There are few names in the robotics industry that everyone knows, and Boston Dynamics is one of them. While the company got a robotic 'leg-up' in the industry through its development and sale of battlefield bots, the company now is investing in 'civilian' use robots like this one. The SpotMini is many things – a ...
Well, that's it, everyone. "Don't Try This At Home" had a nice run that left us with some spectacular memories and some we never wanted in the first place, but Flaming Giant Jenga has just nudged it aside to make room for "Why The Kung Pao Hell Would You Even....?" Oh, it's nothing less than what it says on the ...
Not that their track record with exclusive original series, movies, and specials suggested anything at all otherwise prior to "Voltron: Universal Defender", but the revival of the early-'80s animated television hit "Voltron: Defender Of The Universe" further cements that Netflix can do virtually no wrong these days. ...
Gamers starting getting hyped for the holiday season right around mid-June. It isn't so much that we miss the sweetest feel-good vibes of spending the month of December with our families. Chalk it up to a yearly spectacle and showcase of triple-A video game previews that set us salivating and speculating for 12 months ...
Ladies and Gentlemen, feast your eyes upon the most Japanese thing of all Japanese things. Micah Moore and Long Thai of Beatdown Boogie journeyed to Japan, courtesy of "Cloud Riders" publisher Hashtag Comics, and ventured into Robot Restaurant, an establishment that's as much an explosion of sensory overload as it ...
There are few companies in the world that have such an impact on humanity in the way that Samsung does. It is one of most innovative and successful companies on the planet because it develops, creates and applies new technologies in ways that benefits everyone, as is clearly seen with its plethora of electronic ...
Thanks, Adam Pizurny. If there was just one question that prodded our minds from the moment we woke up today, it was, "What could the halls of our dreams run yellow with 'fraidy-urine?" Inspired by what we suspect to be a combination of boredom, imagination, and a compulsion to prove that just about anybody could ...
Hosting privileges for major international athletic events from the World Cup to the Olympics never fail to leave behind the same mess for the world's largest cities to deal with: what does anyone do with hundreds of millions of dollars of newly constructed athletic venues, commissioned sculptures and spectator and ...
Disney has produced a lot of films over the years, but the movie 'Tron' is one that has reached iconic proportions. It was the first movie of its kind, where a person could meld into the processing world of the computer, and then mingle with other beings/computer programs in their struggle over good and... bad ...
For every Hollywood blockbuster, there's a "What if...?" to ponder. What if Dave Chappelle hadn't passed up playing Bubba in "Forrest Gump"? What if Jon Peters had actually found someone to fulfill his epic vision of a flightless Superman battling a giant mechanical spider while Brainiac throws down with polar bears? ...
E-skin could be the new digital body modification of the 21st century with organic, animated tattoos. Its true, now you can turn your skin into a digital screen, just like some technology out of a science fiction flick. All you have to do is slap some electronic, ultra-thin skin on the back of your hand that can ...
We live in amazing times, technology, like modern-day magic, is making dreams reality. While electronic technology has gotten the brunt of public attention for advances in communications and computers, such as mobile devices, roll-up screen, smartphones and tablets, just to name a few, biological breakthroughs are ...
Some little part inside all of us that refuses to let the '90s perish quietly and admit that hoverboards and Segways shot true skating sports in the daddy bag doesn't dare entertain Polish manufacturer EV4's Electric Off-Road Rollerblades. The substantial inner majority that actually watched the demo video for the ...
If you have about 12 minutes to spare today, you have time to share our appreciation for how "100 Greatest One-Liners: Before The Kill" honors the shared virtue of every generation's men and women of action that we respect the most: a sense of decorum. There really is a certain propriety to carrying out a cinematic ...
We've shared some imaginative and inventive works of art. We aren't sure we've ever come across something so detailed and transformative as what Kay Pike recently shared with her Twitch audience from the beginning of its creation to the finishing touch. The mixed artist, fashion designer and cosplay model is ...
We accepted long ago that we'll never be well-to-do enough to even WORK for someone with cash to orgasmically burn spraying other rich folk with obscenely expensive champagne. If we ever do savor that kind of incomprehensible wealth, we like to think being Alpo-sandwiches-for-Thanksgiving poor will have instilled at ...
