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Microsoft’s Illumi-Room Is Baby-Step To Holodeck
There’s really not much to talk about here with a bunch of words. They’ll just get in the way of you pressing play and smiling like a little kid as your brain sort of automatically speculates on the possibilities of this in peoples’ homes....
Budweiser Cup Allows Drunken, Awkward Friend Requests via ‘Clinking’
Someone at Budweiser had apparently just read about Virgin America’s in-cabin, passenger-to-passenger texting service, knocked back a couple bottles and decided that the giant beer-hive should also get in on the act of making social...
Giant Snails Invade Florida!
It wasn’t too long ago that North America’s Hellmouth of a state was calling for people to go out into the wild and bag/kill as many giant pythons as they possibly could. Now that that’s yesterday’s Nature versus Humankind battle is over,...
Podcast: My Own Private Vigilante Botnet
Brian and Justin are brought to the gates of a mysterious cavern. Is it the literal gate to hell? How far would Andrew go for science? We discover the horrifying outer limits. What would you do with your own vigilante botnet? It’s all part...
Your Monitor Smells – Because Science Is Creating Monitors that Produce Scents!
Recently a group of Japanese scientists at the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference in Orlando, Florida have unveiled the latest incarnation of… (sad, loungy drumroll please) Smell-O-Vision! That’s right. Scientists have been working hard at...
Lo! The Ancient One Cthulhu Walks Among Us!
Researchers have found the tentacled god Cthulhu at last he shall walk the earth and consume us all. By earth we mean the gut of termites and by consume we mean engage in a symbiotic relationship. Oh, and this Cthulhu as described in the...
Double Complete Yeti Sighting
What’s better than Yeti tracks in the snow? Video of a Yeti. What’s better than a Yeti? Two Yetis! What’s better than that???? A mama yeti and her child filmed by some 12 year old Russian kid. To top it all off, a Russian scientist has...
Podcast: The Mystery of Monkey Island
Two southerners are getting checks each year from the government for $865 a year. The explanation might break your brain. Andrew explains his current obsession with the real life Monkey Island. Also, his hunt to prove that it not only...
Vatican to Place <strike>Medieval Fake</strike> Holy Relic on TV for Easter
As one of his last acts as pope, retired Pope Benedict decreed that Italians should be given a special look into the Turin Cathedral and the Shroud it’s known for. Sealed inside it’s climate controlled case, viewers will get a glimpse of...
NASA Budgets for Asteroid Rendition
NASA plans to put a line for $100 million in an upcoming budget for an asteroid snatching mission with a total expected cost of $2.6 billion. The goal is to grab an asteroid and move it into a lunar orbit so we can get a closer look. What...
Is this Green Meteorite from Mercury?
It’s green and came from outer space. While scientists haven’t completely ruled out a Kryptonian origin, they think this rock may in fact be the first piece of the planet Mercury ever found on earth. Sheared away in a collision billions of...
Is Elon Musk Planning the First Controlled Re-Entry of a Rocket this Summer?
The folks at NextBigFuture via Rocketeers.co.uk are reporting the rumor mill has SpaceX planning to send their reusable Grasshopper test rocket to a height of 300,000 feet in the near future with an eye towards trying a controlled re-entry...
Zimbabwe Tormented by ‘Countless’ Panty-Stealing Goblins
We don’t know who Chief Njelele is, or who elected him, but by the accounts were hearing, he’s got a real problem in his region of Zimbabwe. We’re talking a Nelson Mandela, Bill Gates and Bono level solve-this-crisis. On of his villagers...
Podcast: Blow and Hoe
Bonnie “The Invisible Wife” joins Brian and Justin to discuss the Week of Weird. A school in Maryland begin instituting a series of outlandish new regulations. Can Bonnie and Brian force themselves and their children to adapt? With all the...
Podcast: Salacious Skype Schemes
SpaceX launches does a new rocket test that reminds Justin of a CGI future where humans roam the stars. A new digital scam is fleecing business men our of scads of cash, Justin and Andrew discuss the future of such villainy. Are we...
SpaceX’s Johnny Cash Hover Slam Test a Success (no slam!)
Yesterday at the SXSW keynote, SpaceX’s Elon Musk showed the first footage of their most recent test of their reusable rocket system. In what has to be a new record of some kind, the Grasshopper, a rocket 10 stories tall, flew 268 feet in...
Quadcopters Play Catch Better Than Most Humans!
Quadcopters are the new must-have toys of the tech-headed kids. They’re showing up everywhere and there are thousands of them out ‘in the wild’. For those frightened that these things will eventually be controlled by SkyNet, this latest...
Zombie Perfume For the ‘Preppers Will Make You Socially Acceptable to the Walking Dead!
Fans of The Walking Dead know that if you cover yourself in the leftovers of friends, neighbors and family, zombies will just stroll right on by you…until it begins to rain and things go to hell real fast. Wouldn’t it be awesome if someone...
An Armband That Gives You Superhuman Abilities!
For a LOT of the more nerdy kids out there, we’re placing bets that many of you pretended you had the ability to throw fireballs, move objects by waving your hands and occasionally even tried in vain to channel the Force. That was all fun,...
Most Desirable Woman In Brazil Right Now Has Imaginary Virginity Up for Auction!
Last time we checked Brazil seemed like a place where men really wouldn’t be hard up to find a female companion. We were wrong. Very, very wrong. How wrong? Just…just keep reading. There’s a bidding war going on in Brazil right now over a...