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Xbox One: Everything You Need To Know About Microsoft’s New Console

It’s been eight years and nine days since Microsoft showed the world the Xbox 360 on May 12, 2005. Today, we see what’s next. The Xbox One.


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The Weirdest Thing On The Internet Tonight: Wandering

This awesome 8-bit retro music video from Joe Presser is a classic tale of love: boy meets girl, boy runs away from girl, girl undergoes gruelling training regimen to hunt down boy and deliver smooches. It’s like Forrest Gump but in reverse.


First Footage Of An F-35B Taking Off Straight Into The Air

Finding a suitable runway to launch your multibillion dollar fighter jet from isn’t always as easy as it sounds. That’s why the F-35B Lightning II is designed to with the ability to both take off and land without ever needing to taxi. Here’s the first look at its vertical launch.


Monster Machines: The Flying Russian Crocodile Can Fight And Flee

Most helicopters are designed to either carry a lot of cargo at the expense of manoeuvrability — like the Chinook — or be quick and nimble while sacrificing armament and transport capabilities, like the Huey. Russia’s Mi-24 HIND multi-mission gunship isn’t “most helicopters”.


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The 5 Types Of Axes Everyone Should Know

The forest isn’t just going to lay down and stack itself into timber piles because you asked nicely. You’ll need to fell, chop and hew it into submission. Here are the tools to do it.


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Tokyo Has Never Sounded This Incredible

What do you get when you combine a 1:1000-scale model of Tokyo, 3D video projection mapping and catchy techno riffs? Three minutes of awesome, that’s what.


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The Weirdest Thing On The Internet Tonight: Mysterious Potions

Oh sure, it started off innocently enough with a little taste of silver iodide, what’s the worst that could happen, right? Wrong. Now one of them is hooked on Seed and is running amok in the lab. I mean, just look at the top of its head — where does it keep going?!


The Weirdest Thing On The Internet Tonight: Two Colours, Three Dimensions

Mixing surreal anaglyphic animation and a haunting soundtrack, this stunning short by Stephen Chan is cool enough to watch even without the glasses. Of course if you want the full effect but don’t have access to pair, just blink your eyes alternately real fast.


How To Make Your Own Anti-Venom Without Poisoning A Horse

As this slick educational short from the SciShow explains, you’ve got two choices when it comes to treating deadly, deadly snake bites: you can either hopefully make it to a hospital in time to counter the toxins with dozens of expensive vials of delicate anti-venom, or you can slowly inoculate yourself against their effects — effectively turning yourself into a poison-immune mobile anti-venom factory.


NASA Designs The Perfect Space Meal

After being strapped onto the front of a 15-story controlled explosion and launched clear out of the atmosphere to live in an experimental laboratory orbiting around the Earth at thousands of miles an hour, the least NASA can do is give you a good meal.


Tomorrow’s Corporate Jets Will Be Flying Johnny Cabs

Being a commercial airline pilot isn’t as glamorous as Leonardo di Caprio would have you believe; in practice, it’s more akin to long haul trucking than aerial acrobatics. So rather than force a human pilot to endure the monotony of maintaining course, a European research consortium wants to replace them entirely — with software.