It makes perfect sense to play Pac-man with a team of every cat’s favorite vacuum cleaners, Roombas. Jack Elston, Cory Dixon, and Maciej Stachura created the software to accomplish the task, and shared the process online. [via Gizmodo]
Posted with permission from Mark Anderson.
The best ideas are often the simplest, and that certainly looks true of the latest car safety innovation. What are the two best-known safety features experienced directly by passengers? The seatbelt and the airbag. But back-seat passengers only have a seatbelt, and installing an airbag for those seats is a tricky process. So why not [...]
Yes folks, this week marks the fifth anniversary of our favorite browser here at [Geeks are Sexy]: Firefox. Five years is a long, long time on the Internet, so let’s celebrate these five years by spreading the word around and making the Web an even better place for everyone!
-Windows 7 Beats Vista By 234% In First Week Sales Microsoft’s program of early low-cost pre-sales, high visibility marketing, and aggressive deals helped make the Windows 7 software launch successful,” said NPD vice president of analysis Stephen Baker. -Report: Apple to launch Verizon iPhone in Q3 2010 A new report citing sources in the Taiwan [...]
With over five and a half million views on YouTube alone in just a couple of months, “Do You Wanna Date My Avatar” by Felicia Day and the rest of The Guild cast has become something of a geek musical sensation. Which means that a couple of things were bound to happen: (1) a machinima [...]
By Sterling “Chip” Camden Contributing Writer, [GAS] Holy rodents on steroids, Batman! A mouse with 18 buttons? How could you possibly know which one you’re pressing without looking at it? Someone will have to invent home-row mousing! Warmouse announced the OpenOfficeMouse yesterday (November 6), a mouse specifically designed for use in conjunction with OpenOffice, but [...]
Are you someone who never smiles? Would you like that to change? Well, with the help of the happiness hat, you’ll start smiling like you never did before… trust us! The Happiness Hat is a wearable device that detects if you’re smiling and provides pain feedback if you’re not. An enclosed bend sensor attaches to [...]
[Via Reddit]
It’s no exaggeration to say that Twitter has been the most useful networking tool I’ve ever used. After months of toiling away on my blog and finding it very difficult to make connections with like-minded individuals, it was Twitter that actually linked me up with writers and geeks all across the globe. So, how I [...]
Infractor is an interactive, artistic application that has been developed for a Multitouch-table. It is based on the information of the New York Times Online. The information can be searched, filtered and read by putting physical objects on the interactive surface.
Those who saw the last series of Dr Who spin-off Torchwood will remember the team using a contact lens which both housed a camera and displayed text for the wearer to read. That’s not quite possible in reality yet, but NEC in Japan has come up with something similar: a pair of spectacles with a [...]
