- EDITORS' PICKS
- Japanese Robot Learns to Sing by Mimicking Pop Stars
- A Day in the Life of a Commenter
- The Extinction of the Ewoks
- Post-Apocalyptic Wizard of Oz Miniatures
- When 'Monopoly' and Internet Collide...
- Facebook Bandit Pleads Guilty, Is a Moron
- Popcorn Apocalypse
A Pentalobe-Protected Garden
You bought it? You own it; don’t let esoteric screwheads take it away from you. Video after the jump. Continue reading
The Machines Are Farming Themselves, Too
Remember how we used to say that when the machines start reproducing, we’ll know we’re in trouble”? Well maybe it’s time for a gut-check on that one. Video after the jump. Continue reading
Social Amoeba, Emergent Agriculture
Microbiologists have discovered a simple kind of farming in the simplest social organisms—cooperative amoeba. Continue reading
No One Worries About the Robot
A story about cheating in middle-eastern camel racing—and by the way, the jockeys are robots. Buried lede, or simply a case of the unevenly-distributed future? Continue reading
The Faint Rustle of Power
Harnessing the piezoelectric effect, researchers at Cornell propose a wind-power generator that has more in common with rustling leaves than airplane rotors. Videos after the jump. Continue reading
Cyborgs R Us?
In an age of ever-more fantastic gadgets, it’s becoming received wisdom that we’re all cyborgs now. But as implant hacker Lepht Anonym reminds us, the original vision of the term was dangerous and feral. Videos after the jump. Continue reading
Marooned in Möbius
Trapped in a tiny infinity, unaware of its extent, the protagonist of math doodler Vi Hart’s drawn dilemma faces a struggle as existential as it is mathematical. Video after the jump. Continue reading
Data-Mining the Zodiac
Tearing down tens of thousands of horoscopes, David McCandless seeks the heart of the Zodiac not in the stars, but in the word-clouds. Continue reading
From Counterfeit to Scifi Reverse-Engineering
Reverse the polarity on sneaker piracy and globalization, and you get something like Chinese sneakers hacked into hover shoes. Video after the jump. Continue reading
Extruding the Visual
Video projection extends its pseudopods into the real world in the inspired work of the “anti-VJ” Aalto; video after the jump. Continue reading
