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Real NASA Pics That Look Like Stills From Gravity
Mar 02, 8:00PM
Nope, you're not looking at stills from the Oscar-nominated film Gravity. They're all real photos, straight from NASA, and they were all shot in space.
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Revolutionary membrane can keep your heart beating perfectly forever
Mar 02, 7:12PM
You're looking at a rabbit's heart beating outside the animal that once hosted it. It's alive, pumping blood on its own thanks to a revolutionary electronic membrane that may save your life by keeping your heart beating at a perfect rate.
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America Doesn't Read Much, Says Map
Mar 02, 7:00PM
Congrats, America, we're all illiterate assholes. Or at least, according to this map, we read a hell of a lot less than the rest of the world.
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Goddammit Siri pic.twitter.com/kbAb89NuTV — kyle wagner (@kylenw) March 2, 2014
Mar 02, 6:00PM
Goddammit Siri pic.twitter.com/kbAb89NuTV
— kyle wagner (@kylenw) March 2, 2014
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Visual Effects Artists Behind The Hobbit Are Picketing the Oscars
Mar 02, 5:00PM
Ironically enough, in 2013 the studio responsible for the crazy CGI tiger in Life of Pi won the Oscar for best visual effects just 11 days after declaring bankruptcy. Its story—seen in the short doc above—is indicative of a larger problem in the suffering VFX industry. Adding to that, the artists and animators behind The Desolation of Smaug are picketing the Academy Awards tonight.
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Location-Aware Wi-Fi Could Send You Free Beer at a Football Game
Mar 02, 4:00PM
Potential buzzkill alert: you're at a concert, and your section runs out of beer. But magically, your phone gets a message that says you should head one section over where there's plenty of Buds to be had. Thanks to a developing Wi-Fi tech that knows exactly where you're sitting, that might soon be a reality.
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Booze Exploding at High Speeds Looks Like a Beautiful Brain Scan
Mar 02, 3:00PM
These ephemeral pics capture alcohol exploding at high speeds. They look like the mushroom clouds of atomic bombs or scans of the human brain. And to think, these are substances we put in our bodies on a regular basis.
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This App Gives You Easy Access To Your Best Reaction GIFs Anytime
Mar 02, 2:00PM
There is a perfect GIF for every moment, but spend too much time hunting for it, and the moment is lost. That's why you need GIFwrapped—an iOS app that lets you sync and share your favorite animated GIFs across all your devices.
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Crazy tower design takes people in glass pods on a roller coaster loop
Mar 02, 7:51AM
The winner of Turkey's Çanakkale Antenna contest was pretty damn crazy, but some of the runner-ups are even more insane. Like this 328-foot-high (100-meter) design that would have taken passengers in glass pods on a roller coaster loop.
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What the hell is this giant Russian car?
Mar 02, 6:59AM
According to English Russia, a Russian guy designed this car using a 3D modeling software. Then he and his friends got a Nissan Maxima "as a source for some parts" and built it. Looks like an all-terrain batmobile to me.
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This must be the coolest city model ever made
Mar 02, 4:42AM
Chris Burden says his amazing Metropolis II—a gigantic retrofuturistic city model where thousands of slot cars race forever—is not just a city model. Of course it's not. It's a goddamn amazing jesuschrist look at that city model. It looks glorious in this short by Henry & Rel.
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This Week's Top Comedy Video: Idiotsitter
Mar 02, 2:00AM
Look, it's a rough economy. Harvard-educated Billie is left seeking babysitting jobs. And accepting them, even when the job isn't exactly as straightforward as advertised.
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Antiviral: Celebrity Culture and Cannibalism
Mar 02, 1:30AM
Given that the entire internet has spent the past week buzzing over what may or may not be a sincere effort at selling lab-grown celebrity meat for consumption, it seems only appropriate that we end the week with Antiviral (currently on Netflix). The movie received some mixed reviews, but one thing's for certain—this thing is going to stay with you whether you like it or not.
