Make that mini-Darth you've always wanted for your home yours for real. The post Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 128 appeared first on WIRED.

Turns out most of that epically timed jump was real. The post Here’s How They Made That Epic Cliff Scene in Furious 7 appeared first on WIRED.

Coral does a great job of sequestering carbon dioxide. One company is capitalizing on that to make concrete. The post Think Like a Tree: A New Kind of Eco-Friendly Concrete Inspired by Coral appeared first on WIRED.

Why people are using sites like Yelp to vent and offer tips about prison and jail. The post How Inmates and Loved Ones Review Jails on Yelp appeared first on WIRED.

Yumit is an interactive dinner tray that converts what kids eat into virtual energy that can be used for upgrades and extras on mobile games. The post One Way to Get Your Kid to Eat Veggies: Make It a Videogame appeared first on WIRED.

I have been part robot since May. Here is my story. The post My Life as a Robot appeared first on WIRED.

A look at what happens to a city when "artisanal donuts" move in. The post Photos of Brooklyn Before and After the Hipsters appeared first on WIRED.

Forza Motorsport 6 is the latest, most realistic racing game from Turn 10. The post Polished, Beautiful Forza 6 ews Still the Racing Game to Get appeared first on WIRED.

Labor away, clones. The post Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 127 appeared first on WIRED.

Peruse at your leisure. The post An Academic Journal About Leisure Exists, and It’s Amazing appeared first on WIRED.

A photographer took multiple road trips around America to find the quirky fading relic that is the rest stop. The post There’s Nothin’ More ‘Merican Than a Roadside Rest Stop appeared first on WIRED.

Opendesk is like GitHub, but for furniture. Its tables, desks and chairs can be tweaked to individual specifications. The post Open Source Furniture Makes This Office Look Like a Toy Box appeared first on WIRED.

And there goes your Sunday, too. The post Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 126 appeared first on WIRED.

As Hurricane Erika hit Dominca and I watched the news in horror last week, it was to Facebook that I and others turned to crowd-source our attempts to help loved ones. The post When a Hurricane Hits Facebook appeared first on WIRED.

One of the best things about this years auto extravaganza in Monterey, California, was all the vintage motorcycles at Quail. The post We Aren’t Cool Enough for These Sweet Vintage Motorcycles appeared first on WIRED.

Say goodbye to your Saturday. The post Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 125 appeared first on WIRED.

Space photos of the week, September 30–August 5. The post Space Photos of the Week: A Galaxy That’s a Bit Outta Whack appeared first on WIRED.

Each week we round up the news stories that we didn’t break or cover in depth at WIRED, but which deserve your attention nonetheless. The post Security News This Week: Turns Out Baby Monitors Are Wildly Easy to Hack appeared first on WIRED.

The Netflix show from the Wachowskis succeeds by appealing to all sci-fi fans. The post Sense8 Is Sci-Fi That’s Not Afraid of Girls appeared first on WIRED.

Really, internet, what is good? Pop music beefs and avoiding people, apparently. The post While You Were Offline: Kermit’s New Girlfriend Enrages the Internet appeared first on WIRED.

Force Friday has come and gone, and now you can actually get all those Force Awakens toys you've suddenly developed a hankering for! The post All the New Star Wars Toys for You to Blow Money On appeared first on WIRED.

This adaptation from the biography Genius at Play shows how serious advances such as the surreal numbers can spring out of fun and games. The post A Life in Games: The Playful Genius of John Conway appeared first on WIRED.

Players like Jon Hauser score big at little games, winning mountains of tickets and trading for PlayStations and iPads at video arcades. The post The Ticket Kings Who Make $50 an Hour Playing Arcade Games appeared first on WIRED.

You want one. You know you do. And here's why. The post Check Out the Adorable BB-8 Toy Robot in Action appeared first on WIRED.

The Japanese automaker is doing research with Stanford and MIT to work on artificial intelligence and autonomous driving technology. The post Toyota Finally Gets Serious About Self-Driving Cars appeared first on WIRED.

The cult rock band talks about alternative tunings, unconventional time signatures, and the Chicago music scene of the ‘90s. The post A Band That’s Bigger Than Ever—14 Years After Breaking Up appeared first on WIRED.

