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FOX has released the first official trailer for The X-Files series reboot. Fox Mulder is determined to uncover the truth that is being covered up by the government and needs Dana Scully as his side once again. Episode one of The X-Files reboot premieres as a two-night event starting on Sunday, January 24th, 2016 at […]

Topmix Permeable is a new concrete developed by Tarmac that absorbs water rather than allowing it to pool on its surface. This could help prevent flooding by better managing storm water than traditionally paved surfaces. Tarmac has released a demonstration video that features a trunk dumping 4,000 liters of water onto a parking lot paved […]

The Skarp Laser Razor is a new advance in shaving technology that uses a compact laser to burn hair rather than cut it. The device promises to reduce both the irritation and waste produced by traditional disposable razor blades. The developers of the Skarp Laser Razor have launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the device, […]

Jamin Warren of Kill Screen attempts to explain the weirdness found in Super Mario Bros. video games on the latest episode of PBS Game/Show. The Mushroom Kingdom is…weird. From evil mushrooms, carnivorous plants, plumbing used for transportation, and flying turtles, Mario’s world stands out as one of the most bizarre universes of its era. But […]

Screen Junkies gives their Honest Trailers treatment to Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron Relive the super-sized superhero sequel super set up to never be able to meet the super fans’ super huge expectations: Avengers: Age of Ultron!

Screen Rant points out ten blockbuster movie mistakes you may have missed the first time around. It’s almost impossible to release a film that doesn’t include a single flawed stunt, unexpected mistake, or even a minor plot hole most fans will overlook. When the budgets get bigger and the action sequences and running times grow […]

Photographer Jose Antonio Hervás captured a beautiful composite image of a lightning storm against a backdrop of the recent “Super Blood Moon” lunar eclipse. Hervás combined more than 200 photos to create the final image which captured the eclipse over several hours from the island of Ibiza, Spain. image via Jose Antonio Hervás via Astronomy Picture of the […]

The clever Dave Hax demonstrates how to burn a wax candle underwater in his most recent video tutorial. This can be done by simply putting the candle into a large bowl, filling the bowl with water until it’s almost to the top of the candle, and then lighting the wick. As the candle burns from […]

Photographer Lisa Bettany has created a thoroughly detailed comparison between the camera quality on every version of the iPhone from the original to the newly-released iPhone 6s. The post includes interactive comparisons of photos in a variety of situations like macro, backlighting, and low light that allow users to see all nine version side by […]

Rylai is a beautiful 5-month old domestic red fox with white fur who makes for a very lively companion for her family, which includes two dogs and her loving human. While life can be interesting with this adorable vulpine youngster, Rylai’s human also posted a comprehensive FAQ about the realities of caring for a domestic […]

PIXOMONDO has shared an amazing visual effects breakdown of how Daenerys Targaryen‘s dragons were digitally brought to life in season five of Game of Thrones. music by Ramin Djawadi via GeekTyrant

Rhei is a truly beautiful ferrofluid clock by designer Damjan Stankovic that uses magnets to control the liquid display. The project took Stankovic a year to build with collaborator Marko Pavlovic. The Rhei works similarly to the Ferrolic display we covered previously, but appears to be a dedicated clock. images via Rhei via Product Hunt

Burger Fiction share some of their favorite movie scenes where the camera pushes in on the hero or villain.

When he’s not playing with his kitten, Bernie the affable English Bulldog gets to go outside for his daily walk with one of his loving humans. His favorite seems to be Jake, the resident 11-month year old who doesn’t make Bernie walk too far, if at all. A few days after that, Bernie made it […]

In a new animated short by Andrew Bridgman of Dorkly, the true identity of Batman‘s greatest villain is “revealed.” One of the people closest to Bruce Wayne turns out to be the one pulling all of the mischievous strings in Gotham City.

In the most recent episode of the animated series Blank on Blank, the incredibly talented and verbose Tom Waits spoke about such random topics as behaving in church, moles that live under Stonehenge, the surreal strife of living in New York City and how he goes about writing songs in a rare 1988 interview with […]

Grant Thompson, “The King of Random,” demonstrates how to make awesome Star Wars-themed gummies using melted gummy bears in his most recent tutorial.

