This is a nearly funded Kickstarter for Ferrite Interactive Liquid Sculptures. They’re basically TMNT ooze canisters with a magnetic liquid ( ferrofluid ) suspended in another, clear liquid that you can manipulate to make cool shapes with external magnets . Contributing $100 gets you a mini one when (if) they’re manufactured next July, $150 a large one, and $200 scores one of each. You’ll have to watch the demonstration video after the jump though to fully appreciate them, just talking about them doesn’t really do them justice. But do you know who does do justice? My crime fighting alter-ego, Captain Handsome. Dashing, isn’t he? “That’s just you ducking behind a movie-theater cutout of that kid from Twilight .” It’s true. I used to have a Batman one but my roommate fought it and won. Hit the jump for the worthwhile video demo and a link to the Kickstarter page.

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Move Over, Swinging Ball Thingies!: Ferrofluid Interactive Magnetic Desk Sculptures

Picture related: future clothes. Scientists have developed a method of inexpensively creating cotton fabrics that clean and deodorize themselves when exposed to sunlight . That way, the next time somebody asks when was the last time you washed your jeans you can say honestly say NEVER — I’m grody as shit and I live in squalor! Mingce Long and Deyong Wu say that their fancy cotton fibers have a coating of titanium dioxide and nitrogen, that kills microbes and breaks down dirt when exposed to sunlight. Additional nanoparticles using silver and iodine are used to accelerate the discoloration process. They even claim that the coating is robust enough to withstand repeated washing and drying, although I thought the whole point was that you wouldn’t need to do that anymore. I mean, MAYBE. It might not be a bad idea for suits or t-shirts or something but they definitely shouldn’t make underwear out of it. I don’t care how long you hang a pair of boxers outside, that turd ain’t coming out till it rains. TRUST ME (I don’t have a washer). Toss out your washer, scientists invent self-cleaning clothes [dvice] Thanks to Rev Dr Dom and Luce, who wash their clothes the old fashioned way: in the river with a stick . Um, you do know some people still have to do that, right?

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Scientists Develop Self Cleaning/Deodorizing Clothes

This is a video of a pair of magic computer-viewing glasses made by removing the polarized film from an LCD computer monitor and applying it to a regular pair of spectacles . That way only you can see your monitor. Ooooooor get fired for staring at a blank screen eight hours a day. You don’t understand, boss, the screen isn’t actually blank — I was watching girls booty-dancing on Youtube. “That’s even worse.” What if I told you I was actually writing a blog on the clock? “As long as it’s not Geekologie.” *nervous laughter* Haha, that little-dick? No way man — I write celebrity gossip. Hit the jump for a short video of the glasses in action and a link to the Instructable to make your own.

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Bewbs!: Polarized Glasses For Private Computering

This is series of paint splatter superheroes by artist Arian Noveir. Now before you go running off to the comments to complain there’s no way you could splatter paint like that, don’t. They’re DIGITAL . Although you could probably recreate them IRL with the right amount of masking. You know, if a person put their mind to it they could actually accomplish a lot with some paint splatter. One time I even delivered a baby on a bus with nothing but my own two hands and a little paint splatter . Just kidding, it was baby juice and I passed out as soon as I saw the woman’s vagina, but you get the point. The point is I’m no doctor and it’s not always cool to pretend you’re one. Hit the jump for a bunch more including Wonder Woman, the Hulk, Hellboy, Darkwing Duck (jk jk), Spiderman, Wolverine, Thor and Superman.

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Eye Candy: Paint Splatter Superheroes

I know, I’ve already posted some before . This is the last one though, promise. Of course, I’ll probably get drunk over the weekend, forget I made any promises, and post like six next week. Promises: people get drunk and break them . The sooner you realize that the sooner you’re realize to stop taking anybody’s word seriously. Or ability to keep a secret. You really think your best friend keeps your secrets ? WRONG. She doesn’t even like you — she just wants to be close enough so that when you and your boyfriend break up so she can jump right in there and desecrate anything you thought your friendship ever meant. Oh I’m sorry, am I being too real? TOO BAD, I’M AS REAL AS THEY GET! Kidding, I’m a hologram like Zordon in Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers . “Zordon wasn’t a hologram, he was a wizard trapped in an interdimensional time warp by Rita Repulsa that just communicated with the Rangers via hologram.” You — wow . Just wow. Hit the jump for the video, if only for the first couple intense seconds.

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Last Guitar String Oscillation Video, Promise

Convinced your cat is musically inclined? You’re f***ing crazy. Regardless, you should still buy it a $23 Cat Scratch Turntable from SUCK UK, if only to provide me with some new Youtube content to watch. OMG, you’ve got to see this — this cat thinks it’s a DJ ! *screaming at computer* Hey — HEY CAT — YOU’RE A CAT, BRO, YOU CAN’T MIX MUSIC! I swear, cats can be so stupid. “…You were just trying to talk to one through a Youtube video.” I know, because he was being dumb! Hit the jump for a couple more product shots and a link to the purchase page.

