The MoMA Celebrates Applied Design with Iconic Video Games
The Applied Design exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art opens tomorrow, and contains 14 iconic video games including Pac-Man, Tetris, Myst, Katamari Damacy, EVE Online, Portal,…
Boston Dynamics’ BigDog Robot Throws Cinderblocks
Boston Dynamics, creators of the pack mule-like Legged Squad Support System (LS3) robot, has released a video of its slightly more intimidating BigDog robot. Both the LS3…
Outbox Digitizes Your Snail Mail
Outbox is a new service that digitizes snail mail so users can access it from anywhere via the company’s iOS app. After you create an…
The Return of ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’
Comedian Colin Mochrie has just revealed in a tweet that the popular improv show Whose Line Is It Anyway? will be returning. Ryan Stiles also told The Wenatchee…
The Sun’s Beautiful, Violent Surface In Action
In this awe-inspiring video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, you can see the Sun’s massive, roiling surface in action. The loops of plasma coming…
SpaceX Launches the Falcon 9 Rocket to International Space Station
SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket this morning. The Falcon 9 is on its way to the International Space Station, carrying a Dragon cargo…
Cymothoa Exigua, Sex-Changing Tongue-Eating Parasites
The latest installment of PBS NOVA’s Gross Science describes the life of the cymothoa exigua, a tongue-eating parasite that lives in the mouths of fish.…
Roll20, A Customizable Online Dungeons & Dragons Platform
Roll20 is a fully customizable, virtual Dungeons & Dragons platform that allows you to organize and play through campaigns with your friends whether they’re close…
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
In the newly released trailer for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Flint Lockwood’s notorious food machine is making bizarre animal-food hybrids like the vicious…
Skyrim Whiterun Shield Turned Coffee Table
Harrison Krix of Volpin Props has made a number of stunning prop replicas — a Portal Gun, a Gravity Gun, both Daft Punk helmets, and a functional Big…