Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Exploding Gas Bubbles
"Something I built, a simple machine that produce gas filled bubbles. and a high voltage grill that ignites them." More from ariel.chico
Labels: art
Friday, January 26, 2007
Scientist Develops Caffeinated Doughnuts
Doctor Robert Bohannon, a Durham, North Carolina, molecular scientist, says he's developed a way to add caffeine to baked goods, without the bitter taste of caffeine. Each piece of pastry is the equivalent of about two cups of coffee. LinkLabels: food, toomuchtimeonhands
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Big Brother Google Wants to Take Your Picture
Google Australia is celebrating Australia Day 2007 by photographing Sydney Harbour from the air, and we want to make sure as many of us as possible squeeze into the picture. "The plane has permission to fly low and will be taking hi-resolution pictures ... Wear or do something distinctive to make sure you can spot yourself." LinkLabels: bigbrother, technology
Rare Shark Looks Pre-Historic
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Star Wars Space Battle ... in Hands
Labels: starwars, toomuchtimeonhands
Paper Robots 1999
"So, here he is. The greatest achievement Paper Robot has created to date ... now in color! The one, the only, OPTIMUS PRIME! And not only is he a fully articulate action figure, but he also TRANSFORMS INTO A TRUCK! Wow. The best part is, he´s FREE!" LinkLabels: art, toomuchtimeonhands, toys
Ford Unveils Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle
"Ford Motor Co. is joining the list of automakers working on a plug-in hybrid -- with a twist. It combines the convenience of plugging in your car with a zero-emissions hydrogen fuel cell. Ford on Tuesday is to display what it calls the world's first drivable fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle with plug-in capability. Called the Flexible Series Hybrid Edge, it represents the latest offering from automakers hoping to stake a claim to the next generation of highly efficient, alternative automobiles." LinkLabels: science, technology
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Pac-Man Bathroom
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Man Shoots Lightning From His Hand
This guys loves showing off by shooting lightning out of his hands even though it burns the tips of fingers off.
Labels: seemslikemagic
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Orville Redenbacher Resurrected to Sell More Popcorn
"ConAgra Foods is breaking a new campaign for Orville Redenbacher's gourmet popcorn from Crispin Porter + Bogusky during Monday's national broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, according to sources. The David Fincher-directed commercial digitally recreates the brand's nerdy iconic founder, who died in 1995." Link, Link2UPDATED: Video Link
Labels: deadcelebs, food, technology
Monday, January 15, 2007
Artist Feeds Friends Meatballs Made From His Own Fat
"Chilean artist Marco Evaristti presented his friends with his newest creation on Thursday night: Meatballs cooked with fat from his own body, extracted by liposuction. On the plates in front of them was a serving of agnolotti pasta and in the middle, a meatball made with the fat that Evaristti had removed from his body last last year." Link
Entire NES System in Controller
"Anyways, here's the info on the stuff I packed into this sweet little rectangular gaming goodie! Came with built-in pirate games, including the 2 player version of tetris, and a level select hacked Contra, among 70 or so more games. Nearly endless supply of old-school-nes there. I didn't even get to play every one before I gave it away, lol." Link Link2Labels: games, technology, toomuchtimeonhands
Friday, January 12, 2007
Multi-Player Online Game with Human Avatars
"Martin Butler presents four human avatars to play with. Log in at home with your character of choice. Direct the avatar, explore the space and challenge him or her. The avatars can also be observed live in their Analog Villa. Opening Friday 26 January 2007 at 20:00. When you use virtual avatars you can do as you please. In The Girlfriend Experience you will have to get to know each other first. Player and avatar explore what they can do for each other and how far the avatar wants to go to execute specific desires. It is ambiguous who is really controlling the situation. You have ten minutes to figure out what you can do with your avatar. After that, your time is up and another player can take your place." LinkLabels: art, life, technology, toomuchtimeonhands
MINI Motorboards
"MINI USA has placed interactive billboards in 4 US cities (Chicago, Miami, New York and San Francisco) and invited a few hundred MINI owners in those cities to join their targeted 'advertisement' pilot program. The owners sign up on MINI's website and receive an RFID keyfob in the mail. When that MINI owner drives by the billboard, a targeted message appears. Each owner tells MINI what to show when they drive by, such as 'Jim, you are one sexy beast.'" Link1, Link2
Labels: bigbrother, technology
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Boat Floats on Invisible Gas
"Get enchanted by a aluminum foil ship floating above ground on hexafluorid (gas significantly denser than air) at the Physikshow of the University of Bonn!"
