Cool 3D illusion made with nothing more than Christmas lights laid flat on the floor

The animated gif below shows a pretty amazing 3D illusion created using nothing more than ordinary Christmas lights laid out on the floor. Viewed at the correct angle, the lights appear to be a three-dimensional box.

Cool 3D illusion made with nothing more than Christmas lights laid flat on the floor

Amazing Tomb Raider cosplay looks just like it came straight from the movie set

This is one of the best cosplays we’ve seen to date. Unfortunately, there were not a lot of pics released from the gig. In the cosplay below, meet “Reku” from Reku’s Cosplay Corner, cosplaying Lara Croft from Tombraider in a setting that looks like it came straight from the movie set.

Amazing Tomb Raider cosplay looks just like it came straight from the movie set

Legendary special makeup effects master creates magnificent steampunk Frankenstein Monster

63-year-old Rick Baker has been creating special makeup effects since his teenage days when he built artificial body parts in his parents’ kitchen. Baker has done work on films such as King Kong, Star Wars, The Howling, Planet of the Apes, Men in Black, X-Men and many, many more. The steampunk r...
Legendary special makeup effects master creates magnificent steampunk Frankenstein Monster

Lego savant creates drivable car, powered by compressed-air Lego pistons, entirely out of Legos

20-year-old Romanian Lego savant Raul Oaida has created a drivable car, that can travel at 12-17 MPH while carrying two people, entirely out of Legos! The car includes four radial engines with a total of 256 pistons that run off compressed air and was pieced together with 500,000 Lego blocks.

Lego savant creates drivable car, powered by compressed-air Lego pistons, entirely out of Legos

Target retail stores hacked - 40 million credit and debit card holder impacted

If you shopped at a Target store between November 27 and December 15, you might want to keep an eye on your credit card statements. Today, the retail chain acknowledged that a recent hack revealed the names, credit card numbers, expiration dates, and 3-digit security codes of “certain store c...
Target retail stores hacked - 40 million credit and debit card holder impacted

Wild picture - lightning storm in Nebraska

Not sure who snapped this one but it’s a beauty.  The picture is of lightning illuminated clouds during a thunderstorm in Nebraska.


Wild picture - lightning storm in Nebraska

Would you believe this realistic dog sitting in an entryway is really a picture painted on the floor?

In a December 2013 episode of Believe, Criss Angel showed the following illusion in one of his “reveal” segments. It’s a bizarre optical illusion that has to be seen to believe.

Would you believe this realistic dog sitting in an entryway is really a picture painted on the floor?

Video of huge trucks being dropped from military plane (followed by some drops that didn't go quite so well)

This awesome video below begins with “some big heavy trucks being dropped from a military plane in the middle of the night, huge machines, being launched at incredible speed!” The soldiers in the video are part of the 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment (the first U.S. combat paratrooper unit) and ...
Video of huge trucks being dropped from military plane (followed by some drops that didn't go quite so well)

This is what you get when you pour hot molten aluminum into an anthill and dig out the result

The guys over at Anthill Art are creating some very interesting art pieces by using molten aluminum to fill the vast tunnels and chambers of an ant nest. What you end up with is a beautifully intricate aluminum sculpture which is then mounted on a wooden base for display. Each piece is of...
This is what you get when you pour hot molten aluminum into an anthill and dig out the result

Schizophrenia artwork - a peek at the altered perception of reality as seen by schizophrenics

It’s one of the more bizarre brain disorders, schizophrenia, a challenging disorder that makes it difficult to distinguish between what is real and what is fantasy. People with schizophrenia have an altered perception of reality, and it shows in their artwork. Below are several works of art, r...
Schizophrenia artwork - a peek at the altered perception of reality as seen by schizophrenics

A magnificent collection of weird and wonderful trees

Arbol del Tule located in the town center of Santa Maria del Tule in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Believed to have the stoutest trunk of any tree in the world. DNA tests revealed that it is indeed a single tree. The Boab Prison Tree in Australia was used in the 1890′s to lockup...
A magnificent collection of weird and wonderful trees

4chan provide XBox One backward compatibility hack - hack really bricks system instead

Ah, those crazy goofs at 4chan are at it again, this time convincing noobs, who were trying to unlock a magical ability to run older Xbox games on their new Xbox One consoles, to follow a specific set of procedures that, in the end, bricks their Xbox One consoles. Now Microsoft has its hands...
4chan provide XBox One backward compatibility hack - hack really bricks system instead

Microsoft leads charge to curtail government surveillance of citizen's Internet activity

Microsoft is leading the charge in calling for governments around the world to use secret surveillance of Internet users only in accordance with specific, define legal processes. Microsoft, who counts amongst its allies AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yahoo, referred...
Microsoft leads charge to curtail government surveillance of citizen's Internet activity

Optical illusion - face turn picture

Stare at this picture long enough and you’ll see the man turn his face (this is a profile and front-facing view all-in-one).

Optical illusion - face turn picture

Deliveries by unmanned aircraft (UAV's or drones) - a reality in the making or head in the clouds idea?

When 60 Minutes broke the well-timed Cyber Monday story that Amazon intended to offer product deliveries with a 30-minute turnaround time using automated flying drones, people wondered, can this be true? Could drones be used to make personal deliveries to our homes? In short, yes, it can, and...
Deliveries by unmanned aircraft (UAV's or drones) - a reality in the making or head in the clouds idea?

Holy friggen cow - it IS possible to do a complete loop on a swingset!

So now we know. It IS possible to do a complete loop on a swingset. We’ve just been attempting it backwards this entire time. In the video below, a young lad (presumably from Russia) begins to swing on a rickety-looking swingset before finally getting high enough to do a complete loop – bac...
Holy friggen cow - it IS possible to do a complete loop on a swingset!

Evidence emerges suggesting hijacking of huge chunks of Internet traffic

Researchers from network intelligence firm Renesys published an assessment this week that documents dozens of distinct hijacking events within the last few months where huge chunks of Internet traffic were purposefully diverted through distant service providers leading them to speculate that the...
Evidence emerges suggesting hijacking of huge chunks of Internet traffic

AOL's kiss of death touches another - Winamp to shut down after 15 years

Started in 1997 by two college students, Winamp gained popularity as the MP3 player of choice for many geeks. Today, thanks to online competition and AOL’s inherent ability to ruin anything it touches, Winamp will be closing down on December 20, 2013. At that time, Winamp web services and...
AOL's kiss of death touches another - Winamp to shut down after 15 years

The Punisher cosplay photo shoot

The Punisher 2099 is a comic book series following the account of Jake Gallows (the Punisher) in the year 2099 in an alternate Marvel Universe.  The series ran from February 1993 through November 1995 with a total of 34 issues.  In this picture feature, Jeff Zoet does it again, this time with The Punisher cosplay photo shoot.  You can check out more of Jeff’s work at becomepopculture.com.

 

Courtesy: Jeff Zoet

 

The Punisher cosplay photo shoot