Archive for May 2014

This must have been one of the episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation where the crew was tripping balls. Strangely I don’t remember watching this one when it first aired. Now that I have… Well, I’ll never look at Trek the same way again.

I really liked True Blood for the first couple of seasons and then it started to really get weird. I stopped watching it. With the end of the series coming, I wanted to catch up, and Amazon has announced that it now has some seasons of the show on Amazon Instant Video, including free streaming of some shows on Amazon Prime.

The Urban Armor Dress designed by Kathleen McDermott will protect your personal space if people get too close. It has two proximity detectors that make the dress expand outward like an umbrella if somebody is standing too close.

NASA has unveiled its latest flying test vehicle called thee Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator project or LDSD. The project has created a vehicle that looks like the flying saucers we normally expect to see in science fiction.

Apple already has a Find My iPhone feature, but what if you’re sure that your iOS device is just somewhere nearby? Matt Wiechec’s app Marco Polo was designed for those instances. It lets you locate your device by shouting “Marco!”

LEGO Ideas member Ysomt recently submitted his concept for a playset for S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Helicarrier. Ysomt made the mockup on LEGO Digital Designer, ending up with a model that’s about 7ft. long, 4ft. wide and is made of 22,694 bricks.

Groupon is a service that lots of shoppers around the country take advantage of to get big discounts at stores and places to eat among other things. The company has announced that it is set to start rolling out a new point of sale system to its merchants that will be more convenient for users and for the merchants.

I’ve already seen several coffee tables that look like a giant NES controller, but this is the first time I’ve seen one modeled after an SNES controller. Perhaps it’s that the Super Nintendo’s controller isn’t as iconic, but it still makes for a pretty awesome conversation piece. This Super Nintendo controller table was designed by Charles Lushear of Bohemian Workbench, and it looks like a dead ringer for the original SNES gamepad, complete with purpley-blue buttons.

If you want to broaden your horizons and take care of your health by stretching and doing yoga, you don’t have to give up your manliness. These yoga accessories for dudes can help.

The SlideRider looks like a lot of fun. It is basically a set of connected folding mats that turn an ordinary staircase into a slide. It will be so crazy fun that you won’t want to stop there.

Were you about to buy Oculus Rift when Facebook snatched it? Fuming that Google’s going to get Twitch before you do? Why not aim for some low-hanging fruit? This June, Bonhams will be auctioning off two of Apple’s old headquarters signs.

Do you have any photos on your Instagram feed that would look awesome on a pair of shoes? Well, if you do, Adidas is going to make it happen. Their upcoming #zxflux Photo Print App will allow you to take a photo and get the image printed onto their ZX Flux sneakers.

We like our LEGO around these parts and a new story has surfaced from Sweden that makes our hearts and heads hurt. As the story goes, a LEGO collector is being forced to sell his LEGO collection by his wife.

You might have seen these two images floating online over the past few months, featuring two stages of Super Mario Bros. laid end-to-end on four widescreen monitors. The images were uploaded by Twitter user Morikuma_Works, and he pulled it off using Josh Goldberg’s Full Screen Mario.

The Sada Bike was created by Italian designer Gianluca Sada. Believe it or not, this is a bicycle with a frame that can fold down to the size of an umbrella, so you can carry it with you anywhere and store it wherever you like.

These slug and snail earbuds are pretty clever, but also pretty gross. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want any slugs or snails sticking their heads in my ear and whispering sweet nothings when music isn’t playing.