Oh, be still my geeky heart. His Judeness–aka The Jude, El Juderino and Jude Buffum–drew Magna Arbor Vita Deku, this “sprawling exploration of the evolutionary biology of the 200 most important species from the Legend of Zelda video game series” for the SUPER iam8bit art show. The Deku Tree of Life even lists the binomial nomenclature of [...]
Add TrES-2b to the list of strange exoplanets discovered in recent years. The newly discovered supergiant gas giant is so black only 1% of light it receives is reflected. That’s darker than coal or black paint or closing your eyes and covering them with your hand. It’s blacker than anything found on Earth, even the [...]
Sometimes the free market produces products that fill a genuine need at a sensible price. But sometimes it produces stuff that’s just plain neat. Today marks the sales launch of Sifteo Cubes, which were first unveiled back at January’s CES show. They are simply 1.5 inch cubes with an electronic display, wi-fi connection and three-dimensional [...]
Marc & Louis Photography has a question: What happens to a twi’lek lady who gets a little too flirty with Darth Vader? Oh, we think you know. Search your feelings. Here’s a little behind-the-scenes footage of the shoot. [Marc&Louis via fashionablygeek] Photographer Marie-Louise Cadosch Makeup Artist: Lilith Amrad Model: Maura Waller @ OPTION Model Agency [...]
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File this under Cool But Completely Unnecessary: The iTableous is a computer and display built into a table-sized reproduction of the elusive iPhone 4. It’s not touch-sensitive, so you can play solitaire or eat Cheetos right on top while controlling it with a keyboard and mouse. Because that’s awesome(?)! [Engadget via DVICE]
Poor Lab Rat. That guy’s had a really hard life, y’know? YouTuber faceofdoomness (Hae-Joon Lee) created this video using Stop-Motion Animation and After Effects (and a little sartorial donation from his mom, who made the costume for his puppet), and if you know Portal and can watch this without feeling the sting of exploding lemons in your eyes [...]
One of the most distinct differences between Facebook and Google+ thus far has been the absence of in-platform games. On Facebook, those who don’t play Farmville and the like can be bombarded with invites and requests faster than they can click Block. For this reason, Google Senior Vice President Vic Gundotra’s announcement that games for Google+ [...]
Students today are using more tech in more places than even Popular Science imagined back in the atomic age. 98% of students own a gadget and 70% of them use a gadget in class–some for note-taking and study, some for poke wars on Facebook during lecture. And while the time spent online in a day might set [...]
If you said “magic and all the pr0n,” you’d be mostly correct. But there’s a lot of work behind a website, which this handy infographic breaks down for us. [Infographic by Broadband Choices, offering comprehensive and impartial advice on broadband.]
Intel is planning to invest $300 million to create what it’s calling a new form of computer to bridge the (somewhat slender) gap between a netbook and a tablet. According to the company, the Russian doll-like sequence of laptop/notebook/netbook/tablet needs a new family member: the Ultrabook. As is usually the case with hybrid devices, the [...]
