People are worried that Google Glass may be dead, but the idea of wearing a screen that beams images into your eye will live on in some way. Michael McAlpine has been working with a team at Princeton University to 3D-print contact lenses that are capable of displaying video, and together, they’ve developed a 5-layered prototype that actually works. […]
By 2014, the standard props used to depict alcohol consumption or cigarette smoking on set have been well-established within the film industry. But how do studios and producers handle scenes in which their shows’ characters have to light it up with some weed? Flavorwire has a fascinating piece that investigates that very question, and the […]
Remember back in second grade when you didn’t so much as hold hands with another kid cause he probably had cooties? Well, congratulations on getting over that fear, but now science says your cootie theory wasn’t totally invalid. Science Daily reports that as many as “80 million bacteria are transferred during a 10 second kiss,” […]
Erowid is a non-profit website that provides any and every resource they can get their hands on for altering your state of mind and trip balls. That includes a section for trip reports, and there are some pretty wild stories. Here are six of the craziest: SMOKING TEA No, seriously, this Erowid poster means smoking […]
If the idea of parallel universes blow your mind, then you might want to sit down while you read about this new mind-bending scientific theory: Scientists are proposing that not only are parallel universes real, but they are constantly interacting with each other. The “Many-Interacting Worlds” theory, by Griffith University scientists Howard Wiseman and Dr […]
A home at 2336 National Drive in Mill Basin. Number cruncher Ben Wellington of I Qaunt NY, used the same data points he used to determine which apartment in Manhattan is farthest from the subway (0.8 miles), to figure out the same for Brooklyn. According to his math, the property is “about 2.2 miles from the nearest […]
Absinthe is a pale green (sometimes clear) highly alcoholic anise-flavored liquor distilled from wormwood and herbs, famous for its purported mind-altering effects for artists such as Oscar Wilde and Van Gogh. It was banned, but lately has experienced a revival, and a century’s worth of lies and distortion has returned. Absinthe, even of the “ordinare” […]
Some physicists now believe that on an incredibly tiny scale 100 billion billion times smaller than a proton, everything may be moving. If this is true, then no particle could ever truly be located, as it is constantly in more than one place on an infinitesimal level. This means that the universe could be made up of […]
After spending 18 months in prison — 7 in solitary confinement — New York City police officer Gilberto “Cannibal Cop” Valle has been released from jail. Judge Paul G. Gardephe of the Federal District Court in Manhattan overturned Valle’s 2013 “kidnapping conspiracy” conviction this week, stating that there was no sufficient evidence the prove that Valle was actually planning on […]
“The future is now,” video games companies want us to believe. But if “now” is just the present, shouldn’t the real future be more impressive than Xboxes and PlayStations and Wiis? During Los Angeles’s annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, Echo Park gallery iam8bit launched an exhibition exploring “The Future of Gaming,” as illuminated by some of the […]
