Author Archive: Shane McGlaun
Missile-Firing Griffin Helo TC Assault Copter Flies Skyward
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Griffin has been selling some interesting little remote control helicopters for a while. The little helicopters are controlled by iOS devices such as an iPhone or an iPad. I’ve used them before and I can say that they can be difficult to control. There is something appealing about flying toys… |
March 24th, 2012
Bird Man Video Maker Admits It Was Fake
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I want to get this off my chest off the top: You bird man, you bastard you! Now that that is out of the way, Dutch filmmaker and animator Floris Kaayk has admitted that video that went viral earlier this week of a man claiming to fly with bird-like wings was… |
March 23rd, 2012
Microsoft Project Detroit Mustang: If TRON Drove a Pony Car
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When Microsoft decides to do a custom car, you can bet it’s going to be packed with all sorts of technology. Microsoft teamed up with custom car modders West Coast Customs on the design and dubbed the car Project Detroit. If you can believe it, this Mustang started life as… |
March 23rd, 2012
Life-Size Inflatable Portal 2 Sentry Turret Doesn’t Blame You
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I bet more than a few of you are fans of the game Portal and Portal 2.… Besides GLaDOS, the Companion Cube, Wheatley and Cave Johnson, one of the most memorable things Chell had to deal with are those pesky turrets lying around the environment. ThinkGeek has a long and |
March 22nd, 2012
Einstein Archives Go Online Sharing Genius with Us Normal Folk
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Albert Einstein was a scientific bad-ass. I think we can all agree on that. Einstein gave us theories that explain some of the most unexplainable things about our universe. Scientists still live by many of his theories, such as the theory of general relativity despite the fact that Einstein has… |
March 22nd, 2012
MIT Camera Can See Around Corners with Frickin’ Lasers
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If you take anything and tell me it uses laser beams, you have my attention. MIT has a very cool new camera that they’ve been working on it uses lasers to allow it to take photos of what’s going on around the corner. It’s an impressive technology, and the way… |
March 21st, 2012
Bird Man Flies with Homemade Wings?
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Jarno Smeets is either one bad-ass geek or a bold-faced liar. This dude appears to have created one of my lifelong dreams using kite fabric and engineering prowess. Smeets has built for himself and one pair of flapping wings that apparently allow him to actually fly like a bird. I… |
March 21st, 2012
Batmobile Drag Race: Let’s Hope Nobody Loses a Wheel
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The first episode of the new geek series has aired and the episode is up on YouTube right now. The series is called Super Power Beat Down… and the initial episode pits two well-known Batmobiles against each other in a drag race. I’m sure we’re all familiar with the 1966 |
March 20th, 2012
Kid Icarus: Uprising Includes Lamest Accessory in History of Game Consoles
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Nintendo has a long and storied history of offering lame accessories for its game consoles. The trend started back in the original Nintendo console days when he had R.O.B. – that robot that would pick up spinning gyroscopes in tune with the game, and never seemed to sync up and… |
March 20th, 2012
FAA Promises a “Fresh Look” at Gadget Use on Flights
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The FAA cleared the iPad and other devices for use in cockpits of commercial aircraft by pilots late last year. The approval was made to reduce the load on pilot by allowing them to have digital copies of charts and flight manuals rather than roughly 30 pounds of books with… |
March 19th, 2012
