Archive for May 2014

We’ve all heard the old saying “bringing a knife to a gunfight,” which refers to the idea that you’ve clearly underestimated your foes or competition. In this case, you can bring a gun to a knife fight, and it still won’t give you any meaningful advantage.

Robotics is a very interesting field, but buying a decent robot that is already built can be well out of reach for many folks. To address this, Intel and Trossen Robotics have announced that it will be putting open source robot kits on the market later this year that are reasonably affordable.

A couple of years ago we featured Garrett Mace’s LED Matrix Shades, which are sunglasses that have rows of programmable LEDs instead of lenses. You can get a pair of those from Garrett’s online store, but you might want to wait for his RGB Shades.

When not chasing down Nazis and uncovering ancient artifacts, Indy occasionally likes to entertain. Have some friends over for dinner. Good thing he learned a thing or two from Temple of Doom. Chilled monkey brains always go over well.

This light painting looks super eerie as we see an otherworldly Pac-Man being chased by ghosts as if they just broke through to our reality. That would be scary as hell. Luckily this is just a light painting by photographer and light artist Michael Bosanko.

This General Grievous cosplay is pretty clever. It uses Grievous’ cape to conceal the wearer’s legs, making it look even more authentic. You only see the metallic skeleton of the bad guy. It looks pretty scary.

We’ve seen 3D printers make chocolate, pizza, pasta and more. Here’s one that prints fruits. Or rather, “fruits.” Developed by English company Dovetailed, the printer uses drops of fruit juice to form food using a culinary process called spherification.

Car Pool Tables, based in Largo, Florida, takes old sports cars and muscle cars and turns them into unique pool tables. If you have money to burn and don’t mind that these classic cars have been chopped up a bit, this should be your next car purchase.

Google has unveiled a prospective design for its driverless cars and it sure is interesting. While most of the Google autonomous cars we have seen have been based on other production models, this Google driverless car prototype is something completely different.

I’ve never hid the fact that I find garden gnomes creepy. The little buggers look like they are watching you every step you take. If you want to rid your garden of annoying gnomes, you need the Rampaging Kaiju Garden Gnome.

This fan-made Doctor Who trailer for series 8 is pretty neat. It features Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor and Jenny Coleman as Clara Oswald, his latest companion.

A company called MarBlue has come up with a solution for kid-proof headphones that’s so simple you’ll regret not coming up with it and getting mad funds on Kickstarter. They’re called HeadFoams, a pair of headphones with its electronics encased in soft, flexible and non-toxic EVA foam.

Now you can talk on your mobile phone in the cold and be relatively comfy. There’s no need to have cold ears. Now you can be chatty and keep those ears warm and toasty at the same time thanks to these Bluetooth Ear Muffs.

Terrorize your action figures with ThinkGeek’s ominous toy. The Infinite Dungeon Corridor looks like a never-ending hallway. What lies at the end? Does it even end? Is this… is this Final Fantasy XIII?! Dun dun duuuun!

Eventually we will have to bow down to our robot overlords. We already know that robots of the future will be able to do just about everything that we can do. They will be stronger and faster than us as well.

I am a big fan of the Call of Duty video games and I am waiting in anticipation for the next entry to land. The next game is called Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and it will launch on November 4, 2014.