Labels: seemslikemagic, technology
The Hair is the Hat
Pig Flavored Stamps
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
The Nerd's Jar of Fireflies
"The flash patterns have been digitized from firefly behavioral research data found online and were modeled in Mathematica so that variations of speed and intensity could be generated. The final output was transformed by a lightness function and written into header files as 8-bit PWM data." Link
Labels: technology, toomuchtimeonhands
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
"The Thinker" Shrunken
Using lasers, Korean researchers have crafted a microscopic version of Rodin's famed sculpture "The Thinker" just about twice the size of a red blood cell at 20 millionths of a meter high. The scientists scanned a replica of Rodin's popular masterpiece "The Thinker," originally sculpted in 1880, and created a version 93,000 times smaller than the roughly 6-foot-high original. MoreLabels: technology
I will never get my ThinkPad
Early last December (the 5th to be exact) I placed a hefty order for a top-of-the-line IBM ThinkPad. The estimated build time was 5 to 10 days and I got 2 day shipping. I wanted the laptop by the end of the year and I wanted to write it off as a business expense for 2006. The estimated ship date of December 19 came and went. I emailed customer support asking what the delay was and got no response. I called customer support and they told me that not all the parts were in stock to build the laptop. I was upset because I needed the laptop for a couple of year-end meetings but figured it would still ship before the end of the year and I'd be able to write it off. Then the estimated ship date jumped to 1/9/07. So much for the tax write off. Yesterday I looked at my order and saw that the estimated ship date was back to 12/19/06. I emailed customer support asking what was going on and what the real ship date was going to be. I got no response. Today is 1/9/07 and I logged in to check my order status and the estimated ship date is now 2/7/07. I immediately called customer support and canceled the order. They had no explanation why it would take 2 months to build and ship a laptop.Labels: incompetence, technology
Monday, January 8, 2007
Stephen Hawking to Prep for Space Trip
Stephen Hawking, renown British theoretical physicist, announced his intention to travel to space on board a Virgin Galactic spacecraft for his 65th birthday. He will prep for the space flight on one of those planes that simulates micro gravity.Labels: space, technology
Friday, January 5, 2007
When an Energy-Efficient Light Bulb Dies
One of those energy-efficient light bulbs from Ikea just died. It had been in service for only 3 months. The bulb started flickering and then strobing and finally went off. I didn't notice when it went off all the way, but then I heard a click and smelled something. I immediately unplugged the lamp. I took out the light bulb. The base of it looks burned and it smells like fried electronics in here. Good thing it's warm outside - I had to open the windows to air the place out.Labels: technology
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Elephant Toothpaste
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Tiny Aquariums!
Rony Suzuki and Fabio Yoshida are veteran aquatic gardeners who have made some really awesome tiny aquariums.Labels: animals, toomuchtimeonhands
Grow Plants in your Keyboard
This fellow grew some plants in his keyboard. There must have been a lot of crumbs in there for them to break down into soil rich enough to support plant life...Labels: life, toomuchtimeonhands
My Pet Penguin
Non-Lethal Viruses to "Neutralize" Cities
Here's a real-life idea I remember seeing in the scifi movie Serentity: Defense researchers are "developing 'biological agents' -- including ones that can lead to 'inflammation of the brain, coma and death' -- for 'incapacitating' enemies on the battlefield or 'neutralizing hostile cities.' It's one of a number of head-scratching ideas University of Bradford researcher Neil Davison reveals in his new report, 'The Early History of 'Non-Lethal' Weapons.' (Two others: military-strength strobe lights and 'odor warfare.')" Great. Just what we need: a Middle East full of Reavers.
More at: http://www.defensetech.org/archives/003104.html
More at: http://www.defensetech.org/archives/003104.html
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