Dillon Markey, an animator that creates shorts for Robot Chicken and PES, needed a tool to help him work more efficiently, so along with the help of an electrical engineer, he modified a Nintendo Power Glove and transformed it in one of the most awesome animation tool ever. Check it out! [Ava Benjamin]
A project looking for crowdfunding turns bicycle handlebars into a GPS navigation and security device. smrtGRiPS is designed to make it safer to use GPS and other mapping devices on a bike. The gadget comes in two parts: a pair of grips to replace the ones already on your handles, and a pair of waterproof, […]
The “neon boneyard” out in Vegas is pretty much exactly as awesome as it sounds. It is a place where all those dead neon signs you see lighting up every corner crawl off to when they die. It’s technically called the neon museum, but as you see these shots of walking among the corpses of […]
After flying his new DJI phantom 2 drone for a whole day, Zwier Spanjer had to plunge into a pond to save it from certain death after the battery got depleted. [Zwier Spanjer]
As part of its New Year sale, Thinkgeek is offering hundreds of items starting at just $4.99 each, including A LOT of pretty sweet t-shirts, hoodies, geek toys, gadgets, and A LOT MORE! [Thinkgeek’s Monster Winter Clearance – Hundreds of Items Starting at Just $4.99] ———————–
Empire Robotics have built a pretty impressive robot in the form of the Versaball. It is a simple robot arm that can do some really cool, simple things that would make your own life immeasurably easier (to help you change light bulbs and such). But apparently, while sitting around the lab figuring out other uses […]
One minute, you see what you think might be the meekest man ever trying to sell you a keyboard from the 90’s, then he busts out his drum skills on said keyboard and you realize one of two things: One, I need to own that keyboard. Two, I vastly underestimated both that man and that […]
Concluding our look back at the stories we covered during 2014 and what happened next, we turn to November. The Unicode Consortium, which develops standards to make sure characters appear consistently across different software and systems, unveiled proposals for changes to emoji, a system of characters for expressing emotions. It suggested the option to choose between […]
Continuing our look at the stories we covered in 2014 and subsequent developments, we turn to September. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani argued that blocking Internet access to cut down political protest was harming the country’s scientific progress. He also lifted a ban on broadband providers offering fast speeds on fixed lines and cellphone networks, something seen as […]
Youtuber Spark IO has taken a toy Sting sword and combined it with a Spark Core to transform it into a tool that glows when there are unsecured wi-fi networks nearby. To celebrate the launch of the new Hobbit flick, we made a version of Sting that turns blue near unsecured Wi-Fi networks. And when […]