Apparently, that water-powered jetpack we reported on about 2 years ago is about to go on sale to the public, but behold, if you want one, it’ll cost around 136 grands. It’s taken over 10 years for its Canadian inventor, Raymond Li, to realize his dream and see his jetpack go on sale, but judging [...]
Richard Grayson is a famous composer and pianist who is known for his ability to improvise any melody and play it any style, or tempo. Forgive me music geeks as I may be mistaken so feel free to correct me here, but here are his improvisations on the Imperial March and the Star Wars theme [...]
While Youtuber Sp0ntanius may have a hairstyle more hip than me, he does have a knack for recreating Zelda songs with style and neat camera tricks that are really entertaining. From playing the Palace theme in stop motion with guitar and tearing paper, to playing crystal glasses for the Song of Healing, you have to [...]
We already knew that our direct ancestors were by no means a bunch of knuckle-draggers. Now fossil analysis suggests they walked permanently rather than swinging from trees. The findings come from a fossilised footbone from an Australopithecus afarensis, which was a hominid. That’s the family which eventually developed into humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and gibbons. The [...]
This week, an episode of NOVA covered Watson, the IBM supercomputer designed to interpret and understand natural human language, with all its ambiguity: wordplay, puns, double-meanings, intuitive differentiations and subtlety. Watson, named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, is the result of the DeepQA Project, the goal of which is to create a computer system [...]
Four floppy drives plus MIDI-tone Toccata and Fugue equals Castlevania flashback. YouTube’s spankin’ new innerwebz star, FunToTheHead, has rigged up a system comprising “two 3 1/2″ drives and two 5 1/4″ drives connected to a PIC18f14k50 microcontroller. It interfaces to any MIDI source via MIDI over USB. Straight MIDI would also be possible with an [...]
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X-MEN FIRST CLASS charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga, and reveals a secret history of famous global events. Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young friends discovering their powers for the first time.
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This awesome custom-made Mandalorian armor was made by DeviantART user hydraness. She also has a few other sweet-looking ones. Source: Flickr – xomiele (CC) | DeviantArt – hydraness
For today’s edition of Deal of the Day, Amazon has the Official Xbox Magazine for just $9.99 (12 issues). That’s 92% Off the magazine’s usual retail price of $109.89! Every issue of the Official Xbox Magazine has exclusive inside information on Xbox, games, in-depth authoritative and bluntly honest reviews. Plus cheats, tips and ways to [...]
Wow. Just Wow. The visuals in this video are nothing short of amazing, and while the song starts slowly, it gets better as you get farther into the clip. [Source]
