Nevada likes eggplant. Oklahoma’s into ghosts. And Vermont is all about the poop. That’s the somewhat unscientific conclusions of SwiftKey, which decided to publicise its app by looking at the pattern of emoji use among its customers in different states. Contrary to some reports, the map above is not a depiction of the most popular […]
Comic Book Resources spotted the upcoming opening of the third officially licensed DC Comics Super Hero Cafe in Singapore. This is operated by a different company to the one already running two outlets in Malaysia and has a different take on the menu, including the amazing-looking Dark Knight Mini Wagyu BeefBurger. [Via: Comic Book Resources]
In the first of a new series, the iBookGuy explores how game designers managed to overcome the limitations of graphic capabilities in machines such as the NES and Commodore 64. [Spotted by: Laughing Squid]
Amazing promotional video for the upcoming game, filmed in 6K resolution at Green River, Utah.
Makers Brotherhood Workshop say this took around 200 hours to create, which appears to make it one of their most ambitious projects to date.
NASA has released 3D print files for making your own tiny version of the Curiosity Rover. The design is available in simple and complex versions, and is made up of eight unique pieces though some, like the wheels, are repeated in multiple units. The pieces come as individual files so as well as producing the standard sized-version, […]
Warner Bros is to produce a biographical drama titled SAGAN about the astronomer and host of Cosmos: A Personal Voyage who died in 1996. The Tracking Board site broke the news of the movie. The production staff will include Lynda Obst, who worked on last year’s Interstellar (which attempted to maintain scientific credibility to debatable […]
One of the most surprising elements of the music is the way playing the same notes in a different key can change our emotional response. That’s certainly the case with these ten horror themes which Ian Gordon has changed from a minor to major key.
Most kids come up with the idea of a space elevator, but one firm has been granted a patent on a way to make it work. Thoth Technology of Ontario says its 20 kilometer tower would primarily be a way to get people into space using 30 percent less fuel than launching from the ground. […]
While no doubt many readers fondly remember having a chemistry set as a kid, most of those on offer for children aren’t that exciting, thanks mainly to the obvious health and safety concerns. Now a successfully-funded Kickstarter project offers 40 of the “best experiments that science has to offer”, with almost all the chemicals needed […]