With expansions planned all the way to 2020, the world’s largest model railroad just opened its latest addition: a 150sqm model airport, chock full of tiny aircraft support vehicles, hangers, terminals and passengers. More »
When Kotaku posted these pics from 2011 of Stars Wars villain Grand Moff Tarkin with the headline “You Will Not Believe These Star Wars Pictures Are Real”, I believed them. So lifelike, so realistic, despite the fact that Peter Cushing, who played Tarkin in A New Hope, died in 1994. So how were these pics taken? More »
You are not the only one whose skin isn’t always perfect. But you could get that feeling from looking at the magically pore and blemish-free images we’re bombarded with on billboards and in magazines. One photographer inadvertently let us in on the process. Watch the miraculous transformation in our video. More »
What’s more fascinating than the ultralight free fliers in Phil Kibbe’s documentary Float? The people who dedicate their lives to making them. More »
Our planet recently made another fantastic journey around the sun. What better way to celebrate than to take a look at the marvellous mechanical contraptions we’ve created to visualise our solar system’s celestial dance. More »
The computers haven’t been built yet, so it’s not going to happen for a while—but the Living Earth Simulator will be a “knowledge collider” capable of modelling our entire planet when/if it gets off the fantasy drawing board. More »
