11 Amazing Soundboards For Your Listening Pleasure
Sure, singers sing and guitarists strum, but you owe just as much to the engineers behind the music as you do the musicians themselves. They may not get much time in the Grammy spotlight, but in honor...
View ArticleMost Beautiful Items: February 9-15, 2013
Sure, you spent a large part of the day fretting over your impending doom due to the asteroid approaching earth. But it passed, and we made it! And these beautiful items will take your mind off...
View Article13 Presidential Tech Firsts: From Running Water to UFOs
It's Presidents' Day, the annual Monday in February when we close our banks and sleep in to honor our leaders. But who was the first early-adopter-in-chief to use a telephone? To ride in a car? To...
View Article21st Century Buildings That Look Like Alien Spaceships
We may still be a long way from putting a human colony on Mars, but that doesn't mean we can't live like spacemen here on Earth. These 18 trippy buildings—all built since 2000—look like they're from...
View ArticleThe 9 Coolest Collectibles You Can Buy on Amazon Right Now
For dedicated fans, money is no object when it comes to obtaining the perfect piece of memorabilia. But when dealing with random EBay auctioneers selling "authentic" merchandise sight-unseen, you...
View Article23 Terrifying Runways That Will Stoke Your Fear of Flying
Flying can be a white-knuckle affair for even the heartiest of travelers. But it turns out what you should really fear are airports; almost 60 percent of all aircraft incidents happen there during...
View ArticleMost Beautiful Items: February 16-22, 2013
The weekend is just minutes away at this point, but instead of going into an excited frenzy, relax and take a moment to recall all the beautiful things we feasted our eyes upon this week. We may be...
View ArticleScenes From When Flying Was Still Civilized
There once was a Golden Age Of Flying. You didn't have to queue up, strip down, and surrender your beverage to the Goon Squad. Meals were served on real plates instead of sad, soggy cardboard boxes....
View Article13 Adorably Teeny Tiny Houses
Bigger isn't always better. In the case of micro living spaces, quite the opposite is true. In celebration of what some designers can do with so little space, here are some of our favorite mini houses...
View Article11 Insanely Specific Kitchen Gadgets
A really good knife can accomplish an endless number of tasks in the kitchen. But there are other culinary accoutrements that literally have one job and only one job. Are they clever? Sure. Are they...
View ArticleThe 11 Greatest Computer Supervillains in Film
When you think of evil movie computers, 2001: A Space Odyssey comes immediately to mind. But HAL is just a naughty schoolboy compared to some of its colleagues. Here are the most diabolical machines...
View ArticleThese Smithsonian Photo Contest Finalists Are Each Stunning in Totally...
Smithsonian Magazine has just announced the (absolutely incredible) finalists in what is now their 10th annual photography contest. Here are some of our favorites; they'll take your breath away. More »
View Article13 Ridiculously Cool Buildings Made of Ice
Buildings made of ice. We're not talking about that novelty bar you visited on a trip to Vegas. We're talking incredible, impressive, complete structures built in the grand tradition of Ice Palaces...
View Article7 Knives You Will Legally Be Able to Take on a Plane
Awwww yeah, those suckers at the TSA are going to let us take knives on planes again. Pocket knives are the best. Get one. Here are some suggestions—all plane-legal as of April 25th. More »
View Article17 One-Man Submarines That Will Take Your Breath Away
The world got you down? Wish you could escape to somewhere calm, beautiful, and quiet? No problem! Just hop into one of these amazing one-man submersibles, take a deep breath, and propel yourself down...
View Article16 Obscenely Over the Top Home Theaters
If you love watching movies but hate the unwashed masses—and happen to have giant heaping truckloads of money—designers and interior architects can offer a simple solution: your very own deluxe...
View Article9 Incredible Uses for Graphene
Graphene is amazing. Or at least, it could be. Made from a layer of carbon one-atom thick, it's the strongest material in the world, it's completely flexible, and it's more conductive than copper....
View Article25 Famous Toys We Blasted Into Space
NASA recently released a few photos of the Expedition 34 crew aboard the International Space Station. Sitting inconspicuously in the corner of one of the pictures was Gort, the Earth-murdering robot...
View Article13 Shockingly Creative Ways Drugs Have Crossed the Border
Let's clear this up right now: drugs are bad, smuggling is a crime, drug lords and their traffickers are black-hearted, vicious, malignant persons. But you have to admit: they're pretty damn creative....
View Article11 Walls That Are Definitely Watching You
Abandoned places are creepy. Abandoned places are even creepier when you give them eyes and mouths and teeth so they look like they have a sinister personality and want to eat you alive. That's...
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