total number of products in thingverse that you can currently download and 3d print: 135,750

projected 3d printer revenue in 2018: us$1.4 billion.

8 out of 10 u.s. adults have engaged in 'sexting'.

using gps decreases your brain's ability to determine where you are and navigate without it.

a report by mcaffee says that 54% of surveyed phone users send or receive sexually charged messages, audio and video. this figure is 74% for users aged 18-24.

in a random survey, 47% of teenagers and 22% of adults have used a smartphone while sitting on the toilet.

a partnership between ibm, the swiss government, and the european union called the brain project expects to build a working, artificial human brain by 2016 - just 18 months from the time of this writing.

someone please tell john connor.

roughly 80% of all stocks and currencies are now bought and sold entirely by machines, with no human input at all. because all of the machines watch what the other machines do and act accordingly in microseconds, a single algorithm error could wipe out most of the world's wealth, and it is unlikely that we would ever know what happened.

since the proliferation of smartphones and hd video, the number of ufo reports have dropped by more than 80%.

while still an embryo, a goat in utah named freckles was implanted with spider genes. her milk contains spider silk proteins, which are used to create 'biosteel', a material that is stronger than kevlar.

there is a company that wants to collect the dna of celebrities, grow them in test tubes, and turn them into salami. (damn! one of the 2 lunch meats that i don't like as much. tertiary fact: pimento loaf is my kryptonite.)

a new device has been patented that allows women (and likely men) to have push-button orgasms. it consists of electrodes connected to the appropriate place on the spinal cord, a receiver a little smaller than a pack of cigarettes that is implanted under the skin of a patient's backside, and a wireless controller.

the telephone was invented by antonio meucci, a brilliant but poor italian immigrant. alexander graham bell, who shared a lab with meucci, copied his designs and patented them when meucci couldn't afford to renew his own patent. bell put 99% of the shares of his new company - bell telephone - in his wife's name 2 days before they were married. meucci sued. the supreme court agreed to hear the case and fraud charges were initiated against bell, but meucci died before the case was heard.