Under development by the OceanGate company since May of this year, the Cyclops submersible is a five-person submarine designed to perform a variety of underwater tasks. That includes scouting for mineral and gas deposits, biological specimen collection, and salavage operations, all for less than the cost of existing ROV platforms.

The … Read More → "This 5-man mini-sub brings the deep ocean’s treasures within reach"

Japanese tattoo artist Kenji Alucky of Black Ink Power makes striking geometric tattoos using a distinctive stippling technique. Alucky is currently a guest artist at New York Adorned in … Read More → "Striking geometric stipple tattoos by Kenji Alucky"

As explained by John Meurling and Richard Jeans, authors of the Mobile Phone Book: The Invention of the Mobile Telephone Industry, Ericsson equipped his car with a phone that could hook into the telephone lines running along the side of the road — after he parked and Hilda pulled out her sticks.

“There were two long sticks, like fishing rods, handled by Hilda. She would hook them over a pair of … Read More → "The curious case of the 103-year-old car phone"

More and more evidence of feathered dinosaurs comes to light as scientists look in different places. Paleontologists in Canada began digging through large museum collections of amber searching for tiny pieces of feathers that no one would bother with before.

The researchers combed through thousands of minuscule amber nuggets from nearly 80 million years ago. Among them they found 11 M&M-sized globules with traces of ancient feathers and fuzz. … Read More → "Dinosaur feathers found in ancient amber"

No time to read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time? In just two and a half minutes, Alok Jha explains why black holes are doomed to shrink into nothingness then explode with the energy of a million nuclear bombs, and rewinds to the big bang and the origin of the universe.
via The Guardian

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Soaring through the clouds in 1925, passengers on an Imperial Airways flight traveling over Germany were treated to a brand new novelty—one of the first in-flight movies. Even more astounding? The film had live orchestral accompaniment. But not in the way you’re probably thinking.

No, Imperial didn’t cram the Berlin Philharmonic into stowage, … Read More → "The first in-flight movies had a live orchestra"

[T]he polymer behaves as if it was alive, always healing itself and has dubbed it a “terminator” polymer – a tribute to the shape-shifting, molten T-1000 terminator robot from the Terminator 2 film. It acts as a velcro-like sealant or adhesive, displaying an impressive 97% healing efficiency in just two hours and does not break when stretched manually.
via Geekologie

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Trinity Church is a beautiful little Russian Orthodox Church in Antarctica. It was built in the 1990s and is manned year-round. Atlas Obscura reports:

Artist and designer Jason Freeny has made “Operate,” a more scientifically accurate version of the classic Operation skill game. Jason sculpted an all new set of innards for Cavity Sam to be picked apart.</ … Read More → "A more scientifically accurate version of the game ‘Operation’"