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Guy Builds F-35 Fighter Jet On His Own [Airplanes]
Arthur van Poppel took our Guide to Build Your Own F-35 Lightning II Fighter Jet too seriously and actually built the damn thing. Sure, it is a scaled version and it doesn't come with a demonic helmet ....... read more
18 days ago
What are You Dressing Up as for Halloween? [Question Of The Day]
So tonight's the night, my friends: Halloween. You've been planning for weeks or you're going to toss some half-assed costume together from stuff in the back of your closet, but either way, you're dre ....... read more
20 days ago
Japan Prepares for a Rhino Attack with Two Dudes in a Rhino Suit [Costumes]
In the spirit of Halloween, I wanted to show you this absolutely amazing video of Tokyo's Ueno Zoo training for an escaped rhino by dressing up two guys in a big rhino costume. Instead of candy, they' ....... read more
21 days ago
Amazing Costume is Either a Kid Dressed as a Mech or a Mech Dressed as a Kid [Halloween]
Happy Halloween! Bad news! Your costume sucks compared to this kid's, which is amazing. It's a homemade chicken walker mech costume, and it is so badass I can't quite put how badass it is into words ....... read more
21 days ago
Hidden Batcave Raises From the Underground to Reveal Shiny Lamborghinis [Cars]
Holy Batman on a bat-pogo bat-stick. I don't know where this underground garage is located?and probably I will never know since it's perfectly camouflaged under a stoned driveway?but who cares. Now th ....... read more
22 days ago
New Tech Brings Augmented Reality, 3D Models to Books [Books]
A German company called Metaio is developing a new system that turns regular old books into reality-augmented 3D objects, with models of things like globes sprouting off of the pages. All you need to ....... read more
22 days ago
IDEO Sets Up Ridiculously Large, Continent-Spanning Rube Goldberg Device [Ambition]
Sure, we've seen a number of fun Rube Goldberg devices in our day, but none with the scale and ambition of this one made by IDEO. I mean, how can you argue with a statement like this: Even Jon Kaplan, ....... read more
22 days ago
John McCain Finally Gets His Own iPhone App [Politics]
Sure, Obama may have had his official iPhone app out a while ago, allowing supporters to easily make calls on his behalf and do all sorts of other things, but don't think there isn't a John McCain app ....... read more
22 days ago
Even Chuck is Too Cool for the Zune [Zune]
On last night's episode of NBC's nerd-action show Chuck, the titular hero needed a way to transport some data. So he asked one of his questionably-attractive fellow tech geeks what he had. A Zune? Cha ....... read more
23 days ago
Factory Robot Becomes Bartender for the Evening, Grovels for Tips [Beer]
TMCO is a manufacturer of metal products in the bustling metropolis of Lincoln, Nebraska. Not exactly somewhere you'd expect to find experiments involving robotics. But here we have a video of one of ....... read more
23 days ago
A Look at How Globes Are Made [Factories]
When I was a kid, I always loved those shorts on shows like Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers that went to factories to show how things like crayons were made. Seeing how stuff is made is totally fascinatin ....... read more
23 days ago
Goodbye, Productivity: MTV Music Site Posts Every Music Video Ever [Music]
I hope you've got some time to kill, because the new MTV Music website is pretty much the coolest thing ever for music fans. At long last, the MTV name is being associated with music videos again, be ....... read more
Tue,
28 Oct 2008
Flying In the Concorde Is Still the Fastest, Most Luxurious Lunch Ever [Retromodo]
Yes, that's a real Concorde flying under the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York City in November 2003, on route to the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum?to which it just returned after its restoration. ....... read more
Mon,
27 Oct 2008
Concorde Still Most Amazing Flying Experience Five Years Later [Retromodo]
This weekend marked the fifth anniversary of the last commercial flight of the Concorde. Capable of flying at a cruise speed of Mach 2.02 thanks to its four Olympus 593 Mk 610 afterburning turbojets ....... read more
Mon,
27 Oct 2008
3D Virtual Heart So Real Doctors' Own Hearts Go Pitter Patter [Hearty Heart Heart]
London's Heart Hospital didn't like the fact that they couldn't see inside the hearts of patients—not while the patients were still alive and well, that is. So they hired Glassworks, an anima ....... read more
Thu,
23 Oct 2008
Note to Woz: You Are Rich, Stop Making an Ass of Yourself in Commercials [Oh, Woz]
Someone explain to me why Woz is participating in these beyond-retarded Scottevest commercials. Seriously, Ed McMahon selling out his dignity and rapping in FreeCreditReport.com ads makes sense, as he ....... read more
Thu,
23 Oct 2008
Seoul's Banpo Bridge Turns into Gigantic Fountain, Puts NYC's Waterfalls to Shame [Water]
The Banpo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea just got a major facelift in the form of a 10,000-nozzle fountain that runs all the way along both its sides. They were just installed last month, but already th ....... read more
Thu,
23 Oct 2008
First G1 Commercial Hits: So Many Questions, So Few Answers [G1]
Here's the first ad for the T-Mobile G1, and it revolves around people asking a bunch of questions that could be answered if only they had a G1. Or any other phone with web access, really. It's not li ....... read more
Thu,
23 Oct 2008
Jumping Out of a Plane on an ATV Makes Skydiving, ATVs More Exciting [Stunts]
Let's be clear here, guys: jumping out of an airplane on a four-wheeler is a bad idea. You will break both the four-wheeler and yourself. That doesn't make watching dudes drive out of the back of an a ....... read more
Thu,
23 Oct 2008
Die Halloween TiVo! Die! [TiVo]
The 10th installment of arieScope's annual Halloween short film just might be its best. TiVo is the star of the show this year, and the video does a good job of exposing its dark side. At first TiVo j ....... read more
Wed,
22 Oct 2008