Ever wondered just what the hell color is? No? Not even when you’re really, really stoned? Of course you have, so let Colm Kelleher explain it in his TEDEd vid. It involves light waves and periodic motion and stuff, so probably best NOT to smoke a doobie before watching this as it’ll probably just end [...]

What kind of complete trouncing can Screen Junkies give the brain-warping, tease of a movie that is Inception? Well, quite a bit actually as you’d probably expect, because it’s ripe for the Honest Trailer treatment with its impossible to follow narrative and ridiculous character motivations. Inception, prepare to be assassinated.

You can keep your iPads and Galaxys, this is the tablet of the future. It’s a tablet (or many tablets) that are as thin and flexible as paper, so you can use lots of them together to link the screens and you bend the tablet to interact with the information displayed on the device. Sure, [...]

Mashups are a ubiquitous practice because digital technology makes it all so easy, but how about if you did a 16 track live mashup on a 23 year old Tascam 1” tape machine? You’d be pretty impressed with yourself, wouldn’t you? Ithaca Audio did just that to celebrate 50 years of the cassette tape, that [...]

Brilliant. These are the changes every YouTuber has been waiting for — instead of having to laboriously type out your intelligent, well-crafted, perfectly punctuated comments you can choose a comment from a drop down menu — all the faves are there — then just double click and you’re away. Incredible. And that’s just the beginning, [...]

In 1947 Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl took off on an expedition across the Pacific Ocean starting from South America and completing in the Polynesian Islands, a journey of 4,300 miles undertaken in a balsa wood raft called Kon-Tiki. It was an epic undertaking which was turned into a film by two Norwegian filmmakers — this [...]

Here’s another delicious dose of pictographic internet hilarity to help round out your week. Specially designed for the lazy web surfer, this gallery can be browsed using just your scroll wheel finger; simply scroll down, lol, then scroll down some more. Couldn’t be simpler!

This is how you deliver a responsible message to the kids, using foul-mouthed language to get it across to them. That way in amongst the expletives they’ll get the anti-drugs message that basslines are so much more rad than lines of ket. Sure, it might slightly terrify very young children as they hear Dizzy’s rasping [...]

When debuting your new piece of fancy kit, one thing you must avoid is electrostatic discharge–it gets us all in the end, but you don’t want it humiliating you when you’re trying to show off a new product, unless you’re moonlighting as a comedian. But sadly this guy isn’t, although maybe he should think about [...]

You know what’s annoying about being on a fuckin’ cruise ship? Fuckin’ everything, and this guy fuckin’ knows that only too well. So off he goes and gives us all the grand fuckin’ tour, punctuating his introduction of everything with the word “fuckin’” because it makes everything sound infinitely cooler and much more hilarious than [...]

If you saw the latest Batman movie then you’ll probably fall into one of two camps. You either thought it was a fitting end to Nolan’s brooding trilogy or you sat there picking holes in the plot because you have a complete ineptitude to suspend your disbelief when it comes to a movie about a [...]