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Animation Shows Future San Francisco with New Transbay Transit Center
This computer animation shows downtown San Francisco of the near future, when the sprawling Transbay Transit Center, 1,070-foot-tall Transbay Tower, and other nearby developments are…

1970s Las Vegas House Built 26 Feet Underground in Case of Nuclear Blast Listed For Sale
If you’ve been looking for a really unique house in the Las Vegas area, a recently listed one that was intentionally built 26 feet underground…

Functioning Gears Discovered in Legs of Issus Insect
University of Cambridge researchers Malcolm Burrows and Gregory Sutton recently discovered functioning gears in the legs of the Issus “Planthopper” insect. The gears, complete with…

Tour of Artist Frank Kozik’s San Francisco Studio
Artist Frank Kozik, who is known both for his concert posters and his figurines, talks about his work and gives a tour of his San…

Ghoulish Shadow Art Installation in Downtown Frankfurt
photo via Herbert Baglione Artist Herbert Baglione painted ghoulish shadow figures along a 9,600-square-foot stretch of downtown Frankfurt as part of the ongoing “Street-Art Brazil”…

Purple Palace, Behemoth Art Car Made For Burning Man Listed For Sale
Touted as the “largest art car on the planet,” the Burning Man mutant vehicle known as the Purple Palace is currently for sale on ebay.…

Pumpkin Spice Caramel Cronuts
For his Pumpkin Spice Caramel Cronuts, Gerry of the food blog Foodness Gracious has combined caramel and the popular Fall pumpkin spice flavor with the…
Does the Dog Die? Answers the ‘Most Important Movie Question’
The Does the Dog Die? site answers the “most important movie question” by letting you know if a pet was ok, injured, or kicked the…

New Software Can Extract Editable 3D Objects From a Photo
At the 2013 SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference back in July, a research team unveiled 3-Sweep, an imaging software that lets the user easily extract an…

Inventions Made Better: Shower Slide
College Humor unveils a revolutionary new shower technology in the parody commercial, “Inventions Made Better: Shower Slide.”
