The game Monopoly is going global. That’s not just a marketing phrase. It’s literally going global thanks to an online edition which extends the board to theoretically cover every street in the world. Monopoly City Streets, which launches today, will use Google Maps as its game board. Players around the world will start with $3 […]
Today, Focus.com has posted a list of what they consider to be the 10 best (and 10 worst) companies for customer service. Customers want good customer service, but if companies can just hire good PR people to cover problems up, how do we, as customers, ever demand that companies improve. We thought that a good […]
A good reason why non-tech savvy parents should be banned from Facebook:
Designed by Hyuk Jae Chang, The PowerBridge has to be one of the most elegant and brilliant re-invention of a power strip I’ve ever seen! This is definitely one of those things that makes you slap your forehead and say “Why didn’t I think of that? [Via YankoDesign]
While many students would surely like to own a 48-inch multi-touch screen, most don’t have the cash to buy a Microsoft Surface device. But a group of engineering students at the University of Waterloo in Ontario didn’t see that as a problem: they just built their own. Their device does not strictly work on touch, […]
Yes, it all makes perfect sense now! Pies are circular and Pi is often referred as the circular constant. No need to dig further, this has to be the truth. Edit: Before I get another email telling me I’m an idiot for posting this *sigh* , here’s a quick explanation of the true origin of […]
This ad was produced by Crudeladies, a Mexican ad agency, to promote Scribe notebooks. The work was done in just under 2 weeks using After effect, Photoshop, and 3ds max.
Subtle Confusion is an groovy little CG animation that took the 3rd place at Assembly 09 short film compo, and even though it has no real story in itself, it’s well worth checking out:
Jim Hines is a fantasy writer who writes about goblins and princesses. Neil Gaiman is, of course, famous for writing awesome comic books and creepy stories and a blog before it was super trendy. Oh, and Chuck Norris is a guy who spawned a list of facts and has another fist under his beard. Apparently […]
At his day job, Steve Truglia flips cars, walks through fire and falls out of buildings — pushing technology to make stunts bigger, safer, more awesome. In the following video presentation, he talks us through his next stunt: the highest jump ever attempted, from the very edge of space.