Sphero has a toy version of the BB-8 droid from Star Wars VII. How does it work? Magnets? The post The Physics of How That Star Wars BB-8 Toy Works appeared first on WIRED.

WIRED editors discuss the upcoming Tokyo Game Show and its increasing smartphone presence. The post Game|Life Podcast: Will Apple Finally Announce a TV Gaming Platform? appeared first on WIRED.

You might not know the name Ed Skrein, but you should. He's kind of badass–just ask Deadpool. The post What You Should Know About Your New Transporter Star appeared first on WIRED.

This week, WIRED's director of photography Anna Goldwater Alexander discovers the best Instagram has to offer. The post Instagram Rabbit Hole: Weird Kids and Buzzing Bees appeared first on WIRED.

Time to treat yourself. The post Here Is Your WIRED Star Wars Challenge for Day 124 appeared first on WIRED.

Eventually, 3-D printed glass will make building facades far more dynamic. The post How 3-D Printed Glass Could Lead to Some Wild Architecture appeared first on WIRED.

Craig Parry catches a whale at just the right moment in the Pacific Ocean. The post How to Photograph a Giant Humpback Whale as It Waves Hello appeared first on WIRED.

What goes into the dozens of products you use every day? Here are the places that can tell you. The post Where to Find Out What’s Inside Anything appeared first on WIRED.

A memory-maker for the digital era. The post Polaroid’s Latest Instant Camera Doesn’t Need Ink appeared first on WIRED.

It's called the crusty nautilus. Not because it’s brittle or irritable or anything, it’s just encrusted with a layer of slime. The post Absurd Creature of the Week: The Curious Case of the Elusive, Slimy Nautilus appeared first on WIRED.

Silicon Valley is adapting to a new class of medical startups. The story of how Cofactor Genomics is adapting right back. The post Medical Testing Is So Hot Right Now. This Startup Wants In appeared first on WIRED.

Find love or turn into an animal, NBD. The post The Lonely-Man-Becomes-a-Crustacean Trailer: The Lobster appeared first on WIRED.

The BBC has released the first trailer for The Gamechangers, its upcoming film about the making of Grand Theft Auto. The post The Movie About Making Grand Theft Auto Looks Serious appeared first on WIRED.

It might be taking the blogs (and fans' hearts) by storm, but Sphero's toy robot is the product of one very lucky meeting. The post The Story (And Tech) Behind That Awesome Star Wars BB-8 Toy appeared first on WIRED.

The federal government can no longer use controversial stingray devices to track mobile phone users without a warrant. The post The Feds Need a Warrant to Spy With Stingrays From Now On appeared first on WIRED.

The company is asking its users to commit a security sin: Plugging a USB drive they receive in the mail into a sensitive computer. The post Chrysler Catches Flak for Patching Hack Via Mailed USB appeared first on WIRED.

Does Apple's new social media presence for its gaming apps portend a bigger push into gaming soon? The post Apple Finally Has a Gaming Twitter Feed. But Why Now? appeared first on WIRED.

Happy birthday, Louis Henry Sullivan. The post Remembering the Legend Behind ‘Form Follows Function’ appeared first on WIRED.

If anyone but Hillary Clinton had used a personal email server to send reportedly classified material, they would be prosecuted and lose their security clearance, Edward Snowden says. The post Snowden: Others Get Prosecuted for What Hillary Clinton Did appeared first on WIRED.

Flip and turn it orange and the logo changes completely. The post Maybe Trump Should Just Borrow Obama’s Campaign Logo appeared first on WIRED.

A newly found gene is the key to breeding plants that can get harmful TNT contamination out of the ground. The post Mutant Plants Suck Toxic TNT (Yes, That TNT) Out of Soil appeared first on WIRED.

Big flashy pop videos accompanied MTV's Video Music Awards, and across the internet everyone else seemed to be on the same page. The post Audio Visuals: When a Dance-Off Turns Into a Fist Fight appeared first on WIRED.

Garmin's new $200 dash cam offers forward collision warning, bringing a high-tech safety feature to your aging clunker. The post Garmin’s New Dash Cam Can Help You Avoid Crashes appeared first on WIRED.

The French Ministry of Justice has officially confirmed that the piece of plane debris that washed up in late July belonged to MH370. The post That Chunk of Plane Debris Is Now Officially From MH370 appeared first on WIRED.