January 2011
In the Maker Shed: tinyCylon kit →
You can easily solder together the tinyCylon kit yourself, or you can buy one already assembled & tested, and jump right into the world domination stage of your evil plan. Not into …
Star Wars Hoth Battle in NYC Blizzard 2010 →
Pictures by Colin Mcgreal
Submitted by Cesar Kuriyama
OpenPandora begins 'private' sales, fast-track... →
What with all the excitement about Sony’s quad-core handheld and Nintendo’s autostereoscopic screen, we have to say, we nearly forgot about the open-source Pandora handheld slowly but…
The Genius Bar [Apple] →
What follows is a very intense trip to the Genius Bar. More »
Remains of the Day: Verizon Charging $20 for Using... →
Amazon’s getting serious about grocery delivery, the DoJ suggests some creepy internet tracking laws, and Verizon’s going to charge iPhone users $20/month to enable wireless hotspot…
BootXChanger Customizes Your Mac OS X Boot Screen... →
Tired of the old gray apple that greats you every time you load up Mac OS X? BootXChanger provides an easy, drag-and-drop method of changing the default image to just about anything…
Animated Albums →
via http://animatedalbums.tumblr.com/page/3
Consilium Medicum: Paintings →
Campaign for Consilium Medicum, a magazine for medical professionals.
“What you see is what you know.”
Advertising Agency: Twiga, Kiev, Ukraine
Copywriter: Slavik…
NatGeo Does Cool | Defgrip →
via http://blog.defgrip.net/2009/11/natgeo-does-cool/#comments
December 2010
AT&T rated worst cell phone provider by... →
Remember when Consumer Reports couldn’t recommend the iPhone 4? Well, now Consumer Reports has released the results of a satisfaction survey which shows that according to over 50,000…
Thrustmaster teases Gran Turismo 5 racing wheel →
Look, you’ve waited 800 years for Gran Turismo 5 to arrive; don’t you think you’ve earned the right to play the game the way God (and Kazunori Yamauchi) intended? We’re speaking, of…
Standalone motion-sensing game console believes... →
We’ve seen plenty of cheap imitators of the Nintendo Wii since the system launched back in 2006 — but we’ve never seen one of these knockoffs be quite so honest as the “Wireless 60.”…
What You Might Have Seen In Gran Turismo 5 If You... →
A Yakuza 3 ad, an Engrish restaurant sign and … George Clooney? Gran Turismo 5 is an amazingly detailed game, though some of that detail on its Tokyo race course is a bit strange.
Pre-Order Fight Night, Get George Foreman As A... →
Pre-order bonuses are circulating for Fight Night Champion, due March 1. Get it through Amazon and you’ll be given a code that unlocks young George Foreman, back when he had a…
Apple employees love Steve Jobs →
Silicon Alley Insider has put together a chart that shows the approval ratings employees have for various CEOs at major tech companies. The chart is based on data from Glassdoor.com…
Logitech, Google TV enlist Kevin Bacon (and his... →
They keep pulling us back in — Logitech’s latest Google TV ad takes a different, and yet still stalker related tack to sell users on the viability of search and web in their living…
Apple patent teases convertible laptop / tablet →
Seen any of those rumors over the years about Apple making a tablet/laptop combo for the masses? Well it seems at least part of the rumor has gone and gotten itself a patent for itself.
November 2010
Peter Jackson nabs thirty RED EPIC cameras to film... →
We’re still slightly bummed that Peter Jackson never made Halo, but this should patch things up a tad — the Lord of the Rings director will film The Hobbit in 3D entirely on thirty…
Free BBC America Shows Hit PlayStation Network... →
Episodes of Doctor Who are coming to the PlayStation Network Store; episodes of Top Gear already are there, and two are free. The freebie vids kickoff an arrangement bringing BBC…
Nintendo will not have a booth at CES this year →
Yesterday, we posted that Nintendo would attend CES this year, effectively ending a 16-year-long hiatus from the show — one of the biggest hardware and tech conventions each year,…
Gran Turismo 5's Collector's Edition unboxed →
You’ve seen the European Signature Edition of Gran Turismo 5. Now, to make you jealous again, and to prove that Gran Turismo 5 exists, PlayStation Blog has posted an unboxing video…
How Long Until Kinect Turns Into Skynet? [Video] →
Why play games on Kinect when you can hook it up to a robot, teach it how to learn from its surroundings then take your orders with the wave of an arm? More »
Kevin Butler Commits Gran Theft Turismo [Video] →
With each new major PlayStation 3 release comes a new video starring Kevin Butler, Sony’s VP of game commercials. In this Gran Turismo 5 spot he claims responsibility for the…
1-kilometer flip book animation →
This flip book was created by ad agency DDB Canada using poster-sized frames attached to the wall of a racetrack. Neat! [Via Core77] Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | …
Ping now available on iPad →
iPad users may have to wait a little longer than they’d like for features like multitasking and folder support, but at least one new feature is available right now: the iPad now…
The Best Way To Ask People To Prepare For Your... →
Tara and Seth are getting married. They also happen to love Portal. So they hired Gawker artist Sam Spratt to design their save-the-date for their upcoming spring wedding. More »
The PC's Best Free Games Right Now [Video] →
Most of the very best games on the PC need you to cough up at least a little cash, but if you absolutely must game for nothing, then let us show you how it’s done. More »
Maybe You Can Hire The Pop Culture Team →
Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the Pop Culture Team.
