A British intelligence agency is to recruit staff via Xbox Live. But sadly it’s not a case of hunting down the players with the best scores in stealth and puzzle games. Instead the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is to advertise through videos played on the main dashboard screen. The agency says that not only is […]
We all know it, traffic jams that seem to happen for no apparent reason is one of the biggest source of frustration for drivers. I can definitely relate to that. Fortunately, dear fellow drivers, our frustration now has an explanation! The phenomenon has recently been re-created for the first time on a test-track by a […]
…and 14*5 = 25. Watch the video below for the reasoning behind this.
Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web built around the core tenets of speed, simplicity and security. This is a demo video to give you a feel for the Google Chrome OS user experience.
In order to spark kid’s interest in robotics at an Illinois’ Boy Scout Jamboree, Engineer Dan Toborowski built this amazing accelerometer-controlled marble maze. Check it out: I recently completed a project involving wireless control of a Parallax BOE-Bot using an accelerometer and decided to adapt this system to control a custom-built 2 axis maze assembly. […]
Made using 3ds Max, this video demonstrates what Earth would look like if it had a ring system like Saturn. [Via Videosift]
There’s an app store for the iPhone, the BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile, and pretty much every mobile device you can imagine. Including a pen. Sadly this isn’t for your humble Bic, though I’d happily subscribe to a magical USB auto-refill function. Instead its for the Livescribe Pulse, the digital pen at the heart of a […]
While not really geek-related, this is just too funny not to post. Enjoy!
Minnesota linguist d’Armond Speers has a doctorate in computational linguistics. He says he isn’t much of a Star Trek fan. But he spent the first three years of his son’s life speaking to him only in Klingon! “I was interested in the question of whether my son, going through his first language acquisition process, would […]
Yes, with the power of the iPhone Blower app, you’ll be able to use your iPhone to blow candles out wherever you go!