We love cars. Cars have made our lives simpler and easier to manage. We can go longer distances, run errands faster, complete daily tasks quicker, and are able to get from A to B in a shorter amount of time. Simply put, for the majority of us, life would not be the same without our vehicles. Nonetheless, just like everything else in life, cars don’t last forever and as a result, we end up buying a newer vehicle and abandoning the older one in our backyards, etc. This is when nature takes over and turns vehicles into an art-like creation. Discover their beauty with these 10 car photographs below. Thanks…

Optical illusions are often fanciful diversions that keep us keen to the fact that our own minds can not only be tricked, but often tricks itself. Some illusions are so mind-blowing that we try with all of our mental capacities to see reality, but we struggle to convince our minds that what we’re seeing isn’t actually what it appears to be. One of our favorites is the shaded shield illusion. Thanks to a phenomenon known as brightness constancy, we look at the shield above and assume that the area being pointed to by the green arrow is a lighter shade of grey than the area being pointed to by the blue arrow….

We normally don’t look at cooking as a way to generate tech discussions or exemplify geek awesomeness, but this sort of cooking does the trick. Fans of the game Portal should be very familiar with the concept of “the cake’s a lie.” If you played the game, you probably cannot look at cake (or the promise of it) the same as you once did. This cake was baked by Mike’s Amazing Cakes and their portfolio of creatively conceived delicacies is impressive to say the least. At first glance of the image above, one would probably think that it’s a cool plastic or metal replica of the gaming icon, but as you see below,…

If you ask older people today, many would use phrases of disappointment akin to “weeping for the future” or “I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.” The perception of the future for the younger generation isn’t much different; cynicism is strong and our future doesn’t seem as bright as it once did. There is, however, a concept that may or may not be true but should make us smile nonetheless. From Reddit, here’s a vision of 2057 that appears closer to reality than most others we’ve seen lately. (H/T: La Canada Audi)…

Few things are more epic than this. You know the unmasked people, but can you guess which ones are Darth Vader, Chewbacca, and R2D2? If not, you probably shouldn’t be reading this blog. A certain level of “geek cred” is necessary to appreciate how awesome this image from Star Wars truly is….