By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] When I was working as a trainee journalist in newspapers back in the 1990’s, it was still considered to be very much a “boys club” (at least in the UK anyway). Yes women were working in newspapers too but nevertheless, if you wanted to climb the ladder and get […]
Yep, you read that right. A robotic sheep that will mow your lawn while you lie down in the sun sipping a delicious strawberry daiquiri. The sheep, named Mower, has been designed by Osman Khan, a visiting assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon’s, with Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” in mind. The […]
The folks from RadioHead just released a new video for their latest song “House of Cards.” The thing that makes this video so special is that no cameras or lights we used to film it. Instead, the producing team used two 3D technologies to capture motion and images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] This just goes to show that you’re never too old to tackle technology. Australian blogger Olive Riley has died at the age of 108. She was called the “world’s oldest blogger” and she was 12 years older than Spanish blogger Maria Amelia. It’s amazing to me that someone that […]
Apple freaks and PC nerds behold! The Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs flash game puts you in control of one of your two heroes in a fight to the death that will only leave one standing. And the best of all? They’re using light sabers to bash each others over the head! Enjoy!
What do you get when you mix Vikings, Spaceships, and a dragon-like monster that comes from outer space? A movie named Outlander, that’s what you get. Outlander is the story of a man that comes from space to fight an evil alien beast. The movie starts when he crashes in ancient Norway during the time […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Valentina Hasan was once a joke but now she’s famous for the wrong reasons. She went on the Bulgarian version of American Idol and sang the Mariah Carey song “Without You”. But instead of the proper words, she sang her own version, thinking that her English was perfect when […]
Apple’s much-hyped launch of their 3G iPhone today left buyers on both sides of the pond angry, albeit for vastly different reasons. Stateside, Apple appeared to successfully match supply with demand, but many enthusiasts, some of whom had camped outside overnight to be amongst the first to get their hands on Apple’s latest gadget, were […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] The first line of TweetBeep’s webpage sums up this service perfectly – it’s the equivalent of Google Alerts for Twitter and it’s perfect if you’re following a lot of people on the service and you’re struggling a bit to keep up with all your replies. It works the same […]
What do you get when you mix cornstarch and water and expose the mixture to the vibration of a subwoofer? Check it out: Amazing, isn’t it? And for those of you who have young kids, this might be a cool science project to do with them. You never know… doing things like this in their […]