Unveiled last Friday, the Airlander is the world’s longest aircraft. Developed by Hybrid Air Vehicles, the 302-foot-long Airlander was once a candidate military craft called ”Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle,” until Pentagon budget cuts forced the U.S. Army to abandon the program. The Airlander resembles both a blimp and a Zeppelin, but it’s not quite either. Blimps have no rigid [...]

This 100m structure wasn’t the winner of the Çanakkale Antenna contest, a communications tower that will be built in Çanakkale, Turkey. A pioneering move to split the antenna in two became the creative technical solution to unlock the potential of giving visitors the unique opportunity to ascend to the very top of what would otherwise [...]

Desktop computers are slowly being phased out in favor of tablets and laptops, but for those who prefer the larger displays, along with the power, here are a few cool computer cases / mods to get you inspired. Starting off, we have a custom Imperial Walker AT-AT computer case that boasts plenty of LED lighting [...]

Vending machines – they’re not just for snacks anymore. Check out these 10 unique machines that dispense everything from fresh salads to crack pipes. Salad Vending Machine Forget junk food or candy bars – this vending machine sells only fresh salads. When 27-year-old Luke Saunders told his former boss he was turning down a substantial [...]

The Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego, Calif. The Hale Telescope, built by Caltech, has discovered distant objects at the edges of the known universe, given us the first direct evidence of stars in distant galaxies, and shown us thousands of asteroids. Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy This museum famously houses Galileo’s [...]

Google unveiled a new prototype Android smartphone that uses 3D vision to learn and map the world around it. It’s codenamed “Project Tango”, and according to Google, the “phone will learn the dimension of rooms and spaces just by being moved around inside of them – walking around your bedroom, for example, would help the [...]

Philips has just unveiled an innovative urban beehive that enables anyone to harvest fresh hone at home. The pod-like accessory attaches to a hole cut into a pane of glass, and once secured, you’ll be able to peer into the hive while the white entryway on the outside would allow the bees the freedom come [...]