Friday Morning Fun: Medieval Helpdesk
An hilarious video showing what helpdesk support was like back in the days of the middle age. In Norwegian with English subtitles. [Via MUO]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Norton Commando Transformer
Being Geeks, I’m sure you all thought that this was going to be something related to Norton Antivirus, right? But no, we’re talking about Norton, the century-old motorcycle company here. Norton Commando Transformer was produced by Steve Twist for his Computer Visualization and Animation major project. Check it out, it’s pretty awesome. Transformer 2 might [...]
CG Roller-Skating Babies
An awesome new viral video from the folks at Evian featuring a bunch of roller-skating babies grooving their stuff to the sound of an old school tape player. This thing is sure to go viral in no time, because as everyone knows, anything that has to do with a dancing baby on the Intertubes will [...]
Twitter Quicker is Bing’s New Thing
Microsoft has begun to add some messages from Twitter to results from the Bing search engine. It comes as Microsoft celebrates a clear – though minute – growth in Bing’s usage. While Twitter’s audience is still relatively small in comparison to the web as a whole, it’s become a useful way to find information which [...]
WTF Trailer of the Day: RoboGeisha
Warning: Slightly NSFW. Contains blood and gore. Fried shrimp FTW!
Now that Firefox 3.5 is out, let the benchmark battles begin
Since the last time I posted browser benchmarks, Google Chrome jumped to version 2, Safari released version 4, Internet Explorer 8 was released, and just yesterday Firefox version 3.5 hit the intertubes. Furthermore, the Dromaeo JavaScript benchmarks have been refined and expanded since then, so it’s high time we update the numbers. I ran Dromaeo’s [...]
The Walkman turns 30
Thirty years ago, Sony began selling a device which would not be an easy sell today. It was a portable music player with a battery life of around three hours, with which you had to choose the music you wanted to listen to before setting off on your journey, could only play tracks in a [...]
The Game Doctor: Another Way to Make Kids Hate Their Parents
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Some of the gadget blogs were reporting on the “game doctor” before it was released in June, but now that the mainstream media has picked up the story, you can be sure that more moms will be hearing about this device and thinking, “Oh, that’s brilliant!” This isn’t the [...]
Free-Running Robot Does Death-Defying Stunts
Created for Nike by visual effects studio Big Lazy Robot, this promotional clip features a hoodie-wearing robot doing some free-running over the rooftops of what looks like a major metropolis. The final result looks quite incredible to say the least. Video after the jump.
Scientists Develop Incredible “X-Ray Vision” Microscope
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] A team over at Germany’s Helmholtz Zentrum München, led by Dr. Vasilis Ntziachristos, has created a new technique for imaging relatively large and thick biological samples. Using lasers and an ultrasound machine, they can examine the detailed structure of an organism (this first test used a zebra fish) [...]
I’m Sure Glad They Were Wrong: Future Fashions from the Past
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] Wow, just check out this horrible bunch of fashion predictions from the 1930′s. I for one hope these don’t develop in the next 70 years either! I wish they’d gone into more detail about the electric belt. I’m not exactly sure how something being “electric” automatically imbues it [...]
