A court in the Netherlands has ruled that hacking a WiFi connection is not inherently illegal. But the ruling was based more on a technicality in the law than the principle, meaning it’s possible officials could seek to update legislation. The ruling is actually a small part of a wider case involving a student who […]
To create this visual history of Humanity, Gareth Lloyd and Tom Martin used data from 15,500 historical events on Wikipedia and mapped them on an empty surface according to their locations on the world map and the time each happened during the history of mankind. Watch as the new world explodes as Christopher Columbus crosses […]
I’m sure you’ve all noticed by now, here at [GAS], we’re big fans of geeky birthday cakes, and the following one is (gruesomely) geeky in its own way. There’s nothing quite like the taste of insanity to help you cope with being a year older! If you want to see some other Cthulhu-themed cakes, greatwhitesnark.com […]
Written and directed by Ruairi Robinson and starring Max Records from “Where The Wild Things Are”, here is Blinky, a 13-minute short movie about a kid getting a robot “friend” as a gift, but unfortunately, the robot eventually takes the orders of his master a little too seriously. [Vimeo]
Redditor Captaincripple lost his leg last year in a motorbike accident, so when came the time to have a prosthetic leg made for him, he asked the reddit community for some creative idea on how he could make the prosthesis look like a work of art. Here’s the result: [Source]
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There are few debates in life as intense as those which pit superheroes against one another, and no place like the Internet to take a geek-fueled fever pitch a full order of magnitude further than necessary. Who runs faster, Superman or the Flash? Seems like an innocuous enough question–I mean, who’s going to have a […]
In the following video, engineer Bill Hammack takes apart an LCD monitor and shows how it works. He explains how it uses liquid crystals, thin film transistors and polarizers to display information.
Employees at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, FL, assemble for an aerial photo outside Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building. Thousands of workers stood side-by-side to form an outline of a space shuttle, captured in the time-lapse video below. The event was organized in honor of the Space Shuttle Program’s 30-year legacy. [Youtube]