Tobey Maguire vs Andrew Garfield. Jack Nicholson versus Heath Ledger. Michael Keaton versus Val Kilmer versus George Clooney versus Christian Bale. Reasonable superhero-movie fans will differ in their favorite character renderings. Even the two eras of the X-MEN cinematic franchise have generated comparisons of ...
The future is here, today. How do we know? Because, technologies being developed and produced, now, were just fantasized about only a few short years ago, like flexible screens, which are now a reality. Thanks to Queen's University's Human Media Lab, now the world has the first high-resolution smartphone with ...
Our universe is 'big', in fact, it is so big it hard to wrap your head around the idea that there are billions of stars in our little Milky-Way Galaxy, and that there are literally countless billions of galaxies in the universe. Objects are in distance space are so vast it hurts the mind to attempt to contemplate ...
Russian artist Dimitri Taykalov may be on to something, here. See, not all of us are happily raising broods of our own. In fact, some of us feel like being willfully childless and often single sets us aside in our breeder friends' minds as being babysitting options of first resort. This cuts drastically into one ...
Screw this "Aw, why couldn't I have had this when I was a kid?" mularkey. I want an adult-sized Battle Racer and my own personal arsenal of three to four Nerf blasters to tote in it. Get on this, Hauck Toys. This pedal-powered Go-Kart stores a pair of blasters up front within quick reach and a fast-reloading clip ...
The engineering technologies the military develops for its soldiers to carry heavy objects, giving them super human strengths, is also being developed in the private sector and at universities around the world, these are called exoskeletons. Very similar to the power suits seen in movies like 'Edge of Tomorrow' ...
Superbowl 2016 is happening! While some of you may be bigger fans than the guy sitting next you, others only put up with the the occasional football action for the awesome Superbowl commercials mixed in after every 50 seconds of action. No matter what kind of fan you are of the sport, there is no denying that this ...
Do you have a special night coming up, such as a prom night, a wedding reception, or a special night on the town? Do you need a ride, but don't want to conscript a friend's or relative's ride? Are you tired of hiring a standard stretched limo? If you are looking for a 'unique' ride to that special night you have ...
Whatever your take on the last two years' controversial Academy Award nominations, we can nearly all agree that the Oscars trend toward being just masturbatory enough to almost completely ignore any consideration for which movies audiences actually ENJOYED the most. We submit an entirely separate measure of a ...
Warner Bros. and DC have decided to address some mild fan skepticism toward the upcoming anti-hero ensemble action flick SUICIDE SQUAD the way any marketing pro in the know would: just slap some Queen on it. You know, like you do. The two-and-half minute clip is pretty standard fare, as DC trailers go. It ...
In the latest Star Wars film – The Force Awakens, there was introduced many new and like-able characters, such as BB-8, the little ball robot with a great attitude. Well, the little BB-8 droid unit has become a reality, thanks to technology, and many people now enjoy what this this little robot can do a lot when you ...
Drones are everywhere, and they are used for everything from military and police surveillance, land surveying, movie making, delivering food and packages, and one day, some smart folks will figure out how to use them to carry people. Well, that day has come, obviously, because there is an amazing group of guys who ...
The time has come when bigger and heavier does not equate to mean better, as many grandparents today are discovering, especially in regards to cameras. With the innumerable amount of mobile devices and smartphones produced, there are more cameras in the world than ever before, although, most are just basic cameras, ...
Bad news, music lovers: 2015 arguably failed to etch another "Purple Haze" or "Blinded By The Light" in the annals of legendary popular music. Here's the good news: Eugene, Chris and Alex of The Lyrics Crew offer their 16 candidate songs from The Year That Was which could each possibly go down as the next ...
Animals such as dogs and humans have a lot in common, they are both mammals and they both have feelings such as sadness, excitement, happiness and they have fun too. Unfortunately, unlike humans, when domestic animals are born with a malady such as a birth defect or serious ailment, veterinarians or the animal ...
Speculative scientific minds have occasionally pointed to the STAR WARS franchise as a potential visionary fictional portrait of orbital weaponry's eventual horizons. The homespun inventors of YouTube's Make channel have reached a conclusion that the most likely plausible element of the Imperial Star Destroyer might ...
They are the best of fails. They are the worst of fails. With 2015 coming to a close this past week, everyone and their dogs will be weighing in for the next week to come with their totally authoritative assessments of everything that was great and awful about The Year That Was. If you're already tired of one ...
