Army of Transvestites Celebrate Lego Minifig Anniversary (5)
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It looks like something went really wrong at the Lego factory because, when Jenny at The Bloggess opened her 30th Anniversary minifig celebration pack, she got a whole bunch of transvestite minifigs. "I think Eddie Izzard in drag is 10 times hotter than Brad Pitt covered in nougat, but this is just bizarre," Jenny says. And I agree. Seeing all those moustaches and cleavages up close is kind of disturbing: And talking about minifigs, in ...
Google Chrome Fatal Flaw Discovered, Will Destroy Lives, Dignities [Humor] (25)
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Blog Vital Security has discovered a fatal flaw in Google's Chrome, which may dramatically affect the lives of the tens of thousands of people who are running the browser right now: Dear Señor Google, please don't make a new tab automatically display my most visited sites by default. Seriously. Don't. [Vital Security]
NES Games Renderings Make Great Background Desktops [Nintendo] (13)
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If you are sucker for all things 8-bit and all things NES—like I am—you will love these three-dimensional renderings of classic Nintendo Entertainment System games by Justin Buonvino. So much that you will put them on your desktop background, just like a did one minute ago. Without a doubt, my favorites are the shot from above of Mario World 1 and the real-3D-made-to-look-fake-3D Zeldas, but the Excitebike has an special charm too. Thankfully, that's why ...
Pixel Drink Coasters Can Have Any 8-Bit Shape You Want [8-Bit] (6)
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These pixel drink coasters are made of paper and come in 50-unit packages for $8. Nothing special there until you notice that they have different shapes, which are not actually made at the factory: The coasters come in a single sheet, folded in 50 segments that you can cut in any way you want using the one-centimeter-long square perforations that divide each segment into 110 pixels. The results are beautiful, including an obligatory Space Invaders ...
R2-D2 Alarm Clock Requires X-Wing Bedsheets [Star Wars Gadgets] (2)
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I hate, hate, alarm clocks. Especially after going out and having way too many straight bourbons. Like yesterday. But I digress. This R2-D2 Alarm Clock will wake you up with real R2 squeeks and electrobabbles. And while it doesn't have the same power as the much-lusted-after R2-D2 video projector, it projects the time on the wall, too, using lasers, or tractor beams, or probably just LEDs. [Wesco via Toyology]
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Is there anything little R2 can't do?
New Nintendo DS Debuting Mid-2009, Sources Say [Rumors] (1)
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The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.Kotaku is claiming that Nintendo will debut a new Nintendo DS in April or May of 2009. According to their sources, the new DS model's features will be similar to the next-generation DS wishlist we published last year. Kotaku says that both screens would have touch capability, which is reasonable to expect. They also point out that both screens will have a wide aspect ...
High-Speed Digital Imaging Shows Why Flies Outsmart You (19)
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Scientist at Caltech have discovered why oh why one of the most basic artifacts on earth, the looming swatter, fails against its winged nemesis, the fly. In fact, using high-resolution, high-speed digital imaging, they have found out what's the secret to the fly's 100 milliseconds evasive maneuvering. Which is why I hate them so much, and fully explains why my favorite videos are the ones of the wingless fly and the legless fly trying to ...
PC In a Nintendo Wii Looks as Cool as a Nintendo Wii [Nintendo] (1)
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At last, someone managed the most needed, most anxiously-awaited PC retrofit job there is: putting a PC inside a Nintendo Wii box. Looking into its guts and its back, the Wii PC not very powerful, but it is fully functional and comes with everything you need in a Windows XP box. The computer runs Windows XP SP3 on a Celeron 1.3GHz, Intel 852 chipset, 512MB of RAM, and 40GB hard drive, with wireless access, digital ...
How Firearms Work In Super-Slow-Motion [Weapons] (3)
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Sometimes I notice that I take technology for granted. All these machines doing things around us, cars running, planes flying, phones ringing, computers—ahm, humm—computing, and guns firing, but how do they really work? What's the deal with their mechanics? Do you think they work with magic? Did Steve tell you that, per chance? Well, take one out of the list, Steve, because here's how weapons fire in super-slow-oh-you-are-killing-me motion.
Massive Lego Mecha Can Probably Kill Humans [PICS] (5)
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This is what you get when you combine Lego and massive mechas done at the minifig scale: the biggest robotic overlord I've laid my eyes on. Then, when you go through the massive gallery, you get what I call a robner followed by a brickgasm. Updated: actually, reader/brother Oscar sends me pictures of a huge Bionicle Exoforce mecha he saw last weekend, which looks even bigger. The gigantic model won the Best Mecha award at ...
