When people see my iPhone they're like, "My God, man, do you have some kind of crazy phone virus?" It's got no web browser. No email. No Twitter, no Instagram, no Facebook. Read More >>
Featured comment by The_Alpha_Gamer:
""I can only assume you do wonderful things to help those poor needy souls."
If I could afford it like this guy obviously can I sure as hell would!" More »
Every day, scientists make discoveries that change the way we live. But sometimes, just sometimes, they achieve results that are so extraordinary or unexpected that they literally don't know what to do with them. Here are five of the most puzzling. Read More >>
Featured comment by NickMackz:
"I was about to post this as well. When you heat atoms into a plasma, all the electrons are stripped off and move about freely. It has to be hotter sti..." More »
Yes, that's a serious question. No, it's not the setup to a bad punchline — it's the setup to an awesome aerial tug-of-war between gravity and nearly 200 of the stretchy rubber rings over a Nissan Micra. The team from Fast, Furious and Funny investigates. [The Awesomer] Read More >>
It doesn't exactly herald a new era of fossil-fuel free transportation, but this experiment showing a tiny aerogel boat zipping along for almost an hour on a drop of ethanol could lead to new ways of thinking about boat propulsion. Read More >>
This video was posted over a year ago, but it's too trippy not to share. The concept is simple. Mount a camera to a electric drill and see what happens. What you get is a completely abstracted image of the world. Wait for the night-shooting part, it gets even better. [Vimeo via Reddit] Read More >>
Featured comment by Jynto:
"Simply fascinating. All I can think to say is:
"My camera is the camera that will pierce the heavens!"
(thumbs up if you recognise the reference..." More »
The creativity that went in inventing McDonald's miracle flavoured rice is so beyond my little human brain that I'd have to be high as a kite to understand the magic. But oh, the magic! The culinary geniuses at RocketNews24 cooked rice with a Big Mac, fries, chicken nuggets, sauce and coke to deliver what has to be the most delicious flavour of rice ever. Read More >>
Featured comment by Jon D:
"I frikkin LOVE Hainanese Chicken Rice
I would probably frikkin love McDonalds rice too, just hold the coke. I'll have that on the side" More »
The very real six-man crew from the very real European Space Agency finally ended their very fake mission to Mars this afternoon. They've spent the past 18 months — 520 days! — locked inside a fake space shuttle outside of Moscow as a simulation. Read More >>
Jesse Anderson developed a program that simulated a few million virtual monkeys randomly mashing keys on virtual typewriters in an attempt to re-create Shakespeare. Amazingly, the monkeys (monkeys!) have managed to write 99.99% of Shakespeare's poem, A Lover's Complaint. Read More >>
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