Have a look at what the marketing folks at Pontiac / GM came up with to present one of the coolest-looking car they ever manufactured, the Pontiac G8 GT. The idea of using Spy Hunter, a video game from the 80’s, to advertise the G8 is absolutely brilliant, as the target-market for this particular car […]
There is a reason for information security and best practices. Ignoring things like setting strong passwords and having an account lockout policy will have perilous consequences. Just ask the 10,000 applicants to Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences who had their personal information, including their social security numbers, uploaded to Bit Torrent. That data […]
By Mark O’Neill Despite the proliferation of file storage sites on the internet such as Dropbox, I am still a bit of an old fashioned geek at heart and I always end up emailing big files to people by zipping them first. But old-fashioned as I am, I am also paranoid, so I always encrypt […]
Since summer is quickly approaching, and since we northerners haven’t seen anything green for the past five months, I thought a post reminding us of warmer temperatures would be appreciated. A Swedish-based corporation named Husqvarna just released what many will consider the perfect lawnmower. Not only does it mow your lawn without any human intervention, […]
And no, for all you “Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy” smartasses, the answer isn’t 42. Enjoy!
Being a sexy geek includes sporting the latest in computer-oriented fashion as often as possible. Everyone knows the Mac watch icon. The pesky bugger constantly popped up whenever you needed to be doing something, asking you to kindly wait about four hours until your task was completed. MoMa Design has decided to bring this icon […]
The following video shows a new Minority Report-like multi-touch interface that was presented last week at CeBIT 2008. Yeah, we know, this is not the first multi-touch video we’ve posted on [GAS], but since we think the technology is so exciting, we can’t help ourselves! Original Minority Report multi-touch interface
I don’t know about you guys, but my DVD’s are lying in a pile on my floor mixed in with laundry and magazines. I guess if you’re the type that likes to keep your precious optical media nice and tidy, this retro DVD holder should do the trick. It is made out of records so […]
Today we’ll overview the early history of programming languages, and I’ll follow this post with others that explore more recent developments. I’m going to intentionally leave out people and focus on the languages in general terms — although the personalities involved make quite a story, too. In the very early days of computing, the only “language” employed was […]
This month, exactly 10 years ago, the father of all MP3 players, the MPMan F10, was released. Initially presented at the 1998 CeBIT exposition, the MPMan F10 featured 32 MB of memory, which could stock around eight songs, and a tiny LCD screen. The gadget’s starting price was set at $250, and for an additional […]