Dominoes

Make Stars Fall With These Five-Pointed Dominoes

Vegas is going wild this week in an all-out consumer electronics bacchanal, but sometimes it’s nice to tool around with an old-timey, offline distraction. Like these Japanese dominoes, which are are about as no-tech as toys come. The set contains 100 beech wood pieces in eight different colors, all wrapped up in a pretty gold…

Tech News Jordan Kushins

How the Domino Effect Has Shaped History

When younger generations hear the word ‘dominoes,’ they usually associate it with the famous board game, while others–especially food lovers–might connect it with a delicious pizza. For those who are more politically aware, the word probably brings thoughts of the Cold War and the threat of the spread of communism. In addition, most economists today…

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You Wouldn’t Think To Set Up Such Clever Domino Destruction

At 20,000 to 25,000 dominoes total, what you’re seeing in this video doesn’t come close to the world record. But that doesn’t matter, because these domino setups are incredibly involved and creative. https://gizmodo.com/watching-275-000-dominos-fall-is-mesmerizingly-addictiv-807025673 There’s something so satisfying about watching controlled destruction. Havesh 5 and milliondollarboy spent three months on these towers and walls of dominoes,…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

This Remote Control Pizza Box Plane Practically Delivers Itself

There’s only so much you can do with an empty pizza box besides throw it away, or let it clutter up the floor of your filthy hovel. There is on other option though: you can turn it into a remote controlled plane. Granted, unless you just happen to have a remote control setup just lying…

Tech News Eric Limer

Watch the world’s longest domino chain made of books

To kick off its 2013 Summer Reading Program, the Seattle Public Library set a world record with a library-appropriate domino chain. Twenty-seven volunteers lined up 2,131 books and knocked them all down. It took the volunteers seven hours and five failed attempts to create this record-setting chain. The books aren’t part of the library’s current…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis

The Extinction of the Dinosaurs, Recreated with Dominoes

We’ve already seen domino guru FlippyCat recreate Van Gogh’s Starry Night in falling dominoes. Now the endlessly patient domino-plotter has recreated the extinction of the dinosaurs with domino dinos, a domino Earth, and a hurtling plastic asteroid to get it all started. https://gizmodo.com/see-vincent-van-goghs-starry-night-recreated-with-7-000-5920822 [via The Awesomer]

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See Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night recreated with 7,000 falling dominoes

It may not have the luminosity of Van Gogh’s original painting, but FlippyCat‘s is an impressive feat in itself. This 7,000-domino construction dissolves into a neat simulacrum of The Starry Night. FlippyCat’s first attempt, which appears late in the video, failed when a screw from the camera rig onto the dominoes. (Yikes!) The second attempt…

io9 Lauren Davis

These Dominoes Aren’t for Toppling Over—They Tell the Time

Leave the domino effect to books, people, and well, real dominoes. In Carbon Design’s Domino Clock, the black dots silently switch to white dots to indicate the time, functioning similar to a digital clock (except with oversized dominoes). https://gizmodo.com/just-you-try-and-play-dominoes-with-your-fancy-ebooks-n-5674705 A custom actuator was designed to power the thousands of transitions the dots make each day,…

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Just You Try and Play Dominoes With Your Fancy Ebooks Now

It may be an ad for Arizona bookstore chain Bookmans, but by gum does it tickle my olfactory senses with imaginary whiffs of all those lovely books falling like dominoes. [Urlesque]

Books & Comics Kat Hannaford

Imagine You and 10,000 of Your Closest Friends Beating the Human Domino World Record

10,267 Chinese participants did just that, sitting in a field till it was their turn to topple onto the person behind them. They smashed the old world record set in 2000 by a whole order of magnitude. They even wore color coordinated shirts that spelled out their city name, Ordos, in English and Chinese. [Yahoo…

Tech News Christina Bonnington

Collapse Of Berlin Wall Recreated With 1,000 Giant Dominoes

On November 9, 1989, thousands rushed through the ruins of the Berlin Wall, celebrating the unity of East and West. 20 years later, millions across the world watched as one thousand seven-and-a-half foot tall dominoes fell marking the occasion. About six months ago, those Styrofoam dominoes were sent all around to world and painted by…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Windows 7 Loads Faster Than 7000 Dominoes

Toppling 7000 dominoes to commemorate the launch of Windows 7 definitely riled up the employees at Microsoft’s Hyderabad center in India, but they probably didn’t think it through in terms of the jokes it might generate. [Ars Technica]

Tech News Sean Fallon

Dominoes Make the Office Fun Again for Three Minutes

Created for the Imagine RIT festival at the Rochester Institue of Technology, this video is a testimony of the power of dominoes—which apparently can turn on a photocopier—and office boredom. We like. [DRB]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Dutch Use 4.3 Million Dominoes To Shatter All Domino-Related Records

Dominoes, always a favorite elemental for Rube Goldberg-ian device chain reactions, are unsurprisingly the name of the game at last week’s Domino Day in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. That is where Robin Paul Weijers (Mr. Domino!) and his helpers (including Dutch girls suspended on harnesses above the action like Tom Cruise stealing a NOC list) rigged…

Tech News John Mahoney

Giant Dominoes Made of 30,000 Dominoes, Fall Like…Falling Dominoes

Click to view“Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ’em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.” Alright…so these are just 30,000 dominoes stacked up in blocks to look a bit like giant dominoes, and tipped over to create a fab tumbling dominoes-made-from-giant-dominoes video, but you get my point.…

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Make Stars Fall With These Five-Pointed Dominoes

How the Domino Effect Has Shaped History

You Wouldn’t Think To Set Up Such Clever Domino Destruction

This Remote Control Pizza Box Plane Practically Delivers Itself

Watch the world’s longest domino chain made of books

The Extinction of the Dinosaurs, Recreated with Dominoes

See Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night recreated with 7,000 falling dominoes

These Dominoes Aren’t for Toppling Over—They Tell the Time

Just You Try and Play Dominoes With Your Fancy Ebooks Now

Imagine You and 10,000 of Your Closest Friends Beating the Human Domino World Record

Collapse Of Berlin Wall Recreated With 1,000 Giant Dominoes

Windows 7 Loads Faster Than 7000 Dominoes

Dominoes Make the Office Fun Again for Three Minutes

Dutch Use 4.3 Million Dominoes To Shatter All Domino-Related Records

Giant Dominoes Made of 30,000 Dominoes, Fall Like…Falling Dominoes

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Make Stars Fall With These Five-Pointed Dominoes

How the Domino Effect Has Shaped History

You Wouldn’t Think To Set Up Such Clever Domino Destruction

This Remote Control Pizza Box Plane Practically Delivers Itself

Watch the world’s longest domino chain made of books

The Extinction of the Dinosaurs, Recreated with Dominoes

See Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night recreated with 7,000 falling dominoes

These Dominoes Aren’t for Toppling Over—They Tell the Time

Just You Try and Play Dominoes With Your Fancy Ebooks Now

Imagine You and 10,000 of Your Closest Friends Beating the Human Domino World Record

Collapse Of Berlin Wall Recreated With 1,000 Giant Dominoes

Windows 7 Loads Faster Than 7000 Dominoes

Dominoes Make the Office Fun Again for Three Minutes

Dutch Use 4.3 Million Dominoes To Shatter All Domino-Related Records

Giant Dominoes Made of 30,000 Dominoes, Fall Like…Falling Dominoes

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor *And* an Action Figure!

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!