Archive for January 2011

By reversing the rules of geocaching, Arduino Forum member RickP has come up with a great way to hide treasure or play a game. In case you’re not familiar with the game, geocaching involves looking for hidden containers – geocaches – using GPS devices. It’s a more precise way of…

It might not be as polished as these Star Trek burial containers, but Hu Chuang’s tombstone is equally geeky:

Hu Chuang’s parents also kept his email address open so his loved ones can keep sending him messages, “because, who knows, maybe he can read them on the other side.”… Indeed.

Yeah, we too thought Darth Vader was building the Death Star as a weapon of mass intergalactic destruction. Turns out the Death Star was actually built to do something much more important – to protect the Empire’s delicious cookies.…

Would you believe what you’re looking at is a PC? Yep. This set of orbs is a completely functional Windows 7 PC, courtesy of the guys at Korea’s Moneaul.…

All geeks tend to travel with lots of gadgets. I travel with cameras, video cameras, portable game consoles, smartphones, and tablets. The thing I always worry about is if I have to go by plane, the electronics will get broken in the bins or under the seat if the bag…

I have never been one to frequent LAN parties, but I once went to Quakecon and there were several people there that had some of their peripherals stolen while they were sleeping or getting food. NZXT has a new accessory for your computer that will prevent your mouse, keyboard, and…

Like almost everyone in the US, you’re probably anticipating the new CDMA-enabled iPhone from Verizon so you can finally ditch AT&T’s awful network. Once it’s available and you’ve switched to a new network and new iPhone, you don’t have to throw your old AT&T iPhone 4 away. Instead, you can…

Dell pulled the Streak 7 out of its hat at CES last week and the immediate thing that most of us wanted to know was at what point the computer maker decided to hamstring its tablet with the wrong OS. The Streak 7 runs Android 2.2 rather than Android 3.0…

Well, they’ve done it again. Tokyoflash has made another one of those cool concept watches into reality. The idea behind the Kisai Console was posted on their blog back in February 2010. And now it’s going to be on hipster’s wrists everywhere!…

Ever played a game of Sudoku? I went through a phase a little while back where I was obsessed with the game. I love solving puzzles, and these fancy number games were rather addictive. I made it a goal to be able to beat them without any sort of note-taking.…