725.35 metres. A whoppumental 2,379.75 feet. That's how big the new super-sized Enterprise is. Here you can see it compared against the Galactica, the good old Enterprise, the Blockade Runner, and the ISS. Read More >>
Featured comment by Darkchib:
"Deep Space Nine and Voyager were are both episodic at the start of there series. But you see the Babylon 5 effect happen to them midway through their ..." More »
You are about to witness an historical event: the first drone jet ever launched from an aircraft carrier. In a few decades, when autonomous drone planes battle each other in the skies, fire missiles at drone troops and battleships, humanity will look back at this day as the true beginning of total drone warfare. Read More >>
Remember the now-ubiquitous bullet time effect in the Matrix? That technique requires dozens of cameras and other expensive gear, but JPL engineer, inventor and Gizmodo friend Mark Rober, figured out how to do it for just a few quid. Read More >>
Oh Universe, you will never cease to amaze me, with all your galaxies and your pulsars and supernovas and your planets and your alien civilisations that never show up and all that starstuff we love so much. You know, like the fact that you draw perfect spirographs in the sky all the time. Read More >>
Look at these amazing Star Wars and Indiana Jones — and Batman, and Sesame Street, and Dr. Who... — conversions of Donkey Kong. I want to play them so badly. Unfortunately, they are not real editions of the Nintendo's original arcade, but designs by Baznet. They make for awesome t-shirts, but they would make for even more awesome videogames. Read More >>
Alice Finch has created one of the most impressive pieces of Lego architecture to date: a 400,000-brick version of Harry Potter's Hogwarts School. So large in fact that it can fit Daniel Radcliffe inside. Read More >>
It's over, my friends. This is the end. Today—today I want to talk to you about Tamago Egg, the app that ends all apps. After you download it, there will be no need for you to download any other app ever again. It's game over. Read More >>
Featured comment by Kat Hannaford:
"Of course they do, but traffic does suggest it's in our best interests to continue posting his stuff.
It may go over your head, heck, even irritate..." More »
Featured comment by equesta:
"Uh huh. Try this stunt in London and you'll get riots from crowds of people fighting to get the money to "share out"." More »
Featured comment by DWatkinsBSB:
"The kid lego better be pointing to his crotch!!!
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/2fc2a4d52a/back-to-the-future-3-verne-is-a-creep
Hahahaha, cla..." More »
Scientists have found proof of a sunken continent in the Indian Ocean. According to a study published in Nature Geoscience, the continent "was separated from Madagascar and fragmented into a ribbon-like configuration by a series of mid-ocean ridge jumps during the opening of the Mascarene ocean basin." Read More >>
This is the Russian cruise ship MV Lyubov Orlova. It disappeared shortly after it left Canada en route to the Dominican Republic, in the Caribbean. Two months later it has reappeared as a ghost ship, completely empty, floating adrift 2,400 kilometres off the west coast of Ireland. Read More >>
Featured comment by nerdfly:
"I hate it when things 'stop to work'...
"The Atlantic Hawk was able to intercept and secure the Orlova before it disappeared again"
- Just what ..." More »
Commander Chris Hadfield—god bless his astrochops—just took this photo of Earth with the following caption: "Mars is a very interesting planet, with its rugged, ancient surface. But this is Earth." Absolutely oooohstanding. [Twitter] Read More >>
In theory, every actor and actress in the planet could be connected to Kevin Bacon in six steps or less. And in theory, according to Hungarian physicist Albert-László Barabási, every random web page can be accessed from any other random page by clicking just 19 times or less. Read More >>
What kind of sorcery is this? How is this egg standing whole without its shell? Apparently, the inner membrane—the thin layer that you can see stuck to the hard shell when you boil an egg—is strong enough to hold it without breaking its shape. But how can you do this? Read More >>
Witness Lego's Red Five X-wing Starfighter, the latest, baddest and biggest official set to come out of Denmark and, without a doubt, the most accurate and awesome Lego X-Wing ever created. Much better than the original Lego X-Wing Ultimate Collector Series, the previous best. Read More >>
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