Mattel just unveiled Barbie’s 125th and 126th careers – and by popular demand, Winter 2010 will bring us (along with News Anchor Barbie, much less interesting) Computer Engineer Barbie! The Society of Women Engineers and the National Academy of Engineering worked with Mattel on designing her wardrobe and accessories. It’s a little over-the-top (binary and […]
The card payment industry has rejected claims by British researchers that a system used for validating in-person payments has a major security flaw. Computer scientists at Cambridge University have been investigating the “chip and pin” system. That’s a branding name used in the country for EMV (Europay, Mastercard and Visa), a technology used increasingly around […]
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] Back in April we published “The Cure for Cancer“ and got a fantastic response from our readers. It seems you folks are really interested in the topics of cancer science and cancer research. Maybe because, unlike other diseases, cancer eventually effects everyone because it is a “disease of […]
If you’re a fan of HR Giger’s Alien and are planning to get married soon, here’s a cake design you might want to consider choosing: Ok, we have to admit that a cake like that might freak out your guests just a little, and they might worry ending up having a chest buster trying to […]
Made by Jamie Bell as an end of class project for an art course, A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything is a brilliant stop motion short produced entirely out of biro pens. The whole thing has been drawn on over 2100 pages, which took him about 3 weeks to complete.
Photoshop turns 20 today. The photo-editing software has become one of the few pieces of technology where the brand name has become a verb, others including “to Google” and to a lesser extent “to eBay” (an action often performed on unwanted Christmas gifts.) Strictly speaking, the software was first distributed in 1988, though this was […]
While in no way as awesome as the Original Bacon Explosion, this sausage roll stuffed with a cheesy double beef burrito from Taco Bell certainly looks unhealthy yummy… but why on earth did the creator forget to put a bacon wrap around the thing is beyond me! [Via EpicPortions]
After over a year of near-weekly pics posts, sometimes it’s a challenge to come up with a new topic. Sometimes I just go to Flickr and put in “geeky” as a keyword and look around for a while until something catches my fancy. Sometimes a theme will simply emerge from things that show up; for […]
Two days later and people are still wondering why exactly Google chose to advertise on television for the first time during the SuperBowl. But while the commercial probably won’t have introduced Google to anyone for the first time, there are still some valid reasons to have made the move: It got people talking. Most of […]
Controversial message board site 4chan claims it has been blocked by Verizon Wireless. It’s the second time it has made such a claim against a major internet provider, following on from similar accusations against AT&T last summer. If you’ve never come across 4chan, it’s technically a collection of image-sharing boards, though one such board (known […]