This is a poster of famous robots created by artist Daniel Nyari (links to his website which links to his Society 6 shop in case you want to buy a print). He didn't create the robots, just the poster. God created the robots. No, no he didn't. Humans created the robots, and ... / Continue →

IMAGES REMOVED These are shots from the Robot Restaurant in Tokyo. The club offers 'cabaret' dances from giant fembot mechas controlled by bikini-clad girls sitting in the front. And if the thought of that gives you a boner it's your obligation as a human being to grab that bo... / Continue →

Because scientists apparently don't care who our new overlords are as long they aren't us, a group of bioengineers from Harvard and the California Institute of Technology have built swimming jellyfish out of silicon rubber and the cells from rat hearts. Soon, they'll be assemb... / Continue →

Google created an artificial intelligence system with a staggering 16,000 processors and let the thing loose on the internet to learn on its own. And what did it learn? CATS. "The musical?" *stink-eye* The neural network taught itself to recognize cats, which, John Markoff... / Continue →

This is a video from Cornell's Creative Machines Lab (for the last time: WE DON'T NEED ANY MORE CREATIVE MACHINES. Microwaves and vibrators -- that's it) featuring a robotic "jamming-based gripper" capable of picking up and throwing any object. The concept is simple: there's ... / Continue →

Redditor Lycerius has been playing the same game of Civilization II for the past ten years. And from the sound of things, the world isn't doing so hot. Well, except temperature-wise, because constant nuclear war has melted the icecaps. There are no more polar bears. Now in ... / Continue →

Sure you could argue 17,000-miles isn't actually that close, but everything is relative. Compared to the rest of space that's like the distance between your privates and b-hole. DANGEROUSLY CLOSE. Also, I don't trust NASA's calculations enough to believe there's not a chance... / Continue →

Lake Vostok, the pristine lake hidden under two and a half miles of Antarctic glacier for almost 20-million years, has finally been reached by the drill of Russian scientists. They hope to develop a better understanding of the earth 20-million years ago, but will probably only... / Continue →

OMG we're so embarrassed -- let's eat our hands! This is a video of some guy (he says he's a student but I suspect he's a prowler) traveling around a highschool asking some reaaaaaaaally basic trivia questions and all the kids getting them wrong. It's depressing. The though... / Continue →

Seen here practicing a stealth attack on a mock-up of your bedroom window, a group of autonomous quadrocopters at The University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Lab swarm their target. Now -- just imagine if it had been you sleeping on the other side of that window. Not a pretty pict... / Continue →

Humans still alive in 50-million years, LOL. Conceptualized by speculative zoologist Dougal Dixon in the early 80's and published in Omni magazine, these are renderings of what Dixon believes humans might look like after 50-million years of evolution. There's an another versi... / Continue →

This is a 1:50 scale replica of the Large Hadron Collider's ATLAS detector recreated out of 9,500 LEGO pieces. 9,500 LEGO pieces that cost $2,590. That's 27-cents apiece! That's way too f***ing much! [The piece was built by] Sasha Mehlhase, a physicist from the Niels Bohr I... / Continue →

According to entirely untrustworthy sources, scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider are close to proving the existence of the Higgs Boson, aka 'God' particle, the elusive bit of matter responsible for providing objects with mass. Alternatively, they might be even closer to... / Continue →

China is considering temporarily capturing an asteroid in earth's orbit and then mining it for all it's valuable metals. Me? I say we invent hoverboards first, THEN start mining asteroids. That way, when the asteroid does wind up destroying earth, we can at least all die hap... / Continue →

That's right folks, I'm calling it. Sometime on or before May 30th. The world may end in 2012, but it all starts in 2011. BOOM, movie concept. Get that made by fall -- I want Shia Laboof attached. If you get up any morning for the next few weeks, you'll be treated to the s... / Continue →

If it can tear a hole in space just imagine what it could do to an ass! Seen here (but not really because it doesn't exist yet) looking suspiciously like staring down the barrel of a Portal gun, a new ultra-superlaser capable of tearing the very fabric of space-time (and expos... / Continue →

Note: Must must must watch video of the sadness after the jump. This is a local news report about a hunting camp in Louisiana that was allegedly ravaged by a zombie-monster. Admittedly, that picture does look totally for real. The news comes from Baton Rouge LA news (NBC 33)... / Continue →

The Conversacube is a make-believe product that prevents stagnant conversation on a date by providing constant suggestions of things to say to the troll your mom set you up with. "Your eyes, they're just so....far apart." Lauren McCarthy's idea seems harmless enough - a gadge... / Continue →

There are good ideas and there are great ideas. This is a f***ing terrible one. Nuking the oil leak to cover that shit in rubble and seal it off. Plus birth Godzilla! (which, admittedly, I am for) A plan proposed to detonate a nuke to seal off that troublesome oil well is ... / Continue →

Robot-ethicists are demanding a retuning of Asimov's laws of robotics, which they believe are too simple and do not take into account just how badly robots want to kill us all. "If you build artificial intelligence but don't think about its moral sense or create a conscious se... / Continue →