ThinkGeek – Geek Band

Yes, it’s goddawful and Joan Jett must be crying with this rendition of “I Love Rock N’ Roll”, the music she made famous.
But I guess that’s what geeks do best (break stuff). :P

Anyways, from the ThinkGeek guys, a tiny portable amp, a guitar t-shirt and drums t-shirt.
You can kill yourself now. And please, don’t blame me… blame “Hadron and the Colliders”.

Source: Gizmodo




Boston Dynamics – Petman Prototype

Remember BigDog? A robot so awesome it even got a parody?
Well, the creators of it – Boston Dynamics – are on the scene again with this Petman Prototype.

Petman could be seen as BigDog owner relative as it uses some elements from BigDog. As you can see, it’s also pushed around.
Of course, as you can imagine, when the robot wars begins, BigDog and Petman will be the ones pushing us puny humans around…

Source: Gizmodo




Bricklayer Robot R-O-B – Pike Loop

R-O-B, that robotic arm you see on the video is building brick by brick a sculpture designed by Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler, called “The Infinite Loop”.

What’s the purpose? I guess it’s to show how accurate the robotic arm can be, besides being a nice sculpture and all… :P

Source: Gizmodo




Rubik’s Cubes – The Last Supper

Considering Leonardo DaVinci was kind of a geek himself, I guess he’d be proud of this Rubik’s Cube version of his masterpiece The Last Supper:

It uses nothing less than 4000 Rubik’s Cube, 2 months and 5 lunatics Toronto artists. :P

Source: Gizmodo

I Can Has Cheezburger – Costume Rejecting Cat

Some cats like costumes. Some accepts it for it’s owner. This one won’t have it:

“I don’t wannaaaa” :P

From I Can Has Cheezburger YouTube Channel.
Also visit I Can Has Cheezburger website!

SMILE! (NSFW)

If you’re not new to the Internetz, you might remember this:

SMILE!, an interesting dystopic short by ~maladjust (Aleksander Wasilewski).
Originally made in flash, you can check it on ~maladjust Deviantart Smile page.

Bubble Bobble Music

I was never a fan of Bubble Bobble despite hearding lots about it, but I never knew the music was so catchy…

To the point of being used on korean ramen commercials sang by famous idol group Girls’ Generation.
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Photoelastic Touch

Hideki Koike and team at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, Japan, working with Kentaro Fukuchi at the Japan Science and Technology Agency produced this new interaction type with computers using transparent rubber and a tabletop projection panel:

It’s kinda like a touchscreen panel, only you’re able to use these flexible rubber shapes for a better interaction.
Check a longer video and more info at Gizmodo.

Sources: Gizmodo and TechEBlog

Kasabian – Football Hero

Frets on Fire + guitar controller customization + football (soccer) players = Football Hero!

This is actually a promo for the music Underdog from band Kasabian… something I’d never know if I didn’t pay enough attention.
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Interactive Multitouch Sphere

By design house Seeper, a spherical multitouch display:

Very interesting concept!
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