It’s hard to visualize the internet, if not impossible, but Jay Simons has created a wonderfully creative and visually stunning Map of the Internet, illustrated in the style of a classic global map. The picture below does not do it justice, but just click on the image for a full...
Forget about J.J. Abrams’ “re-imagining” of Star Trek. If you want some new classic Star Trek (TOS), then look no further than Star Trek Continues. The sets, costumes, sound effects, and special effects are very well done, and in the Original Series style. The acting is pretty good too, and even...
Take a look at this awesome airship battle illustration by Alex Koshelkov. And now for the really cool part: he also posted a video of how he made it! Very impressive stuff.
This is the home of a true Trekkie. Line Rainville apparent spent $30,000 renovating her home to look like the original series Enterprise, complete with a living room that looks like the bridge, bed room, and bathroom. The attention to detail is phenomenal. You can read more about her Star Trek...
NASA has released some new Hubble deep field images (apparent done in conjunction with Spitzer), which once again goes to show that, in the immortal words of Douglas Adams, space is big… really big. These images show a vast number of galaxies (every point of light is, in fact, a galaxy)...
Gemini cricket! This is the first image of an extra-solar planet taken by the Gemini Planet Imager. It is a 10 million year old planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris, which is about 63 light years from Earth. Called Beta Pictoris b, the planet is a “super Jupiter” gas giant, several times the...
Happy New Year everyone! In case 2013 was all a blur, you can check out Google’s Zeitgeist 2013 for a nice short recap (although I was hoping to find a better retrospective, this was really all I could find).
Transcendence is a new movie coming out April of 2014, and seems to either be about AIs or transhumanism, or both. Probably both. Whatever the case, the teaser trail is narrated by Morgan Freeman. Which means it’s epic. Morgan Freeman could narrate paint drying and it would be epic. And...
Apparently, Google has acquired several robotics companies lately, most notably the famed robotics company Boston Dynamics. Boston Dynamics, for those who do not know, are famed for the creation of BigDog and several other quadruped robots, which quite frankly, are as impressive as they are unnerving. If you have never...
Check out this video ,”The World Outside My Window”, a time-lapses of Earth from the International Space Station. Epic. Beautiful. Majestic. And if you liked that one, you’ll also like this one, “All Alone in the Night”:
