Star Trek's Warp Drive Effect Through the Years

Posted by Lupin IV | 04 September 2010

One of the most striking things about the new Star Trek movie captained by J. J. Abrams is the way the warp drives of the ships just popped. It was a lot more forceful than the way Star Trek vessels traditionally went into warp, with a whining hum and a bunch of strechted-out lights.

Don't take my word for it, though — check it out in the video above. All of the warp drive effects, from the beginning to the present.

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Photo Booths use Instant Plastic Surgery to Make You Cuter

Posted by Denkeeper | 03 September 2010

[Found this one on Dvice. I wish my iPhone could do this. Haha.]

Once again Japanese schoolgirls are popularizing bleeding-edge technology, this time via Japan's latest photo booths that zap anyone with instant photoshop magic designed to make even the homeliest poser cute as a puppy.

Known as purikura ("print club") machines in Japan, the photo booths are as common as karaoke boxes in the country, but the latest versions widen your eyes and lighten your skin for an effect that looks like the work of a plastic surgeon with an anime fetish. The transformation is so effective one news show tried it on a photo of the Mona Lisa with startlingly effective results (see the "blasphemy in the service of cuteness" in the video above).

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Epic Fail - Asians Can Do No Wrong!

Posted by Lupin IV | 11 August 2010

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Watermelons + 10,000 Volts of Electricity = Awesome Explosions

Posted by Denkeeper | 30 July 2010

What happens when you pump a whopping 10,000 volts of juice into a helpless watermelon? Instant watermelon salad, that's what. You'll just need to gather up the pieces from the blast radius.

Is this a waste of both electricity and perfectly good watermelons? Maybe. But if it was done in the name of science, was it really a waste? What about if it was just done in the name of seeing fun explosions?

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