Archive for July 2011

Let me start out by saying that I really dislike the red Angry Bird. Not the big red one, the regular-size one that seems fully incapable of doing anything other than bouncing off of surfaces and not knocking over anything. So I’m not sure I’d be the first to order…

[Update: Scott Brooks, IBM Research VP of Marketing and Communications has written to us to say that this is absolutely not the case, and that there are no plans to use Watson for telemarketing. See Scott's comment below.]
If you follow the tech world or just like Jeopardy,… one of

If you try to tell me you have never played air guitar in your life, I will call you a liar. We have all done it while thinking how cool it would be to really be able to rock the way your favorite musicians can. I would bet that a…

I could never be like PlayStation collector Ahans76 is. I buy plenty of video games and still have a number of PS2 games floating around from back in the day. Generally, I would have the games open to check out before we left the parking lot of wherever I bought…

Here’s our weekly quota for an unusual and complicated alarm clock, courtesy of Instructables member / Arduino enthusiast / geeky torturer Nolte919. His alarm clock requires the user to play a game of Tetris… and clear not one, but four lines on the tiny screen before it turns off the alarm.

Remember Kevin Walter and his LEGO Barad-dûr? If you think that was the most awesome thing that could have been at Brickworld 2011, you’d both be right and wrong. Because as it turns out, that huge tower is just part of an even more massive project that won Best Group Layout…

I don’t think that Darth Vader has needed a hair dryer for a very long time, unless you count the few years that he was still a Jedi apprentice. He did have pretty long, flowing locks back then. Tembolat Gugkaev thought it was a good idea to use Darth Vader’s…

While I don’t know how good the sound is from this little card-case speaker from Japan is, it certainly looks nice. You’ll be able to carry around a speaker in your pocket. Since they look pretty trendy, you can imagine that you’ll end up paying a premium for it, though.…

I had a friend who relied a lot on chance. Back in college, when we were having our exams, he would etch the letters A to E on the different faces of his pencil, near the eraser. Towards the end of the test, I would hear odd noises from his…

You might remember those weird glasses made with human hair that we talked about a few days back.
Now we bring you more hair-raising works of art made with human hair, and this time, you’re supposed to wear these on your neck. No resin holding these together this time, though.…