Archive for December 2010

Let’s be honest, I’ve never had the patience to knit. My mom showed me how, and I did it for about 2 minutes before I went back to playing with my LEGOs. Then again, Correx37 made a robotic knitting machine which will knit your sweaters by itself. That sounds way…

Remember that little girl who loved Star Wars, but was bullied at school because Star Wars … was just for boys? She received an outpouring of support from geeks and geekettes everywhere, and companies started sending her stuff. And now, Darth Vader will take care of those pesky grade school

How often do you play your old NES? I bet you’d play it more if it were a guitar.

That’s right, someone out there got the brilliant idea to take an old NES and convert it into a fully-functional electric guitar. The console has been gutted, and replaced with solid…

You’d think that people who lost their arms would want a prosthetic that looked and worked much like real arms and hands do. However, University of Washington graduate Kaylene Kau found out that people with prosthetic arms tended to use their remaining flesh and bones hand as the dominant functioning…

Etsy seller Chrystal Doucette (aka Digitalsoaps) is kind of a big deal on the Internets because of her delightfully geeky bath products. This time, she’s outdone herself, making the most complicated soap I have ever seen:…

Who needs power pellets? Stop running from Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde! Just call 555-2368, and you’ll be specter-free in a jiffy.…

Can you believe that 12 months ago, if you had said the words “Angry Birds”, most people would have thought you were talking about an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Now, it’s the mobile gaming juggernaut of 2010. So what better way to pay tribute to those funny looking, grumpy avians than…

The WTF holiday ornament of the year:

Devoted minion Nifnaks hand-stitched this felt Cthulhu tree topper. It’s practically a stuffed toy, except with a ribbon at the back, so you can attach it and make it look like a monster is devouring your Christmas tree.…

Engineers from MIT CSAIL have figured out out how to get the Xbox 360 Kinect to not just sense larger body movements, but to actually detect individual fingertips in mid-air.…

I watched a lot of movies as a kid and one of my favorites was Top Secret. I laughed and laughed every time I watched it. The only flick I liked better was Monty Python and the Holy Grail…. SpaceX launched its Dragon spacecraft into orbit this week