Teaching Win: Teach with Portals

You can’t help but smile if someone says they’re going to use a video game to teach physics. Of course, with Portal 2, you actually could provide a much more engaging lesson in some of the more dull aspects of one of our core sciences. So Valve software have created an educational GLaDOS – Teach with Portals.

It is now available to (legit) educators in an effort to spur on the education of a younger generation, through a medium where they are not only comfortable but are enthusiastic about.

Right now, it’s only available for physics and maths lessons (makes sense) but it seems there are plans for a wider scope of teaching – including Chemistry and even languages!

Read more about it in Geekosystem’s post, or see the Teach With Portals site.

Sailor Moon + Avengers = Hot

Hulk version of Sailor Moon: now that definitely deserves achievement points. Created by deviantARTist Ann Marcellino, this fusion of superhero comics and sailor moon ladies is a rather inventive reimagining of two teams of quite opposingly geeky taste.

[By Ann Marcellino | Via BuzzFeed]



Jeans for the Laziest of iPhone Users

Alphyn industries has released these unique jeans, supposedly to “change the way we wear our jeans and our smartphones”. While they look like a regular pair of jeans with cool stitching and in an indigo colour, when the wearer’s phone buzzes with an SMS notification, you will be suddenly surprised as he flips open a flap to fiddle with his phone without ever having to remove them from his pants.

Discrete, perhaps, but also incredibly lazy. In a world where we drive to the supermarket down the street instead of carrying our shopping home, do we really need to reduce our physical movement even more!? How hard is it really to pull your phone out of your pocket?

If you really do feel that the fighter pilot G-suit inspired custom pocket – 3 by 5 inches (so fits the iPhone or a smaller Android) – is something that you desperately want and need, you can get them from Alphyn Industries for $160.

Personally, I think the pullover with a custom pocket in the left sleeve for $199 is far more practical, and way cooler. Would make me feel like the Protector from Continuum!

[By Alphyn Industries | Via Wired Gadget Lab]

Everybody Dance With the Dancebulance [Video]

Featuring crazy dancer/online comedian Nathan Barnatt, the Dancebulance is a video that promotes the lineup announcement for the 2012 Governors Ball Music Festival, which will take place on June 23-24 in New York City.

[Via LS]