Apple Multi-Touch Data Fusion: Camera, Voice, Force Sensors (35)
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Apple has been working in new multi-touch technology that combines touch interfaces with input from the camera and the microphone. For example: this will allow you to select text in the iPhone, say "copy," go to another application and say "paste" to make this task really easy. The most intriguing part, however, is the use of a camera in laptops and desktops. This will require two cameras, one for video chat and the other for ...
Spectacular Night Photography of London Causes Awe, Vertigo (23)
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Jason Hawkes has a very difficult, expensive, and spectacular kind of work: he takes pictures from the sky. And while it may not sound very difficult, obtaining these crystal-clear shots while hanging out of the door of a twin-engine helicopter, everything vibrating like in an earthquake because of the rotor blades, and shouting orders at your pilot over, it's a very challenging job that requires the best technology you can get your hands on. We ...
Aerospace: Sikorsky X2 Helicopter Tested, Even Cooler than E (9)
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Sikorsky, makers of the Blackhawk and other sleek helicopters, have successfully tested their X2 Technology Demonstrator, a prototype designed to showcase new propulsion systems that will allow their helicopters to fly at twice the speed of conventional ones. And it looks sci-fi pretty too, even more so from the front: Sikorsky Chief Test Pilot Kevin Bredenbeck maneuvered the prototype for 30 minutes in a few basic tasks: hover, forward flight and hover turn. The project ...
New iPods Coming on September 9, Apple Confirms (8)
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The new iPods will come on September 9, as expected. Apple has sent us an invitation to the event, which will happen at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco on September 9 at...
The Deadly Aftermath of a Rocket Explosion Seconds After Launch [Kaboom] (11)
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While space travel is safe for the most part, sometimes things go really wrong. Like last week's NASA's rocket explosion on the Wallops Island, where an ATK Launch Vehicle X-1 exploded only seconds after liftoff, with hazardous debris falling on land and sea. We are used to seeing the fireworks in the air, but what happens when that flaming debris hits the ground is much more spectacular and scary, as you can see in this ...
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This is the best footage I've seen of this. Definitely still the "original" anomoly video.
Iphone Brings you Smarthome (3)
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We covered the Gorenje Made for iPod fridge and the iGorenje home appliance program at IFA last Sunday. I've spent some time with both and I like what I see, although I have some doubts about how practical this can be. Like someone pointed out before, the life of a fridge is very long, so the iPod dock would probably become obsolete down the line. I also don't see the point of having your fridge ...
Deadly Aftermath of a Rocket Explosion Seconds After Liftoff (12)
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While space travel is safe for the most part, sometimes things go really wrong. Like last week's NASA's rocket explosion on the Wallops Island, where an ATK Launch Vehicle X-1 exploded only seconds after lift off, with hazardous debris falling on land and sea. We are used to see the fireworks in the air, but what happens when that flaming debris hits the ground is much more spectacular and scary, as you can see in ...
Miele's New Giant Fridge Can Double as a Morgue [Ifa 2008] (1)
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I don't know if these fridges are the norm in the US, but it seems to me like Miele's latest giganormous fridge from their Master Cool line—shown here at IFA 2008—has to be the biggest fridge ever available to megalomaniac consumers and potential serial killers. They should christen it The Walk-In Fridge, because this thing is so big that you can fit a cow inside. So huge in fact that I won't be able to ...
Gorenje Fridge Table Lifts Food, People Frozen in Carbonite [Ifa 2008] (1)
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The Home Appliances halls at IFA 2008 have some of the best stuff in the fair, like this Gorenje fridge table, which seems to be a brand obsessed about doing really Star Trekish stuff for the kitchen. The table—with a central fridge that smoothly raises to give access to food and beverages, and a security system to avoid having your arm trapped in it—is not a concept but a real product made to order. The ...
The Best Contraptions In Burning Man History (11)
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Writer, photographer, and baking expert Robyn Johnson, from Matador Nights, has put together an spectacular image collection of some of the coolest installations in the history of Burning Man, where technology, robotics, pyrotechnics, and architecture are put together to form often beautiful, sometimes repugnant, but always fascinating surreal landscapes. [Matador Nights]
