World’s Strangest

@SadaoTurner posted this image of Olympics wi-fi police, who seek unauthorized wi-fi signals and shut them down. Why go through all that trouble? Because Olympic partner BT runs some 1,500 paid hotspots at the [...]

Perhaps Microsoft is trying to get its mojo back by turning back the clock, at least when it comes to Windows logo. Vlad Savov of The Verge noticed that the company’s newest Windows 8 logo looks very much like [...]

Remember the classic computer game Minesweeper? Korean design studio Connect design has ported that over into meatspace. Behold, the scratch Minesweeper post card that you "play" by scratching off squares with a coin. [...]

The beauty of email is that seconds after you hit "Send," it magically appears on the recipient’s inbox. But what happens in between? Google has created The Story of Send, which illustrates the journey made by the bits of Gmail data as [...]

Love sushi? Not as much as Japanese robotics company Suzumo (company motto: "we love rice"). The company made the world’s first sushi robot back in 1981, and now have a line of sushibots that [...]

Waldo may be good at hiding from you and me, but can he hide from computers? Stack Overflow user Heike used the power of Mathematica to come up with an algorithm that identifies the sneaky striped dude: Link [...]

A new study has revealed that we may be on the verge of an apocalyptic mass extinction event. The research suggests that should we fail to reverse the…

Scientists have determined that approximately 1.2 million years ago humans were on the verge of extinction. At this point in time there would have bee…

Astronomers say they are on the verge of discovering habitable Earth-like planets in orbit around distant stars. Leading scientists have claimed that …

Science has come a long way in the quest to help patients who are in need of replacement body parts but now research has placed us on the verge of…