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LEGO Life of George Tests Your Brick-Building Skills with Your iPhone

Just how good are you at creating LEGO masterpieces? LEGO Life of George,… has LEGO teaming up with Apple’s iPhone or iPod Touch and it will test your skills and see just how good you are at creating things to spec. Be fast, but be accurate.

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September 29th, 2011 by: Conner Flynn

Daft Wars: Around the Death Star

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This isn’t the first Star Wars …and Daft Punk connection I’ve seen, but instead of featuring our favorite future ‘bots from Daft Punk in the cantina with C-3PO, it shows them being arrested by some evil stormtroopers.

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May 20th, 2011 by: Range

Cool Gtw18 Mobile Phone Gets Crappy Built-in Projector, Useless Analog Tv and Dvr – Not Cool at All

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This new mobile phone out of China may look like your average smartphone, but under the hood it’s actually packing a tiny little projector. Too bad the images it produces look pretty horrendous.

The inappropriately named COOL GTW18 features a 3.2-inch 240 x 400 touchscreen display, and touts a built…

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March 15th, 2010 by: Technabob

Official LEGO iPhone App Converts Images Into LEGO Mosaics… That’S It!

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LEGO has just released an official iPhone App. Is it as cool as you think it will be? Maybe, maybe not.

There’s just something about LEGOs that is completely timeless. Even though it’s been years since I used the bricks, I still love anything that’s connected to them. When I…

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December 31st, 2009 by: Range

Faceid: Open Locked Doors With Your Face

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Imagine someday walking up to the front door of your home of office, and instead of whipping out your keys or RFID keycard, you stare into a facial recognition device that decides whether or not you’re really you. While this sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, this…

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October 30th, 2009 by: Technabob

905 Ping Pong Balls Turned Into an Interactive Video Screen

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This unique art installation uses a canvas of 905 individual ping pong balls as a projection surface for interactive video imagery.

For his work titled 905…, artist maybites suspended 67 strings of ping pong balls in a cylindrical formation, with each ball acting as a sort of pixel for

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October 29th, 2009 by: Technabob

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Pac-Man Pain Assessment Chart: Maybe You’D Feel Better if You Ate Some Cherries and Pretzels?

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Pac-Man pain assessment gauge, spotted on Flickr. Currently, I feel a little Woopop myself.…

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February 3rd, 2009 by: Technabob

Kirlian Images: Electricity Meets Photography

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No, these striking images weren’t made using Photoshop trickery. They were actually taken using a unique process which involves placing photographic paper onto an object, placing them both on a high-voltage plate, then cranking up the juice.

Referred to as Kirlian photography, the technique dates back to a 1939 discovery…

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January 25th, 2008 by: Technabob

Aperture: Light-Reactive Interactive Display

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I’m not sure how I missed this amazing interactive display concept when it first surfaced, but it’s cool enough that I thought it deserved a mention, even if it is but a distant memory.

The system used an array of thousands of individual mechanical irises, each designed to react to…

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January 1st, 2008 by: Technabob

Tiny Projector Fits in Your Pocket

Oculon Hikari Pro920 Pocket Projector

While a number of companies are working on miniature video projection technology, every one I’ve seen is still just at the prototype stage. While it’s not as tiny as some of the designs being shown by TI, Microvision and Explay, these projectors are actually available for purchase.

China’s Oculon has…

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November 20th, 2007 by: Technabob

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