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Surgeons attach man's calf to his arm to save his life
Mar 02, 12:46AM
Ian McGregor lost his entire leg to a cancerous tumor, but he's lucky to be alive thanks to a weird, never-before-attempted 18-hour surgical procedure: First doctors removed his calf and attached it to his arm to keep it alive during the tumor and leg amputation. Then they used the calf to fix the huge hole that resulted from the operation.
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You Can Now Buy the Official Pillow-Fighting Pillow of Japan
Mar 02, 12:05AM
Are you one of the All Japan Pillow Fighting Association's rapt and loyal followers? Are you tired of the more conventional sports fans sauntering around in their jerseys while you walk around swag-less? Looks like your day has finally come. As of yesterday, you can finally buy an Officially Recognized by the All Japan Pillow Fighting Association Pillow of your very own.
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The Financial Times is reporting that, come next week, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo will all be
Mar 01, 11:32PM
The Financial Times is reporting that, come next week, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo will all be announcing their official launches of iOS in the Car at the Geneva Motor Show. Let's just hope what we're looking at looks a little something like this .
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This outdoor sauna on stilts, designed by architect Duilio Forte, stands in the hills of Piacenza, I
Mar 01, 11:00PM
This outdoor sauna on stilts, designed by architect Duilio Forte, stands in the hills of Piacenza, Italy. Made almost entirely from spruce wood, the cozy cabin seats two. [Atelier Forte via ArchDaily]
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Nothing's as Beautiful as Hitting 55 Consecutive Green Lights in NYC
Mar 01, 9:35PM
Driving in New York can be a pretty agonizing experience—but then, so can walking and biking. Still, in such a congested city, you're going to need to be either extremely lucky or extremely okay with breaking the speed limit if you want to hit even just two green lights in a row. But 55 green lights? That takes an act of god. Or, in one Reddit user's case, a late night and some very careful calculations.
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Lockheed's Senior Peg: The Forgotten Stealth Bomber
Mar 01, 8:40PM
Perhaps because it was built in secret and designed to be invisible, the stealth bomber is unforgettable the moment you see it. What few remember, though, is that the iconic silhouette almost looked like this. Here's the story of how Senior Peg came to be, why we didn't get it, and why we might want it back.
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19th Century New York Was Covered in an Insane Web of Telephone Wires
Mar 01, 8:30PM
Alexander Graham Bell may have invented the telephone in 1875, but the first phone installation didn't come about for another three years. And that's what makes these photos from 1887 so incredible; this tangled mass of telephone wires had already wound itself around New York City's streets just seven years after that first installation.
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This week in Tech Reads: experimental energy, polar bears on Google Street View, how movies and TV p
Mar 01, 8:00PM
This week in Tech Reads: experimental energy, polar bears on Google Street View, how movies and TV portray tech, and lots—tons!—more.
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An Interview with Geoff McFetridge on the Interfaces from Her
Mar 01, 7:00PM
Not even those who worked on the Oscar-nominated film Her are sure exactly how near we are to the near-future depicted in the movie. "I think the idea of the near-future is that you can't predict the pace of technology," says graphic designer Geoff McFetridge, who designed the interfaces for the film.
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MLB Announces Revolutionary New Fielding-Tracking System
Mar 01, 6:43PM
Even in their recent state of repair, defensive metrics have always had a certain reverse-engineered, SABR-in-retrograde quality to them, even in a statistically mature sport like baseball. MLB Advanced Media just announced a new system that would slam the door shut on that era.
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Underwater Exosuits, Million-Dollar Time Capsules, Ghostbusters, More
Mar 01, 6:30PM
From a shocking visual of the drought conditions in California to an incredible, disgusting real-time scroll of porn searches, we saw a lot of striking things this week. Let's take a look back at our best stories of the week!
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The 5 Best Answers From a Fascinating Q&A With an Ex-TSA Agent
Mar 01, 6:00PM
Over on Slashdot yesterday, ex-TSA agent and controversial blogger extraordinaire Jason Harrington answered users' questions about the life of a TSA agent. And as one of the TSA's most outspoken critics, Harrington isn't one for tiptoeing around sensitive issues —which, much to TSA's dismay, makes for wonderfully fascinating Q&As.
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