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Mindflex Duel: The Mind Controlled Game Goes Head to Head

The original Mindflex was like playing basketball, but for your brain. Seriously, it read your brainwaves to move the ball. This new Mindflex Duel uses the same idea, but now you get to go head-to-head (or brain-to-brain) against a friend. https://gizmodo.com/the-mindflex-brainwave-game-gives-me-a-headache-5396971 The whole game works by strapping a headset that scans your brainwaves (with sensors…

Tech News Casey Chan

Where to follow earthquakes on Twitter

For those of you with a penchant for plate tectonics, there are plenty of places on Twitter to follow our planet’s earthquakes as they happen. Five automated Twitter feeds to follow in the new year, if you’re on the trail of earthquakes, especially in Los Angeles and San Francisco, are @EarthquakesLA and @EarthquakesSF; @BigQuakesLA and…

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How to Make Your Own DIY Lady Gaga Video Glasses

If you’re desperate for a pair of those Polaroid video glasses designed by Lady Gaga and can’t possibly wait until they’re released, you’ll love this DIY project. It doesn’t exactly have all the features of the Polaroid shades, but it looks pretty awesome. [Instructables] https://jezebel.com/this-is-what-happens-when-polaroid-lets-lady-gaga-desig-5727101

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Game of Thrones has a release date (and read a recap of the 15-minute teaser clip)

HBO’s television adaptation of Game of Thrones will debut Sunday, April 17, and you can also read scene-by-scene recaps of a 15-minute teaser clip that debuted this week at Winter Is Coming and TV Squad. [EW — thanks, izikavazo!]

Television Cyriaque Lamar

What if Stanley Kubrick directed Iron Man?

Warren Ellis previously challenged artists to imagine a David Lynch-directed Spider-Man film. He’s now asking members of his Whitechapel forum to depict Stanley Kubrick’s interpretation of Tony Stark and his full metal jerkin. https://gizmodo.com/what-if-david-lynch-directed-spider-man-5699189 You can find many more samples over at Whitechapel. This is my power-suit, this is my armor. This is for fighting,…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

Elijah Wood will cameo as Frodo in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit

Most of the original LOTR cast remains unconfirmed, but Elijah Wood’s definitely reprising Frodo. Frodo’s not in the book, so what’s his role in The Hobbit? Spoilers away! https://gizmodo.com/frodo-and-legolas-to-cameo-in-the-hobbit-5727397 According to TheOneRing.net, Frodo will be used to introduce readers to Bilbo’s tale and that Wood will appear in the film’s opening: As readers of “The…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar

The Wonder Woman TV show was rejected by the networks

Remember Ally McBeal creator David E. Kelley’s in-development Wonder Woman TV show? Every network’s passed on it, including Marvel sister station ABC. Cable also looks unlikely; ergo, no modern update of her invisible jet (or super-skateboarding powers) for now. [EW] https://gizmodo.com/a-wonder-woman-tv-series-from-the-creator-of-ally-mcbea-5653636 https://gizmodo.com/5-lesser-known-wonder-woman-powers-that-need-to-make-a-5653705

Television Cyriaque Lamar

Never Before Seen Underground Lake Vostok Might Bring New Life Forms

For 14 million years, Antarctica’s vast Lake Vostok has remained tantalizingly sealed off from the rest of the world, hidden under 4 kilometers of ice. What unique forms of life might have evolved in the hidden depths? After years of speculation we are about to find out, as a Russian drill nears the lake. The…

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Department of Justice Subpoenas Twitter Records of WikiLeaks Volunteers

The Department of Justice has subpoenaed many people’s Twitter accounts who were associated with WikiLeaks. The subpoena states that there is “reasonable ground to believe that the records or other information sought are relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation.” The users who were subpoenaed are Birgitta Jónsdóttir (a member of the Parliament in…

Tech News Casey Chan

Andre Agassi Showed a Naked Picture of Steffi Graf on His Cellphone to Boost an Auction

In an effort to spice up an auction for an autographed dish, tennis legend Andre Agassi offered to show the winner a naked picture of his wife, Steffi Graf, right on his cellphone. The dish sold for over $4,000. I’m not exactly sure I’d pay $4,000 to see a naked Steffi, but if it was…

Tech News Casey Chan

We Have to Wait At Least 200 More Years for Interstellar Travel

Sorry folks, it looks like only our grandkid’s grandkid’s grandkids will be able to take advantage of interstellar travel. Why so long? Because a NASA scientist says it’ll take at least 200 years to obtain enough energy to make the journey. Marc Millis a former NASA propulsion scientist, analyzed 27 years of data on energy…

Space & Spaceflight Casey Chan

Kyle Eats CES

CES is tough. You have to blog a lot, walk a lot, and drunk a lot, usually without getting nearly enough sleep or eating your proper food pyramid portions. Kyle was hungry all the time! So he ate a lot.

