Event cloaks are the sort of thing movies and far-future, ten-tome science fiction tales are made of. That is unless you’re Moti Fridman or part of his group of sharp-minded companions at Cornell, in which case you have designed and built a cloak that hides events in time. The concept of event cloaking works like this: […]
Robots! Cute ones! That dance! Oh, my! Most of us do not (yet) have access to a 3D printer, but these little Spazzi dancing robots could probably be rigged out of some moldable material and patience. Unless, of course, you do have a Thing-O-Matic, in which case I will be right over, thanks for letting […]
If you’re curious about things like where your Internet service comes from or what a giant system of cables that spans the globe looks like, it’s your lucky day. Compiled by Greg Mahlknecht using resources he found on the internet, this map shows the major pipes flowing to and from all major countries by way […]
Every single day I am impressed by people who read Geeks Are Sexy. You ladies and gents are insanely creative/funny/smart/otherwise awesome. I can’t get over it. These pics landed in my inbox recently from one Joshua Hart. At first blush, I thought, “Oooh, nice steampunk.” But then I read the explanation of said nice steampunk, […]
The negative 1UP is a mushroom you’d be smart to avoid. DO NOT WANT. [Get it @ Splitreason.com | Get 10% off with promo code “geeksaresexy”]
“I got this mega man tattoo as I am a self confessed game geek. Megaman, Mario Bros. and Nintendo was a big part of my life when i was younger. Game Over as basically I gotta grow up now :( NOT lol” — Kevin Travis, bearer of Mega Man ink. [via]
The third installment of Ghostbusters is coming up just after the Mayan-predicted apocalypse*, so the super-handy folks at Shortlist have assembled a nice collection of alternative Ghostbusters posters, from delightfully minimalist (like my favorite above) to highly stylized sketch art, there’s a bit of something for everyone who grew up with a fear of opening the refrigerator at […]
Anyone here knows where I could get one of those? [Via Nerdy Couture]
Ever heard of Tulalip? You have now, and so have millions of others, thanks to a slip by a Microsoft Research team. It seems J.B. of Fusible was looking for information about the purchase of Social.com when he came across the splash page for a social/design project on socl.com; it was removed almost immediately, but not before […]
And here’s a Gatherer’s Garden cake, which is a reproduction of the vending machine that sells Plasmids in the Arcadia level in Bioshock. [Via 1, 2]