By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] So it’s that time of year – late April, end of spring semester, when college students all over are getting ready for exams. Some are studying hard, and some are hardly studying, but most of them are sleep deprived. So whether you are fondly remembering your school days as [...]
This one is for all the geeky ladies reading us: Jeri Ellsworth is one hell of a geekette. She took a NES/C64-on-a-chip system, an lcd screen from a portable DVD player, 2 NES controllers, and assembled everything on a purse for the ultimate in female geek fashion. Unfortunately, I don’t think Jeri plans to commercialize [...]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] From postmodernbarney.com, a list of uncomfortable plot summaries. With geeks in mind, some of my favorites: ALIENS: An unplanned pregnancy leads to complications. BATMAN: Wealthy man assaults the mentally ill. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: Teenage serial killer destroys town in fit of semi-religious fervor. DOCTOR WHO: Elderly man serially [...]
Asimo, Honda’s clever little humanoid robot, has certainly came a long way since it took its first steps back in 1986.
Many naughty children have been ordered to hand over video game controllers and disks to their rightful owners. Now Activision, makers of Guitar Hero, have suffered the same fate. It’s the result of a legal case involving Activision and Genius Products, both of whom are working on DJ-related games. Genius is working on a game [...]
Dubbed as a “Chevy Volt on Steroids”, this Eco-friendly H3 runs on a Raser electrical engine that gets upwards of 100 miles per gallon, about twice the efficiency of a Toyota Prius in the city. With an acceleration of 0 to 60 in 8.5 seconds and a total range of 400 miles, this green Hummer [...]
Right after completing their Masters degrees in Manufacturing Engineering at Cambridge University, Tom Baynham and Ben Tyers proceeded in building one of the most amazing Rube Goldberg Machine I’ve ever seen. Check it out.
The Orion Network Configuration Manager (NCM) simplifies the management of network configuration files in multi-vendor network environments. Its intuitive web interface offers point-and-click simplicity and easy access to configuration data. With Orion, you’ll no longer need to manually Telnet or SSH into devices to change configurations. Orion NCM gives you: * Intuitive Point-and-Click Interface * [...]
How this kind of situation ever happened or why it appeared in a local German newspaper is beyond me. In any cases, whether this is fake or not, I don’t really care. I just know the whole situation is hilarious. [Via Geekologie]
Filmed during a recent rugby competition at “Le Stade de France” in Paris, the following footage was captured in HD by Vimeo user David Coiffier at 1000 Frames per second. Check it out! The jello shot looks particularly amazing.
A Japanese cellphone provider plans to sell a waterproof, solar-powered handset later this year. The firm says it will be exclusive to Japan, but the technology appears to be particularly useful for some developing nations. Manufactured by Sharp, the device is set up so that solar power can recharge the battery to 80% of capacity. [...]
Festo, a company we’ve featured here on [GaS] in the past for their extraordinary work on various forms of strange robotic organisms, is back with a new video showcasing the latest toys out of their development labs: two robotic penguins, a robotic hand… and a robotic wall. Yes, you read that right: A friggin’ robotic [...]
