo in Carbonite On Your Living Room Floor

Is your living room floor bare? Do you like optical illusions? Do you love Star Wars? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’ll definitely love this floor runner depicting Han Solo stuck in carbonate. This officially-licensed floor runner is just the right size for a hallway or a spot beneath your coffee…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Ikea Just Bought a Wind Farm Big Enough To Power All Its U.S. Stores

It takes a lot of energy to keep the lights on as you greedily pile ¢59 kitchen dongles and weird cookies into that blue bag, which is why Ikea is making a push to offset its total energy consumption by 2020. This week, it took a big step towards doing so by buying a wind…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Insane guy rappels down a vertical rock wall to snowboard at hyperspeed

Watch snowboarder Xavier de la Rue arriving to the top of a mountain in a helicopter, then rappelling down a rocky cliff in order to be able to speed down an almost vertical virgin snow tube. It feels exhilarating to watch it—I can’t even imagine how it must feel in real life. SPLOID is a…

Sploid Jesus Diaz

Report: Amazon Is Showing Off a 3D Smartphone That Could Hit This Year

We’ve been hearing about the rumored 3D Amazon phone forever, but it’s never shown up. According to the WSJ, however, Amazon is getting ready to launch this phone this year. The WSJ says that Amazon has been showing privately showing the phone to some people in Seattle and San Francisco. It will be announced in…

Commerce Mario Aguilar

8 of the World’s Most Phenomenally Nerdy Beers

Beer might come with some pretty brotastic connotations, but as with everything else in life, it’s the nerds who really do it right. Because when the same passion that gave us NASA and Lord of the Rings is applied to booze, the results are phenomenal, delicious, and (most importantly) geeky as hell. These are eight…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg

The Day Is Saved, Thanks To The Powerpuff Girls’ Lack of Fingers

It was always kind of weird how the Powerpuff Girls never had fingers, and this video by Ryan Higa and Toonocracy shows exactly what happens when the girls realize it. This parody does a pretty great job making fun of the show’s most famous elements, and even manages to lampshade an old Abbott and Costello…

Tech News Jason Krell

Atlas Launch of a New Spy Satellite

On Thursday, the Atlas V rocket successfully carried a new spy satellite into the orbit. The rocket continues a string of nearly 600 successful launches since the roll-out the Atlas program. The payload is a new satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office. United Launch Alliance successfully launched the Atlas V rocket out of Cape Canaveral…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Wild New Display Uses Fog As An Interactive 3D Screen

Engineers have built an interactive display using a tabletop system and mounted personal screens made of fog. Projectors light the fog for each user and a camera system monitors movements, allowing each person at the table to manipulate and share three-dimensional data. A team at the University of Bristol in the UK say their device,…

Tech News Txchnologist

Anybody With a Printer Can Make These Origami-Inspired Robots

We were promised robots. The future, science fiction told us, would be a world swarming with automatons that did all the jobs we didn’t want. But you know what? Robots are really expensive and hard to build. Two MIT scientists want to change all that with inkjet printers and techniques borrowed from origami. MIT robotics…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

This full-scale Lego Titanfall shotgun needs to be Nerf-enabled

People love Titanfall. No seriously, they love it. One guy loves the shooting game so much that he built his favorite weapon, the EVA-8 Shotgun, out of Lego. He did a damn good job, too. The gun’s architect is none other than Nick Jensen, known online as Nick Brick because, well, you figure out. If…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Bike Lanes Don’t Cause Traffic (If You Put Them In The Right Place)

The battle against bike lanes has turned into an all-out culture war here in the U.S., with NIMBYs shrieking about ceding a few feet of precious asphalt while squawking about the apocalyptic congestion that change will bring. But here’s a deep, data-driven investigation into the truth about bike lanes and traffic. Two researchers from statitician…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Simpsons Couch-Gag Proves Hand-Drawn Animation Is Alive And Well

Simpsons fans may remember a particular couch-gag from last month’s episode, “Diggs,” created by French animator Sylvain Chomet. It was a stylistically distinct, hand-drawn take on the gag and it made quite the splash. And now, the production company behind the short, Th1ng, has just released a “making-of” feature. It’s awesome to see that the…

Tech News Jason Krell

The Plan to Turn Jellyfish Into Diapers and Paper Towels

Of the many problems on Earth, here are two: there are too many jellyfish in the seas, and there are too many diapers in our landfills. An Israeli nanotech start-up called Cine’al says it has found the answer to both in Hydromash, a super-absorbent material made from the bodies of jellyfish. But why stop at…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

This House Hasn’t Been Redecorated Since The 60s And It’s For Sale

A 96-year old Toronto woman is finally moving out of her quaint little house. The story isn’t anything out of the ordinary—until you realize that she’s lived there for 72 years and apparently hasn’t redecorated once. Oh, and she has amazing taste. While the realtor gives a gentle nod at the home’s “retro” furnishings, HGTV…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

What Is Your Most Nostalgic Childhood Cartoon?

