Entries Tagged as 'cool'

Sunday, February 23rd, 2014

PBS Off Book Explores the New Rules of Robot/Human Society

Robots being integrated into human society on a day-to-day level is often the musings of science-fiction, but as robotics and AI become ever more advanced, we have to consider the ethical implications that arise from having robots as part of our communities and interacting with us. This PBS Off Book episode is an insightful and [...]

Friday, February 21st, 2014

Megaman Gigamix Fan Opening

If you’re a fan of a comic and you made an animated opening for a hypothetical cartoon of it and you were all excited for it, chances are you’d show your friends who’d politely say how mega-awesome it was before it was resigned to the bin of internet history—but one fan, known as Panman, made [...]

Friday, February 21st, 2014

Giant Wind-Up Bots Take Over Buenos Aires

When the technological singularity comes and Skynet goes sentient, if it looks as harmless as this with shuffling, wind-up bots leisurely plodding along then bring it on—this would make the world a much more enjoyable place, you could just park your ass on a bench and watch the world go by like you were in [...]

Friday, February 21st, 2014

Lessons In Ruthlessness From Frank Underwood

If you’re thinking of getting into politics, nothing will put you off like the character of Frank Underwood from House of Cards—the man is as ruthless as they come, bad to the bone, so if you were still keen to enter the world of Washington’s politicians after seeing him in action, then you might want [...]

Friday, February 21st, 2014

Street Fighter Red Tape: Ryu

No doubt you misspent a lot of your youth playing SF2 and screaming at the TV—one of the big take-aways from the game was the stuff the characters said when they unleashed their special moves. If you wanted to reenact the moves with your friends, you just had to shout out, say, hadouken too. But [...]

Thursday, February 20th, 2014

YouTube Comment Reconstruction #8 – “Lil Kim Explains Her Beef With Nicki Minaj”

It’s not enough that female rappers Lil Kim and Nicki Minaj have a massive beef with one another—if they hate each other then so must their fans hate on each other too, and in this thespy reconstruction two superfans on opposing teams, joshhmarsh’ and ‘blackmagictj’, go toe-to-toe fighting out just who is the better rapper. [...]

Wednesday, February 19th, 2014

Pogo – Willy Wonka Remix

Everyone’s favorite Gene Wilder film about a little boy and a chocolate factory and everyone’s favorite movie remix artist team up to wow your brain with another masterfully crafted song, this time created from both visual and aural elements of 1971’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory—it’s a process which takes Pogo 3 weeks [...]

Wednesday, February 19th, 2014

Kate Upton in Zero Gravity

Anything Sandra Bullock can do, Kate Upton can do better—but she’ll do it in a tiny bikini and she’ll do it for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and hopefully she won’t get lost in space, but you can get lost in the majesty of her glorious celestial body in zero gravity, which is important for [...]

Wednesday, February 19th, 2014

Pharrell Mashup (Happy Get Lucky) – Pomplamoose

Californian multi-instrumentalists Pomplamoose take two Pharrell tracks and mix them all up, taking chords from “Get Lucky” and vocals from “Happy” and vice versa and putting them all in a musical blender until you get the track above where you don’t know what’s what but you know you’re enjoying it.

Monday, February 17th, 2014

BADGERFIELD 4: Thomas the Dank Engine

If there was ever a train equivalent of Chuck Norris, this is it, in the video game world anyway—watch in awe as 64 Battlefield Players try to stop it whilst it plows through tank after tank and laughs in the face of military helicopters firing missile after missile, nothing will stop it reaching its destination, [...]

Monday, February 17th, 2014

Race Driver David Hauser’s Insane Hill Climb

Who needs Formula 1 when you have this kind of craziness—so jump onboard with skilled racer David Hauser, who rides a Dallara GP2 as he zooms along at the Course de côte de St. Ursanne at the European Hillclimb Championship in an insane high speed run which is terrifying enough just watching it on the [...]