LCD Contact Lens Source: Imec On a mission to one-up the oh-so successful Google Glasses, scientists at Belgium’s Ghent University have created the world’s first LCD Screen Contact Lens. While the design is still in its early stages, the user simply applies the device like he or she would a contact lens and watches as shapes and numbers form in front of their very eyes. For now, it’s fairly limited to the types of patterns you might find on a calculator but it’s a step closer to the future of tech.

These stunning Spice Girls photos will take you back to a time when "girl power" ruled the world -- all thanks to these five young women.Twenty years ago this month, the Spice Girls released their first single, “Wannabe,” and the world gobbled it up. The single, which sold over 7 million copies, smashed records and catapulted the group to global fame — and criticism. Indeed, some have said that by “reducing” the women’s movement to fashion and all-laughs friendship, the group “[wiped] out feminism for a decade.

When the USS Gregory sank in 1942, a mess hall officer named Charles Jackson French dragged a raft full of his wounded crewmates to safety through shark-infested waters. TwitterCharles Jackson French was posthumously awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his bravery. On a pitch-black night in 1942, the waters of the Pacific Ocean near Savo Island and Guadalcanal suddenly lit up with gunfire. Within minutes, two American ships on patrol were sunk by Japanese destroyers.

Terrible Ted made the rounds in WWA fighting, taking on some of the most famous names in wrestling, and almost always coming out on top. Gene DuBois wrestles Terrible Ted On April 1, 1950, wrestler Terrible Ted debuted in Asbury Park, New Jersey. He defeated renowned fighter Tony Galento, after which he fought him again in a rematch. Despite being a newcomer to the wrestling scene, Terrible Ted proved himself a worthy adversary of more famous heavyweights.

Steven Backman and Scott Weaver are known for their incredible toothpick art, including massive sculptures that comprise more than 100,000 toothpicks.Source: This is Colossal True artists have a way of seeing the world and its many facets in a light that escapes most others’ eyes. For San Francisco-born artists Steven J. Backman and Scott Weaver, this alternate view led them to utilize the toothpick not for oral hygiene but art. From micro sculptures made from a single toothpick to sprawling scenes composed of over 100,000 of them, their toothpick art is distinct, impressive and sure to please.

Anglo-Saxon warlord's grave uncovered, ancient Greek snake altar found, undetonated World War II bomb explodes.British Metal Detectorists Uncover Pagan Grave Of 1,400-Year-Old Anglo-Saxon Warlord University of ReadingThe 1,400-year-old skeleton of the Anglo-Saxon Marlow Warlord. Amateur metal detectorists in southern England have uncovered the sixth-century grave of an Anglo-Saxon warlord. Known as the Marlow Warlord, he was buried with arrowheads, pottery, and an intact sword complete with a bronze and leather scabbard still bearing a mark believed to have been made in battle 1,400 years ago.

Everything You Thought You Knew About Pocahontas Is Wrong, New Documentary Says Library of Congress We all think we know the basic gist of the Pocahontas plot line. Boy meets girl, girl’s family and friends try to kill boy, girl saves boy by throwing herself in front of warrior’s club. Classic. But a new documentary from the Smithsonian blows that entire legend to smithereens. Everything from the story’s heartwarming climax to the main character’s name is, apparently, only the stuff of myths.

When Venus, an enslaved woman who worked on the plantation of George Washington's brother, was asked to name the father of her child West Ford, she "identified the old general."Wikimedia CommonsWest Ford at Mount Vernon in his later years. George Washington is often referred to as the “Father of His Country.” But did the famously childless president also father an illegitimate son with an enslaved woman? An investigation by The New Yorker has recently revived an old claim that Washington had a son named West Ford.

Discovered in the city of Xinzhou, this Ming Dynasty tomb was filled with various offerings and artifacts.Shanxi Provincial Institute of ArchaeologyThe entrance to the intact Ming Dynasty tomb in Xinzhou’s Xinfu District. A joint team of archaeologists from China’s Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology and the Xinzhou Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics recently discovered an astonishingly well-preserved tomb dating back to the Ming Dynasty. The tomb was discovered during a series of excavations in which archaeologists examined 66 tombs from the Han, Tang, Jin, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, each located near the village of Hexitou in the Xinfu District of Xinzhou.

A recent study found that Triantha occidentalis, known as the western false asphodel, gets its nutrients by eating the innards of small insects. Wikimedia CommonsThe western false asphodel lacks a gene that would help it gain energy from sunshine, which tipped scientists off that it may be a carnivore. The western false asphodel is a fairly common wildflower that can be found up and down the west coast of North America.