By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] IKEA, the company that can fit almost anything into a flat box for easy pick-up, has decided to go green in a big way. They plan to put $77 million into their GreenTech fund – dedicated to producing “solar panels, efficiency meters, and energy efficient lighting.” While IKEA has […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Four years ago at the last party conventions, when they nominated George W Bush and John Kerry, YouTube didn’t even exist (imagine that – a world with no YouTube!). But now, with YouTube a dominant force on the internet, Google is determined to make its presence felt in Denver […]
Created by a Vincent Chai, a student of the University of Hertfordshire, World War is a short CGI film featuring two transforming robots fighting in Hiroshima, Japan, exactly 100 years after the end of World War II. Enjoy the show! [Via DVice | Albotas]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Just when you thought the Facebook craziness couldn’t get any crazier, the hits just keep on coming! A Swedish nurse has been suspended from her job after she used the camera from her mobile phone to take pictures of a brain surgery operation she was participating in. She then […]
As always, Apple are basing themselves on the ignorance of casual users and technically challenged people to push their systems out in the world. You have to admit though, their marketing campaigns are absolutely brilliant. Gotta give this to them. Videos after the jump.
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] No, the proceedings aren’t unstable…but this model of the Olympic Village is! Watch the video for the whole story: Having built a few card castles myself, I can tell you that the beginning is the hardest part – the subsequent layers are pretty easy after that. The added complexity […]
It’s not just ANY book—check this out: First, there was that amazing video on Funny or Die, and now… this? Yes, in this picture, Paris is reading Sun Tzu’s Art of War, the book used for centuries by generals and businessmen to overcome seemingly unsurpassable obstacles and dominate their enemies. Deep down inside, could Paris […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] So you think you’re a big Batman fan eh? Well you’ve got some serious catching up to do my friend because Bob Dullam has been spending some serious cash on building his own Batmobile ‘Tumbler’ – up to $70,000 worth – and he hasn’t even started on the interior […]
I don’t think there’s anything as annoying as being jolted awake by a high-pitch electronic sound in the morning. Here is an alternate solution that ought to be more pleasant on the ears: “Silence” is a conceptual alarm clock that will wake you up without emitting any sound. Each person who wishes to get woken […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] If you would like the country of “Tibet” to be part of your new Hotmail email account name, then you are out of luck. The New York Times is reporting that anyone who tries to enter “Tibet” into a new email account application is told that they have entered […]