Entries Tagged as 'sci-fi'

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

Dubai’s Futuristic Underwater Hotel

Would you stay in an hotel submerged below sea level? The architectural innovators over at Deep Ocean Technology have a conceptual design that is set to change the hotel industry and the vacationing experience in the Middle East. The Water Discus Underwater Hotel is designed as a modern and aquatic alternative to the mundane hotels [...]

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Alien Frustration

In space, no one can hear you scream….with frustration! This must be really hard for poor Ripley, Ash is on his last legs and you need to get some information from him before he becomes a jibbering, frothy mess. But it looks like he’s running a DOS operating system and has decided to go to [...]

Friday, March 30th, 2012

Neil deGrasse Tyson – We Stopped Dreaming

Why did we stop dreaming? More than anything we’ve gone and upset Neil deGrasse Tyson with our lack ambition to want to get to the stars and dance around with the astral bodies. You know, it’s not good enough, Neil’s on a major downer about it and when Neil’s down everybody’s down. So sort it [...]

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

The Stars as Viewed from the International Space Station

The earth sure does look purdy from up there in the cosmos, and this time-lapse video proves it–showing as it does the stars from low earth orbit as viewed from the International Space Station. All it needs is Carl Sagan’s soothing interplanetary ramblings over the top and it would be perfection.

Monday, March 12th, 2012

Robots That Fly… and Cooperate

Just in case your were coming down from your hysteria about how drone warfare will terrify us all with its automated killing, along comes a video like this that features the flying pieces cooperating with one another. Watch the vid then count how many bricks you shat.

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

Lana Del Rey’s ‘Hunger Games’

Lana Del Rey’s minor hit ‘Video Games’ that one or two of you may’ve seen gets reworked for The Hunger Games, which is a movie adapted from a “young adult” book about a future where boys and girls have to fight to death on live TV for our entertainment. As long as it doesn’t feature [...]

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

Michio Kaku: String Theory Is The Only Game In Town

Had your morning coffee? You might need to add a morning doobie to that routine and then you’ll be much more suited to inhaling this video into your brain. Where Dr. Michio Kaku discusses the most famous elementary particle in the world, the Higgs boson. If we don’t find it then the standard model, which [...]

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

We Got Scared

Yeah, we got scared, like a bunch of pussy-bellied yellow cowards from planet Gutless. And because we got scared we invented stories that we could latch onto and direct our mindless, unconditional belief in. And those stories grew and grew and the more people who believed in them the more they became true until enough [...]

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Nano Quadrotor Swarm

Experiments performed with a team of nano quadrotors at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania. If Cyberdyne Systems is going to appear anywhere, my money is on Pennsylvania. These cheeky little bots have been taught to fly in various formations and switch between those formations in three dimensions. It’s just a matter of time before [...]

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Richard Dawkins Disses Jesus

Richard Dawkins who’s made a late career for himself out of offending religious types takes them to task here, effectively using their own arm to beat them into submission by claiming that had Jesus existed and not been a fictional creation he’d have been an atheist. Not doubt Dawkins would’ve been his best buddy and [...]

Friday, December 9th, 2011

Keloid Trailer – A Short Film by BLR

They’ll be a time when the Singularity eventually hits and machines are able to rewrite their codes, better themselves, and eventually do away with us all together. Artificial intelligence theorist Eliezer S. Yudkowsky devised an experiment to test whether machines could reach such intelligence: keep the AI in a box and the only [...]

Sunday, December 4th, 2011

PS3: Insane Immersive Movie Experience

Wanna make your girlfriend think you are waay cooler than Johnny Depp? Watch as this guy’s room fills with water and turns into the good ship Black Pearl, sailing the ocean blue, with you as Captain jack! No SFX, no post production, no cuts, everything you see here was done 100% for real. In this [...]

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

ROSA

This has all you want from an epic sci-fi short. It’s set in a post-apocalyptic world where all natural life has disappeared and it has a cyborg (gynoid?) Rosa who has to save planet earth and fight for her survival. Hollywood has now come calling, so watch it before it gets ruined.

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Star Trek v Star Wars

Leave it to Captain Kirk to weigh in on the decades old debate about which was better: Star Trek or Star Wars? Both sides have their staunch defenders who’ll fight to the death to protect their precious sci-fi franchise. The only really mature way to settle the issue is for Shatner and Mark Hamill to [...]

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

Doctor Who – Cast & Crew Special

The cast and crew of Doctor Who perform like monkeys in front of the camera to celebrate David Tennant finally leaving and ending his over-hyped, child-at-Christmas performance of the Doctor. Just look how happy they all are in this clip, smiles as wide as the universe, even Mr Tennant himself is beaming with joy at [...]

Monday, August 8th, 2011

The “Don’t Blink” Cat

There is a myth of a cat, more terrifying than the tea party getting in to power, a cat who seems to glide through space-time like the laws of the universe were too base for it. It is a cat who defies any master who tries to control it. A cat they say was created [...]