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Remember Google Glass? If not, I can’t blame you. It was a short-lived, futuristic device in the mid-2010s that was supposed to integrate a computer into eyeglasses, allowing you to perform searches and such wherever you went. The Glass died, partially because the technology just wasn’t there yet. Now, it is – and that’s becoming …
Continue reading “Chinese Universities Struggle with Students Using AI-Powered Eyeglasses to Cheat”
Egads! The bride said no and left the groom standing confounded at the altar. What a dramatic turn of events! This Utah groom-to-be probably wishes his beloved had just walked away like that instead of setting fire to the wedding venue. Lenita “Tessa” Joy Moreno, 25, has been arrested following a strange attempt to sabotage …
Continue reading “Utah Bride Uses a Tampon to Set Fire to the Venue the Day Before Her Wedding”
Life can get so difficult that it makes you feel like faking your death and running away from it all. Maybe you’re stuck in a horrible relationship, struggling with insurmountable financial problems, or facing another kind of life-changing calamity. That, or you just can’t help getting behind the wheel drunk, like this Chinese man. A …
Continue reading “Man Fakes His Death to Escape Drunk Driving Charges (And Goes to Jail Anyway)”
Picture a future where a robot would come to rescue people caught in a disaster. What would the robot look like? Maybe it could be soft and cuddly, like the Baymax robot from Disney’s Big Hero 6. Or maybe it could look like a caprine emissary of Satan. Californian robotics company Satyress has gone for …
Continue reading “Rescue Robot Looking Like a Demonic Goat Comes with Instructions for Killing It”
It really stinks when people make a mess and leave it for others to clean. In the case of St. Mary’s, it really, really stinks. This picturesque little Canadian town has struggled with a bizarre issue for the past two decades. At all times, St. Mary’s has reeked of putrid fish. The culprit behind the …
Continue reading “Canadian Town Will Be Free of Rotten Fish Stench After Two Decades”
Black holes, supervoids, galaxies you can’t even see because they’re made from dark matter, oh my! Things get really weird once you leave the solar system and venture into the abyss of space. That said, astronomers and other science nerds have done an admirable job of identifying and cataloging the universe. Yet they’ve only scratched …
Continue reading “Newly-found Space Thing Is So Weird, They Don’t Know What to Call It”
Where does your mind go if you think about the phrase “human refrigerator?” If you thought of a morgue, I wouldn’t blame you, but that’s not what this story is about. Instead, allow me to introduce you to Japan’s latest achievement in keeping yourself cool: the Do Hiemon Box personal refrigerator. This summer has been …
Continue reading “Japan Invents Creepy Human Refrigerators to Deal with Heat Waves”
The phrase “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” has become something of an internet meme in the past decade or so. When it was introduced in the ‘80s, though, it highlighted a real life-threatening situation for old folks. A situation this North Carolina woman found herself in. Joan Rivet is an 82-year-old lady who …
Continue reading “Elderly Woman Survives 9 Days Stuck in a Bathtub After Falling”
When you’re driving somewhere, most people are ready to take a shortcut. Even if the road has a few potholes, most drivers will take it despite its condition. But in rural Greece, motorists are braving one heck of a road to cut time out of their commute. Some years ago, a strong storm knocked a …
Continue reading “Greek Drivers Keep Using Collapsed Bridge to Save 20 Minutes on Their Commute”
What would you want to do with a cockroach? Most people would like to squash, smash, or burn the verminous pest, but scientists aren’t wired like that. Instead, a Japanese-led research team in Singapore has turned cockroaches into remote-operated brainless drones. By inserting probes into the roaches’ nervous systems, the scientists can pilot them around …
Continue reading “Scientists Develop Tiny Scuba Suits for Their Remote-Controlled Cockroach Zombies”