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“The greatest mistake we can make in life is to be constantly in fear of making one.”

- Ellen Hubbard

NEWS: A Change.org petition satirically demands the restaurant and gift shop chain “Cracker Barrel” be renamed “Caucasian Barrel.”

Periscope is already great for showing strangers your lunch and pirating pay-per-view boxing matches, but Bangalore's police force wants the city's citizenry to use it for much more than that. If police commissioner MN Reddi gets his druthers, the pe...

Ithica. Cut paper, 20″ x 26″, 2015.

In an exquisite nexus of mathematics, art history, and technology, artist Eric Standley (previously) creates densely stacked layers of laser-cut paper to form sculptures reminiscent of Islamic architecture or Gothic rose windows. If you’ve followed the artist’s work here on Colossal it’s clear his understanding of geometry, shape and color as it applies to paper structures has expanded greatly over the last few years as his artworks grow increasingly intricate and detailed. The pieces have also grown in scale and depth with his latest pieces standing over two feet tall.

Standley currently has work on view at CODA Paper Art 2015 and at MOCA through August 16th, 2015. He also has numerous pieces currently available through Marta Hewett Gallery.

Ithica. Detail.

Agawam. Cut paper, 20″ x 26″, 2015.

Agawam, detail.

Agawam, detail.

Either/Or Circle 9.5.1. Cut paper. 20″ x 20″. 2015.

Either/Or Circle 9.5.1. Detail.

Either/Or Tetragon 7.2.3. Cut paper, watercolor, 8″ x 10″, 2015.

Otto Dieffenbach is famous for crafting drones that look like pop culture icons, and this one is no exception. Just in time for this year's Comic-Con, the self-described creator of "Identifiable Flying Objects" has created an R2-D2 model that can fly...

A Wisconsin photographer who goes by A Regular Tom Sawyer snapped this eye-popping photo of a camera-shy frog as it lept from a person’s palm causing a streak of motion out of the frame. Such amazing timing. (via Reddit)

The best part about the Segway craze is that it's now over. It's time for a ballin' new form of personal transportation like whatever the heck this thing is. Created by fabricator Izzy Swan, this machine is a strange mix of Segway and AT-ST. It uses ...

While Intel is finally getting its 14-nanometer sized chips out to the public, IBM today announced an even more impressive silicon breakthrough: The production of the first working 7nm chip. It's particularly impressive since it took years for chip m...

If you thought wearing a Google Glass headset was awkward, things could get even weirder. The Mountain View company was awarded a patent this week for tech that enables a Glass-like head-mounted display to automatically take pictures when it recogniz...

"Surfer" tube-shaped waves are created when a speedy fluid, like wind, moves over a sluggish one, like water. These so-called Kelvin-Helmholtz waves occur everywhere in the universe, as you can see in the image of Saturn's upper atmosphere, above. Th...

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Video:  Dog Steals Hose and Sprays His Owner

While walking through a public park in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France photographer Steve Hughes stumbled onto this fun installation of marigolds spilling from a giant paint tube. He says it was also accompanied by a large picture frame that was also filled with blooms. Good stuff. (via StreetArt Germany)

No, this is not a repeat from 1964. Congress has blocked a funding bill amendment that would have allowed the FDA to review and approve electronic cigarette brands before they hit market. Republican Andy Harris said, "I think most people realize that...

If you're still reeling from the disappointment of Tomorrowland, you'll be able to rekindle your faith in director Brad Bird this September when his debut feature returns to cinemas. The Iron Giant: Signature Edition will play in select theaters on S...

If you've seen the CGI remake of Thunderbirds, you might feel as if the glossy images have lost some of the charm of the puppet-fronted original. Filmmaker Stephen La Riviére agrees with you, which is why he's asking for our cash to produce an old-sc...

That is not our Moon.

You may think that self-driving cars are mostly useful for reducing accident rates and freeing your time, but they might just help save the environment, too. Berkeley Lab researchers have published a study determining that switching the transportatio...

Reuters reports that Time Warner Cable has been slapped with a hefty ($229,500) fine after hammering one of its own customers, Araceli King of Irving, Texas, with robo-calls. The cable company reportedly autodialed her 153 times in less than a year. ...

A recent exploratory study conducted by Time has found that 47 percent of middle-school and 61 percent of high-school-aged boys believe that female characters in video games are too often treated as sex objects. The survey was conducted to examine is...

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How to Climb a Hill

If there's one website that knows how to combine technology and savvy public relations stunts, it's PornHub. The company behind the WankBand is gearing up to launch another piece of hardware in the form of TwerkingButt, an adult toy that promises to ...

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Dang, Emily!

Who would have thought that the best way to improve Rocksteady's series of blockbuster Batman games would be to get rid of the caped crusader himself? Anybody who's watched the trailer for Batman: Arkham Knight's first DLC pack, that's who. The tease...

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In this cleverly crafted sci-fi comedy short film about a woman, a man and his quirky one-minute time machine, James gets all too trigger-happy with rewinding back in time while trying to swoon a beautiful woman at a park, all the while unaware of the gruesome consequences of his actions.

Star Trek fans have settled for toy prop replicas, DIY projects and the occasional off-brand (but functional) Starfleet comm-badge--but the age of compromise is almost over. In January of 2016, you'll finally be able to buy an official, screen-accura...

You'll frequently hear law enforcement complain that it can't break the full-drive encryption in newer smartphone operating systems, but how often do the police run into that problem, really? Thanks to a US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, you now...