Jul 02
A German heavy equipment manufacturer decided they’d impress potential buyers—or maybe just people with a fetish for construction equipment—by using a series of massive cranes to lift each other. More »
Jul 02
What did T-Mobile do to this man? Why did he come into one of its stores like a slow-motion Hulk to smash everything inside and spray it all with a fire extinguisher? I don’t have a clue, but it feels satisfying. More »
Jul 02
If you’re tuned into Brazilian national politics, maybe there’s some sort of metaphor here. But for the rest of us, awesome video of sonic boom resulting in massive destruction!—these fighters just ruined Brazil’s Supreme Court. More »
Jun 29
Seeing the Unseen—How Modern Photography Is Expanding Human Perception [Video]
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Though today’s cutting-edge optics bear little resemblance to what Galileo and Van Leeuwenhoek peered through in their pioneering efforts, the effect is the same—pure awe. PBS’ latest installment of Off Book delves into how new techniques and technologies are revealing the universe on an unprecedented scale. [PetaPixel] More »
Jun 28
Louis CK Thinks the Next iPhone Will Be Invisibly Thin And Help You Masturbate Better [Video]
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Louis CK, noted technology philosopher and independent funnyman, recently gave his thoughts about the iPhone and “the cloud” and it’s just as funny as you’d think. On the iPhone, Louis CK says it’s like having “a pencil that can suck your dick”. More »
Jun 27
For the first day of I/O, Google dropped a long, action-packed keynote on us, complete with the Nexus tablet unveiling, the Android Jelly Bean reveal, and parachuters jumping out of planes wearing the company’s futuristic augmented reality glasses. If you weren’t able to tune in, we’ve got you covered, with the entire two and a half hour talk condensed into 90 seconds in the above clip. More »
Jun 27
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is one of my favorite movies ever, which is why I imagine our first contact with aliens like the video above: all pretty light and pretty music and pretty choreography. More »
Jun 26
Ever seen how they draw those forced perspective drawings that look three-dimensional from an specific angle? This time lapse video of Chris Carlson drawing Mario jumping over a NES gamepad shows how it is done. Pretty awesome. [Yababoon via Stuff I Stole via The Daily What] More »
Jun 26
The Onion, as only The Onion can, exposed the cesspool of faux-inventions of Kickstarter by calling the folks who start Kickstarter projects, Internet criminals who “bilk friends and families out of terrible, ill-conceived and unnecessary personal projects”. Yep, pretty much. More »
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