Archive for July 2010

While you guys were probably staring at some other part of Dr. Manhattan’s glowing blue body in Watchmen, you can’t deny that his weird white eyeballs were a little disturbing too. Now you can freak out your friends with the same eyes, courtesy of these custom Dr. Manhattan contact lenses.…

According to the Telegraph, a remarkable experiment conducted at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejon, South Korea resulted in female mice “to reject the advances of their male counterparts and attempt to mate with fellow females.”… The modification involved deleting something called the FucM gene while

It’s a who’s who of Doctor Whos!

Looking at the Doc’s various incarnations, it’s evident that he’s getting younger and younger with every reincarnation. Just one of the perks of being a Time Lord I guess.…

New York Times correspondent Amy Harmon interviews “Bina48″ a robot who’s supposed to be a “digital backup” of a real person.…

YouTube’s recently released Leanback full-screen viewing experience is pretty cool, but it’s missing one critical component if you plan on watching it from across the room – a remote. I mean, really, do we really want to have a keyboard in our lap to watch TV? Nope, I didn’t think…

While it’s not as cool as those mini Marshall and ORANGE amps, this is certainly one of the more unusual portable amplifiers I’ve seen.

Hand-built by some guy simply going by the name “Marcn,” this isn’t any ordinary can of beans. It’s a can of HEINZ BEANZ, baked beans in…

Thanks to the smooth, flat edge of the iPhone 4, it’s the perfect surface for applying vinyl decals to protect the metal finish (and help with the phone’s antenna sensitivity issues when touching parts of the metal too). But why get some boring old sticker when you can have a…

One of the cons of using a laptop is that the screen is positioned below eye level, causing people to hunch and overall be in an uncomfortable sitting posture. It’s easy to solve this problem if you’re at home or in the office – you can either get a monitor,…

May 16, 2010 was the 400th anniversary of the death of Henry IV, King of Navarre and King of France. To commemorate this occasion, fireworks were lit around the statue of Henry IV in Paris.

Also it was encased in neon lights and given a lightsaber. Why? Why the hell…

Boing Boing reader Scott Lloyd and his wife dug up this great bit of retro computer history – a conversation with an old UNIVAC computer……