To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the world’s “Blue Zones,” communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. At TEDxTC, he shares the 9 common diet and lifestyle habits that keep them spry past age 100.
Is anyone else here slightly disturbed by the fact that almost everybody on the Internet now uses “fail” as a noun? [Via BuzzFeed]
Here’s a little quiz that should be right up your alley. Can you identify all ten cable connections in the Cable Connector Quiz? I’m almost ashamed to admit that my score was 80%, considering I’ve heard from so many others today who were proud to score 100%. Mind you, some of these are pretty old […]
After seeing the first trailer, I decided to stay neutral about this movie, but now that the second one is out, I must say that it looks quite promising. Check it out: The plot of Kick-Ass concerns a teenage boy, Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), who decides to become a real-life superhero after being inspired by […]
Today is a good day for birthdays in the geek world. No, I’m not saying that David Bowie is a geek necessarily. He, however, has made a huge impact on geekery in general. A pusher of boundaries, an over-the-top-personality, and certainly a man with his own set of rules, he’s one of the people who […]
There are a host of stories today about mind-reading technology being the future of US airport security. But there’s no real suggestion the technology will ever be adopted in the country, and the system actually monitors the body rather than the brain. The attention has come from a syndicated Associated Press story which has appeared […]
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Youtube user and beatboxer MysterGuitarman got lucky and got sponsored by Google to produce a promotional video for the Nexus One. Apparently, the clip was realized with just 2 cuts. Check it out: [Via TechEblog]
If you’re chomping for full-body control on your Xbox 360, the good news is that you won’t need a new console. The bad news is that it likely won’t be available for 10 months. As part of his address to the Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft’s head of “entertainment and devices” Robbie Bach confirmed that Project […]
We’re now at a point in history where computer generated art, whether it is animated or not, can be nearly indistinguishable from something you’d see in reality. Just check out the following piece, which has been fully rendered and animated via software commonly available to everyone (3dsmax, Vray, AfterEffects and Premiere.) Architechture through the cinematographic […]