Dark Horse has just announced that they are losing the Star Wars comics license, as Disney has chosen to give it to their more-or-less in-house publisher Marvel. Damn. Read more…
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Disney is giving the Star Wars comics license to Marvel in 2015
X-rays and advanced photography have uncovered the true complexity of the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, a device so astonishing that its discovery is like finding a functional Buick in medieval Europe. Read more…
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Advanced Imaging Reveals a Computer 1,500 Years Ahead of Its Time
You’ll need a brand new strategy for Duels of the Planeswalkers, the casual “video game” version of the Magic the Gathering card game. Luckily, our ultimate Planeswalkers guide will tell you when to counterspell, when to summon a massive elder thing, when to reanimate a demon corpse, and how to lay waste to your opponent. Read more…
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How to conquer Magic the Gathering’s new Duels of the Planeswalkers
How the heck did they come up with some of the crazy monsters in Dungeons & Dragons ? There are a lot of weird, memorable monsters that GMs can use to strike fear into the heart of players — and the inspiration behind them is way different than what you probably expect. Read more…
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The Surprising Inspiration for Dungeons & Dragons’ Weirdest Monsters
Cubli is a clever little cube that uses reaction wheels to jump, balance and “walk” across stationary and dynamic surfaces alike. It reminds us a lot of MIT’s M-Blocks, only bigger , and… well… more balance-y. Read more…
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Meet Cubli, a motorized box that balances perfectly on ONE CORNER
We’ve all done it: stood in a library, looking around, we’ve been confronted by the fact that there are way, way too many books in existence for us to ever read. But when in history did that happen? Read more…
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When Did There Become Too Many Books to Read in One Lifetime?
Remember that super-realistic telemarketing chatbot who denies she’s a robot ? Turns out “Samantha West” may not a robot after all — but the real story is just as bizarre. Read more…
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Robot-denying telemarketing robot may not actually be a robot
This is a 2, 400-year-old baby bottle . This recently discovered terracotta pig was used as a toy and a baby bottle by the Messapii people of what is now southern Italy. These vessels, called guttus, had narrow necks and small openings from which liquids could be poured slowly, even in drops . Read more…
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This is a 2,400-year-old baby bottle.
A law in Norway has their National Library scanning all literature and then making it publicly available to anyone to anyone coming in under a Norwegian IP address. Pretty cool, if you’re in Norway now or in the near-ish future. But it’s also pretty awesome for the much more distant future. Read more…
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In Norway, all library books must be digitized — by law
Behold the Pertamina Energy Tower, a U.S.-designed building that’s slated for construction in Jakarta, Indonesia. Reaching a height of a half-kilometer, the tower will harvest its own wind energy through an opening at its peak. Read more…
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This gorgeous skyscraper is also a wind power plant