So probably ever since Phantom Menace came out it’s been cool to like Star Wars. Everyone’s jumping on the wagon it seems nowadays and George has been cashing in on it ever since. Remember the good ol’ days when it was just lunchboxes, backpacks and action figures? Now you’ve got clothing by Marc Ecko. Which […]
Regular readers will know we’ve covered plenty of stories about Apple’s approval policy for inclusion in the iTunes App Store: a policy that has seemed inconsistent to say the least. Now one company is threatening to take the matter to court. Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet recently developed an iPad app that aimed to repackage the […]
By Sterling “Chip” Camden Contributing Writer, [GAS] While manipulating the French Revolution for his own ends and conquering Europe in his spare time, Napoleon Bonaparte was first and foremost a geek at heart. He was passionate about science and math. Napoleon remembered his early school days like many of us: “every one said of me: […]
British engineers are exploring the possibility of a real-life sonic screwdriver. Bruce Drinkwater, professor of ultrasonics at Bristol University, doesn’t expect to make a working model particularly soon. But he’s working on at least proving the concept is possible. The idea is to build on existing work using ultrasonic forcefields to separate out diseased cells […]
[Via]
The days of unexpectedly loud TV commercials are numbered thanks to a bill that has just passed the US congress. The tenuously-named Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (that is, CALM) tackles a problem that dates back to the beginnings of commercial television and has attracted attention on both sides of the Atlantic: that the commercials […]
Graphic designer Brandon Peat and his lovely geeky wife collaborated and created this Star Wars ABC set of graphics for their son Tychus who will be arriving on our planet sometime in December. Being forward thinking geeks, they have created a donation drive for his future college fund and will be giving the prints in […]
[apachepics]
Teddies + zombies = Awesome! I’m not sure how we missed that when it came out for Halloween a few weeks ago, but you know what they say: better late than never! Enjoy!
A Japanese bid to bring the football World Cup to stadiums around the world via holograms has been rejected. Soccer’s governing body FIFA today announced that the 2022 finals will take place in Qatar. Japan was one of the bids for that tournament that reached the final vote. As part of a presentation to voters, […]