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Google Continues Plans For World Domination by Launching ISP Service

Google Continues Plans For World Domination by Launching ISP Service
What started off as a simple search engine has now transformed into the makings of Skynet (yeah I know you have heard it before). Today Google has announced that they are launching their own ISP service. That’s right Google has become the internet. Entitled Google Fiber (sounds more like a breakfast...
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Test Tube Babies 0, Sex 1

Test Tube Babies 0, Sex 1
Looks like Mother Nature is winning this battle. The more and more we attempt to reach the utopia set forth by Brave New World some sort of huge hurdle gets in the way of humanity playing mad scientists. After a study at Temple University, geneticists Carmen Sapienza found that being born in a test...
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Match Point: Ping Pong Playing Robot

Match Point: Ping Pong Playing Robot
Not only do our robot overlords want to take over our governments but, it looks like they are going to try to take over our “sports.” Built by Vietnamese scientists, this “iTerminator” looking robot is able to play ping pong successfully. Thankfully, us “meatbags”...
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HULC Super Soldier Suit Gets Upgrade

HULC Super Soldier Suit Gets Upgrade
It is an awesome thing when Comic Book and Science unintentionally collide to create military greatness. Imagine a company that is associated with the U.S. military, say Lockheed Martin, creates a robotic exoskeleton that makes a scrawny Steve Roger into a full blown Super Soldier. Oh by the way what...
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U.S. Scientists Want International Asteroid Defense Agency

U.S. Scientists Want International Asteroid Defense Agency
Remember how Russia was coming up with an asteroid or meteor defense plan reminicent to Armageddon? Well after the U.S. National Research Council (NRC) reported “Hey if the sky starts to fall we are all dead. We should do something,” U.S. Scientists are pushing for the international science...
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Doomsday Clock Moved Back A Minute

Doomsday Clock Moved Back A Minute
It is officially six minutes to midnight as the infamous Doomsday clock has been moved back 60-seconds. The often nerd referenced clock’s significants is due its representation of man’s own self destruction. What caused the Atomic Scientists to turn back the doomsaying timepiece? According...
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Playing Guitar Hero at Negative Temperatures

Playing Guitar Hero at Negative Temperatures
On the official Facebook fan page for Guitar Hero, Michael Galuszka played Guitar Hero III on his Macbook Pro in Solden, Austria at negative 20°C. That’s negative four degrees! How is this physically possible? I started doing a little bit of research to find out some very cool information about...
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Screw Adamantium! Give Me Wood!?!

Screw Adamantium! Give Me Wood!?!
This is not chalk! It's wood based synthetic bone! The total anti-comic book nerd bone replacement is here that has pirate enthusiast getting wood (pun intended). Wolverine would be pissed if he found that he can avoid an ass whooping via Magneto if he knew about this a new bone non-metal bone...
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Russia Wants to Save the World Armageddon Style

Russia Wants to Save the World Armageddon Style
It is the beginning of the new year and we are just 2 years away from the “end of days” prophesized in 2012. Celestial beings colliding with the planet is a common world ending theme scenario and none other than our Russian brothers want to be ready. Russian space officials want to create...
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Dealing with Simulation Sickness

Dealing with Simulation Sickness
  Are you affected by kinetosis? The majority of people are susceptible to this ailment, otherwise known as motion sickness. For some of us, it can be mildly debilitating to daily activity. In this article, I will specifically touch on the subject of simulator sickness – the motion sickness...
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