If you have spectacularly good eyesight, the highest pixel-density you can see is about 500 pixels-per-inch (ppi). But that trifling little detail isn't stopping display manufacturers and marketers, no sir! Sharp just revealed an iPhone 4s-sized...

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The team over at Zurich-based Schönstaub released this great series of rugs and bath towels adorned with various photos of nebulae. The the 100% cotton towels are available through their shop and the rugs appear to be made to order. (via This Isn’t Happiness)

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Atlas is back. While the robot itself may be from Google-owned Boston Dynamics, the balance algorithm is from IHMC (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition) who's worked with the robotics company to get the six foot two biped walking better. IHMC...

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1929 Bentley Speed Six Coupe “Blue Train Bentley”. 6.75 litre, twin-turbocharged V8 engine, 450bhp. Top speed: 168mph. 0-60 in 5.5 seconds. Famous for beating a train in a race from Cannes to Calais.

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so, we’re doing a charity 5k up in LA on sunday. it’s a friendly competition between ucla and usc - we’re a bruin team, phil’s alma mater.

if anyone would like to sponsor us via a donation, i and the folks at the special olympics sure would be appreciative. :o)

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This morning at 16:03 GMT, history was made as the European Space Agency’s Philae probe successfully landed on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Rosetta is the first space mission to land on a comet and the first to follow it around the Sun.

The mission has been unfolding in real time on the ESA’s Flickr stream.

Update Nov. 13: Philae has relayed a picture from the surface!

The image below is of the landing site, shortly before landing.

The full image shows the landing site in detail, with a resolution of 3m per pixel.

The probe was launched in March 2004, and using Mars as a gravity slingshot, in 2007 Rosetta hurtled towards a rendezvous with comet 67P. Here’s a selfie that Rosetta took as it passed Mars:

Rosetta approached, orbited and landed on Comet 67P, examining the surface to discover towering cliffs and dunes. The lander took a farewell picture of the Rosetta orbiter as it descended (the orbiter returned the favor):

The descent to the surface was a tense seven hours, and towards the end, problems were detected with the top thruster that counteracted the momentum of the landing harpoons. At 16:03 GMT, a signal was received on Earth that Philae had landed, which led to scenes of jubilation at ESA mission control and all over the world.

Philae is currently relaying panoramic images from the surface of the comet back to Earth, and we will update this post as soon as they are public. In the meantime, please check out the European Space Agency’s photostream and their collection of incredible images from The Rosetta Mission.

Twisted laser beams have been used to send up to 2.5 terabits per second of data over fiber-optic cables, but the technique has never been worked very well over the air. Researchers in Vienna managed to use those bizarro quantum laser properties,...

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This stunning illuminated bike path in Nuenen, Netherlands was just unveiled tonight by Studio Roosegaarde, an innovative social design lab that has risen to prominence for their explorations at the intersection of people, art, public space, and technology; most notably their research with Smart Highways that could potentially charge moving cars or intelligently alert drivers to hazards. The swirling patterns used on the kilometer-long Van Gogh-Roosegaarde Bicycle Path were inspired by painter Vincent van Gogh (who lived in Nuenen from 1883 to 1885), and is lit at night by both special paint that charges in daylight and embedded LEDs that are powered by a nearby solar array. You can read more about the project over on Dezeen.

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#downtown #losangeles #california #morning #walk #marvista #clouds (at Mar Vista Stairs)

While in college, artist John Bisbee was scavaging in an abandoned house looking for items to incorporate into a series of found-object sculptures when he kicked over a bucket of old rusty nails. To his astonishment, the nails had fused together into a bucket-shaped hunk of metal. He had an epiphany. Bisbee has since spent nearly 30 years using nails as his sole medium to create geometric sculptures, organic installations, and unwieldy objects from thousands of nails that are hammered, bent, welded, or fastened together in a seemingly limitless procession of forms. His mantra: “Only nails, always different.” He shares with American Craft, “A nail, like a line, can and will do almost anything. What can’t you draw with a line? The nail is just my line.”

Bisbee is currently an artist in residence at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and had an exhibition at Shelburne Museum earlier this year. He was recently profiled in American Craft’s Material Crush issue featuring 30 artists working in unusual mediums, almost half of which have been featured right here on Colossal. Definitely worth a look. (via American Craft)

The Solar Dynamics Observatory just released this amazing timelapse created from 17,000 images of the sun taken late last month. The bright spot you see gradually passing from right to left is sunspot AR 2192, the largest observed sunspot in 22 years. It measures 80,000 miles across or roughly the width of 10 Earths side by side. Definitely recommend watching it full-screen. (via Kottke)

The artist Kat O’ Sullivan has been creating upcycled sweaters and clothing for over 20 years. “It seems like anything within my grasp ends up painted a million colors,” she says. And this statement certainly held true when the artist decided to purchase a home in upstate New York that had been built in 1840. “I just thought it was cute,” explains Sullivan, but “it was the kind of house you would drive by and never notice.”

But once in the hands of the artist and her “creative mayhem” the home quickly began to change. After a trip to the local paint shop – “give me one of everything!” – Sullivan spent countless hours painting and renovating until the home looked like a psychedelic rainbow complete with oddly shaped windows, eyes and a big mouth. But “Calico,” as Sullivan calls her home, is an eternal work in progress. “It will only get weirder.”

You can keep up with Sullivan and her psychedelic home on Facebook or on Etsy, where she sells sweaters and tutorials on how to make her sweaters. (via Designboom)

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As a recent South Park episode suggests, Parrot and DJI are the two most recognizable names in the consumer drone market right now, but they are about to face a new contender. Merely three months ago, we met Ehang who showed off its heavy-duty...

Kissing bugs in the U.S. have been found to carry a disease-causing parasite.

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