Thursday, January 29, 2009

But can I pay for arcade games with it?

So wow. Someone out there thought it would be a good idea to make one of these hats. Hey, its not that I'm not pleased or anything, its just that I'm speechless. Seriously, would you wear this? I love Back to the Future, its one of my all time favorite trilogies, but the best I could hope for this hat is to put it on my hat rack. If I wore hats. Regardless, at only $19.99, why not? If you love something enough, you might as well.

You can get the hat at big bad toy store here.

Leonardo da Vinci designs are all the rage




It seems to me that taking things and making them into Leonardo da Vinci designs is incredibly popular these days, especially for t-shirts. two examples would be the iPhone drawings above and the blue turtle shell from mario kart. Honestly I can't complain, these things blend old world style (16th century) with modern pop culture. Plus they look really cool. Now someone just needs to take a stab at the transformers franchise. My fanboy heart would sing.

Its the Future...


Check out these radiaton proof garments. They're a recent development by Demron Garments and other than blocking out radiation, they also have a ridiculously sci-fi feel to them. Apparently besides nano technology, these things are made out of a "liquid metal" material. Cool. How long until they're available to the public? I don't know. Furthermore how long until we need them? hopefully never.
[via Engadget]

Monday, January 26, 2009

His Eyes Were Closed...


David Bergman took a 1,474 megapixel image at the inaguration last week. I knew that this kind of technology existed but I hadn't really seen it in practice until now. He took 220 images and it took his Mac Book Pro 6.5 hours to compile the photo. You can find the photo here and its amazing the level of detail. Unfortunately though the President wasn't ready for the photo, and I doubt there are going to be reshoots.

Friday, January 23, 2009

White House Technology Troubles


One of the first concerns that President Obama did not expect to face when he moved into the white house was its technological backwardness. Honestly its not something I would expect either. Campaign members were restricted from using facebook and outside email addresses as well as instant messaging. Sure some of these things make sense for security concerns, but there are ways people, there are ways. Furthermore some members of the new White House staff don't even have computers or phone numbers. Smoooth. I wonder how Bush ever survived with such little access to the outside world. or maybe that explains a few things.


[via MSNBC]

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Thank god someone was this crafty...


What we have here ladies and gentlemen, is a portal gun. Some of you may not play video games, and I respect that, but everyone should at least play portal. It's this cheeky little puzzle game in which a test subject is forced to run through a series of puzzles with nothing but a gun that can make two portals at different locations. Go in one, come out the other. For a better synopsis of the whole thing you can watch this video. its towards the end, but its all pretty hilarious. Long story short I want one. It may not work, But its still monstrously cool. I wish we had this kind of technology for public use. More images can be found at the flickr gallery here.

Hopefully soon we will.
Well, unless its just physically impossible.

[via Joystiq]

Amish Mac Protection

So, the blog continues to lack most types of pattern or consistency. That's ok, I'm experimenting. So anyway, check this thing out. It is literally a wooden box to put 15" mac book and mac book pros in. This decorative box (read mac coffin) with a leather lining and magnetic enclosures isn't priced yet, but if it follows the general Apple pricing trend, it'll be too much. But hey, if you have a certain wooden aestetic going, why break up the trend?

[via Engadget]

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

We're Still Working out the Bugs


Alright, I'll admit that this place could use a new coat of paint. And in all honesty some walls on which to put that paint. But enough of that! I was up and I found something that was relatively mindless and kind of worth a post. Astonishing isn't it? Who would have thought that anything like this even existed. Thankfully the people over at Film Junk spent the time to find this little gem. The link takes you to the full article. Personally speaking, some sort of Vulcan turtle that can walk and talk intrigues me. Not to mention that its Donatello.

[via Film Junk]

Friday, January 16, 2009

This is only a test...

Ok, I just wanted to see what a post would look like. Hopefully the next time I post I'll actually have something interesting to say.