My IKEA experiences have been pretty hit or miss, but maybe that’s just because I wasn’t building Linux rendering clusters out of the POÄNG chairs. Because one modder took a $40 IKEA Helmer set of drawers and shoved in 6 Intel Quad Core processors. His end product featured 24 2.4 Ghz cores and 48GB of…
Nothing says “massive destructive force” like the rocks exhumed from two kilometers down in the earthquake-causing San Andreas Fault. Mangled and twisted by the fault’s awesome power, these rocks help you understand why a flick of this fault’s little finger is enough to flatten entire cities. And now you can see them up close, with…
The European Union’s Security of Aircraft in the Future European Environment (SAFEE) is testing some kind of nebulous facial detection system that will suss out whether your expression is one of a terrorist planning on commandeering the ride or just diarrhea face. This software will look for nervous face touching, profuse sweating and various other…
It’s a slightly different Gotham city in the direct-to-DVD animated movie Batman: Gotham Knight. The city proves it deserves to be name-checked in the DVD’s title, with some startling vistas including new and stranger gargoyles, weird searchlights and even a giant ferris wheel. The city of dark spires suddenly has a ton of personality. Check…
BenQ’s gear is usually pretty standard stuff, but the new T850 is pushing the envelope a bit. Claiming to be the world’s thinnest 8MP camera at 14.9 millimeters thin, it also manages to squeeze in a large 3-inch LCD display. But the neatest part is that after you take shots with up to 3X zoom…
Click to viewThe stasis field generator is the Swiss Army knife of technological devices. But people haven’t given these awesome time-stopping zones their props — until recently, when they started turning up as weapons in a ton of video games, from Dead Space’s stasis module to Destroy All Humans: Path Of The Furon’s “Temporal Fist.”…
As you probably know, some guy claimed he had definitive proof of the existence of aliens. Apparently, this video is that proof. Proof that aliens exist (and that they are just a bunch of perverted Peeping Toms.) I mean, they haven’t returned our calls yet, and someone actually thinks they are snooping through our home…
After losing track of six nuclear warheads last year, you would think that the crack security team at Minot Air Force Base would pull it together for their much anticipated nuclear security inspection. Unfortunately, you would be mistaken. Inspectors from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency failed the security wing based on a number of infractions—including…
The PSP controls are not horrible—though that analog nub leaves something to be desired—but the DualShock is a far more comfortable controller. Now the fine citizens at AcidMods have hacked the PSP hardware to work with the DualShock. Requiring no changes to the firmware, all functions but the brightness and volume are mapped to the…
Universal has released new pictures of The Incredible Hulk, and unfortunately the more stills they release the more I’m inclined to see similarities between Hulk and a cartoon… or the produce aisle. Take a good close look: his skin is so waxy and shiny it looks like a cucumber. There is so much going on…
There’s nothing better than two iPods or iPhones at the same time, unless you’re talking about four iPods at the same time, but let’s not get greedy. Griffin’s PowerDock lets you bathe in the comfort of knowing two beautiful universal dock ports are being serviced simultaneously, while at the same time holding them upright in…
Did you catch the viral marketing commercial during last night’s Lost season finale? It looks like Octagon Global (which is connected to the mysterious Dharma Initiative) is looking for a few good Roger Workmen get slaughtered and tossed in mass graves. And it looks like you’ll have your chance to join up at Comic-Con. Full…
People love mockups of products, especially Apple products, and especially real-looking Apple products that they can delude themselves into believing are real. Who are we to argue with such desires? In order to help you all make the best, most realistic Apple fakes possible, we had our super-talented Artistic Intern Logan Lape make a DIY…
It’s not been a good couple of months for fans of SF theme music. Following last month’s death of electronic music pioneer Bebe Barron, one of the composers for the 1956 Forbidden Planet movie, May 15th saw the sad passing of Alexander Courage, the man who gave the world the theme music for the original…
At this very moment, I’m surely doing permanent damage to my spine by typing away on my laptop while slouching upon my particularly broken-in couch. If only I had this Surf Chair, my future trips to the supermarket and social gatherings wouldn’t be inhibited by the necessity of walking on all four appendages. Seemingly ergonomic,…
You can buy Shia LaBouef’s underwear online. Think how much it would enhance that crotch-slapping forest chase sequence to have his underwear clutched in your hands! [Hollywood Scoop]
Anyone attending the Olympics in Beijing this summer is going to find something unexpected embedded in their tickets: their passport information, home address and email address. All of these details will be nicely embedded in an RFID chip in each ticket. The move is designed to curb counterfeiting tickets in the counterfeit-happy country, but it…
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Time for a little reality check. It seems like almost every day there’s a piece of news about how “research suggests there were once oceans floating in the vacuum of space!” or “life could have once existed at the center of the Sun!” You know, we all get a little over-excited sometimes. Well, geochemist Nicholas…
Computer science is definitely reaching the danger zone when actual words can be spotted using MRI scans. In the image above, researchers from the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh predict what the words “celery” and “airplane” look like when someone thinks of them, and then they compare the prediction to actual…
