WANT: Star Wars Hero RC BB-8 Droid With Follow Me Mode

A radio-controlled version of BB-8 with 3 modes (remote control, voice command, or follow me) featuring film-accurate lights and sounds (plus over 100 unique animations.) If you’ve always felt like you needed someone to talk to, this BB-8 is ready to listen. He reacts to 13 different words or phrases and simultaneously uses his motion […]



The Michelangelo of Microsoft Excel Painting [Video]

When Tatsuo Horiuchi retired, he decided to try his hand at art. But instead of spending money on paints and brushes, Horiuchi used what he already had pre-installed on his computerโ€”Microsoft Excel. Now, the 77-year-old artist is creating remarkably intricate digital masterpieces of the Japanese landscape, all on the free graphing software. [Great Big Story]



PPV Pirate ‘Was Just Playing’

Streaming copyrighted pay-per-view events is highly illegal. But one gamer found a cunning way to disguise his actions. Most movie studios and sports broadcasters use some sort of automated recognition system to find unauthorized streams of their material and issue a takedown notice to the site in question. This usually leads to uploaders using tricks […]

The Justice League Reacts To The “Avengers: Infinity War” Trailer [Video]

Maybe this video should be titled “The Flash Reacts to the Avengers: Infinity War” trailers” insted, but this is still funny. From DrMachakil: It’s time now for the Justice League to be impressed by the amazing trailer of Avengers Infinity War. I could not wait for the bluray to come out 😃 so I worked […]

DEAL: The New Complete Firefly 15th Anniversary Blu-ray Box Set is Cheaper Than Ever!

The 15th anniversary blu-ray box set of Firefly came out a few months ago, but now, Amazon has it for cheaper than ever! Airing on Fox in 2002-2003, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” creator Joss Whedon’s mix of sci-fi spectacle and Western drama followed the ragtag crew of the transport spaceship Serenity. Five hundred years in […]

Altered Carbon: When Death Becomes a Mere Inconvenience [New Netflix Series]

Based on the award-winning novel, Altered Carbon takes place in a future where the human mind can now be digitized and downloaded into a “cortical stack” and placed into new bodies, called sleeves. The series follows Envoy soldier Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman), who is brought back to life centuries later to investigate the attempted murder […]