Who wants to bet that we’ll soon be seeing Lady Gaga wearing something like this on stage?
Dang! But I am soooooo going this route if I ever get hit with male-pattern baldness 😛
Artist and designer Elroy Klee came up with a rather radical notion: LEGO wigs! GeekTyrant has more pics of his work.
Great work Elroy! But I have to wonder: what was it like to tell three beautiful women “Here, I want you to wear LEGO on your head…”?...
Fifty years ago today, on February 20th 1962, John Glenn flew inside a Mercury space capsule christened Friendship 7 atop an Atlas LV-3B rocket, taking off from Cape Canaveral and into the history books…
It was the first orbital flight around the Earth by an American. Glenn made three orbits over the course of nearly five hours, before safely splashing down in the Atlantic.
Just think: it was only seven and a half years after Glenn’s flight that we were walking on the moon.
How come we can’t do cool stuff like that anymore? I mean, we use to make it look so easy…
I met John Glenn on Halloween Night in 1988. He came to my high school to campaign for the incumbent congressman from our district. Wish I’d gotten a photo of he and I together, but I do still have his autograph.
Anyway, here’s wishing John ...
I know plenty of geeks that will be salivating their chops about this baby…
More than 22 years after its cinematic debut and after jillions of rumors about “Mattel is really coming out with a working hoverboard!”, guess what: Mattel is coming out with a hoverboard from the Back To The Future trilogy! Except it won’t actually hover (the press release teases that we should “check back in 2015 for that feature”). And it won’t work on water, ‘course anyone who’s seen Back To The Future Part II already knew about that liability. This is going to be a pre-order item: Mattel needs a minimum of purchasers before putting this thing into production. I highly doubt that’ll be a problem though, even considering that this is prolly gonna cost a coupl’a hundred bucks.
But still… a real hoverboard!! Now we can all die happy 🙂...
Angela Zhang (left) is probably like the vast majority of other teenagers in most respects. But how many other teens out there are also developing radical new therapies for cancer that might very well lead to a veritable cure?
That’s what Zhang has been doing for the past two years, spending over a thousand hours researching and creating a microscopic means of destroying tumors. And for her efforts she has just been awarded the $100,000 Grand Prize in the Individual category of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology!
The title of Zhang’s project is “Design of Image-guided, Photo-thermal Controlled Drug Releasing Multifunctional Nanosystem for the Treatment of Cancer Stem Cells”. In layman’s terms, it means that she developed a nanoparticle that, when delivered to the tumor site via the drug salinomycin, destroys the cancerous stem cells. Not only that but she smartly utilized gold and iron-oxide so that ...
Two weeks after the fortieth anniversary of his dastardly deed, it looks like the mystery of Dan Cooper might have been cracked at last.
And if true, it means that Cooper did survive his crazy stunt after all!
In the image above, you see one Lynn Doyle Cooper on the left and on the right, one of the sketches of Dan Cooper (or “D.B. Cooper” as he was erroneously referred to be by early press reports) made from descriptions given by passengers and crew of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305: the flight that Cooper hijacked on Thanksgiving 1971.
Marla Cooper, niece of Lynn Doyle Cooper, has come forward to tell the FBI that her uncle arrived at her home on the day after the skyjacking. He was severely injured and claimed that he had been in a car crash.
But what’s more, the FBI is apparently close to matching ...
When I first posted about this Thanksgiving’s deep-fried turkey earlier this evening, I forgot to mention that for this past holiday’s music to fry to, I chose to use Steve Jablonsky’s soundtrack for Gears of War 3. Should have made a note of that earlier ‘cuz hey, that kind of thing is important to my personal ritual of deep-frying turkey. Kristen and my friends that I was frying for all thought that it was a terrific score and perfect for the occasion 🙂
Well, a short while ago Kristen surprised me with this video that she put together of me preparing the turkey in the kitchen and then putting it into the oil… which turned out to be the most dangerous bird that I have yet to fry!! No seriously: a tiny bit of hot oil jumped up and hit me in the face. It startled me for a ...
Okay, I gotta ask: am I the only fan of BioShock who is not really all that jazzed about BioShock Infinite? Because unless that game solidly connects to classic BioShock, I just can’t see counting this upcoming game as part of the canon (no offense to Ken Levine). To me BioShock is and always will be about Rapture: that mysterious city on the floor of the northern Atlantic, envisioned by Andrew Ryan to be the ultimate escape from a world surrendering itself to socialism and corrupted religion… before it all went horribly wrong. And there is sooo much more storytelling left in the classic BioShock franchise. I mean, BioShock 2 brought us to, what, 1968? Now you know that eventually the American and Soviet governments are going to come looking for Rapture. And when they do…
Well anyhoo, until we get a proper BioShock 3, behold this awesome...
Forty years ago tonight, a man calling himself Dan Cooper arrived at Portland International Airport and purchased a ticket for Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305: a short flight to Seattle.
Shortly after taking off, “Cooper” passed a note to the stewardess: “I have a bomb in my briefcase. I will use it if necessary. I want you to sit next to me. You are being hijacked.”
So began the tale of what has become one of the most brazen and legendary (some have even said heroic) crimes in American history…
Cooper (often referred to as “D.B. Cooper”) showed what he purported to be a bomb (some red cylinders in his briefcase that later turned out to be harmless), demanded $200,000 in unmarked bills, and four parachutes: two loaded in the front of the plane and two in the back. After the plane landed at Seattle-Tacoma the demands were met and ...
Crazy buff for wild engineering that I be, this lil’ news item just blows my mind…
A team of researchers from the University of California at Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology have come up with a metal lattice material that is the lightest solid yet discovered. As you can see in the photo above, a sample of it can be perched atop a dandelion without damaging it at all. This stuff has less density than the air surrounding it! It’s also much stronger than aerogel: the previous “lightest solid” title holder.
It’s stories like this, friends and neighbors, that still give me a reliable sense of optimism about the future. Who knows what the uses and demand for this stuff will end up being....
Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the release of Halo: Combat Evolved. Arguably the most influential video game of the past decade, the first installment of the Halo series drew in millions of loyal players with its combination of breathtaking beauty, tactical ability and mythology on a vast scale.
Fittingly, tomorrow will herald the arrival of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary in stores. It’s the original game with remastered graphics for the high-def Xbox 360 (and you can even switch between the look of the 2001 Xbox game and compare it to the shiny new veneer). But one clever dude named Ed Fries has decided to go really old-school in the classiest way possible: adapting Halo: Combat Evolved as an Atari 2600 game! Yes it’s true: Halo 2600 lets you guide Master Chief along on the surface of Halo in his fight against Grunts, Elites and other forces of ...