Everyone agrees that Rio de Janeiro is a beautiful city with beautiful beaches filled with beautiful people doing beautiful things. Everyone can also agree that the favelas in Rio show another side of the city where people’s lives are seemingly next to, on top of and even inside other people’s lives. This wonderful time lapse by Joe Capra captures all of Rio de Janeiro—its natural beauty, its crowded slums, its landmarks—and it’s just perfect. Few cities can look this good.
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You already know what’s going to happen. Tim Cook will get on stage next week, Jony Ive will wax poetic about chamfered edges, Phil Schiller will be his jolly self and a new iPhone will be announced to the world. It’ll look a lot like the iPhone we already know but Apple will find some way to make it seem as if it’ll change everything. The video puts it best, "to create the new iPhone, we started with a design we really loved and then… stopped."
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There’s machines. There’s guns. There’s explosions. There’s flying explosions. And of course, there’s RoboCop. The first trailer for the reboot of RoboCop just popped up and it shows a bit of how this RoboCop becomes a man and a machine. And also shows a lot of things getting blown up.
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Does this video remind you of being drunk, dizzy, or in some woozy dream-state? Whatever feeling it conjers, you’ve definitely never seen animated photos like this before.
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The Alps stretch 750 miles across Europe with numerous peaks topping 13,000 feet. The stiff winds blowing through their passes makes an Alpine UAV crossing nearly as impossible as it was during the Second Punic War. But one plucky micro-drone has just achieved that feat, flying through the Alps in just 23 minutes. But here’s what it looks like in five seconds.
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Optical illusions
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LG, maker of fine displays and wonderful prankster of innocent people
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Are you ready for Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity? Alternatively, are you ready for a panic attack to melt your brain into grey ooze? This latest trailer basically takes you on a roller coaster of fear through the gigantic emptiness of space. You’ll see Sandra Bullock twist and turn and spin and basically lose all control and kill any dream to become an astronaut. Nuts.
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Naked and Famous Denim is the Willy Wonka of the fashion world. Seriously, the Canadian jeans shop puts out glow in the dark jeans,
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Forget beaming radio signals into the void and don’t bother inscribing a message to space on your interplanetary probes. If you really want to impress alien explorers, easily transmogrifiable cardboard cutouts of Earth’s best musical instruments are the superior choice.
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