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• Futuristic Face-Hacking Technique Transforms A Person's Face Into Amazing Digital Masks If you wanted some insight into what the future of live performance might be like in, say, 10 years time, then this video should give you some indication. It's the second video by Nobumichi Asai showi...
• How Facebook Will Use Solar-Powered Drones To Beam The Internet To Rural Communities Earlier this year Facebook tested its solar-powered internet-delivering drone called Aquila, which has a bigger wingspan than a Boeing 737. The plan, unveiled back in 2015, aims to deliver the interne...
• Driving A $500,000 Singer-Customized Porsche 911 Looks Like A Dream Come True It doesn't come cheap (between $200,000 to $600,000) and can take up to half a year to do, but a bespoke Singer 911 is no doubt worth it—well, if you have the time and, more importantly, the money. Si...
• Robot Mecha Cat Is Very Cute And Friendly—Unless You're Unkind To Animals People who are unkind to animals are obviously total a-holes and they also better watch their back—because robot cat might them down and seek retribution for what they've done. Well, if he was real, t...
• Time To Take A Tour Of The Deep Web, A Hidden Marketplace To Buy Guns And Drugs Using the deep web is a bit like crossing over to the dark side (well, dark web), suddenly all the rules and that govern your normal everyday web experience cease to exist and you find yourself in a v...
• Dubai Will Get The World's First Passenger-Based Hyperloop System And It Will Look Like This Hyperloop One could be coming to Dubai. Elon Musk's futuristic pod-based supersonic transport system which transports passengers at at an average speed of around 600mph (Musk said "it could take passe...
• This Rotary Dial Cell Phone Is A Totally Impractical But Totally Brilliant Take On A Retro Classic Remember rotary telephones? Your answer to that question will be a telling sign of your age. For some people they were the latest technology (although that would've been over 100 years ago), for other...
• Turn Your Smartphone Into A Hologram Using An Old CD Case And Some Adhesive Tape (Honest) The great thing about the internet is that whenever something new and amazing comes along and it trends, chances are you are going to hear about it pretty damn quick and share it with your friends and...
• Amazing Ink Mapping Turns Tattoos Into Moving Images, Bringing Static Body Art To Animated Life Tattoos have been decorating the human body since Neolithic times, but it's only very recently that they've been able to move, thanks to a video mapping project by Portuguese artists Oskar & Gaspar. T...
• The iPhone 8 Rumors Are Already Here And It Looks Like Wireless Charging Is Coming Your shiny new iPhone 7 probably has that new-phone feel to it still, but don't get too attached to it because the iPhone 8 rumors are already coming thick and fast. To be fair they've been flying aro...
• This Is How We Could Terraform Mars And Make It A Second Earth As the population of earth continues to soar and as resources get increasingly depleted—and if climate change makes less and less of the planet habitable—chances are we're going to need a new planet t...
• You Don't Have To Be Mad To Write Sci-Fi, But It's Not Going To Do Any Harm If You Are Sci-fi authors always get a lot of stick for being crazy, just because they explore imaginative worlds that are essentially a refracted speculation of our own. Perhaps it's a bit of a cliche to say th...
• Listen To Plants 'Talk' With A Device That Translates Their Electrical Signals Into Sounds (Yes, It's True) That plant that sits silently on your window shelf, it might not actually be so silent. In fact it's quite possibly trying to tell you all kinds of things, it's just you haven't got the right tools to...
• Unexplained Signals From Space Could Possibly Be Aliens—Might Not Be Though—Scientists Claim It seems every other month scientists have discovered a strange signal or anomaly in space they can't explain which is then attributed to aliens. In fairness to the scientists, they usually state alie...
• The Incredible Tron Rollercoaster At The Shanghai Disneyland Lets You Finally Ride A Lightcycle If you've seen 1982 classic sci-fi movie TRON then you have probably fell in love with and always wanted to ride one of those lightcycles that look so badass, and that appeared again in the 2010 seque...
• Asgardia Will Be The First Space Nation, And You Can Sign Up To Be A Citizen It sounds like something from science fiction but, it could become science fact, although not for some time. It's called Asgardia and it will be a nation state in space, the first, and will welcome an...
• Amazing Photoshopped Drone Photos Turn A City Into Trippy Inception Scenes These images by Turkish photographer Aydın Büyüktaş may look like they're from 2010's Inception but the inspiration for them actually goes a lot further back. Büyüktaş was inspired by 19th century wri...
• President Barack Obama Speaks About Out Being A Trekkie And The True Value of Star Trek It's no secret that President Obama is a sci-fi fan. As a sort of nod to this he recently guest-edited a special Frontiers' issue of Wired magazine. In it he revealed his favorite sci-fi movies and he...
• Aerospace Startup Wants To Fly Passengers Into Space Four Times A Day, Five Days A Week How does four daily round-trip flights to space, five days a week sound? Does it sound like something from the distant future? Something that will cost at least an arm and a leg to participate in, eve...
• 'HELP!' Is A Scary And Immersive 360 Degree Live Action Film Directed By Fast & Furious' Justin Lin Virtual reality isn't just about gaming you know. It's in the process of shaking up the movie experience too, and one place where you can see its potential is in Google’s Spotlight Stories. For the se...

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