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It’s just two or three phrases on repeat. They are brief bits of sound, like a few keys on a piano recorded, the tape then left in a sink for a long weekend, then wiped off with a musty towel, left in the sun for days to dry, eaten at by insects, and only then…
Hey man, you ever ridden a bicycle? You ever ridden a bicycle on LSD?
We were once toddlers before. We’ve gotten drunk as recent as a few days ago. We maybe got too sore from working out. And we’re not always perfectly balanced. We know how awkward it can be sometimes to just… walk. It’s okay! It’s not always as easy as it looks! Look, even computer simulations tasked…
When we watch movies, we pay attention to specific parts of the scene and focus on different actors and look at certain things on the screen. Most of what we see is influenced by what the directors want us to see, our attentions are easy to grab after all. So what if you showed the…
We all know what famous Disney princesses and villains look like in the cartoons and movies but what about in real life? How do their beautifully exaggerated features translate into real humans? Pretty good! Artist Avalonis attempted to make real life Disney characters by piecing together real life famous features as reference points. I think…
Here is a tummy tickling compilation video of Vines from Zach King, the magic wizard of Vine. He’ll snatch cats out of computer screens, turn Rubik’s Cubes into candy, fly through beds and doors, jump out of his clothes, magically change colors of any object and more. It’s the most entertaining use of the 6…
Despite being a comedy, Ghostbusters packed a lot of convincing pseudo-science into its story, and the movie was chock full of wonderful—and incredibly desirable—props. And in the same way we don’t believe that a toy lightsaber will ever suddenly arc to life, we don’t believe this faithful reproduction of Egon’s Neutrino Wand will ever snag…
1928: A ‘money-in-the-slot’ automatic fruit and nut vending machine attached to a car, on display in Britain for the first time. [Getty Images]
With the lights off, Italian artist Fabrizio Corneli‘s work looks like pretty but unspectacular—just metal boxes and scraps. But with the flip of a switch, a whole new world of light emerges. His sculptures are cut with a mathematical precision so that light spills out in beautiful, unexpected forms. In this piece below called Iperboreo—Italian…
Ever since the first human genome was decoded at a cost of $3 billion, scientists have been pushing for a moonshot goal: a system that can process thousands of genomes at a cost of $1,000 each. Today, Illumina unveiled a set of machines that do just that. For geneticists and medical researchers, this is a…
Drummers are the worst, but for guitar players, the options are limited. You either get a drummer or deal with a bunch of extra gear to replace a drummer. Which is why Beat Buddy, despite its really unfortunate name, is a totally intriguing. It could be the simple hands-free drum machine guitar players have been…
When you first look at this painting, you imagine it as two women set against one scene. But then you notice the frames in the picture are a little off and wonder if there’s some Photoshopping or digital manipulation going on but nope, there’s none of that either. It’s just clever use of double exposure…
They’ve been a mainstay of the hyper-paranoid for decades—at least when it comes to comic depictions. But now, the classic, beloved tin foil hat has left the world of hyperbole to become an actual, honest-to-god mind-reading-deflection machine. And it looks fancy, to boot. Designed by Lisa Kori and Caitlin Morris of the Italian communications center…
Tired of your boss busting your chops for getting back a few minutes late from lunch? Just hang this Hazy wall clock in your office and let it serve as the perfect alibi. Is it eight after one, ten after one, twelve after one? It’s impossible to say, because designer Ivan Kasner has given the…
Among the things I found mortifying about my parents when I was a teenager was their habit of leaving buckets of pee in the bathroom. Instead of flushing all that phosphorous- and nitrogen-rich urine down the toilet, they saved it for our backyard vegetable garden. Pee as fertilizer has since—contrary to everything my teenage self…
Getting your daily dose of THC shouldn’t require coughing and hacking through bong hits or dropping hundreds of dollars on vaporizers. Here’s how to give your cooking a dash of psychedelic deliciousness. Obligatory Bob Loblaw Disclaimer: While cannabis is legal for recreational use in Colorado and Washington, as well as for medical use in 20…
Have you ever worried about how secure that wireless keyboard you’re using really is? How do you know that when working somewhere remotely there isn’t some hacker nearby capturing every word you type? With Matias’ new Secure Pro keyboard, your security is guaranteed thanks to a 128-bit AES encrypted wireless connection to your computer using…
At last, here’s a cool GoPro video that is not about someone jumping or doing something risky and stupid. Just normal people doing normal things. Or not so normal: California kids Stella and Quincy enjoy their first snow day in Vermont, complete with horses, pigs, and of course… sledding! I like when she says “AGAIN!”…
Construction on the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro, the largest church on earth, started 28 years ago in the small Ivory Coast city of Yamoussoukro. Planned by then-president Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who led the country through two decades of economic boomtime known as the “Ivorian miracle,” the church would be a monument—to God,…
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