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What happens when you put Bill Gates in front of a lot of computer science nerds? A keynote happens, that’s what. This happened at the University of Washington where the entire computer science crowd converged for a rare live event. But since it’s Bill gates speaking, a lot of Bill Gates specific material is covered, [...]

Remember this? What was once a mere prototype is ready to hit the road in Japan. It’s pretty obvious these days that all the big automakers are developing compact city cars whose uniform appearance hardly leaves any space for creative flourishes. As city cars go, at least in concept, they’re either hybrids or electric-powered. It’s [...]

Not to get bogged down in technical excess, but what Microsoft’s latest patents reveal is they now have dibs on grasping simulated objects and moving them around with gestures. The patents become more relevant if you’ve watched a short video Microsoft circulated about what it wants 2019 to look like: A cross between Minority Report [...]

Neil Fraser is the kind of geek who’s lovable and totally insane at the same time. For Halloween this year, he had a crazy idea involving Google Street View. What he did was build himself a Street View helmet using papier-mâché and an aluminum shell. The result is quite startling.

Ha! This fancy eraser set even comes packaged inside a lightsaber. The Gomu Star Wars Eraserland is a Lucasfilm licensed eraser set whose eight different pieces are shaped after some very popular Star Wars icons, including Darth Vader himself and an X-Wing. The really incredible part is the detail involved. In fact, you might not [...]

Arduino is pretty ubiquitous these days. In fact, that’s an understatement. Arduino boards are at the heart of a revolution in electronics. But ever wondered about the people behind it? In a feat of exceptional journalism, David Kushner blows the lid on this incredible company and its origins. The biggest surprise of all is it’s [...]

Curiously enough, there doesn’t seem to be any Apple products around at the time depicted in this new video clip from Microsoft. it’s quite heartening though, like being reassured that all is going to end well despite the economic doldrums and we won’t end up living in Blade Runner before the decade is out. Casting [...]

Scientists from the University of Hong Kong have found credible proof that the vastness of space supports an indescribable organism. Neither living nor dead, it possesses a chemical composition that’s comparable to fossil fuels here from Earth, meaning at some point they grew from living things.

Okay, fine. So Ion Cannons aren’t happening any time soon. Besides, unless China builds a working Star Destroyer knock off, it won’t have a viable use. That doesn’t mean giant lasers with incredible range will never come to be. Aerospace today might not be a frantic as it once was, but fast developing fields are [...]

Seen below is a room covered with Imperial Wall Paper. If you looke closely enough there are portraits of Darth Vader, a stormtrooper, a snowtrooper, and Boba Fett. The four are printed in a repeated pattern, thus guaranteeing a very uniform look to whatever surface this wallpaper is applied to.

It seems a lot of folks these days are riding on the Modern Warfare 3 bandwagon. Gunnar Optiks are guilty of the same and since MW3 is just around the corner, they’ve released a pair of glasses that should improve the vivid experience of shooting Russians, terrorists, and bad guys in general. Seen below is [...]

Relax, it’s not like he’s going to build a Mac with parts from a 3D printer. That would be awesome though. Apparently, there’s this man named Chris Fenton who’s hell bent on assembling his own electromechanical computer with 3D printed parts. Seen below isn’t his creation though, but the wonderful tool he’s using to realize it. If this project [...]