I’m sure you’ve all noticed by now, here at [GAS], we’re big fans of geeky birthday cakes, and the following one is (gruesomely) geeky in its own way. There’s nothing quite like the taste of insanity to help you cope with being a year older! If you want to see some other Cthulhu-themed cakes, greatwhitesnark.com [...]
Written and directed by Ruairi Robinson and starring Max Records from “Where The Wild Things Are”, here is Blinky, a 13-minute short movie about a kid getting a robot “friend” as a gift, but unfortunately, the robot eventually takes the orders of his master a little too seriously. [Vimeo]
Redditor Captaincripple lost his leg last year in a motorbike accident, so when came the time to have a prosthetic leg made for him, he asked the reddit community for some creative idea on how he could make the prosthesis look like a work of art. Here’s the result: [Source]
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For today’s edition of Deal of the Day, Amazon has the Flip MinoHD Video Camera (newest generation) for just $139! That’s 39% off the video camera’s usual retail price of $229. The all-new Flip MinoHD combines signature Flip simplicity with enhanced video technology for best-ever HD video. Shoot up to two hours of HD video [...]
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There are few debates in life as intense as those which pit superheroes against one another, and no place like the Internet to take a geek-fueled fever pitch a full order of magnitude further than necessary. Who runs faster, Superman or the Flash? Seems like an innocuous enough question–I mean, who’s going to have a [...]
In the following video, engineer Bill Hammack takes apart an LCD monitor and shows how it works. He explains how it uses liquid crystals, thin film transistors and polarizers to display information.
Employees at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, FL, assemble for an aerial photo outside Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building. Thousands of workers stood side-by-side to form an outline of a space shuttle, captured in the time-lapse video below. The event was organized in honor of the Space Shuttle Program’s 30-year legacy. [Youtube]
-AT&T Buys T-Mobile for $39 Billion AT&T just announced a definitive agreement with Deutsche Telekom to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion in cash and stock. In a press release, AT&T said the agreement has been approved by both companies’ boards of directors. -Music Industry Destroys Another Powerful Free Download Tool In September 2010, the [...]
If you don’t get the reference, be sure to watch the following video, and even if you do, watch it anyways. This is one of the most awesome movie scenes of all time. :) [Get it @ Splitreason.com]
Check out this cool new 3D Multi-Viewpoint Fog Projection system developed by Japanese researchers at Osaka University. [Via]
