There's something truly refreshing about 8-bit artistry. It really does harken back to a time when video game artists were able to create some pretty damn amazing stuff when faced with some very real barriers.

More than a decade ago, long before your fancy 32-bit color palette, computers could only display 256 colors at a time and techniques like color cycling were employed to provide an optical illusion that made rivers appear to be moving and flames appear to flicker.

The compliment to a perfect visceral and visual experience - like Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption - is often times the perfect score. This clip gives us an inside view to what it's like building a dynamic and meaningful score into a video game.

Even wonder what a lightning strike looks like in slo-mo? This is some great footage of a strike captured at a high frame rate.. Looks amazing.

Here's a great mashup of all your favorite 8-bit video game baddies (plus a little bonus Portal thrown in for good measure) and some extreme sports.

In the future self-transforming objects will become common place.. right along side our flying cars and personal jet packs. This concept is a pretty cool one as the video shows and it could lead to things like configurable household objects.

"The goal is to make sheets that could fold into multiple items, like a dining utensil set or a "Swiss Army Knife" tool kit."

Ever wonder where all the content on the internet originates from? Good has got another fantastic info-graphic detailing where content originates from. It's a really great illustration. 

source: good.is

Ever wonder what the MP3 player, laptop, handheld gaming device or mobile phone would have looked like if they were introduced in an Atari-esque 1977 alternate universe? Neither did I until I came across this amazing-looking project. Behold! ALT/1977

Cue up the Top Gun soundtrack! This image captured by the Royal Australian Air Force shows an F/A-18E Super Hornet criss-crossing the landscape in a hyper-speed fashion. The image above is pretty cool to be sure, but check out the high-res version as well.

Found over at Gizmodo