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Is That a Banana in Your Stratosphere, or Are You Just Glad to See Me?

A French-Canadian artist is working on a plan to launch a gigantic banana-shaped blimp into orbit above the state of Texas. The project proposes a 300-meter, helium filled banana floated skywards, to...

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Venturer Shd7000: HD DVD on the Cheap

With all the recent buzz about how Blu-ray is leading HD DVD in the high definition “format war,” there’s a new wildcard that could shake things up. While Sony certainly has a leg up on the race with...

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Yay for Art!: Cloaca No 5 Machine Literally Produces Pieces of Crap

The fifth version of world-renowned artist Wim Delvoye’s sculpture is now on exhibit at the Université du Québec à Montréal’s gallery up until Valentine’s Day. Why should we care? Because his sculpture...

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Arduino Weather Clock Tells the Temperature, Not the Time

This kind of reminds me of the Weasley clock that was in Harry Potter, but there’s actually more to it than just the time. It can actually show you what the weather is like outside. I love how this...

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Combine Collective Mac Keyboard Tray Will Give You Wood

I am not a Mac user. I had a MacBook once but I used Windows on it and eventually tired of messing with Boot Camp and sold the thing. I have never felt the desire to own a Mac desktop, because I like...

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The Truth is In This Intersection

I want to believe that aliens live along these roads: Considering X-Files shot its first five seasons in Canada, I wouldn’t be surprised if there actually was a connection between the names of these...

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Imhotep Blows into New Brunswick, Canada

I’ve spent a fair share of my afternoons lying down on the grass and just staring at the clouds as they move gently across the sky, prodded along by the occasional breeze. My mom used to make me...

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New Airships to Hit Canada: A Bit of Fringe Up North

I’ve always enjoyed airships. They’ve been featured prominently in Fringe, in the other universe. It’s a shame that there aren’t more around, but that might not be for long. Hybrid Air Vehicles will be...

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Star Wars Identities: Darth Vader Does Rorschach

There’s a new exhibition featuring some pretty interesting Star Wars stuff coming to Canada in 2012. It’s called Star Wars: Identities. You will apparently get to know the characters of the Star Wars...

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iPad Used as Passport to Cross US Border

While the TSA and INS aren’t supposed to let you into the US without a real passport, that didn’t stop a Canadian man from using his iPad as a substitute for his passport, which he had forgotten at...

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Buyers Sold Clay Instead of iPads

How’d you like to plunk down $500 or more for a brand new iPad 2 to find out that you just bought yourself a box filled with clay? Apparently, at least ten customers were sold bogus boxes containing...

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Samsung Canada Gives Fan Custom Galaxy SIII for Viral Hit, Births Another...

Redditor Perma aka Shane is one lucky bastard. Samsung Canada gave him the “only customized SIII in Canada”, featuring Shane’s own drawing of a dinosaur. How did this happen? Simple. He just asked for...

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Space Invaders Light Installation is Exactly How I Picture the Invasion

This is how the end of the world begins. The landscape is filled with thousands of these glowing invaders. You can shoot and shoot, picking them off one by one, but they just keep coming in wave after...

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Gingerbread Millennium Falcon is Chewie, Literally.

If you want to make an amazing gingerbread house for the holidays this year, forget about making one that you might find in the woods. Make one that you would normally find in space, like this...

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Vulcan Ale: Brewed with Cold Hard Logic

Little known Star Trek fact. Spock finds human beer highly illogical and prefers his native Vulcan Ale. Now humans will get a chance to discover Spock’s favorite beverage. On May 1, Vulcan Ale, which...

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Edmonton, Canada Man Wants a 1,000-Foot Wolverine Statue

Detroit is working on a Robocop statue, so of course Edmonton, Canada wants their own statue now. Not just any statue, mind you. They want a 1,000 foot tall statue of Wolverine. If this keeps up we are...

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Molson Canadian Beer Fridge Locks out Anyone Not from Canada

Beer is one of the most popular adult beverages in the world. We might not all like our beer the same temperature, but few things make us happier than free beer. One Canadian beer company has set off...

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hitchBOT Tweets Adventures as it Hitches Rides across Canada

If you built a robot that was complex enough to be able to talk with people and then left it on the side of the road, you might expect to never see the robot again. A professor and colleagues from...

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UmbraCity Umbrella Sharing Service Has You Covered

Last August, the University of British Columbia (UBC) became the first location to have a semi-automated umbrella sharing service, thanks to a new company called UmbraCity. The photo below shows...

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Expect Crappy Service at the Poop Café

This new cafe in Toronto is the s**t! The Poop Café Dessert Bar is a brand new restaurant opening up in Toronto later this month. It is fantastically fecal. No really. Everything on the menu is brown...

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