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Half-Faced Illusions Are Twisting My Brain

1:00PM November 3, 2011 | Casey Chan

This photography illusion, made with a Samsung L100 camera and Photoshop, turns half of a person’s face into a picture of their profile too. Are they looking straight at you? Or looking to the side? I can’t freaking tell and it’s giving me brain sores. More »

Cameras

What A Shooting Star Looks Like From Space

3:10PM August 15, 2011 | Jack Loftus

NASA astronaut Ron Garan has captured something remarkable. A shooting star. Not in his hand or with his telescope, but with a camera. Still not impressed? He did this while orbiting above the meteor! More »

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Inside The Making Of An Old Timey Neon Sign

10:20AM June 25, 2011 | Michael Zhao

Nowadays, a public display ad is just an image on a giant screen, but this certainly wasn’t the case 60 years ago. Unlike their famous soda, Coke’s recipe for neon signs is no secret: hard work and lots of it. More »

Online

Google Adds Copy-and-Paste Picture Insertion To Gmail

6:40AM June 14, 2011 | Joe Brown

Gmail added drag-and-drop image insertion last year, but they’ve pumped up their image-sharing features even more today with clipboard support. So if you’ve copied an image from somewhere, you can paste it right into Gmail’s Compose window. [Lifehacker]

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The Best Rapture Prank Pictures

4:00AM May 22, 2011 | Casey Chan

OH MY GOD. The Rapture is really happening! Just look at all the people disappearing in these pictures. Well, that’s what we want people to think. Here are the best #rapturebomb pictures so far. More »

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A Civil War Era Photobomb

1:40PM May 17, 2011 | Casey Chan

There’s so much I want to find out about this picture. Did he do this on purpose? Was he just waking up? Was he an artist ahead of his time? What was his name? Did his friends find him funny? More »

Cameras

The Supermoon Was Really Super Huge

2:00AM March 21, 2011 | Casey Chan

Did you go out and see the Supermoon last night? It was huge! Well, in some places. I went out in New York and didn’t even notice a difference. Nonetheless, here’s the gigantic, fiery Supermoon hanging over Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. She looks pretty scary. [MSNBC] More »

Gadgets

Back In The Day, Everything Was Sold In Vending Machines

2:40PM February 18, 2011 | Casey Chan

The other day I stumbled upon one of those futuristic vending machines that sell ridiculous items that I’d never buy from a vending machine. There was no way in hell I was dropping 200 bucks in that machine just to see an iPod get stuck. Ah, vending machines, when did they get so complicated? More »

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Were We So Scared Of The Future That Kids Once Dressed In Foil?

5:00AM January 9, 2011 | Casey Chan

This is an awesome picture taken in the early 1900s in America. All the boys are wearing foil for some odd reason. Was foil in style? Was it to protect themselves from an alien invasion? Did it represent the future? More »

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The Human Eye Looks Like A Crater

12:00PM January 2, 2011 | Casey Chan

This is a stunning macro image of a human eye. Yes, an eye. It’s part of a series by Suren Manvelyan called “Your Beautiful Eyes”. Some eyes are electric, others are blooming and a few are haunting. All are amazing. More »