What’s The Most Annoying Piece of Tech You Couldn’t Live Without?
Eric Limer - Technology is great. It makes our lives easier. It lets us do things we could never do otherwise. And we all learn to hate some of it. It doesn’t matter how wonderful its functionality is,...
View ArticleI Wish I Could Move Like This Awesome Real-Life Assassin’s Creed...
Sam Gibbs - I’m an absolute demon at the game, but when it comes to clambering up buildings; leaping between suspended beams, and driving off roof tops, I’m more likely to break my neck than anything;...
View ArticleSpectacular Dubai Engulfed By Fog Looks Like Cloud City
Jesus Diaz - Dubai-based photographer Gerald Donovan has sent us this spectacular video of the city completely engulfed by fog. It’s extremely beautiful and eerie, with the Burj Khalifa and the rest of...
View ArticleDubai Is Now Officially the Craziest City in the World
Jesus Diaz - By the powers bestowed in me by the Ministry of Silly Underpants and after carefully examining and considering the numerous photographic and videographic documents covering its many insane...
View ArticleNASA’s Beautiful Climate Picture Makes You Forget Extreme Weather Is...
Leslie Horn - The world is utterly beautiful, especially when seen through the lens of picture of global aerosols — the solid and liquid particles that float around in our atmosphere. You’re familiar...
View ArticleThis 1990 Philips Ad Is Awesomely Awful
Andrew Liszewski - Kudos to Philips for posting this incredibly awkward promotional spot called Moving Sound on the company’s official YouTube channel. If it’s not ashamed of the ad — which highlights...
View ArticleSometimes Watch: Awesome Accessory, Subpar at Telling Time
Leslie Horn - I don’t wear a watch. I never have. If I did it would be more or less as a bracelet, but I dig the Sometimes Watch because it’s just so simple and cool. Bright colours remind you of the...
View ArticleThe Best Mars Panorama Yet Feels Just Like Being There
Jesus Diaz - This morning Hans Nyberg sent me the most impressive panorama I’ve seen of Mars yet, made from images released by NASA on August 27. Put it at full screen and look around. It’s like being...
View ArticleThis Is the Dumbest and Most Awesome Way to Light a Bonfire
Eric Limer - I don’t know who thought this was a good idea, but they were sort of right, in an extremely dangerous way. These clowns decided that maybe they should light their bonfire with a home-made...
View ArticlePerpetual Energy Wasting Machine Is Nine Parts Absurd, One Genius
Jesus Diaz - This is dumb. This is so goddamn dumb. Dumber than a bag of hammers. So dumb it’s making my ears bleed. Dumb, dumb, dumb. DUMB. But I love it. Perpetual energy wasting machine, I love you....
View ArticleThe Arrested Development Documentary Final Trailer Is Out!
Jesus Diaz - REJOICE, fellow disturbed individuals! The final trailer of the Arrested Development—perhaps the much-anticipated new season appears on Netflix. Oh, you have never seen Arrested...
View ArticleSpiders Love to Chase Lasers Too, Just Like Cats
Jesus Diaz - Those damn furry spiders love to chase lasers; like cats. It’s ok, spider. Come on. I will let you hunt my laser. And then fry you with it. Oh spider, I kid, I kid. I love you because you...
View ArticleWatch a NASA Astronaut Describe the Complexities of Photography in Space
Jamie Condliffe - Donald Pettit is, as well as being a NASA astronaut, an exceptionally keen photographer — which is why he has over 10 top-of-line DSLR cameras littering the International Space...
View ArticleThis Guy Proposed to His Girlfriend By Faking a Plane Crash
Casey Chan - We’ve seen some awesome, hilarious and good-hearted proposals but we’ve never seen anything as twisted as this: a guy and girl fly a two person plane and take in the sweeping views (cue:...
View ArticleReimagined Flags Based on National Stereotypes are Awesome Art
Molly Oswaks - Kirill Zaytsev’s “Flagsters: Flags Letters Countries & Stereotypes” is a visual experiment using national flags and their verbal stereotypes to reimagine pre-existing national...
View ArticleThis Stunning NASA Simulation Shows a Galaxy’s Entire Life History
Jamie Condliffe - This amazing video shows a NASA-created simulation of the entire life of a single disk galaxy — all the way from the Big Bang 13.5 billion years ago to the present time. Disk galaxies...
