I can't decide if this angular Skull Armchair designed by French artist Harold Sangouard is just gaudy or awesome, horrible or pretty, vanguardist or Louis XV/Conan the Barbarian retro, but there's something about it that hypnotises me. Read More >>

It may look as computer-graphics-perfect as a frame from Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, but this image of the London skyline made of food is an actual photograph designed and taken by the masterful Carl Warner. Don't believe it? This is how it was made: Read More >>

It's going to be impossible to beat the glorious nerdness level in this wedding cake, which uses projectors to animate Mario on his quest to beat Donkey Kong and rescue Pauline. Unless they find a way to modify the sugar molecules to act as colour displays. [YouTube] Read More >>

No, this is not a photoshop. You are looking at a fresh tomato -- a cosmomato? A tomatonaut? -- floating in space, orbiting at 4.791 miles per second, 230 miles above your heads. Why the hell is there a tomato in space? Read More >>

There are a lot of water-repellent surfaces, but nothing as incredible as this new miracle material that—according to research published in Nature—repels water way beyond "what was previously thought possible." As you can see in this clip, the water bounces completely off the surface as fast as possible, leaving nothing behind. Read More >>

This is not the first time that the US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) has talked about their desire to get a real life version of Iron Man's suit for soldiers, but now it's giving a very specific timeframe: "The goal is to have a contract in place by next fall and have suits ready for full field testing in about four years." Read More >>

Check out this great photograph by Paul Davis of the awesome sculpture by David McCracken on the beach of Bondi, Australia. Called Diminish and Ascend, this aluminium staircase seems to go to infinity and beyond. McCracken deformed the stairs' angles to create the optical illusion, which works from other angles too. Read More >>

Watching Ultra HD 4K content—with 2,160 lines of vertical definition—on a Ultra HD 4K TV set is impressive. But 8K—four times the total pixels—is so incredibly realistic that it feels like you're looking through a window into real life, as demonstrated by this film screened by the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK). Read More >>

Remember the morphing table that can replicate your body and movements in real time? Its name is inForm. Daniel Leithinger, from the Tangible Group at MIT Medialab, showed us their first official video. Read More >>

I just can't stop looking at how the drops carve the water, one after the other, making a hole in it. The experiment was captured by the Brigham Young University's Splash Lab. Read More >>

Everybody knows that Siri still sucks -- voice recognition is one of those technologies that has to work flawlessly 100 per cent of the time for it not to suck. Like in Star Trek or 2001: A Space Odyssey. Siri doesn't play that way, which is why The Simpsons slammed it yesterday in an episode full of Apple references. Read More >>

Today is the anniversary of brave Felix Baumgartner's space jump. His heart was racing at 185 beats per minute when he jumped from an altitude of 127,852 feet, then started to spin at 60 revolutions per minute. He kept spinning for 13 seconds after jumping, reaching a maximum vertical speed of Mach 1.25. An incredible feat, and still unrivalled a year later. Come on, guys -- jump to it. Read More >>

Apple says that the new iPhone 5S' fingerprint sensor is "a convenient and highly secure way to access your phone." The former is true. The latter, not so much. The fingerprint security can be easily broken. Jealous spouses and industrial spies, rejoice! Read More >>

Rejoice, humans of the Earth, for the ugly off-centre 1 in Apple iOS 7's Calendar app icon has at last been FIXED! It took almost two entire years of design rants after every update, but someone in Cupertino has at last listened and corrected what was a horrible design decision made by someone else who is no longer in Cupertino. iOS 7 beta 4 has a perfectly centred 1. It's the little things, you know? Read More >>

Lord of the Rings and Lego fans of the world, get ready to sink £170 in the new 2359-piece, 28-inch tall Lego Tower of Orthanc set, which includes six floors: dungeon, entrance hall, Saruman’s throne room, alchemy room, library and the secret attic to which you can access using a secret stair. It's now available for everyone at the Lego shop. Read More >>