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Drinks-On With The World's Biggest, Baddest Bartending Robot
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Unglamorous Space Catastrophes That You'll Never See In A Movie
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How Much Would It Cost To Build The Starship Enterprise?
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Why 3D Printing Is Overhyped (I Should Know, I Do It For A Living)
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Google Just Went And Fixed The Samsung Galaxy S4
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Microsoft Surface Pro Review: Too Much Future?
The Microsoft Surface was the biggest new tech of 2012. Its first iteration — Surface RT, a confusingly named and marketed tablet-with-a-keyboard — bombed. Pretty hard. So why believe in the full-powered Surface Pro? Simple. It’s a braver and more divergent take on the laptop-tablet convergence than anyone else has risked so far.
One Of The Basic Maths Rules You Learned In School Is Wrong
There are probably a lot of things you learned in school that you don’t even remember, but the “order of operations” — also known as PEMDAS — is likely to be one that stuck with you; you’ll mess up even simple equations without it. The catch? Well, it’s wrong.
Watch This Badass Pilot Save The Day With A Ballsy No-Wheel Landing
Last night, the pilot of US Airways Express Flight 4560 was having some bad luck. The landing gear on his turboprop twin-engine plane just wouldn’t go all the way down. So with some quick thinking and righteous piloting skills, he went in for a wheel-less, sparky touchdown, and pulled it off without a hitch.
This Table Designs Itself With A Corrosive Chemical Dance Party
There are all kinds of ways to design a table, but most of them don’t include resonant frequencies or specially-designed abrasive enzymes, much less both. Bonus Table 571 isn’t most tables though, and that’s exactly how it gets its very specific pattern.
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.
This Week’s Top Comedy Video: Vine Tries To Make A Vine Ad In Vine
Vine might be the communication tool of the future, but it’s not without its limitations. Not the least of which is how impossible it is to describe Vine in a Vine-length blurb. Irony, thou art cruel!
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.
Ex-Valve Engineers’ Crazy AR Glasses Put Tiny Projectors On Your Face
Want some more tech to put on your face? Neither full-on goggles like the Oculus Rift nor slender no-AR-yet specs like Google’s Glass, CastAR takes a whole different approach to modified-reality tech by slapping tiny projectors on your face, and The Verge got to take a peek.
Meet The Teen Whose Invention Could Charge Your Phone In Seconds
While you are hanging out on the Internet (in your underwear, maybe?) on a Sunday, kids that are smart than either you or I are out there getting ready to change the world. Eesha Khare, for instance, not only invented a super-capacitor that could someday charge your phone in 20 seconds; she also one $US50,000 for it.
This iOS Game Is Narrated By Shaun Micallef, Was Made By The Oz Bureau Of Statistics
So, uh, the ABS put together this slick little city builder, called Run That Town, released it on the App Store — free — and made very little noise about it. Well, noise we didn’t hear, anyway. But it deserves more attention, if only because it looks as polished, if not more so, than most top mobile games.
This Is Everything Star Wars Episode VII Should Be
Not too long ago, Patton Oswalt riffed on his idea for a great plot for the upcoming Star Wars VII film, on Parks and Recreation. Now, it’s got a whole bunch of… digital effects that turn it into the film we all deserve. It’s alright JJ, we’ve got this one on lock.