View ArticleGiant Smiley Discovered In Mercury
Jesus Diaz - NASA scientists are having a lot of fun with Messenger, the spacecraft now orbiting Mercury. Not only they are documenting the planet at a resolution of 200 metres per pixel, but they are...
View ArticleReal Science + Animated GIF = Awesomeness
Jamie Condliffe - NASA satelite imaging has revealed that a massive crack in Antartica’s Pine Island glacier is growing fast. Which is bad. But the GIF it’s made is so good it almost makes up for it....
View ArticleNASA Dismantles the Last Traces of the Space Shuttle Program
Jesus Diaz - When NASA cleans their garage, they always end up with the largest yard sale in the world. The giant platforms in the photo above are just part of the last shuttle-era equipment being...
View ArticlePretend You’re On the Moon With This Awesome Apollo 11 Interactive...
Sam Gibbs - It might be all about Mars at the moment, but this stunning interactive panorama, which gives you a 360-degree view of the Tranquility Base where Apollo 11 touched down, shows the Moon in...
View ArticleAwesome Go-Kart Is a Life-Size Chariot Made of Lego
Molly Oswaks - It may not drive very fast (yet!), but this awesome go-kart, which can hold a grown child and seemingly also an adult, is definitely cool. It’s a veritable lego chariot! Checkout maker...
View ArticleTV Reporter Ties Herself to a Lamp Post to Broadcast In the Middle of a Typhoon
Jesus Diaz - This would be hilarious if it weren’t so damn scary: this reporter—or her producer—decided to tie herself to a lamp post 20 minutes before typhoon Haikui hit Ningbo, a city on the...
View ArticleFire Breather or Sorcerer From Hell, His Photos Are Awesome Either Way
Jesus Diaz - Tom Lacoste—aka Thoum—describes himself as a “young self-made photographer” who “began taking pictures while I was juggling fire with some friends.” Looking at his amazing photos, he seems...
View ArticleWatch Three Minutes of Awesome Dogs Being Awesome at 1000fps During Your...
Andrew Liszewski - The world can be an upsetting place at times. But no matter how badly your day might be going, there’s one thing that can always bring a little cheer back into your life: dogs! Dogs...
View ArticleEleven Years of Dubai’s Insane Growth Seen From Space
Jesus Diaz - We knew Dubai was growing uncontrollably, but this video demonstrates how absolutely crazy this growth has been. It covers eleven years, from 2000 to 2011. These sheiks and their real...
View ArticleNASA’s Inventing In Style with Awesome Robot Pants
Eric Limer - You already have NASA to thank in part for everyday, Earthly wonders like memory foam and water filters, but a new one is coming to the list: powered exoskeletons. The Xi Robotic...
View ArticleBirthday Cake Goes Boom In Slow Motion
Andrew Liszewski - If you’ve ever wanted to see a birthday cake — or any cake, for that matter, explode before your eyes, boy, do I have a video for you. [Tasted] cake, explosions, kaboom Related Posts...
View ArticleThis Awesome 50,000-Piece Lego Rivendell Was Made by a Kid
Jesus Diaz - The Lego Lord of the Rings sets are pretty neat, but they can’t compete with this gigantic version of Rivendell, the Elven town in Middle-earth, home of Elrond and his family. Watch the...
View ArticleWhy Is There a Goddess’ Egg Floating In Space?
Jesus Diaz - This image reminds me of an ovum—a female egg. But it’s not inside anything on Earth. It’s floating in the vastness of space—about 9,000 light years from here, in the constellation of...
View ArticleExplore the Dragon Capsule’s Interior in this Panorama
Jesus Diaz - SpaceX has published this neat interactive panorama of the inside of its Dragon capsule, America’s first private spacecraft. NASA is using it now to resupply the International Space...
View ArticleThis Earth Photo Just Published by NASA Shows Sandy’s Massive Size
Jesus Diaz - If you had any doubts about the scale of frankenstorm Sandy (and the collective moanings by your American pals on Facebook), check out NASA’s latest image to see its size compared to the...
View ArticleWatch This NASA Spoof Celebrate The Curiosity Landing In Style
Jon Partridge - Take two-parts LMFAO, a healthy dose of NASA and a topping of Curiosity, and you get this brilliant spoof that’s a fitting tribute to how badass NASA really is. I’m willing to bet the...
View ArticleThis Is What a Shrink-Wrapped Space Shuttle Looks Like
Jesus Diaz - I’ve seen the space shuttle in every possible way and angle. Even at the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. But I’ve never seen it completely shrink-wrapped, as if someone just...
