As you scroll through these 34 exquisite hyperrealistic paintings, something strange will happen. You’ll start doubting your eyes, then your brain, then these images. You’ll become convinced that at least a few of them are photographs and not acrylic paint. They have to be. More »
Over the last few weeks you might’ve heard about the ultra-futuristic information kiosks recently developed for the New York City subway system. It’s sci-fi stuff, thoroughly modernizing the arteries of an often creaky metropolis. And we headed down to New York’s financial district to check out a working prototype for ourselves. More »
After its third nuclear test in February drew a harsh rebuke from the international community and further tightened economic sanctions against the Hermit Kingdom, North Korea has once again doubled down on its nuclear rhetoric. The country announced today that it will soon restart the Yongbyon reactor, Pyongyang’s primary plutonium processing plant. More »
The first people to step on to the surface of Mars won’t arrive aboard the chemical-fueled rockets that delivered Apollo 11 to the Moon—they simply don’t provide enough thrust to get to the Red Planet before exposing their crews to months of dangerous space radiation. Instead, NASA is turning to long-ignored nuclear-thermal rocket technology to deliver the first Martian explorers into history. More »
The Design Museum has announced the contenders for the sixth annual Designs of the Year. And their shortlist for transport showcases some of the most forward-thinking ways to get around you’ve ever seen. More »
Winter’s slowly winding down, and no doubt, the warm weather is beginning to beckon, what with the birds and the sunshine and the joyful frolicking and whatnot. And we’d be out there enjoying it, too… if this past month hadn’t given us a whole slew of gadgets to stay inside drooling over. Ah well—the sun looks just as good from a window, anyway. More »
So we used to have these things called landlines, which were phones that you didn’t take with you everywhere and that you actually used to talk to people. Some of them didn’t even look like phones. More »
So you’ve decided to take the plunge and start raising a brood of urban chicken. Play this right and you’ll have a nearly inexhaustible supply of fresh eggs. But first, you’ll need to manufacture a hen or two of your own. Here’s how to get a chicken from an egg—without sitting on it for three weeks. More »
Give basically any piece of tech you carry around the time machine test. Jump ahead 50 years, and show off whatever anachronism of a gadget you brought along to a native. They’d laugh, obviously. But within the confines of our traditional tech specs, you know what they’d probably find most egregious? The battery. More »
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