Not really robots, but close enough. This is a strangely wonderful video of 80’s tech re-creating Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. It’s long, but then, the song is too. You know you want to tough it out until the famous a cappella part. Mama mia-mama mia! Apparently no effects were used at [more…]
Contrary to what many people believe, the Flux Capacitor is not what makes time travel possible. Nope. My alarm clock is the time machine. No matter what time I go to sleep, my time machine sees to it I get up at the right moment. Usually the same moment every day. [more…]
Why don’t submarines have windows? It seems like an easy enough upgrade. Wouldn’t it make life a lot easier for them submarines?
I just read that Lee Redmond, a woman in the Guinness Book of World Records for her long fingernails, was in a serious car accident on Tuesday. During the accident, her record-setting fingernails were shorn off. It is reported that she hadn’t cut them since 1979. Luckily Redmond, though still in serious [more…]
We’re winning! Revel in it ladies and gents. Boeing recently announced that they have successfully shot down a highly sophisticated Unmanned Aerial Vehicle; using a laser! Robots! Lasers! Side note, doesn’t it feel more appropriate to spell Lazer with a Z?
Humans 1 Robots 0
It should be noted that this [more…]
Why are public bathrooms the only place you’ll find toilets that feature the toilet seat gap? I’d like one for my home. Though I don’t quite understand the benefit of the gap- assuming it’s so my pee pee doesn’t touch the seat- I know I want it. But as I went about [more…]
Look buddy. I appreciate the effort. I really do. But something must be said for design.
An inventor in Japan has created a subway sleep mask. A device designed to allow the person wearing it the ability to catch a snooze on a crowded subway train. He calls it [more…]
Consumption is netflixing the entire first season of Battlestar Galactica and converting it to ipod format for your morning commute. Regardless of what David Lynch says.
Consumption is buying a Slingbox so you can place-shift your favorite shows and watch them under your desk at work. When time-shifting isn’t enough.
Consumption is tivoing Mad Men, [more…]
I thought this was pretty neat. Some of you probably know what the Internet Archive is. It’s an incredible website that… archives the internet. They have a feature called the Wayback Machine that lets you go back to specific times in the past to see what websites looked like. Check out Yahoo! [more…]
Well folks. We’re still here. Today at around 3:30 am EST, in Switzerland, scientists switched on the world’s largest particle accelerator. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been the source of debate for backyard scientists and drunken circles for a while now.
It goes like this. The popular argument is [more…]
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