Blessed with the calming voice of a warm blanket on a cold night, Morgan Freeman is basically the best narrator for nearly every documentary and most life situations. I could listen him talk about anything and it would feel important. But what about Morgan Freeman on helium? How’s that sound? Hilarious. More » ...
A zoo now offers tourists free and terrifying massages from four Burmese pythons — the largest of which measures 4.8m. To keep the snakes from consuming their clients, each one is fed at least 10 chickens before a massage begins. More » ...
A committee made up of high-profile US scientists has a bold plan afoot: It wants to build a billion-dollar particle beam to blast neutrinos 1200km underground, from Chicago to South Dakota. More » ...
Got pockets big enough for a Samsung phablet? You might want to stitch an extension into them: Samsung is said to be working on its own virtual reality headset to be paired up with its mobile devices, according to Engadget. More » ...
Desks are the focal point of our work and creativity, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be fun too. Like the You And Me Table, which offers both a fully functioning table tennis surface and somewhere to work too. More » ...
Smartwatches are yet to really deliver on their promise , so what can be done with the proliferation of tiny screens? Finally, we’ve come across a solution we can really get behind. More » ...
Here is the first trailer for Big Hero 6 – Disney’s first attempt to make an animated series using Marvel characters. The movie is based on material from the fairly obscure comic of the same name and this short clip sees the protagonist, Hiro Hamada, attempting to dress his homemade robot Baymax. More » ...
Remember the days when Facebook was simple? There was no News Feed, no FarmVille requests, no massive privacy violations — it was a nice, clean directory of all your friends and their basic information. Well, thanks to a developer from Hamburg, you can finally have that Facebook back. More » ...
Amazon sends everything you could possibly need or want to your door in two days. That’s in addition to a growing stable of movies and TV shows, all for a great price. It’s easy to fall in love. But Amazon’s recent crusade against one book publisher is a nasty reminder that the company doesn’t love you back, and it will screw you to get what it wants. More » ...
In the lead up to the announcement of Samsung’s Galaxy Gear, there were rumours aplenty that this would be the device that would satiate the strangest of nerdom’s appetites: a watch that is a phone. The Galaxy Gear was not that at all, but according to the Wall Street Journal, Samsung is not done quite yet. More » ...
Could the budgetary shot in the arm our space program so desperately needs come from rising tensions between Russia and the US? In the latest development in the New Cold War™, a US Senate panel has budgeted $US100 million to fund a state-of-the-art rocket engine designed and built in Amurica. More » ...
Saccharin is noted as being the first artificial sweetener, outside of the toxic Lead(II) acetate, and the first product to offer a cheap alternative to cane sugar. Interestingly enough, like the Chocolate Chip Cookie , it was also discovered entirely by accident. More » ...
Here are the most spectacular and destructive atomic bombs, from the United States, the Soviet Union, and China. Most of them are in crispy HD thanks to the folks at Atom Central, one of my favourite sites. It just boggles my mind how much energy, intelligence, and resources humanity has wasted in these terrifying devices. More » ...
Edward Snowden is famous for one thing: blowing the whistle on the NSA . But, really, he’s just a normal guy. Before this all happened, for instance, he threw parties like all of us! Wait, maybe not quite; they were encryption parties. More » ...
With the Tesla Model S coming to Australia extremely soon, and with pricing leaked , and a national Supercharger network confirmed, buying one is a pretty tempting proposition. More » ...
Glioblastoma is one of the most aggressive and deadly forms of brain cancer. Nausea-inducing chemotherapy can prolong life by a few months, but there’s another gentler though funnier-looking treatment: a cap that literally zaps the tumour away. More » ...
Working alongside a company called zSpace, makers of interactive holographic displays, researchers at the Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory in Japan have built a high-speed gesture recognition system that instantly responds to hand and finger movements. Which in turn enhances the immersiveness of these interactive displays. More » ...
As everyone knows by now, eBay was hacked — the official line is that the event was “a cyberattack that compromised a database containing encrypted passwords and other non-financial data”. After staying quiet on the topic for too long, eBay is sending all its users an email advising that they — yes, that’s you — change passwords immediately. More » ...
Dana Keller is a colouriser. He takes old black-and-white photos and applies his digital paintbrush, transforming them into a new work of art. Colourisation of old photos isn’t new, but it’s becoming increasingly popular on forums like Reddit’s r/ColorizedHistory , where people share their colourised creations. But how do these new works affect our understanding of the past? And what happens when...
If you’re in Sydney over the next couple of weeks, take a trip out to Circular Quay, Darling Harbour, Martin Place or a host of other city locations and check out some of the Vivid Sydney installations on show. It’s a huge festival of lights and music, and there are heaps of talks as well. More » ...