View ArticleWatch NASA Beautifully Remember Neil Armstrong
Casey Chan - Neil Armstrong. The first man on the moon. American hero. American legend. Buried at sea, this is how NASA remembers him. Watch it yourself and see how he touched everybody’s life and...
View ArticleHow NASA Mounts a Space Shuttle on an Airplane
Casey Chan - The Space Shuttle Endeavour just completed its final flight around California today and if you were wondering how a freaking space shuttle ends up on top of a 747, well, watch the video...
View ArticleThis Near Collision Between Two Airplanes Will Make Your Heart Skip a Beat
Jesus Diaz - This seems like yet another boring refueling video taken by a KC-135 Stratotanker’s flying boom operator—until the NATO E-3 Sentry AWACS plane almost crashes with it. At the last second,...
View ArticleHow Big Is the Airbus 380 Exactly? This Damn Big
Jesus Diaz - I know that the Airbus A380 is a titan, a winged colossus, the biggest passenger airliner in the world and all that. But this pictured taken at LAX—showing an Air France A380 taxiing by a...
View ArticleThe Awesome NASA Passenger Plane That Wants to Kill the Sonic Boom
Jesus Diaz - NASA and its partners keep making progress in their quest to design a new passenger airliner that can fly supersonic without making a lot of noise, one of the main problems with the...
View ArticleMan Trapped in Mud Scooped Out By Caterpillar Machine
Jesus Diaz - Ah, Russia, you never-ending source of amusement and absurdity you, please never change. Take this man, who somehow sunk himself into the mud up to his waist and then couldn’t get...
View ArticleThis Amazing Skyscraper Parks Your Car In Your Living Room
Jesus Diaz - I’ve seen other amazing robotised parking systems in the past, but this just seems insanely unreal to me. Just watch this guy parking his Lamborghini in his living room. It’s like someone...
View ArticleCloud Storage Isn’t What It Used To Be
Jamie Condliffe - There’s a generation of youngsters growing up who think that Cloud Storage means Dropbox or Drive, and not some crazed childhood idea to collect all those awesomely shaped plumes in...
View Article10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know Dropbox Could Do
Sam Gibbs - Did you know you can use Dropbox as your default documents folder on your Mac with a quick Terminal session, or grab things for offline-viewing on your iPhone or Android like plane tickets?...
View ArticleIf you bought a 16GB Nexus from Google Play…
Eric Limer - If you bought a 16GB Nexus from Google Play 15 days (or less) before the price drop, you can get £25 credit from Google. [GigaOM] Related Posts The 16GB Nexus 7 Will Probably Soon Cost...
View ArticleVideo of Earth Painted by Atmospheric Particles Looks Like a Trippy van Gogh
Jesus Diaz - We saw a still earlier this week, but this NASA visualisation video is truly awesome. It shows how aerosols—fine particles suspended in air—travel around the world in a van Gogh-ish dance...
View ArticleThis Awesome Model Helicarrier From The Avengers Actually Flies
Tom Pritchard - We saw the flying delorean back in March, but now Russian model maker extraordinaire, Native118, is back with a vengeance with a scale model of the S.H.I.E.L.D Helicarrier from...
View ArticleThe Final Version of iOS 6 Is Out for Developers
Kyle Wagner - The iOS 6 Gold Master build — the version that will be released to the public — is out now for developers. We’ll let you know as all the finalised features come out, but for now, go...
View ArticleThe Best Video of Mars Landing, Period
Jesus Diaz - I’ve seen interpolated videos of the historic Mars Curiosity landing before, but this one is much more amazing than all those. It was painstakingly done in four weeks. “A labor of love”,...
View ArticleWaste Your Friday Afternoon Proving You’re as Good as Bond With This Awesome...
Sam Gibbs - The Skyfall marketing machine is in full gear, and with just a week to go, its spat out this awesome MI6 text adventure game, where you have to prove you’re fit for her majesty’s service....
View ArticleWhat If the Earth Were Hollow?
Eric Limer - The idea of jumping into a tunnel that travels through the centre of the Earth, and emerging on the other side to step right out is definitely fun to imagine, but what if the Earth...
View ArticleVisit Mars and Take a Tour of the Gale Crater, Right Now, With This...
Molly Oswaks - If you’ve suffering from a touch of the Mars Fever, fear not: you can now take a 360-degree panorama tour of the Red Planet over at 360cities.net. The current panorama up for Earthling...
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