Ford celebrates Mustang’s 50th with vivisection

Ford is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Mustang, and it’s doing it by cutting up the car into chunks and carrying it all the way up to the top … Continue reading

2015 Ford F-150 uses muddy men to test tough seats

When you’re billing your new truck as the toughest ever, you sometimes need outside help to make sure that’s actually the case, but the specialists Ford called in to test … Continue reading

A weird black ring appeared in the sky in England and then disappeared

A weird black ring appeared in the sky in England and then disappeared

This is bizarre. A 16-year-old girl saw a giant black ring in the sky above England and captured it on video. After three minutes of floating around like a cloud, the black ring disappeared completely. So far, experts have no idea what it was.

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Meet the guys who store humans at freezing temperatures for the future

Meet the guys who store humans at freezing temperatures for the future

We Will Live Again is a fascinating documentary on the Cryonics Institute, the place where 99 dead human bodies are stored at freezing temperatures in hopes that they’ll be able to be revived and live again in another life. It’s crazy and bizarre and eerie in all the right ways.

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Hellish coffee machine withholds caffeine from the coy

Caffeine may be the fuel many of us rely on to get us motivated in the morning, but coffee as a social lubricant – thanks to a machine that refuses … Continue reading

SociBot-Mini: a spooky robot that wears any face

SociBot-Mini is a 60-centimetre-high bot that can adorn a friend’s face and even predict your mood or guess your age. Spooked? The brainchild of Will Jackson and his colleagues at … Continue reading

Wearables for sharks: Life-logging misunderstood predators

2014 may be “the year of wearables” but sharks probably won’t be Google or Fitbit’s next target audience, despite groundbreaking new research by the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and … Continue reading

Netflix Drone 2 Home spoofs Amazon PrimeAir with DVD snark

Amazon’s PrimeAir drone delivery concept has received its fair share of scorn, but Netflix has waited until now to weigh in with a little snark of its own. The company … Continue reading

Freak Corvette Museum sinkhole swallows eight classics

Eight historic Corvettes have been damaged after falling through the floor of the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky, as a freak sinkhole opened beneath them. The cars – most of … Continue reading

Radiohead PolyFauna app takes wild musical walk through Bloom

Radiohead has released an experimental app based on the 2011 track Bloom, PolyFauna, mixing together music and jagged computer graphics in what the band says is from “the imagined creatures … Continue reading