So I went by Maker Faire today — it’s a weird fusion of folk culture and offbeat technology. And a really good time. I bought tons of crap: a Maker Faire hoodie, a card-holder with an eyeball on it, an ATARI game console with 20 games built in and two joysticks, a [...]

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Imagine another world, a world of uncertainty, a world where anything can happen. Imagine what would happen [...]

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Eric Joyner’s bizarre images cause my facial muscles to contract wildly. You might think that doesn’t sound pleasant, but you would be wrong.

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Theo Jansen is a damn genius. I recommend just looking through YouTube and watching all of his strange creations — if you haven’t already.

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A crazy bastard ran into Berlin’s Madame Tussauds wax museum Saturday and ripped the head off a waxwork of Adolf Hitler, police said.

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The uncanny valley is a hypothesis that when robots and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost, but not entirely, like actual humans, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The “valley” in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a [...]

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