NY Post Sez XM and Sirius To Merge. No, Really.
The highly reliable New York Post reports that XM Satellite Radio will merge with Sirius Satellite Radio as early as today. This makes the 287th time that we’ve heard such a rumor. According to the Post’s super secret sources, the two companies held a slumber party all weekend long trying to come up with a…
Robot Bird Watcher Tries To Find Long Lost Woodpecker
Here’s yet another example of robots stealing our jobs. Over in Arkansas, officials have deployed a robotic bird watcher in order to help locate a bird that may or may not exist. (So that’s where my tax dollars go.) Since 2004, there have been alleged sightings of an ivory-billed woodpecker but scientists haven’t been able…
Plasma Light Bulb: Fun By Itself, Even Better With Dope
For just $10 you can endlessly entertain babies or your friends on bad acid trips with the plasma light bulb. (Kinda like the LightCast LED light show gadget.) The bulb plugs into any fixture and then its plasma beams go all willy nilly, responding to your each and every touch. Now, I’m not a scientist,…
Sensory Overload: CineMassive MasterPlex 21T
Looking to score some hefty multi-screen real estate? The MasterPlex 21T LCD array is an all Samsung affair, built on a 21-inch panel, flanked top and sides by five 17-inch panels. By our calculations, that’s 8,473,600 pixels, which CineMassive guarantees to be dead-pixel free. Looks amazing, but the $3,299 setup smells fishy. The setup’s top…