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Spook Yourself by Staying Home and Watching Let The Right One In
In the middle of the Twilight media storm of 2008, a film called Let the Right One In
came out of Sweden with the completely opposite take on how to make a
"vampire movie". The film was an instant hit with filmmakers and critics
across the board because of its perfect, minimal approach to horror set
in the quiet…
New AeroMobil 3.0 flying car is one really cool transformer
This flying car looks pretty damn cool in
both flight and road modes, but especially when it opens up like a
transformer. After being certified by the Slovak Federation of
Ultra-Light Flying, the AeroMobil 3.0 has started final regular flight-testing this month.
Oingo Boingo: Dead Man's Party
It's October 31st. You're stranded on a ~haunted~ desert island. The evil powers that be have stipulated that you must
listen—and sing along!—to one Halloweenie song for the entire 24 hours,
and then a helicopter full of pizza and beer and candy will come rescue
you. What tune do you choose??
Fish Look Crazy With X-Ray Vision
In
a perfect world, anyone who sent in a buck for those novelty x-ray
specs advertised in the back of comic books would be gifted with the
actual ability to see through solid stuff. In reality, we have to rely
on the kindness of folks with real tech for a peek. So: Thanks, Smithsonian!
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Boston Just Got a Spooky Edgar Allan Poe Statue
Nevermore will Boston's Edgar Allan Poe Square be without an Edgar Allen Poe statue. Artist Stefanie Rocknack's life-sized bronze tribute to Poe is now standing two blocks from the writer's birthplace.
A Poster-Sized Family Tree of Every Apple Product Ever Made
Step right up, fanboys and girls: the relentless data designers at Pop Chart Lab have updated their Insanely Great History of Apple print, and it is a doozy featuring over 500 items from the Cupertino fruit slinger.
Google Flu Trends Resorts to Actual Data Because It Got It Wrong
Remember
how excited everyone was about Google Flu Trends last year when it
confirmed all of our deepest and darkest fears that we were doomed to a
winter of misery? Apparently, using peoples' neurotic self-diagnoses
isn't the most accurate way to track disease. So now, Google has decided to introduce a "new"…
Morphing Cocktails Are the Perfect Halloween BOOze
Look, cocktails are great. You know it, I know it. But after you pour
one and then it just sits there, being all delicious. How
mouth-wateringly boring, right? Well, in honor of tonight's revelry,
we've got a handful of morphing cocktails that bring a heavy dose of
eye-candy. They should pair nicely with the heavy…
Five Native American Traditions That Will Take Anyone Closer To Nature
Want
to see more animals, move quietly through the woods or just feel a
stronger connection with the world around you? Here's five traditions
passed down to us by our First Nations, all capable of doing just that,
occasionally in surprisingly powerful ways.
The Guy Who Patented the Ouija Board Has a Oujia Board Gravestone
If
you're really serious about communicating with the dead, one would
guess you'd get the best reception with a Ouija board that's
conveniently installed in a cemetery. This is the headstone of Elijah Bond, who patented the Ouija board, the beloved game that's entertained and terrified people for over a century. Can…
Let's Talk About Whatever You Want Right Now
It's
Friday! Not only that, it's a Halloween Friday! It's time to time to
stuff yourself silly with candy and hang out with the Giz staff,
shooting the sweet breeze about whatever you'd like.
4-acre spider web may be the grossest thing you will see this Halloween*
This report on a 4-acre spider web
covering a building has made shiver and curl in disgust. You are
looking at the Baltimore Wastewater Treatment Plant, where 4 acres of
their facility were covered by a spider web made by an estimated 107 million spiders. That's 35,176 spiders per cubic meter!
Which Classic Movies Have You Never Seen?
I have a confession to make: I've never seen The Shining. I'm a huge Kubrick fan, and I know from the famous stills and tributes that it's a wonderful work of art. But I've never seen it, and I don't know why. This sort of thing happens to everyone, though, right?
10 Tropes About Magical Weapons That We Never Want To See Again
Fantasy
epics are full of weapons with mystical powers and strange destinies.
It makes sense — everybody loves a weapon with some cool attributes. But
as fantasy has grown, you see the same ideas over and over. And here
are 10 story ideas about mystical weapons that have been done to death.
Behind the Scenes of Blood Manor, One of NYC's Scariest Haunted Houses
Walk through New York City's Blood Manor
in the dark, and you might have a heart attack. Explore it with the
lights up and you'll see a series of simple tech tricks designed to
scare the pants off you.
These Street Portraits Are the Most Beautiful Tribute to Halloween
We
are all bombarded with droves of kitschy, over-the-top representations
of Halloween every year. That's why it's so refreshing to look at the
stunning work of the photographer who calls himself Joey L. His black
and white portraits taken in Brooklyn in 2010 embrace the softer side of
our bizarre dress-up rituals.
How China Is Making Tiny Islands Inhabitable With Huge Floating Docks
The
Spratly Islands are basically mounds of sand in the middle of the South
China Sea, some of them barely tall enough to reach above the water.
But China is hell-bent on making them inhabitable, even drawing up plans
for floating energy and water plants. It has nothing to do with the
islands themselves and everything…
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Has Crashed, One Pilot Confirmed Dead
Virgin Galactic is reporting that there has been an "in-flight anomaly"
aboard SpaceShipTwo. The suborbital flight took off at 9:19am PDT from
the Mojave Air and Spaceport in California. Update: Virgin Galactic has confirmed that SpaceshipTwo has crashed and the California Highway Patrol has confirmed that there is …
HP's Gaudy Smartwatch Will Be Surprisingly Affordable
Here's our first detailed look at the Hewlett-Packard "luxury" smartwatch teased
a few months ago. It's designed to look like a fancy metal rich-guy
watch, but at $350, you won't need to be a rich guy to buy it.
NASA Carves Pumpkins Better Than You Ever Could
Put
a man on the Moon? Sure. Establish a continuously orbiting zero-gravity
laboratory? Easy. Parachute a rover onto Mars? Ain't no thang. Okay, fine NASA, but can you carve a pumpkin?
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