Watch, in 1,000 glorious frames per second, as this bald man throws a needle through a pane of glass. You can even skip to halfway through the video, if you are impatient, young Grasshopper.

Now, I can accept that Shaolin Monks are real, but seeing one throw a sewing needle through a pane of glass has completely altered my understanding of reality. I’m expecting by this time next week to see people shooting ki-balls in the street, and deadly monks stalking the average person like their shadow — and no less silently!

(via Neatorama)

The time has come for a member of the Fantastic Four, that stalwart superhero group. For several issues, Marvel comics has been ringing a death knell for someone in the quartet-soon-to-be trio, and today the speculation comes to an end with issue #587.

Spoiler lovers, read on.

Drugs are expensive. This is understandable. But I guess that when you really have to snort something, you really have to snort something. And now, people looking for a quick high — or, apparently, any kind of high as long as it’s a high — under their mom’s bathroom sink. Oh, yes. People are turning to bath salts. Calgon, take me away!

This is a movie. Let me say that again: this is a real movie. It has a director, it was put on film, it will presumably be in theaters at some point in the future. This is absolutely real; this is Rubber.

Written and directed by Quentin Dupieux, whom the internet may know better as the musician behind this music video, Rubber follows the inexplicable endowment of life to a tire named Robert and can apparently explode people at will. You know, like Scanners. That’s just about all you can discern from this enigmatic trailer. A quick trot around the internet turns up little more than references to screenings at festivals (Cannes, AFI) and an even more enigmatic plot synopsis. From Wikipedia:

In California, an audience watches a tyre through binoculars. The tyre is named Robert that has come to life. The tyre eventually starts going on a killing spree.

Given the look of the trailer, the set pieces, and the general insanity surrounding the movie, it’s clear that the producers are gunning for a cult hit. In this age of Troll 2, and Cowboys and Aliens, does Rubber have what it takes to get the geeky moviegoer dollar? Stay tuned, friends.

(via Topless Robot)

I missed this awesome casemod when it made the online rounds a while back, but thanks to the magic of Tumblr, I’ve discovered Ryan Luke Johns‘ clever iBoy design. As diagrammed above, it’s got the hardware of an iPod wrapped up in a classic Game Boy case, with a dock connector cleverly inserted such that the Game Boy buttons correspond to iPod functions.

The iBoy is an iPod case with an internal dock connector—allowing the user to control the iPod with the buttons of an outdated Game Boy. Complete with a functioning speaker, hold switch, and headphone port, the iBoy is a user-friendly theft-deterrent.

The iPod has evolved and segmented quite a bit since Johns designed the iBoy in 2006, but this would still look pretty boss with an iPod Classic.

(iBoy via It’s all for you via EPICponyz | Artist’s page)

Two years after the first Android device released, Google has released the Gingerbread update to their mobile Android operating system, with the just-announced Nexus S, codeveloped by Samsung and Google, to be the first device shipped with Gingerbread.

In a since-deleted post, Engadget wrote that some Nexus One users reported receiving the Gingerbread update as well; make of that what you will.

Update: Google straightens out the somewhat confusing wording of their initial release: “Not sure where Engadget is getting their reports. The Nexus One OTA isn’t happening just yet – should be coming in a few weeks.”

Last week, we mentioned that Google was set to launch its eBook store, named Google Editions, by the end of the year. A little sooner than expected, Google has launched the eBook store, named Google eBooks, with over three million eBooks available for the eReading pleasure of anyone who has a device that can access a web browser.

Tracy Morgan tells it like it is.  Love: and you thought it smelled bad on the outside.

(via Blastr.)

Last night Conan O’Brien treated us to a sneak preview of the songs and technology that have gone into the multimillion dollar Spider-Man musical, and boy does it shine. Man!Wonder Woman was a daring, avant garde choice, but mostly it was very effective comic book nerd trolling.

Retired French electrician Pierre Le Guennec revealed 271 previously unknown works of Picasso that he had sitting around in his garage, worth about $80 million. Though Le Guennec claims he legitimately received the pieces as gifts, the Picasso family is suing Le Guennec, claiming he stole the works.