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Digital filmmaker Fran�ois Vautier installed an ant colony in his scanner and scanned it every week for five years. The movie he made of the results is fairly astonishing. It's high-tech ruin porn at insect scale.

Hotshoe, or hot shoes? Brandon Bloch stretches the product comparison to the breaking point, with predictably funny results. Video after the jump.

If you’ve been looking to own a pair of your own Back to the Future II-esque self-tying kicks, you have a few options. You can make a pair yourself, you can wait for Nike to release a real pair or now you can buy the actual shoes worn by Marty McFly in the film. The sneakers will be auctioned off ...

You’ll have to leave your jet pack at home, but at least you’ll have room for all of your school work. The Boba Fett Backpack will not be able to save you from the sarlacc pit, so steer clear of any intimidating looking toothed gaps in the ground. Never leave your Bounty Hunting 101 course book home again. Enjoy your ...

YouTube channel thingsonmyhead was made specifically for one sole purpose, a series of videos where one Canadian man puts various objects on his head and stares at the screen for a few minutes, blinking, breathing, balancing, the usual. The variety of objects placed on his head so far include bread, a phone book, a dress shoe and of course, Parmesan ...

I think my parents were always jealous of the other parents who got to show off their perfect little kid by putting one of those “I’m the parent of an honor student” bumper stickers on their cars. Sorry I disappointed you guys. But there’s still hope! Artist Das Chupa created these bumper stickers specifically for parents with gamers as children. ...

A few weeks back we posted about a homemade pair of Back to the Future II style sneakers which were controlled through an Arduino microcontroller. The premise was good and so was the effort, but the motor on the back of the shoes was just too much of an eyesore to be practical. But we might be seeing a much ...

I don’t live in a particularly flood susceptible area. But believe it or not, Jersey has its share of flood zones. I’ve never been in flood waters that went above the soles of my shoes, but from what I hear, it can’t be a fun experience. One thing I know for sure about precipitation levels is that meteorologists cannot be ...

If you didn’t look close you might not have noticed, and even then you’d be hard pressed to realize that the above photograph was completely man-made using cotton, salt, cooked sugar, tin foil, feathers and canvas; a completely scaled diorama model custom molded for the camera. New Jersey-based (so automatically he’s a genius) photographer Matthew Albanese uses painstaking preparation and ...