Hacking an electronic voting system is illegal, undemocratic, deeply irresponsible, and an affront to everyone who ever fought against tyranny. But done the right way, it can also be funny. A web-based voting system, designed for District of Columbia voters to cast their ballot from overseas, has been suspended after students at the University of [...]
Let’s face it: we’re in a difficult economy, we geeks. We covet the expensive, the shiny, the technologically advanced, all in spite of our financial situation. Sure, some geeks are lucky. They’re good with numbers and programming and, in spite of economic woes, can manage to get by and drive new cars and snatch up [...]
It’s been a while since we brought you a post of geeky tattoos (or more geeky tattoos!) – so here are more of the latest plucked with love from Flickr. The best part of this binary armband? It reads “this is a binary armband.” – mezdeathhead (CC)
Youtube user Styropyro built this cool burning laser out of parts he salvaged from an old computers. Total cost of the project: $3.55. Oh, and if you decide to build one for yourself, be sure to act responsibly and don’t go pointing this thing into people’s eyes. [Via]
The New York Times reported a couple of days ago that for some newly released books on Amazon, the Kindle version actually costs more than the hardcover. For obvious reasons, this has not exactly been well received by their customers. Reviews for James Patterson’s new book Don’t Blink are overwhelmingly concerned with the price rather [...]
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This is AMAZING! Be sure to watch this one from start to end, and don’t skip ahead! You’ll ruin the whole experience if you do. [Via Topless Robot]
Hey Everyone, The IDGTechNetwork, the company that handles some of our advertisements here on geeks are sexy, have asked us to compile some demographic data on our audience. In the past, we’ve asked you to fill out a survey to help us, but this year, we’ll handle things a little differently. We’re asking you to [...]
An Iron Man costume custom crafted by Youtube user MorRokko for her pet dwarf caiman, Hadies. [Via Neatorama]
LightSpace combines elements of surface computing and augmented reality research to create a highly interactive space where any surface, and even the space between surfaces, is fully interactive. Our concept transforms the ideas of surface computing into the new realm of spatial computing. [Via Microsoft Research]
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Apple has been ordered to pay $208.5 million for violating a patent, despite holding a patent on the same technology. The patent, on the Cover Flow system for browsing albums visually, is one of three patents held by Mirror Worlds that Apple was found to have infringed. The others were for the Time Machine backup [...]