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Clearest Pictures of the Sony PlayStation Phone

Hey there PlayStation Phone. You look like a PSP Go. Why weren’t you announced at CES? We’ll never know. Anyway! Chinese site IT168 gives an in-depth look at the once anticipated PlayStation Phone by posting the clearest images and videos yet. IT168 says that the PSPhone has a 854 x 480 resolution screen sprawled across…

Tech News Casey Chan

Somebody Tell Ebert That Video Games Are Now Art

Roger Ebert may not think highly of video games as art, but MoMA does. The latest installation at their MoMA PS1 gallery is playable video game, which lets you run through a 16-bit Communist China landscape as a Red Army soldier. Created by Chinese artist Feng Mengbo, Long March: Restart is a side-scrolling brawler where…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Tron Light Discs As a Lamp

Confession: I’ve never watched Tron. Whatever! It doesn’t change the fact that I’d kill for this lamp aptly named ‘Ring’ by Loris Bottello. It’s lit by bioluminescent polymers and its intensity can be adjusted by rotating the disc. Purrty. [designboom]

Tech News Casey Chan

Because Watching These Ball Shaped Objects Bounce and Break Is Beautiful

GE is trying to explain the breakthrough of capturing lost energy and something called dynamic braking. I would care, but watching an egg, christmas ornament, water balloon, and watermelon fall in succession (and slow motion!) has me mesmerized. It’s…beautiful. Watch it. Okay, now that my mind is off balls (did you see that water balloon…

Physics & Chemistry Casey Chan

CES Caption Contest: What’s Going Through this Woman’s Mind as She’s Massaged by a Robot?

Booth babes usually have it easy, (aside from being used as inanimate perma-smiling pieces of cleavage furniture). This one doesn’t. I spied this disturbing scene and could only wonder what she was thinking. “How did it come to this?” The poor, captive model, whose job was to lie completely inert as a Wheeme robot drove…

Tech News Sam Biddle

How Lady Gaga Just Reinvented Eye Contact

Lady Gaga’s weirdo Polaroid glasses are about to turn our faces into Facebook feeds and mood rings. https://jezebel.com/this-is-what-happens-when-polaroid-lets-lady-gaga-desig-5727101 The glasses have two little screens in them. The weird thing is that they face outward. You can imagine the scene as Polaroid’s suit brigade and accountants took the pitch from Gaga, stammering and wondering what they…

Tech News Brian Lam

Even Intel Hates Windows 7 Tablets

Word out of CES is that Intel execs revealed their true feelings about Windows 7 on tablets at an event last night. Apparently, they lobbied for Microsoft to make a more tablet-friendly OS. Microsoft said no. In addition to pushing for a new tablet os from the Redmond, Wa company, he also expressed sentiments that…

Tech News Adrian Covert

I Just Want a Dumb TV

Hey, so remember when building VCRs into TVs seemed like a good idea? And then how it turned out that is wasn’t? Yeah, connected TVs are basically just like that. A TV is a huge purchase. People spend thousands of dollars on an item that they’ll keep for years, watch for hours a day, and…

Tech News John Herrman

Mindflex Duel: The Mind Controlled Game Goes Head to Head

Where to follow earthquakes on Twitter

How to Make Your Own DIY Lady Gaga Video Glasses

Game of Thrones has a release date (and read a recap of the 15-minute teaser clip)

What if Stanley Kubrick directed Iron Man?

Elijah Wood will cameo as Frodo in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit

The Wonder Woman TV show was rejected by the networks

Never Before Seen Underground Lake Vostok Might Bring New Life Forms

Department of Justice Subpoenas Twitter Records of WikiLeaks Volunteers

Andre Agassi Showed a Naked Picture of Steffi Graf on His Cellphone to Boost an Auction

We Have to Wait At Least 200 More Years for Interstellar Travel

Kyle Eats CES

The Clearest Pictures of the Sony PlayStation Phone

Somebody Tell Ebert That Video Games Are Now Art

Tron Light Discs As a Lamp

Because Watching These Ball Shaped Objects Bounce and Break Is Beautiful

CES Caption Contest: What’s Going Through this Woman’s Mind as She’s Massaged by a Robot?

How Lady Gaga Just Reinvented Eye Contact

Even Intel Hates Windows 7 Tablets

I Just Want a Dumb TV

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