Sunday Afternoon Fun: Jurassic Park Dinosaurs Say “Hey!”
Yeah, I know, this is just plain silly, but it really made me laugh! [Via BuzzFeed]
Monthly Archives: June 2009
The Fabulous Frabjous
How do you take this one pattern piece: And make this? It can’t be easy. Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories took a template from geometric sculptor George Hart and rose to the challenge of building a Frabjous. Even more challenging is what they did next- they posted instructions for putting it together. Assembling the Frabjous is […]
Steve Jobs has a New Liver
When we saw Apple founder Steve Jobs getting skinnier and skinnier and looking a little older than he should, speculation was that he was dying. But now it looks like Jobs’ health may be on the upswing. Although there were some reports of a potential liver transplant back in January, Jobs managed to keep his […]
Surgery’s Past, Present and Robotic Future
In the following video presentation, surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demos some of the newest tools for surgery through tiny incisions, performed using nimble robot hands. Fascinating — but not for the squeamish.
$222,000 filesharing fine leaps to $1.92 million in new trial
When Jammie Thomas-Rasset (pictured) was granted a retrial in the first (and to date only) US federal filesharing copyright case, she was likely relieved that it put aside her original punishment of a $222,000 fine. After the court ruled against her in the new case, that relief will be utterly shattered. Jammie Thomas-Rasset, found guilty […]
Father’s Day Gift for the Technophobe? Snail (E)Mail.
Have you ever heard this from an older person in your life, maybe a grandparent? “You never write!” Maybe they’ve mentioned that when they were young, everyone kept up with their correspondence as is polite to do and the amount of mail going through the postal system wasn’t dropping 5% a year. I’ve had a […]
Awesomely Cute Robot Makes Coffee for its Master
Isn’t that one of the most awesome thing ever? A cute little humanoid robot that prepares coffee for its master! Even though the whole act is staged, you have to be amazed by the complex movements this robotic gal can accomplish. [Via CrunchGear]
The Reason Why Most Terminators Look Like Arnold
Have you ever wondered why a lot of the Terminator models look exactly like Arnold Schwarzenegger? The following footage, which was supposed to be included in Terminator 3 but was later removed from the final cut of the movie, will enlighten you. Thanks Shea!
Opera Unite — should be “Untie”?
By Sterling “Chip” Camden Contributing Writer, [GAS] Well, paint me in a two-tone pattern of “smug” and “disappointed”. I correctly predicted that Opera’s self-styled “reinvention of the web” would have something to do with breaking the traditional model of web client/server that we’ve all come to know and curse. But their execution on that grand […]
Broadband prices and take-up both on the rise
Broadband use in the United States has risen sharply despite increasing prices and the recession. However, one in six people say they aren’t interested in getting high-speed internet. The headline statistic from the Pew Research Center report is that the number of homes with broadband was 63 per cent in April this year, up from […]