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Louvre to Use Nintendo 3DS During Tours
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If you enjoy art and history, take a trip to the Louvre in France, where they will soon be using Nintendo 3DS’ during their tours. I think they are trying to appeal to the younger generation and get more visitors.… |
December 16th, 2011
Field of Lights is the Ultimate Holiday Light Show
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Most people string Christmas lights around their trees or by the window, but who says you can’t get creative with lights this holiday season?… |
November 28th, 2011
Video Card Museum: This Building Can Run Crysis
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Like many PC gamers, Alexander aka SArd always wanted to have the best graphics cards so he could play the latest games. Back in 1998, SArd got his hands on his uncle’s PC, which had an Intel Celeron 266 CPU – the first ever Celeron processor – an S3 ViRGE… |
August 5th, 2011
Catch the Mobile Museum – If You Can
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I’ve never been a huge fan of museums. They’re places chock full of priceless works of art and pieces, I know, but I’m a huge fan of interaction, and that’s not something you can really do in most cases, otherwise security will come stomping their way to you.… |
August 5th, 2011
Own Your Own 20-Foot Triceratops for Just $350k
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If you’ve always been fascinated with the Jurassic Park… movies and somehow wished that you were alive in the era of the dinosaurs, then this might be something you might want to check out: the huge, life-like 20-foot Animatronic Triceratops, available from Hammacher Schlemmer. |
July 4th, 2011
Behold… The Beeramid
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I am not a beer drinker, but my family is packed with pro-beer connoisseurs. These are the guys that know the beer delivery guy by name and get gifts from Budweiser at Christmas. The only way you will lure some of these people into a museum is if you gave… |
May 26th, 2011
TalkTorque 2 Robot Guides People at Museums and Creeps Them Out
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I admit that robots creep me out. It goes back to watching Saturn 3 as a kid. Even cute Johnny 5 couldn’t cure me of the creepies. This odd robot form Japan called Talk-Torque 2 [JP] falls somewhere in between Johnny 5 and Hector on the creepy scale for me.… |
December 24th, 2010
Darth Saddam: Artist Reveals Parallelisms Between Infamous Villains
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Do diabolical minds look up to villains in the same way that good men and women idolize heroes? In his exhibition, “cultural archeologist” Michael Rakowitz presents evidence that Saddam Hussein may have fancied himself to be like the Sith Lord Darth Vader. The exhibition is entitled “The worst condition is … |
February 26th, 2010
Vacuum Cleaner Museum: a Place for Things That Suck
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He’s not the Godfather of Soul, but Nottingham, England’s own James Brown is a bit popular as well, not as an artist but as a geek. You see, Brown collects vacuum cleaners. The 30-year old Brown has been collecting Roomba’s ancestors since he was eight years old, when he found… |
February 22nd, 2010
Vintage Calculators Web Museum: the Accountant’s Happy Place
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If you think that a bunch of old calculators isn’t as interesting as a collection of old toy robots, well you’re mostly right. A calculator is useful – hell, even an abacus is more useful than a toy robot - but it’s also one of the most boring gadgets ever.… |
October 7th, 2009