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DJ Meow Mix: Scratching Turntables For Cats

Computer gamers have scored a decisive victory in the fight against AIDS after successfully unraveling the structure of a protein that helps viruses like HIV multiply using a competition-based game called Foldit. The hope is that with the structure now known, scientists will be able to determine where to best target the protein for the insertion of virus-crippling drugs. SHOOT FOR THE THERMAL EXHAUST PORT! Pharmacologists need a 3-D picture that “unfolds” the molecule and rotates it in order to reveal potential targets for drugs. This is where Foldit comes in. Developed in 2008 by the University of Washington, it is a video game in which gamers, divided into competing groups, compete to unfold chains of amino acids - the building blocks of proteins - using a set of online tools. To the astonishment of the scientists, the gamers produced an accurate model of the enzyme in just three weeks. It is believed to be the first time gamers have resolved a long-standing scientific problem. High-five, gamers! I’m actually about to get the platinum trophy for Fallout 3 tonight, so I know what it feels like to…write something completely unrelated and sound like a bragging @$$hole. It feels good. YOU CAN’T KEEP ME DOWN! Online gamers crack enzyme riddle [abcnews] and U.S. Gamers Crack Puzzle in AIDS Research that Stumped Scientists for Years [foxnews] Thanks to Orcbutt, Adrian J, Amber, comfort eagle, FloorMatt, Bradley and Mitchell, who’ve all cured thousands of hours of boredom with video games.

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Gamers, Now With More Helping Cure AIDS

Ever wanted to watch a time-lapse animation of tape hanging from a glass plate unravel all creepy freaky-deaky like? Of course you have — you’re sick in the head. Per (non-sandwich) artist Johan Rijpma: …I worked on this project for about 6 months. I tried many different compositions and then made a selection. A single composition could take more than 12 hours to develop/breakdown. (the spinning of the plate was done by hand, turnin the plate about 0,4 degree’s every 30 seconds, this meant i was standing in the wind and the rain for hours watching the tape “grow” and watching the sun come up/go down) Impressive, but you know what I’ve always wanted to watch? Grass grow . Like, really take the time and acid and just watch it . Kidding, but one time I did lay down a blanket at the park and try to spot dinosaurs in the clouds. It sucked, this sweet-ass velociraptor was just starting to form when a giant pig head came out of nowhere and swallowed it up. RUINED MY ENTIRE PICNIC. That and the ants. Did I mention there were ants? Apparently I laid down on top of an ant hill. And let me tell you — those lil dicks were all about some of my homemade potato salad. Plus biting my legs. I’ve hated all outdoors ever since. I don’t even open my apartment windows anymore, it’s that bad. One time a friend asked me to go for a walk to talk because his girlfriend had broken up with him and I told him to get over it and she was way out of his league anyways just so I wouldn’t have to go. Hit the jump for the video.

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Freaky Deaky ‘Tape Unraveling’ Time-Lapse

This is a series of time-lapse videos created by stitching together 14-years of high-res Hubble Space Telescope images to show the movement of stellar jets from young stars over that period. What’s a stellar jet? I’m partial to the SR-71 Blackbird! Fine, FINE — some actual astronomy: Herbig-Haro objects (HH) are small patches of nebulosity associated with newly born stars, and are formed when gas ejected by young stars collides with clouds of gas and dust nearby at speeds of several hundred kilometres per second. HH objects are transient phenomena, lasting not more than a few thousand years. They can evolve visibly over quite short timescales as they move rapidly away from their parent star into the gas clouds in interstellar space (the interstellar medium or ISM). Hubble Space Telescope observations reveal complex evolution of HH objects over a few years, as parts of them fade while others brighten as they collide with clumpy material in the interstellar medium. BOOYA — you can officially add ‘astronomer’ to the list of things you lie about being to impress girls at the bar. But you know what the best one is? NOT saying you’re the Geekologie Writer, I can tell you that right now. You’d be better off saying unemployed. Hit the jump for a bunch of short videos.

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Damn Outerspace, You Brootiful: Time-Lapse Hubble Telescope Videos Of Stellar Jets

Seen here looking suspiciously like the Batamaran (see what I did there? I combined bat and catamaran) I drew for part of my Bat-fan fiction (I’m doing it again!) graphic novel, Juliet Marine’s ‘Ghost’ stealth boat makes an appearance off the coast of New England. It floats on a layer of gas generated beneath it to reduce friction and cruise faster, up to 60MPH. Unless an engine’s leaking, then it floats on a layer of oil and dead birds. :/ Gregory Sancoff, president and chief executive officer of Juliet Marine, said the U.S. government is interested and his company is working with a defense contractor to build a 150-foot model. The friction reducing gas technology, called supercavitation, works by generating a low-pressure zone around the ship’s surface. The Ghost keeps a low radar profile the same way stealth planes do, by making the radar waves bounce off of its surface. Admittedly, I would captain one of those. And, okay, probably straight into a pier. Get it? Because it’s so stealth . I f***ing forgot I was even driving a boat! “Stealth” Boat Could Revolutionize Naval Warfare [nbcnews] Thanks to Jeff and Ferris, who agree the stealthiest boat isn’t a boat at all — it’s a sub. $5 footlongs FTW.

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Look Out Batboat, There’s A New Stealth Boat In Town! (Or, Okay, International Waters)