The idea of an empty city is sort of simultaneously awesome and creepy because it would be cool to have a space built for thousands of people all to yourself, but you’d have to wonder where everybody went. Photographer Bruce Wayne Berry Jr. wanted to investigate the feelings evoked by an empty city while using effects to show what Philadelphia looks like through infrared filters.
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Every time I went to my grandmother’s house growing up she was always working on a quilt of one sort or another. She offered to make me quilts multiple times but I didn’t care anything for handmade blankets back in the day. If she were still around, I would be calling her right now to make me one of these Jean-Luc Picard quilts.
Apparently, the owner of a quilt making outfit called Candy Coated Quilts and made his particular blankie using two-inch squares of cloth. How exactly she was able to make this pixelated looking photo of Picard with the squares is beyond my pay grade, but it’s awesome.
The quilt was made for a queen-size bed and required 4,500 fabric squares to complete it. It’s even got the Captain’s Starfleet uniform on the backside. Its creator made it as a wedding gift for a couple of friends who happen to be Trekkies. This is easily the best wedding gift ever.
Fans of Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation can now lay their head on a miniature version of the champion poker player and Geordi’s best friend. Isn’t he cute?
This version of Data is square, but still pretty adorable. I love how he even has his rank pips and the eye color seems accurate. It was made by Etsy artist Morondanga and is ready for your next nap.
If Data isn’t enough for you there is also a three pack available with Data, Picard and Worf. Data is just $23.59(USD), and he measures 16-inches-square. He is the perfect Enterprise crew member to take a nap on!
[via Neatorama]
Your wine is about to be assimilated and there is nothing you can do about it. This Borg Wine Bottle Stopper from Venessa of The Wine Pirate is about to assault your open bottle of Sonoma red.
It will hover right on top, keeping your wine safe and fresh, looking menacing and imposing as it decides whether or not to send Locutus as an emissary and warn you of their intentions.
This awesome bottle stopper even lights up with a nice eerie green glow. Batteries are included and are replaceable. This makes a great conversation piece for your next Star Trek themed dinner party.
The Borg Wine Stopper sells for $21.99 (USD). The seller has all kinds of other geeky wine stoppers in her shop too. Be sure to check them out.
After the opening teaser scene in this summer’s Star Trek: Into Darkness, the film bursts into a batshit outer space title credit sequence, which sets the blood-boiling tone for the rest of the adventure. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how those rad 3D graphics were made.
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So Into Darkness was fun
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Star Trek Into Darkness is now available on Blinkbox’s UK-based video streaming service. How did they announce it? In an awesome way of course. They hired illusionist Scott Penrose to fool a crowd in a mall into believing they were seeing a working transporter, straight from the Starship Enterprise.
The trick made it look like random people were being beamed straight across the room. Some of the bystanders were truly stunned by the illusion. It’s amazing what some people will believe. Everyone knows that you need a pad full of circles to teleport. That and a Scottish engineer. That’s the only way you can really transport stuff. Seriously, it’s a fun illusion, even if it is very obvious how they pulled it off.
They do some pretty great marketing at BlinkBox, don’t you think?
Given all of the times that the Star Trek crew has traveled to the past in the Holodeck, I’m really surprised that we didn’t see a phaser and tricorder like these ones on the show.
Flo Svensson’s steampunk Starfleet away team gear is nicely detailed and are gadgets of an age to come that just happen to look like weapons from an age gone by.
I can already see Data and Picard wearing top hats and monocles, blending in with the locals, in search of an alien who altered the timeline. It’s a good thing LaForge gave them some time-accurate gear so they won’t stand out.
Maybe Mark Twain will show up. Props to these props.
[via Neatorama]
Taking a trip to the mall could turn into an all-day event if you just so happen to make the trip with someone who literally can shop until they proceed to drop. There are some neat stores and kiosks in the mall that try their absolute best to get as much money out of your bank account as fast as possible. If this prank ever became a reality, we’re sure there’d be a huge line of people waiting their turn to be beamed up into something.
Star Trek Teleportation Prank Convinces People Scotty Can Beam Us Up original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Teleportation is perhaps the dreamiest sci-fi invention ever imagined so it’s no surprise that when a Star Trek-style Transporter pops up in a middle of a mall and promises real life teleportation, a crowd forms to ooh and ahh and secretly hope that it’s real (no matter how unreal it is). Illusionist Scott Penrose created this teleportation prank that had people believing in all things Trekkie.
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