When is selling 595,000 copies of a game in three weeks a disappointment? When it’s the Beatles edition of Rock Band. The sales make it the third best-selling game of September, beating out fellow debutante Guitar Hero 5, which just fell short of the 500,000. The Beatles game was up in second place for total […]
What you’re about to see is absolutely mind blowing: Three robots working in tandem to execute one of the most amazing feats of robotic precision I’ve ever seen. Check it out.
Ladies and Gentlegeeks, behold! Here is what could possibly be the ultimate in geek fashion: The BSOD belt! Currently priced at $16.95 at Geek Gone Chic, you too can now sport your very own BSOD error message for all to see. The belt fabric is made out of a cotton/acrylic blend, and the clam style […]
Playing sound effects both pleasant and awful, Julian Treasure shows how sound affects us in four significant ways. Listen carefully for a shocking fact about noisy open-plan offices.
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Following a horrific murder in 2007, an Indiana man, Ian Clark, was convicted by a jury and sentenced to life without parole. But the case recently came up for appeal, and the sole issue? Whether the trial judge was right in allowing a MySpace post to be admitted as […]
Have you ever wondered what really happened to the unlucky “I” that gets flattened in the original Pixar Intro? Well Collegehumor gives you an extended look at the poor letter’s fate in their latest parody.
What if Scorpion of Mortal Kombat took Mario’s place in Donkey Kong? [Via Neatorama]
The world will end after being hit by the planet Nibiru on 21 December 2012. That’s a nice story, but it’s not true. And a senior scientist at NASA’s Astrobiology Institute says so. David Morrison (pictured), writes a regular column with the wonderfully Onionesque title Ask an Astrobiologist for the Astronomical Society of Pacific newsletter. […]
Ok, sending a couple of Lenovo laptops into the sky via a trebuchet may not be anywhere as cool as doing so with flaming bowling balls, but this is still a pretty interesting experiment. At Gadgetoff 2009, a team of tinkerers used their trebuchet to launch two ThinkPad laptops, with the benediction of Lenovo of […]
Since Google Street View cars are somewhat limited to conventional paved roads, the folks at Google thought to equip a trike with the gear necessary to take pictures of spots which are normally not reachable by four-wheeled vehicles. Check it out. You can even go and vote for the trike’s next destination by visiting the […]