You might be aware of Apple’s lawsuit against Android device maker Samsung (SEO:005930), which claims that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is just a little too similar to Apple’s iPad 2. (If you weren’t, that’s the skinny.) This week, Webwereld.nl, the Dutch counterpart to Computerworld, was poking around in Apple’s case files and noticed something… wonky. An “exhibit” supplied by […]
We take headphones for granted, but back in the days of the World War I flying aces (Red Baron, anyone?) there were no such thing. So how did flying student and instructor communicate over the noise of the airplane’s motor? With this contraption invented at the British flying school at Gosport, England: … device whereby […]
Got a LAN party? Well, don’t call yourself a geek if you have to pickup the phone to call Domino’s Pizza … you need this: Pizza Party, a Unix command line program for ordering pizza by Cory Arcangel.
Ever wonder why Marty McFly was friends with Doc Brown in Back to the Future? It’s a question that crossed the minds of _flossy folks Brett Savage and Jason English, which they posed to readers of mentalfloss. None other than Back to the Future co-creator Bob Gale caught wind of the post and replied in kind […]
If you’re in Starbucks sometime soon, you can get a free app with your coffee and cupcake. Just as they’ve been offering a free music tracks, now the “Pick of the Week” program gives you free app download. Just pick up a free card at the counter and enter the code at iTunes. Did we […]
Ruh-roh, Reorge. Though Mark Zuckerberg didn’t waste a second trying out Google+ in the early weeks of beta, it seems his capacity for amicable competition doesn’t extend to letting Facebook users invite their friends to try out G+. YouTuber rss1357 posted this video of his attempts to post an invite link to Google’s social media site, which […]
No geek should be without these cool Android Mini Collectible. The Series 02 Android collectibles – designed by artists such as Andrew Bell, Doktor A, Gary Ham, Jeff Yaksick, and ScottTolleson – come in a blind box, so you’ll get a neat surprise with every box. Which of the 16 designs will you get? Or […]
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI 101), a course offered through a partnership with the Stanford School of Engineering for free online from October 10 through December 16, has received more than 70,000 pre-registration sign-ups. Participants will be allowed to register in late summer, according to ai-class.com. The instructors, Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig are rockstars […]
Regular people have regular faucets, but what if you desire for something much grander for your ablution ritual? Say, something retro-futuristic with an Art Deco twist? Lefroy Brooks has got your back, if you’ve got a spare $2K around, that is. Behold, the Lefroy Brooks Belle Aire Faucet! [Source | Via]
Just how big is the Cupertino Apple Campus going to be? If you said “spaceship size,” you’d be mostly correct. Enterprising MacObserver writer John Martellaro did some calculations: I couldn’t find a notation on that drawing of the diameter of the circular building, but I did find scale marks at the bottom. Note that the […]