By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Many people are looking forward to this November’s presidential elections. Some are looking forward to voting in a new president and ushering in a new era, but others are looking forward to it for other reasons – financial opportunities. A teen has been arrested and charged after allegedly offering […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] After constantly refusing to do what other big websites had already done – post a privacy link to their front page – Google has finally surrendered and done the big move. No-one knows why they suddenly caved in, but Techcrunch speculates that it was probably government pressure or the […]
By combining a 2D mid-air projection system and a couple of motion sensors, a team of researchers from Lm3labs were able to create this amazing gesture-based Google Earth interface. Check it out in the following video.
This is potentially huge. Viacom, which owns MTV and Paramount Pictures, has been involved in a legal battle with YouTube (and now Google) over what Viacom alleges is massive copyright infringement of their property. Viacom claims to have identified 160,000 unauthorised clips of its programmes. Now, a US court has told Google that it must […]
Why does everyone doing video editing on YouTube depict Boba Fett as some kind of effeminate ballet jazz dancer? Anyways, you’re about to see the latest stop animation masterpiece from Patrick Boivin, a fellow French Canadian dude of mine. Patrick also has other great stop animation videos of Optimus Prime and Bumble Bee that are […]
Ok, I have to admit I went a little over the top there with that headline. Nonetheless, it seems that LCD TVs could soon become an environmental hazard when people start sending them to the landfills to replace them with shiny new models. For now, they’re not really dangerous, but eventually, when people start dumping […]
Ever wondered what would happen if a 500 KM (300 miles) wide meteor would hit Earth during our lifetime? Here’s a simulation presenting the apocalyptic result: Apparently, our planet was hit approximately 6 times in the past by a meteor around that size. Cheery thought for a Friday morning isn’t it? [Via Neatorama]
Stanford’s STARMAC, short for Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control, is probably one of the coolest remote-control helicopters we’ve ever seen. This is not a toy, remote-driven helicopter. The primary goal of the STARMAC project is to test and develop algorithms that will be implemented in future autonomous flying devices, such as the […]
According to a Channel Flip journalist, the Asahi beer robot may possibly be the greatest invention ever known to man. The robot, known as Mr. Asahi, uses a combination of robotics and animatronics, making him not only fast and agile, but also fun to look at. It took 8 engineers over 200 man hours to […]
Geeks, as we all know, rule the world. Would you like to be one, too? Maybe you’re not quite geek enough. Maybe you know somebody who is crying out to be a geek, but they don’t know where to start. Maybe – heavens, say it ain’t so – you don’t own a Blackberry. Or – […]