In a year haunted by Zoom calls, wifi issues and working-from-home fatigue, this father has created the perfect Halloween costume to channel his Covid frustrations. Crafty father-of-two Greg Dietzenbach, 42, from Marion, Iowa, designed and built a ‘killer Zoom meeting’ costume for his 12-year-old daughter, Ada. The costume is a replica of a zoom meeting … Read more
A Georgia film studio has created a new 235-acre town for its workers, boasting its own school, shopping mall, fitness studio and homes for 5,000 people. Trilith, which is set just outside of Atlanta, is said to be inspired by Seaside in Florida, a New Urbanist planned community which became the filming site for The Truman … Read more
A Georgia film studio has created a new 235-acre town for its workers, boasting its own school, shopping mall and homes for 5,000 people. Trilith, which is set just outside of Atlanta, is said to be inspired by Seaside in Florida, a New Urbanist planned community which became the filming site for The Truman Show. The … Read more
A popular YouTuber has created the first functioning lightsaber, using propane gas burning at around 4,000°C to create a retractable plasma beam. Canadian James Hobson, known as ‘the Hacksmith’, has a following of ten million subscribers and works on turning popular science fiction items into reality. Inspired by a love of Star Wars, he has previously made … Read more
A popular YouTuber has created the first functioning lightsaber, using propane gas burning at around 4,000°C to create a retractable plasma beam. Canadian James Hobson, known as ‘the Hacksmith’, has a following of ten million subscribers and works on turning popular science fiction items into reality. Inspired by a love of Star Wars, he has previously made … Read more
All tied up! Artist creates stunning portraits of stars including Adele and Heath Ledger by weaving THREAD between nails on canvas Konstantin Khlanta, 27, from Tula, Russia, creates string art portraits of people Figures such as Adele, Avril Lavigne and even The Joker were recreated by him Unlike other string artists, Konstantin says he doesn’t create … Read more
A state-controlled TV network in Russia created a parody video that portrays Donald Trump as Vladimir Putin’s pawn using quotes from the US president himself. Russia Today released its spoofy ad, entitled ‘Trump is here to make RT Great Again! (or is he?!)’ on Tuesday. The video set in November 2020 imagines a world where … Read more
There are a lot of live wallpaper apps out there but if you’re a Samsung user and you prefer to have them a bit more customizable and creative, the Samsung Wonderland is a nifty one to have. It is part of the Good Lock module and is a free app that lets you add parallax … Read more
Since most people probably already carry a smartphone with them wherever they go, technology plays a huge part in helping governments do contact tracing. Apple and Google previously launched a joint system that would help with that, but the agencies still had to create their own app built on that. Now the two tech giants … Read more
An engineered created ‘AI Clone of Jesus’ by feeding artificial intelligence the King James Bible, resulting in interesting and somewhat horrifying scriptures. George Durendal used a natural-language processing system to replicate the ancient words without exactly copying the text. The technology was programmed to write about three topics: ‘the plague,’ ‘Caesar,’ and the end of … Read more