At $31,732 to construct, this is the Scrabble board to beat all Scrabble boards. Introduced this week at the Prague Mind Sports Festival, the board is constructed of carbon fiber materials and uses a custom LED lighting system in order to bring additional style and complete customization to the game table. The board is built…
Mickey Mousing around with Star Wars – Disney plans three Lucasfilm productions every year
Lucas’ successor, Kathleen Kennedy, is quoted in Entertainment Weekly saying the company plans to make “two or three films each year”. Did she misspeak of did Entertainment Weekly possibly misquote her? Two or three Star Wars movies per year is going to water down Star Wars pretty quickly and could potentially ruin a great franchise. …
Google Fiber hi-speed network rolls out in Kansas City – 700Mbps speeds reported by users
Real world tests of Google’s Fiber project, a high-speed ISP network installed in Kansas City, are beginning to arrive and the results are outstanding. Kansas City Google Fiber users can expect 700 Mbps down on hard-wired connections. One user reported that he BitTorrented Ubuntu in only 2 minutes. When will it arrive in your neighborhood?
Ancient Roman Giant found – first complete ancient skeleton of person suffering from gigantism
What is wrong with this person’s eye? Wait, that’s not an eye… Unusual optical illusion
NASCAR driver fined $25,000 for tweeting from car during race
As if racing in NASCAR was not enough of an adrenaline rush, NASCAR racer Brad Keselowski can tweet while driving his race car. Brad Keselowski recently tweeted fans in the Daytona 500 prompting NASCAR to issue a new rule – no smartphones in the cars. Brad Keselowski tweeted during a race again last Sunday and…
Leonid meteor shower will have an unusual two separate peaks this week – November 17 and November 20
The annual Leonid meteor shower, one of the best annual meteor showers, will be reaching its peak this week although the showing is not expected to be spectacular with only 10-15 meteors per hour projected. This year the shower is a bit unusual with two peaks expected – one on Saturday morning (11/17/2012) and the…
Computer generated simulation provides stunning visualization of the half million pieces of “space junk” orbiting Earth
95% of the objects in this computer generated simulation of low-Earth orbit objects is “orbital debris”, not satellites. “Space junk” consist of everything from spent rocket stages, lost equipment and defunct satellites to erosion, explosion and collision fragments. NASA estimates there are more than 500,000 pieces of space junk orbiting the Earth (“tens of millions”…
Cool animated .gif shows MRI of head (and brain) slice by slice
Beautiful but eerie photos of abandoned places
Matthias Haker is a self-taught photographer living in Dresden, Germany. He specializes in the fields of architectural and interior photography as well as people, portrait, fashion and wedding photography. Here is a collection of his works – a set of eerie photographs of abandoned hotels, theaters, and other public venues.