Could AMD Fusion chips be coming to Macs? →
Ever since Apple finally abandoned the PowerPC platform in favor of the x86 architecture, Macs have been exclusively powered by CPUs from Intel. Throughout that time, however, there…
Sony ships EyePet for PSP, complete with camera →
Looking for a pinch of adorable, a taste of augmented reality and a shiny new peripheral for your PSP? Look no further, mate. Sony’s EyePet title is now shipping in the US of A, and a…
Caption contest: Gulliver's iPhone makes it big in... →
So apparently the hidden island of Lilliput has cellular coverage, but who cares — it’s still gonna be another crap movie. Way to ruin Gulliver’s Travels with Jack Black. Joe:…
I Voted, #4 →
Original Caption: Ronald Reagan stands with his wife Nancy, after voting in the California primary of June 1966.
Building a telegraph from scratch →
Artist Jamie O’Shea decided to embark on a wilderness experiment to see if he could build a telegraph from materials and tools he finds and makes in the woods. Armed only with modern…
An antenna made from sea water →
SPAWAR Systems developed this sea water antenna that uses a jet of water and current probe instead of a metal pole as a transmitting element. I don’t doubt that it works, howver…
iOS Daylight Saving Time bug hits Europe (and the... →
Update: Some of our commenters are reporting that they’re also seeing hour-early alarms in parts of North America. It’s not yet clear if this is widespread or idiosyncratic, and if all…
Google Co-Founders Wanted Steve Jobs To Be CEO of... →
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page were first looking for a CEO to run Google, they met with Steve Jobs. The Google co-founders left that meeting wanting the CEO of Apple to become the…
October 2010
This is a peer-to-peer filesharing network →
[Aram Bartholl] is building his own filesharing network that screws those fat cats who want to control your freedom. He’s added file cache devices throughout NYC (five so far but more to…
Dead Drops preview →
Aram Bartholl writes:
I am pleased to preview ‘Dead Drops’ a new project which I started off as part of my ongoing EYEBEAM residency in NYC the last couple weeks. ‘Dead…
Rush Limbaugh Defends Video Game Free Speech,... →
As the U. S. Supreme Court battle for free speech in video games closes in, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh is adding his support for video games as art. More »
Play Zork on an Arduino-controlled typewriter →
Johnathan Guberman of Toronto’s Site 3 coLaboratory hackerspace wrote in to share his Automatypewriter project: Introducing the Automatypewriter, a new way to experience interactive…
This is a peer-to-peer filesharing network →
[Aram Bartholl] is building his own filesharing network that screws those fat cats who want to control your freedom. He’s added file cache devices throughout NYC (five so far but more to…
The Lastest GT5 Screens Have The Game's Fastest... →
The X-1 Prototype looks great in motion. It looks great in magazine scans. And the Adrian Newey-designed dream car looks great in this batch of new Gran Turismo 5 screens. …
The Heretofore Unmentioned #125 →
Comet Gain
via contemporan.com →
via contemporan.com
Take Interesting, Selective Focus Photos by... →
Freelensing is a technique where you detach the lens from your SLR and shoot with it tilted, providing similar effects to what you get with a LensBaby, but with the lenses you…
Huge Lego Europe relief map with monuments →
The Euromap project is the brainchild of Bruno Kurth and Tobias Reichling. Vanessa Graf, Tanja Kusserow-Kurth, and Torsten Scheer helped them actually build the thing. The map…
skakavac by OGULINAC / fotke.hr →
“skakavac by OGULINAC / fotke.hr”
Found Footage: Reggie Watts and his iPhone rock... →
Comedian/musician/mad genius Reggie Watts found himself sans equipment (seems to be going around) when he was being interviewed on Sirius XM radio, but that didn’t slow him down one…
Unpopular science →
Illustrator Christoph Niemann made a not-quite-scientific series of illustrations titled Unpopular Science, which purport to explain how the laws of physics affect our daily life. My…
Nokia ad targets maker-friendly consumers →
This ad shows tech-savvy Nokia owners modding their phones, adding them to robots, and using them to control blinkenlights displays. Not sure if the N8 offers any concrete benefits for this…