Megatron and his crew are takin’ over the kitchen with EpicMegaTime! Mixin’ up sparkplugs, tire strips, and Jack Daniels to make the Ultimate Energon Cube!
[Via Walyou]
How to See Through Concrete Walls [Video]
Like almost all interesting technology, the radar array presented by the MIT students below is being developed for warfare situations–specifically those in urban areas where concrete or stone walls are commonplace. It works well enough to offer a count of people on the other side of a wall, but it can’t show you (yet?) whether said people are bomb-wielding crazies or small children with puppies. MIT: get right on that “not a child and/or puppy” indicator before you send this off for use in urban combat areas, please and thank you.
The ability to see through walls is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Thanks to new radar technology developed at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory a system has been built by researchers that can see through walls from some distance away, giving an instantaneous picture of the activity on the other side.
Creepy: Luxo Jr. Pixar Desk Lamp Halloween Costume [Video]
Youtuber cmtification made this really cool and authentic-looking Luxo Jr. costume (the Pixar lamp) for Halloween last year. Great job cmtification, but I only see one problem with your costume: moving around in that thing must be really exhausting!
[Via Laughing Squid]
To boldly go where no pureed peas have gone before: Star Trek Baby Feeding Set
Introducing the Star Trek Light-Up Feeding System, with starship spoon and motion sensitive, light-up bib. The spoon is a replica of The Original Series USS Enterprise NCC-1701, captained by James T. Kirk himself. Flashing LEDs on the nacelles keep baby aligned for mess-free docking at the face station, while lights on the bib act like a tractor beam for you. Dinnertime won’t be this fun again until we get replicators!
Facebook Now Tracks You in Real Life [Comic]
Amazing Steampunk-ish Pop Culture Helmets [Pics]
Facebook Adding Energy Consumption App
Facebook has followed the lead of Google and Microsoft in helping users track their energy use. But as things stand, it will largely be a manual operation for many people.
From next year Facebook will be launching an app with Opower, a software company that helps utility providers provide clearer details to users about their energy consumption. The partnership, which also involves the Natural Resources Defense Council, is designed to tap into the same sort of social interaction that already exists on Facebook, particularly in social gaming.
The idea is simply that users will be able to compare their energy use against both their Facebook friends and against national averages for homes of a similar size, which those involved believe will be an incentive to cut use. Users will also be able to automatically publish details of their “achievement” to their newsfeed. It will be possible to form teams and compete with combined totals.
For some participants, it will be possible to have the details automatically uploaded by the utility company’s own computer system, with the organizers quick to point out this will be a purely op-in service. For the rest, however, it will be a case of manually inputting details from either a power bill or a meter.
That makes the scheme something of a hybrid of similar projects from Google and Microsoft. Google’s Power Meter involved hooking up compatible smart meters to a computer, allowing users to track use in real time and become more aware of the surges caused by particular appliances. The company dropped the project a few months ago.
Meanwhile Microsoft’s Hohm requires manual input, but then offers comparisons to other users in the same area and provides customized tips for cutting energy use. As we noted back in 2009, there’s also “a social networking element with users able to swap tips with other users in their area.” That’s an idea that Facebook believes it will be able to expand by using its existing relationships between users.
No word yet on whether Facebook will be setting an example by publishing its own power consumption figures in the app.
Anime Eye Makeup Tutorial [Video]
In case you’re interested in going for an anime look this Halloween, check out this cool tutorial by Youtuber BeautifulYouTV on how you can draw anime-style eyes on top of your own eyes and make yourself look like a total freak show.
[Via FG]