Though online games like World of Warcraft have gotten plenty of bad press for being “addictive,” at least the financial ramifications are limited to $14.99 a month – well, unless you (a) lose your job because you play too much, or (b) break the game’s TOS and pay for your gold. So what about the [...]
Have you ever imagined what would happen if an 8-Bit army, composed of characters and objects from old classics such as Space Invaders and Pac-Man, invaded New York City? Probably not, but Patrick Jean from OneMoreProd certainly did, and here is the result in this wonderful animation called “PIXELS.” Enjoy! [Via Gizmodo]
This picture shows what hydrogen atoms might look like if we could see them. The chart above shows the appearance of a single hydrogen atom in a few of its lowest excited states. In each of those states, the electron is found in a different orbital, some of which have unfamiliar shapes. But even the [...]
Have you ever had the urge to play rock, paper, scissors, but you couldn’t because you had no opponent? Steve Hoefer built a glove that will play with you! It senses your movements, selects its item, and displays it at the same time your hand does. Not only does the glove play against you, but [...]
Summer approaches, and if you’re like me, the life of a geek tends to make thoughts of stepping out in front of other people in your bathing suit a little terrifying. Wii Fit aside, many games (*cough*DragonAge*cough*) play to our obsessive sides, and make it so easy to spend hours with our rear ends parked [...]
During a presentation given at the University at Buffalo, a student asked renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson for his thoughts on U.S. federal cutbacks to NASA funding. while you may or may not be American, I think Tyson’s answer should be (as always) heard by everyone and gives new insights on what can happen if [...]
Scrabble purists do not fear: the official rules are NOT changing. There has been much tutting among linguists since the BBC reported yesterday that license owners Mattel are to change the rules to allow proper nouns to be used for the first time. While that might produce the entertaining scenario where a player could actually [...]
Hey, want to know what happens when you search for “spaceships” in Flickr? Turns out that there are a lot of things that look like spaceships that… aren’t. Well, once you get through all of the pictures of Spaceship Earth at Epcot Center. I have a feeling this guy wishes he were on another planet. [...]
We’ve all met them: those people who butcher the use of sweet sweet technology in such a way that you wish they’d be devoured by a hundred angry wildebeests. Here are 8 of the worst:
Join! Do your duty! See new worlds! Serve the empire! Don’t you just love imperial propaganda, especially when it looks like this? These fictional Star Wars recruitment posters come from the fertile mind of Feng Zhu, an illustrator who has worked on the designs of Star Wars Episode III, Revenge of the Sith, for Lucasfilm. [...]
With the help of a video that went viral a few years ago, online entrepreneur and professional musician Derek Sivers explains how movements really get started. (Hint: it takes two.)
Here’s a detailed but easy to understand video on how the large hydrogen collider works. Enjoy!