The Netflix Switch is a DIY device to let users “Netflix and chill” with just one press of the button. The streaming service released step-by-step instructions for building the switch and programming it to activate Netflix, dim the lights, silence their phones, and order food using some simple electronics, programming, and a microprocessor. photos via […]

Earlier this year, Dislife, a disabled-rights advocacy organization in Russia, had advertising agency Bird Strategy put together a brilliant campaign that highlighted the far too prevalent issue of non-disabled people taking parking spots reserved for disabled persons. In order to prevent this inexcusable behavior from continuing, they installed cameras at a Moscow mall to project […]

While on an underwater exploration to capture footage of coral in the waters off the Solomon Islands, marine biologist David Gruber encountered an affable turtle whose shell glowed with red and green biofluorescence, a feature not ever before seen in a reptile. This sighting was extremely rare as this type of turtle, a hawkbill sea […]

In 2012, Japanese designers Yusuke Imai and Ayami Moteki won the Kokuyo Design Awards for their “Nameless Paints“, an innovative paint set that show the combination of primary colors involved in creating the color inside each tube, rather than giving the color a name. The intention, per the designers, is “to eliminate stereotypes with respect […]

Francisco Aguilar posted a video titled “My Son the Genius” of his clever baby using pillows to cushion his fall as he plots a daring escape from a bed. via reddit

Internet prankster Jack Vale and magician Rahat Hussein recently teamed up to utterly confuse fast food drive-thru employees by covertly switching places in the driver’s seat while the employees weren’t looking. A couple of people caught on to their clever prank, but most of the surprised workers were freaked out.

An adorably tiny lion cub made his first attempt to roar, only to have it come out as a teeny squeak. The little cat didn’t seem at all discouraged and with a bit of practice, he will be roaring loudly and proudly as he grows into a magnificent “king of the jungle“. via Esquire, Neatorama

In “How to Make a $4,000 Suit in Only 10 Months“, Andy George, host of the video series How To Make Everything, personally handcrafted a suit including hemp pants, a cotton shirt, a wool vest, an alpaca felt jacket, a leather belt, and a silk tie. George spent 10 months gathering the raw materials for each step of […]

A willful Fox Mulder refuses to give up the fight for the truth, no matter what Scully, Skinner or anyone else has to say in the new trailer for The X-Files series reboot. The first episode premieres as a two-night event beginning Sunday, January 24, 2016 at 10 PM and culminating the next night during […]

Pablo Fernández Eyre created a facinating side-by-side comparison of the the classic Alfred Hitchcock films Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963), highlighting the similarities between the shower scene in Psycho and bedroom bird attack scene in The Birds.

Kansas City, Missouri-based artist Josh Lane has created Hero-Glyphics, a wonderful modern take on an ancient Egyptian form of communication where pop culture characters from video games, comic books, television shows, and movies are illustrated as hieroglyphic images that tell their story. Prints of Lane’s Hero-Glyphics series are available to purchase from Society6 and The […]

Grace Brett is a lovely 104-year old Scottish woman who decorates her town in the Scottish Borders with original crocheted designs. A member of the Souter Stormers, Brett and her fellow guerrilla yarn-bombers recently lent their collective talent to Brett’s hometown of Selkirk for the Yes Festival. Called the Souter Stormers, the group hit various […]

Vox highlights the eleven principal actors that provide voices more than 100 characters on The Simpsons. The Simpsons just entered it’s 27th season and has been renewed for a 28th. As the longest-running primetime scripted series on television, The Simpsons has produced hundreds of characters, each with a different voice — but not necessarily a […]

Film critic Tommy Edison, who has been blind since birth, describes some of his least favorite things to touch.

Editor Paolo Ceric has created a brilliant dance video by remixing an airplane flight safety card set to the song “Bla Bla Bla” by Gigi D’Agostino. On a recent flight I’ve noticed how the plane’s safety information had sort of a dance vibe to it and Gigi D’Agostino’s “Bla Bla Bla” song was the first […]

ArtZeroTV recently shared a video of a toilet paper dispenser that sounds just like the Star Wars Wookiee, Chewbacca, when sheets of toilet paper are pulled off of the roll. via reddit

Pablo Fernández Eyre pays tribute to the ongoing foot fetish theme in Quentin Tarantino films.

