Asheron’s Call Closes its last Servers
The Turbine MMO that launched in 1999 has run for the last 17 years and will finally call it quits. Mashable featured an article where a 74 year old Grandfather has been playing this game since its inception and will have to hang it up at the end of the month. Sony’s Everquest released earlier the same year as Asheron’s Call, and quickly became the popular choice. But by the end of the month, the servers will close forever...
Robert Downey Jr Delivers Bionic Arm
Technology is a beautiful thing, but not nearly as beautiful as the joy and wonderment it could bring to a child who doesn’t have an arm! See, Alex was born with one underdeveloped arm, and instead of having to rewatch Finding Nemo a dozen times to see that he is special even with one tiny fin, a tech company decided to help him out. Then comes Albert Manero. He is a student that builds 3d Printed robotics and he developed a low...
Bay King preserves Classic Jeep in its Foundation
The car dealership where I bought my Jeep – Bay King Motors – recently relocated to a brand new building. During its construction they decided to take a unique fixture into the foundation of the building. Check it out! This classic era 1943 Willys Jeep will be preserved in this location for the foreseeable future. I wish I had known it was there when I got my last oil change. I will be keeping my eye out for this wonder...
Microsoft Announces The HaloLens!
Alongside the Windows10 release announcement, Microsoft also introduced a new technology they are working on that just might be more exciting than Google Glass – and because everything they do has to abuse the crap out of their Halo franchise trademarks so of course its called the HaloLens™ This virtual reality lens has a lot of potential and how they illustrate that is just amazing. It looks to be even more versatile than...
Warcraft 3 gets Modded using StarCraft 2 Engine!
Blizzard Entertainment really owes all of its success to the original Warcraft real-time strategy, resource management, topdown-ish combat game – Warcraft. It started out as a simple fantasy game in 1994, Warcraft: Orcs & Humans. This game came on a staggering 12 floppy discs or one CD-Rom and featured two factions gathering resources and building armies to face off in a massive war of point and click warfare. The most...
Solving the World’s Largest Rubic’s Cube!
I have always been perplexed and fascinated with Rubic’s Cube – the rotating six sided multicoloured puzzle that took the 80s by storm. I think my deep wonderment for this toy puzzle was that I was completely unable to ever solve it without smashing the pieces out and re-assembling it or peeling off the stickers. But as if my secret shame of not being able to solve a Rubic’s Cube wasn’t enough they came out...
I Fucking Love Science leaps to TV with Craig Ferguson
The Facebook page I Fucking Love Science is a gathering place of all sorts of oddities in the science world, that not only educates you on how amazing our world truely is, but it also entertains. Well it will be taking the next logical leap to TV on the Science Channel (with a bit of censorship in its title) via Green Mountain West Productions and Karga7 Productions, and today at South by Southwest in Austin it was announced that Late...
Hoverboards are Real – Nope.
The elaborate and brief hoax had every geek busting at the seams with glee as it appeared a company named Huvr had actually accomplished the impossible and invented the hovering skateboard we have been waiting for since 1989. Great Scott! The Hoverboard is REAL!! Only it isn’t. The above video is a very clever and well done promo with celebrity endorsements like Back to the Future star Christopher Lloyd, Mobi and Skater legend...
Thief Compared on all Available Platforms
One of the upcoming hottest games on the market has to be Thief. Aside from the nostalgia factor of this franchise being reborn on next gen consoles, one of the things contributing to its popularity has to be its wide distribution across all platforms. The game is released on PC, XBox360, XBoxOne, Playstation3 and Playstation4. But this is not about the popularity of the game, but rather this multiplatform release gives us the...
How to win at Flappy Birds
Remember when you were younger playing video games and there was always one level you just couldn’t get past so you either ragequit the game or you got a buddy or older sibling to get past it for you? Well that is the entire premise of the now legendary Flappy Birds. However, two inventive robotics geeks in China have created a robot that will beat the hell out of this copyright infringing game. Liu Yang and Shi Xuekun made a...
Nike Promises Power Laces by 2015
Despite many bad photoshopped images claiming the day which Marty McFly would travel to the future in Back to the Future 2, the real date is in 2015. We are desperately close to looking forward to the wonder technology they predicted. While it is still unlikely we will have a useable version of the hover skateboard, it appears Nike is looking at making sure at least one technology will exist. Power Laces. Gizmodo reports: designer...
Amazon to Ship Orders before You Place Them!
It’s a new breakthrough in home delievery marketing! It is in your mailbox before your order is even placed! USA TODAY says: Amazon says it may box and ship products that it expects customers in a specific area will want, based on previous orders and other factors it gleans from its customers’ shopping patterns, even before they place an online order. Among those other factors: previous orders, product searches, wish...
She Just Wanted A Dragon
The heart grows a few sizes when I hear stories like this. Little 7 Year Old Sophie wrote a letter to CSIRO asking them to make her a dragon. Their response was a polite “We will look into it” But instead of just a brush off comment they DID look into it! The story went viral and many people offered their support on how they could make a dragon. Even Dreamworks called in and suggested they knew someone who could train...
Star Trek Superfan Lives on the Enterprise
While not the way I would spend $30,000, Line Rainville has made the ultimate domicile transformation and converted her apartment into a shrine of Star Trek brilliance. Not one inch of this home is NOT made to emulate the styling and lifestyle of those who lived on the fictional USS Enterprise NCC-1701. And while the original Enterprise blue prints do not include bathrooms, Ms Rainville’s apartment does. I cannot help but notice...
Panoramic Ball Camera that you can Throw!
You know what I love about crowdfunding? That there are literally no limits. Want to invent a panoramic camera? Why stop there? Make a 360 degree camera! THAT YOU CAN THROW!! And that’s what these guys did. They invented the Panono. The idea is that this camera is not just a multi-lens cam that takes shots in a bunch of directions like the one perched on top of the Google Maps Streetview car. This camera is designed to be thrown...
Blackberry Sues Ryan Seacrest’s Tech Startup
Ryan Seacrest is a man with his fingers in many pies, and one of which is a phone accessory startup called Typo. The primary launch product of Typo is an accessory phone case that extends the iPhone to include a tactile keyboard on the bottom. Many sites that reviewed the product made the observation that the device makes your iPhone look like a Blackberry. I don’t disagree with that observation, and it seems Blackberry itself...
Giant K’Nex Ball Machine
K’nex builder at The Works Museum in Bloomington Minnesota has constructed a massive “Ball Machine” that so far remains nameless and still expanding. The machine stands 23.5 feet tall and 40 feet long, and contains over 100,000 pieces. It has 2 lifts, 3 motors, and 8 paths, including a 20 foot free-fall, an 8 foot tall big-ball-factory spiral, and a 60 foot long path which hangs from the ceiling. It takes 3 and a...