Archive for April 2010

Now you’re probably are saying to yourself, why would I ever dress up my dog like a character from Super Mario Bros.…? And I’ll tell you that you need to do it so your furry friend can be just as humiliated as you are when you have to pick

As we all know, it won’t be long before we have to bow down to our robot masters, until then, the Chinese have decided to use robots as nannies. The Family Nanny Robot will help you around the house, until it patches into Skynet and takes over your home!

The…

OK, I am no rocket scientist or NASA researcher, but even I know that winds aloft can be much stronger than the winds on the ground. You would think that despite a day being deemed calm on the ground, a group of scientists might check wind speeds aloft in preparation…

Have you always wished that you could make your shiny new Mac look a bit more Steampunk-ish? Look no further, because Dave Quattrini has created a bunch of stickers that are made to stick onto your laptop and transform it into a vintage typewriter.

The good thing is that these…

Itching for a classic platforming game? Why not revisit the original Super Mario Bros.…? Oh sure, you’ve finished it tons of times, but that’s with Mario. Now you can adventure on the Mushroom Kingdom with Link, Samus, Simon Belmont, Mega Man and – this is just so unfair –

Recently, the nerds at Google had a minor eureka: not all languages use the same alphabet, and yet a large number of personal computers are equipped with keyboards that feature the Latin alphabet, which is the one used by the English language. To address this problem, there is now a…

…or so he says. The man you see below is Prahlad Jani. He’s being studied by India’s Defense Research Organization, because Jani claims that he hasn’t had anything to eat or drink in 70 years. The Telegraph says Jani is known as a breatharian, i.e. he only needs air to…

The new (old) Polaroid camera, the Polaroid 300, is about to be released in May. That’s great news, because I always liked the instant photos that Polaroids took. However, there’s some bad news: it costs $90 (USD). On top of that, you’ll have to pay $10 for just 10 shots.…

I am not a big fan of hot drinks. Usually I will drink a cup of hot chocolate around the holidays, but otherwise I stick to nice, cold Diet Dr. Pepper. The wife, on the other hand doesn’t function until she has a few cups of coffee in her.…

This is a great modern piece of stained glass art. It’s currently hanging on the wall of Peter Roof, and he says that he can make one for you too.

Peter is a Washington DC area TV/Video production guru and decided to show off his passion for the medium with…