I was just reminded what an old movie Jaws actually is. In fact, it turns out that Bruce, the mechanical shark, has been giving young and old scaredy cats nightmares for 35 long years now. [Wikipedia via The Scuttlefish] More »
Shark - Fish - Biology - Flora and Fauna - Chordata
Pop-up ads, Blue Screens of Death, hiding your games of solitaire from your boss—all annoyances that should be familiar to any office-dwelling computer-user. Turns out they're even more annoying when you remove the computer from the equation. [MeltMedia] More »
Solitaire - game - Recreation - Cards - Video Games
"Dear Bell and Yellow Pages. We all have a thing called the internet. Please stop wasting stuff." We fully subscribe those words. Yellow pages, it's time for you to die. [Obsolete] More »
Yellow Pages - Directories - Address and Phone Numbers - United States - Asia
Meet Justin, the space robot. He's clever, agile, wired to a human for control (of the robot, not the human) and he's a possible solution for fixing orbiting satellites in the post-Shuttle era. If they're dead, he can even fire them to their doom. More »
Robotics - Robot - Companies - History - Building
NASA researchers have successfully completed the first demonstration of a prototype tsunami prediction system. Using global and regional real-time data from hundreds of GPS sites, the system can quickly assess large earthquakes and accurately predict the size of resulting tsunamis. More »
NASA - Technology - Space - Earth Sciences - Tsunami
A while ago, Google told us that its Street View cars accidentally collected some data from our Wi-Fi networks. To make everything better, the company handed the data over to the correct authorities for investigation. Those authorities discovered bad news. More »
Google - Google Street View - Searching - Search Engines - Companies
You wouldn't want to mess with this robot. Weighing 90kg, and standing 2m tall, this robot was created from the designer's very first car, a Lada Samara Diva. Check out what it looked like before it transformed: More »
Robotics - Robot - Robot Wars - Competitions - Companies
3D and motion gaming. Two stupid things that I don't want, yet both have millions of dollars and major electronics companies behind them, meaning they're not going away anytime soon. Which is worse? More »
Business - United States - Arts - Religion - Memorial Day
Quick. Run to download this pack of craptacularly naff Space Invaders-themed iPhone utilities—Clock, Battery Meter, Business Card, Calculato, Flashligh, and Memory Status—all free courtesy of legendary game developer Taito. [Krapps] More »
Space Invader - Video game - IPhone - Game - Shooter
We've seen photos taken by the iPhone 4 under optimal conditions, but what about real conditions? And what about videos for that matter? Thanks to some Czech folks who got their hands on an iPhone 4, we've finally got samples. More »
IPhone - Apple - Smartphone - Handhelds - iPhone 4
I've seen fonts that are playful, but the console alphabet may be the first ever that's playable. Composed entirely of carefully arranged gaming hardware and awesomeness, it's going to be my default just as soon as it's downloadable. [Behance] More »
Font - Graphics - Individual Designers - Repositories - Free
Well, this is crazy. The LIFE project at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has plans to create a mini sun in the lab, one that could create more energy than it takes to create. More »
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - United States - Earth - Government - Executive Branch
iBreviary—the daily prayer book for iPhone—will become a full Roman missal for iPad, allowing priests to celebrate mass in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Latin. The Vatican-sanctioned application, created Padre Paolo Padrini, includes: More »
iPhone - Italy - IPad - English language - Pontifical Council for Social Communications
They may not have bones to break, but all toys have something going on underneath those plastic shells of theirs. Scan Toys, an exhibition of toy x-rays at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, lets you see their guts. More »
Argentina - South America - Buenos Aires - Provinces - Buenos Aires City
Navigon—long one of our preferred navigation apps—is showing off how their latest update will take advantage of iPhone 4 multitasking. Sure, it'll be fun to have Pandora on while I browse, but this I can actually use. More »
IPhone - Smartphone - Handhelds - Apple - IphoneOs
Give back. Appreciate community. Raise your son to become an extraordinarily wealthy tech scion/genius/philanthropist. Besides that last one, these are the messages Bill Gates Sr. had for the 2010 graduating class of University of Washington, his alma mater. More »
Bill Gates - University of Washington - Microsoft - United States - Warren Buffett
Microsoft's Kinect add-on for the Xbox 360 seems neat, if possibly too expensive. But all of the games are so predictable! Let's come up with some less predictable titles, shall we? More »
Microsoft - Xbox - Games - Video game - Xbox 360
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL ADVISER For mental stimulation, ditch unprescribed Ritalin Detroit Free Press Answer: Many people want to stay mentally fit so they can perform well at school or at work. In fact, one survey of US college students found that 7% had ... |