Taking selfies with dogs can be difficult. A person can have the animal’s full attention and then …squirrel!!. The folks at Pooch Selfie seek to change that with their squeaky tennis ball smartphone attachment that will naturally give an uncooperative canine laser-like focus for the task at hand. Pooch Selfie is a smartphone attachment which […]

In “Inferno” director of photography Mitch Martinez used a 48-DSLR camera array to record some breathtaking displays of fire breathing from performers Mike Icon and Terry Lee Fields II in “bullet time” style. The effect, popularized by The Matrix series, gives the illusion that time is frozen as the perspective of the camera moves around the subject. via […]

Earlier this year during the Hecho en Casa Festival in Santiago, Chile, the talented and prolific crochet artist and yarnbomber Olek left her distinctive mark on the Balmaceda obelisk at the center of Plaza Baquedano that she covered in a rainbow colored crocheted design to highlight the issue of equality. Filmmaker Nicolás Rojas Castro captured […]

The KeySmart 2.0 titanium key organizer is a useful tool for storing keys in a neat and compact way. Rather than arranging keys on a loose ring, they are stacked and clipped together in a Swiss Army knife-style configuration. The KeySmart 2.0 can also accommodate a bottle opener, USB drive, and a variety of other […]

Scottish Power has released camera drone footage of the demolition of the iconic Cockenzie Power Station chimneys in East Lothian, Scotland. The symmetrical demolition of the chimneys took place on September 26, 2015 in front of a group of onlookers, a number of whom talked to Scottish Power about what the station has meant to them. […]

An extremely affable English bulldog named Bernie wrestled around on the bed with an adorably lively and relentless kitten who kept coming back for more despite the size difference between the two. Bernie, on the other hand, was completely unfazed according to their human. via Tastefully Offensive

Photographer Mike Mezeul II recently shared the beautiful composite image he captured during the recent “Super Blood Moon” lunar eclipse as it passed over the Dallas skyline from September 27 to September 28, 2015. The rare event was a combination of a supermoon (a full moon in perigee), a brilliant red color, and this being the […]

Linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean O’Neill verbally and visually explore the many different theories out there about how human language came to be and the human biology involved in making it so. Among those many theories are the “Bow-Wow Theory“, the “http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pooh-pooh%20theory”>Pooh-Pooh” theory, the “Yo-He-Ho” theory and the “La La Theory“. Language disappears on […]

On the latest episode of DIY Prop Shop on Break’s AWE me channel, host Dustin McLean shows us how to make a low-budget canister of glowing green mutagen ooze from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze using hand soap, PVC couplings, little clip-on lights, and water bottles. Looking for a way […]

While videographer Devon Meadows and his wife Ashley were out of the house, their Nest Cam caught the hilarious sight of Greyscale,their very commanding cat, effectively quieting their toy poodle Chazz with the feline equivalent of a dirty look and a threatening gesture which was repeated as soon as Chazz let out a whimper. According […]

Dario Zanon captured incredible footage on a GoPro hero3 of himself and Graham Dickinson risking it all as they jump off and shoot down the side of the Brévent mountain and through Chamonix valley in their wingsuits at speeds around 110 miles per hour. The two daredevils quickly dodge incoming trees and nearly touch the […]

For their latest “don’t try this at home” experiment, carsandwater placed a red hot nickel ball on top of a printer ink cartridge to see what would happen.

AMC has released a look at the upcoming sixth season of The Walking Dead. During the interviews with cast members, executive producer Greg Nicotero claimed that there will be an elevated threat from both zombies and humans. Season six of The Walking Dead is scheduled to premiere on October 11th, 2015 at 9 PM EST.

Firebox has released a yummy-looking pizza that is actually a giant, flat piece of marshmallow. With the use of edible ink, they print an image of real vegetarian, pepperoni, Margherita, or Hawaiian pizza onto the marshmallow. The fluffy pizza is available to purchase online. Pizza might look cool, but frankly the bread to topping ratio […]

Smoky Mountains National Park has released an interactive map that predicts the expected fall foliage for the Continental United States. Users can slide the map to different autumn dates to see when the foliage is expected to peak at its most beautiful in their area. The park released a similar map in 2014 as well. […]