Ruh-roh, Reorge. Though Mark Zuckerberg didn’t waste a second trying out Google+ in the early weeks of beta, it seems his capacity for amicable competition doesn’t extend to letting Facebook users invite their friends to try out G+. YouTuber rss1357 posted this video of his attempts to post an invite link to Google’s social media site, which [...]
No geek should be without these cool Android Mini Collectible. The Series 02 Android collectibles – designed by artists such as Andrew Bell, Doktor A, Gary Ham, Jeff Yaksick, and ScottTolleson – come in a blind box, so you’ll get a neat surprise with every box. Which of the 16 designs will you get? Or [...]
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI 101), a course offered through a partnership with the Stanford School of Engineering for free online from October 10 through December 16, has received more than 70,000 pre-registration sign-ups. Participants will be allowed to register in late summer, according to ai-class.com. The instructors, Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig are rockstars [...]
Regular people have regular faucets, but what if you desire for something much grander for your ablution ritual? Say, something retro-futuristic with an Art Deco twist? Lefroy Brooks has got your back, if you’ve got a spare $2K around, that is. Behold, the Lefroy Brooks Belle Aire Faucet! [Source | Via]
Just how big is the Cupertino Apple Campus going to be? If you said “spaceship size,” you’d be mostly correct. Enterprising MacObserver writer John Martellaro did some calculations: I couldn’t find a notation on that drawing of the diameter of the circular building, but I did find scale marks at the bottom. Note that the [...]
Czech PhD student Matus Sotak (@biomatushiq) created this succinct (and darned accurate) grid explaining how people in science see each other in graphical form:
Some recent footage from the Cleveland set of The Avengers, mostly showing Chris Evans battling dudes on top of cars and lots of police officers. Note, though, that there’re people in motion capture suits and a really weird looking weapon, which hint strongly that the film involves extraterrestrial baddies. Marvel’s The Avengers picks up when [...]
By Jeremiah Warren [G.TDW]
If you’re wondering whether this is real, the answer is yes… technically. If you’re wondering whether or not it really works, the answer is “Who even cares!” It’s awesome and even has a tiny little outlet all its own, which you can see on the right. [source]
Social networking and mobile phones have been blamed by some for fuelling last week’s riots in the United Kingdom. But now police say they were able to use the technology to head off attacks at high-profile targets. While some of the less academically gifted rioters published their intentions on Twitter or Facebook, some ringleaders communicated [...]
For the right kind of geek (points to self, then to evidence), these shirts couldn’t be more perfect. Great, oversized prints of your favorite classics on super-nice tees and sweatshirts. If anyone is wondering what to get me for my birthday, I’ll take the green 1984 sweatshirt, please. These and lots more are available from [...]
I’d like to start by acknowledging that this is a great achievement robotics–this machine can read and translate notes and rhythm from regular sheet music. That’s pretty awesome. But the weird Plasticine skin and jerky facial movement is straight out of every nightmare I had between the ages of four and ten. Chyi-Yeu Lin and colleagues [...]