When you mention the word ‘Disney’ people tend to think of fun, entertaining and amazing things, which would be a correct assumption. Disney Research Zurich is responsible for inventing many electronic and entertainment ‘stuff’ that can do amazing things, such as their VertiGo – a four-wheeled robot that can drive ...
A lot is happening across the planet, things like wars, famine and financial matters have people losing faith in humanity’s future. However, there are many things we don’t see on the news these days that are positively amazing, things that restore faith in humanity – seeing life through the eyes of people all over the ...
Yep. This is how it starts. First come the drones that navigate both the air and sea with equally useful ease. Next thing we know, some backwater Atlantean starts shooting them down after claiming they crossed his property reef. Rutgers University will surely take diplomatic relations with Aquaman's sovereign ...
OK, then. Very first sign we're accepting that the post-apocalyptic future is upon us? When this Detroit Diesel motorcycle trike rolls down our block, we start hoarding food, ammunition, and every damn gun we can pry from someone's cold, dead hand. Incredibly, this animal of questionable (but likely, given its ...
We choose to accept two primary explanations, either alone or combined, when pondering how certain risque references make their way into supposedly sanitized family-friendly entertainment: one, creators are trying to throw parents a bone to forestall the urge to slit their wrists with car keys when kid-oriented fare ...
We can't say we're sure what mundane civilian application the TEC Torch from EMPI would serve. However, we're pinpoint positive from experience about this much: it's many a great nerd's natural lot in life to discover entertaining, inventive and/or practical applications not originally intended for all manner of ...
Further proof that dogs will one day become the fearsome infantry tanks of the inevitable rebellion when cats evolve opposable thumbs: it takes only three miniature dachshunds - reportedly, "with the stamina of an ox and speed of a greyhound" - to drag around this little South African girl seated on a skateboard at a ...
Netflix coma, kids. It is a thing. Binge-watching is nothing short of an endurance trial. Sure, original shows such as ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK and MARVEL'S JESSICA JONES are a more reasonable 13 episodes or so each. Over one wide-open weekend, that does fly stunningly fast. However, try to immerse yourself headlong ...
Combatting the barely measurable awfulness of the STAR WARS prequels takes little real talent or creativity - most of the time. At the very least, nobody will ever exceed Red Letter Media's hours of takedowns spanning the disastrous trilogy of THE PHANTOM MENACE, THE CLONE WARS, and REVENGE OF THE SITH for ...
If you enjoy flying, being high in the sky above the clouds, then looking out of the small cabin window is almost depressing, because you can’t see much of anything. Wouldn’t it be amazing, if you could somehow sit ‘on top’ of an airplane while it is in flight, and not be blown away, that would be the ultimate flying ...
Allow us to be unapologetic conspiracy-baiting skeptics for just one moment: is the premiere STAR TREK BEYOND trailer so spare with juicy plot reveals out of ambition to enigmatically show more while actually telling far less, or because J.J. Abrams' strategically duplicitous "Benedict Cumberbatch is not playing Khan" ...
No matter how many leaked set reports we read or official teaser stills we see, some coming attractions just never feel "real" until we experience the first trailer. After an uncommon scarcity of sneak peeks throughout its production, we can now truly admit that INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE is an impending reality. ...
Is Littered With Death, Destruction, Uncertainty And A Lot Of Familiar Faces All things must come to an end. A combined 16 years and seven seven total movies - albeit, not all of them conceived on his watch - Memorial Day 2016's arrival of X-MEN: APOCALYPSE in theaters worldwide will be director Bryan Singer's ...
China looked upon American innovators such as Google and Tesla making giant strides toward fully autonomous-driving cars and optimistically resolved, "We can still beat them at mind-control." In the end, after two years of intensive development, Chinese researchers based in the northeast port city of Tianjin have ...
Folks, some appreciation for the awe we promise this GoPro footage of a 2500m Chamonix Wingsuit flight will deliver is best expressed with all the likes, retweets and social shares you can manage. After all, we had to change our pants three times just watching daredevil Brandon Mikesell soar down the side of Le ...
Sycamore Township, Ohio has decided to go full-Michonne on a two-year-old Christmas tradition that just won't die. Figures, the guy under siege by his municipal government over a zombie-themed Nativity scene in his front yard would be named JASEN DIXON. Officials have given Dixon an ultimatum: either make the ...
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