Tomorrowland review
Production designer Scott Chambliss riffs off the style of Disneyland and architect Santiago Calatrava to create a retro-future world that captures the essence of the 1960s space race aesthetic at a glance. Bird's camera captures it with the wandering ...
The Blub Uno tube clock is the coolest, most inefficient way to tell time
Sydney-based designer Duncan Hellmers is using Kickstarter to fund his retro Blub Uno tube clock, and despite its somewhat muculent name, it looks pretty cool. The USB-powered clock is made of a single Nixie tube — a cold-cathode tube introduced in ...
Charles H. Townes, Who Paved Way for the Laser in Daily Life, Dies at 99
verified Einstein's cosmological theories, discovered ammonia molecules at the center of the Milky Way and created an atomic clock that measured time to within one second in 300 years. He moved easily from lab to classroom to government policy ...
Think Retro: Bring back the Flying Toasters
Sometimes, things don't strike you as unusual until you come to explain them to someone else. I have a young cousin, for example—young enough that she uses #yolo apparently without irony—and I suspect if I tried to explain to her that, for a period ...
Ascension review: no future
SyFy is known for spinning off popular movies, or beating viewers into submission with Dadaist pulp like Sharknado, but its new miniseries Ascension starts with a brilliant premise. What if Project Orion, a '50s research program bent on launching ...
The Knowledge, London's Legendary Taxi-Driver Test, Puts Up a Fight in the Age ...
In his dining room, there were three maps: two jumbo London street plans — one laminated on the dinner table and one tacked to the wall — and an enlarged view of the W1 postcode, the bustling zone which stretches south from Marylebone to Piccadilly ...
City traders make new recruit eat 8 quarter pounders
The video begins with the 23-year-old victim sitting at his desk with boxes of McDonald's burgers piled up next to him. Wearing casual Obviously starting to feel unwell, he holds his head in his hands as he tries to regain his composure with the ...