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[Video] Swarming Robots Perform “Meet Your Creator”
Featured on the cover of WIRED magazine this month, these little drones or “quadrotors” have been popping up everywhere lately. The show in the video above features 16 of them performing some very cool computer-controlled aerial...
80 Teddy Ruxpins Become Creepy Voice of the Internet!
Many of you might remember Teddy Ruxpin as something of a tech marvel of the 80s. Teddy Ruxpin was like having your own Disney animatronic as a kid. Insert a cassette tape into his back, press play and Teddy Ruxpin would lip-sync to...
Bath-Salt Zombie Activity in New York!
We’re not out of the woods yet, kids. ‘Bath Salt Zombie’ activity is now being reported in central New York! Police officers were called to a bar where a visibly disturbed woman lunged at one officer’s face while screaming that she wanted...
Deer Afflicted with ‘Gnarly Buck’
Ola Enbagen of Gothenburg, Sweden casually went out to grab his morning paper from the post office box. As a bonus he got to see a cute little deer grazing quietly. Only there was something different about this deer. “He was looking...
Bird Flu Goes Viral in Lab Ferrets!
Virologists and epidemiologists sure can be a fun bunch. Put enough money behind one of their projects and who knows what you’ll end up with. In this case we may end up with the end of the human race. Remember the bird flu scare? Total...
Sorcery and Witchcraft Punishable By Beheading
At first this headline sounded like a joke. This kind of treatment doesn’t still happen ala the Salem witch trials, does it? It apparently and disturbingly does. Muree bin Ali Issa al-Asiri was executed several days ago in Saudi Arabia for...
Video: Boy Gets Harpooned in the Face!
Just…Is there really anything to say? Sixteen-year-old Yasser Lopez was diving off the coast of Florida with friends when one of these said friends accidentally fired a harpoon…into his FACE! Although the three-foot harpoon somehow missed...
Video: Easter Island Statue Walks!
This fall a collaboration between NOVA & National Geographic will show how scientists think primitive culture may have moved the five-ton, ten-foot-tall Moai statues on Easter Island. [National Geographic YouTube Channel]
Is this How R2-D2 Rolls Down Stairs?
It’s a skateboard that can roll down stairs. Royal College of Art graduate Po-Chih Lai adjusted the trucks so they adjust to the stress of the steps. But more importantly, is this how our favorite sassy droid gets out of a building in case...
Florida Zombie-Like Attacks Continue!
A decade from now when society looks back on what brought about the zombie apocalypse, Florida will probably be referred to as ground zero. Once again, this time in Manatee County, Florida, law enforcement had to resort to using multiple...
Customizable Dolls Take Creepy to a Whole New Level!
Every time you think dolls couldn’t get any creepier…SURPRISE! This new evolution of the doll species is taking it to a whole new level. Produced out of London and Helsinki, Makie dolls are a new breed of doll for the ‘maker’ set....
Minority Dissent: How Wired Missed the Precogged Future that Wasn’t
Wired magazine is celebrating the ten year anniversary of the Steven Spielberg film MINORITY REPORT in an article that talks about the secret summit where technologists were invited to imagine the world of 2080 (revised to 2050 for the...
Japanese Scientists Grow Crude Liver in a Dish!
Something straight out of a science fiction story is becoming a reality in Yokohama, Japan right now: regenerative organs. There have been tons of attempts, theories and even a small handful of groundbreaking work concerning regenerating...
Noob Hypnotist’s Show Goes Wrong
Like a padawan who just learned about the force, 20 year-old newbie hypnotist, Maxime Nadeau was hired to put on a year-end show for the all-girl College du Sacre-Coeur in Sherbooke, Quebec. People were having a great time, the show went...
Lame ‘Causeway Cannibal’ Copycat Attack
Zombie-like activity keeps rearing its ugly, face-biting head. Once again the Sunshine State is reporting another flesh-biting incident. This one, however, is just a faux zombie inspired by the ‘Causeway Cannibal’ case in Miami from a...
Podcast: Big Things Have Weird Beginnings
The three amigos are reunited yet again in this thrilling episode of the podcast. Justin is rightly ridiculed for refusing to lower his expectations for the already far overachieving Voyager probe. Andrew and Brian debate the feasibility...
Adele Song Wakes Girl from Coma?
Seven-year-old Charlotte Neve was in a coma. A brain hemorrhage and several horrific strokes due to an aneurysm brought on by a rare disease no one knew she had put her there. Doctors told her mother, Leila Neve, saying goodbye was the...
Soldiers Scale Walls With Vacuum
Grappling hooks are so 1985. Check out this thing. Looking a LOT like some kind of steampunk version of Spiderman’s climbing apparatus circa 1944, the vacuum-powered gear in this video was developed by students at Utah State University for...
Black Plague Victim in Oregon!
Black Plague. Wiped out over a third of Europe back in the day. Everyone’s happy it’s gone and we’ve all moved on to live happy lives without any more talk of this contagion nick-named ‘Black Death’…or have we? About a week ago, in Oregon,...
Man Uses Eyes To Tweet Request to Die
“Hello world. I am tony nicklinson, I have locked-in syndrome and this is my first ever tweet.” With the exception of a mention of something called ‘locked-in syndrome’ this isn’t a ground-breaking or particularly interesting tweet, right?...