The last Calvin and Hobbes strip was published way back in 1995, but the beloved comic still has legions of fans who pore over the book collections to relive the adventures of a young boy and his toy tiger. Digital designer and 3D artist Gabriel de Laubier took a classic Calvin and Hobbes strip and …

The Death Star toaster is a curious thing. It’s obviously modeled after Darth Vader’s deadly ride, but its form is restricted by the requirements of being a toaster, so it’s a truncated version of the usual Death Star sphere. No matter. Your Star Wars fandom allows some leeway when it comes to product design. What’s important here is that you …

SpaceX’s quest for a reusable rocket has been through many challenges, culminating in a triumphant landing of the Falcon 9 on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean earlier this year. The first four tries resulted in explosions, a fate that a cute drone version of the Falcon 9 manages to avoid. YouTuber user ajw61185, who also created a Star Wars …

Much like hit records earn awards, YouTube channels get special commemorative trophies for reaching subscriber milestones. The first of these is the Silver Play Button for racking up 100,000 subscribers. It’s silver-plated and personalized with the channel name. The Hydraulic Press Channel, a goofy channel dedicated to crushing things in a hydraulic press, recently received its Silver Play Button and …

Three original Ghostbusters and a Jedi walk into a hotel. It sounds like the setup for a bad joke, but it’s the premise behind a short mashup video that brings the phantasm-fighting world of “Ghostbusters” together with Star Wars. Related stories See ‘Ghostbusters’ director Paul Feig get slimed The clever mix of footage follows proton pack-wearing Egon Spengler, Peter Venkman …

If you’ve been eagerly awaiting the arrival of author H.P. Lovecraft’s deep-sea-dwelling tentacle-faced cosmic entity Cthulhu, you may want to hurry up and call the cult together. Cryptozoologists are excited about a weird shape seen on Google Earth in the ocean near Antarctica. It looks like a brown mass surrounded by swirling green-hued waters. YouTube user wowforreeel posted a video …

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is incredibly active on Twitter, where he’s argued against flat-Earthers and is behind a neverending series of humorous science tweets. Today, his Twitter feed is full of facts about rainbows. The messages are in honor of Sunday’s shooting victims at the gay night club Pulse in Orlando, Florida. Tyson’s first tweet on the topic reads, “The …

Remember that moment from “The Force Awakens” when you first saw Darth Vader’s destroyed helmet and all the memories from the first Star Wars trilogy and the Sith Lord’s heavy history mingled with the new film? You can recapture that feeling at home if you manage to buy one of Disney’s limited-edition replica props of Vader’s melted helmet. The helmet …

There are a lot of fictional worlds I would love to visit. Star Trek? Yes! Sunnydale? I’ll bring Mr. Pointy! “Labryinth?” I’ve got a good sense of direction. “The Shining?” No way. The classic Stanley Kubrick horror flick full of ghosts and madness is not my idea of a good vacation spot, but that hasn’t stopped me from stepping inside …

Earlier this month, an odd photo of a seemingly boring brick wall flummoxed a lot of people online as they tried to see just exactly what weird thing was going on in the image. If you’ve had enough of the wall, then it’s time to enjoy a much cuter optical illusion. There’s a cat that’s exciting the Internet by partially …