Everyone has a cartoon that reminds them of childhood, so let’s celebrate that by discussing all the TV shows or movies that bring us back to a simpler time. In the comments, be sure to include a picture, the name of the cartoon, and why it remains so special to you. My pick is the…

Tech News Jason Krell

Report: NSA Used Heartbleed to Spy on People for Years

It’s true. After days of speculation over whether the NSA knew about the Heartbleed vulnerability that affected as many as two thirds of the websites on the internet, two anonymous sources tell Bloomberg that the NSA didn’t just know about it, they used it to gather intelligence. Well, you may be wondering, why wouldn’t they?…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

No, Coronal Cavities are Not Alien Spaceships Refeuling

Back in 2012, the Solar Dynamic Observatory recorded one of our star’s many burps, but this one was different. This one was symmetrical, and an optical illusion, and spawned stories of an alien ship four times the size of the Earth refuelling. What you’re looking at isn’t a solid sphere (or ovoid), it’s an illusion…

Tech News Mika McKinnon

Finally, A Stadium Shaped Like A Crocodile

Walk on a Magic Carpet of Light in this Moroccan Cathedral

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

This Rug Encases Han Solo in Carbonite On Your Living Room Floor

Ikea Just Bought a Wind Farm Big Enough To Power All Its U.S. Stores

Insane guy rappels down a vertical rock wall to snowboard at hyperspeed

Report: Amazon Is Showing Off a 3D Smartphone That Could Hit This Year

8 of the World’s Most Phenomenally Nerdy Beers

The Day Is Saved, Thanks To The Powerpuff Girls’ Lack of Fingers

Atlas Launch of a New Spy Satellite

Wild New Display Uses Fog As An Interactive 3D Screen

Anybody With a Printer Can Make These Origami-Inspired Robots

This full-scale Lego Titanfall shotgun needs to be Nerf-enabled

Bike Lanes Don’t Cause Traffic (If You Put Them In The Right Place)

Simpsons Couch-Gag Proves Hand-Drawn Animation Is Alive And Well

The Plan to Turn Jellyfish Into Diapers and Paper Towels

This House Hasn’t Been Redecorated Since The 60s And It’s For Sale

What Is Your Most Nostalgic Childhood Cartoon?

Report: NSA Used Heartbleed to Spy on People for Years

No, Coronal Cavities are Not Alien Spaceships Refeuling

Artemis 2 Live Updates: Humanity’s Epic Return to the Moon 🔴

NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission Blasts Off

Disney’s Robot Olaf Dying Is the Funniest Thing to Happen in 2026

Kia’s EV3 Is Headed to the US This Year With Up to 320 Miles of Range

This Is the Way to Lego’s April Releases

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

Amazon Facilities in Bahrain Hit Again as Iran Follows Through on Threat, Report Says

Why the PS6 Handheld Will Matter More Than the PS6

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

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Finally, A Stadium Shaped Like A Crocodile

Walk on a Magic Carpet of Light in this Moroccan Cathedral

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

This Rug Encases Han Solo in Carbonite On Your Living Room Floor

Ikea Just Bought a Wind Farm Big Enough To Power All Its U.S. Stores

Insane guy rappels down a vertical rock wall to snowboard at hyperspeed

Report: Amazon Is Showing Off a 3D Smartphone That Could Hit This Year

8 of the World’s Most Phenomenally Nerdy Beers

The Day Is Saved, Thanks To The Powerpuff Girls’ Lack of Fingers

Atlas Launch of a New Spy Satellite

Wild New ​Display Uses Fog As An Interactive 3D Screen

Anybody With a Printer Can Make These Origami-Inspired Robots

This full-scale Lego Titanfall shotgun needs to be Nerf-enabled

Bike Lanes Don’t Cause Traffic (If You Put Them In The Right Place)

Simpsons Couch-Gag Proves Hand-Drawn Animation Is Alive And Well

The Plan to Turn Jellyfish Into Diapers and Paper Towels

This House Hasn’t Been Redecorated Since The 60s And It’s For Sale

What Is Your Most Nostalgic Childhood Cartoon?

Report: NSA Used Heartbleed to Spy on People for Years

No, Coronal Cavities are Not Alien Spaceships Refeuling

Artemis 2 Live Updates: Humanity’s Epic Return to the Moon 🔴

NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission Blasts Off

Disney’s Robot Olaf Dying Is the Funniest Thing to Happen in 2026

Kia’s EV3 Is Headed to the US This Year With Up to 320 Miles of Range

This Is the Way to Lego’s April Releases

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

Amazon Facilities in Bahrain Hit Again as Iran Follows Through on Threat, Report Says

Why the PS6 Handheld Will Matter More Than the PS6

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

Let us help find what you are looking for...

Wild New Display Uses Fog As An Interactive 3D Screen