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Feb 9, 2012, 10:43 pm
We’ve all see video of some chicken wandering around sans their head and other various Frankensteinish type medical wonders but somehow the idea of something in a petri dish in a lab having a pulse you can measure isn’t high on the list of things to watch.
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Feb 9, 2012, 7:17 pm
Okay I can’t say that I’ve been overly concerned as to why zebras, which look like horses, have stripes but it would seem that this is a rather pressing question in some scientific circles.
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Feb 9, 2012, 5:15 pm
Just in case you aren’t familiar with the name George Orwell he is the famous author who is responsible for two of our best and classic pieces of literature: Animal Farm and 1984.
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Feb 9, 2012, 3:51 pm
It might not seem like much of a big deal unless of course you play a lot of games; or you are a developer of games of course, then this news is a really big deal especially since the breakthrough is based on code that will work on run of the mill computers – like yours and mine.
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Feb 9, 2012, 2:27 pm
There is no getting around it – Skyrim rocks and has to best the best game so far of the year and will probably become a classic that other games will aspire to be as good as in the genre. However as good as the standard game might be the creators of Skyrim have given players the tools to create t... Comment - Like
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Feb 8, 2012, 8:38 pm
Before zombies saw their resurgence and before vampires rekindled a twinkle in your eye any geek worth their salt was a Princess Bride fan who could recite lines from the movie without even a second thought. Like Rocky Horror Picture Show the Princess Bride became a cult classic.
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Feb 7, 2012, 11:01 pm
Okay, this is pretty awesome. Even though I have never had to recover from any broken bones I have known people who have and the months involved, not just in the healing itself but also the rehab, can be really debilitating for people to deal with.
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Feb 7, 2012, 7:59 pm
I am a huge believe in the future potential of something a seemingly simple as 3D printers to ferment greater change than just about anything that we have seen come along in out technological world since … well .. computers.
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Feb 7, 2012, 6:12 pm
I have to admit that my first thought when I saw these was of my friend Louis Gray who is an absolute baseball nut and how his twins would be so up for this.
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Feb 7, 2012, 4:35 pm
There are a couple things about cosplay, well done cosplay, that I really like. The first is that you get to see insanely creative people bring their favorite characters to life in awesome ways, sort of like this Commander Shepard cosplay.
The second is that you get to see beautiful and talent wom... Comment - Like
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Feb 2, 2012, 5:46 pm
When we get married part of the ceremony is the exchanging of rings to symbolize our undying love you have for each other and this simple yet very beautiful rings would be an awesome way to do that.
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Feb 2, 2012, 4:02 pm
It’s always interesting to see how other areas of entertainment industry use technology themes and the music industry is no different, especially when it comes to visualizing the music through well done music videos.
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Jan 31, 2012, 5:40 pm
It’s always the simplest explanation eh.
thanks to my buds over at IsViral for the laugh over this one
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Jan 31, 2012, 3:20 pm
The animal kingdom is so full of incredible and amazing creatures who are constantly surprising both us and the scientists who study them.
In this case it is the Weddell seals in the Antarctic who create sounds that could be right out of a DJ Tiësto or Paul Oakenfold dance floor mix.
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Jan 31, 2012, 2:50 pm
I am pretty sure that the intended audience for these items will be of the more niche Star Wars collector market but hey you never know – after all they are bobbleheads and that’s just silly enough in its own right to make worth picking up a set.
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Jan 30, 2012, 9:56 pm
Or at least the well done heels would have been available if some lucky person had’t already gobbled them up from Magic Bean Buyer’s Etsy site (but they were available earlier *sigh*) for the price of – well I don’t know now.
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Jan 30, 2012, 7:35 pm
One of the major concerns in both war and law enforcement is the cost of friendly fire or bullets that miss their intended target and kill or wound civilians so the idea of self-guided bullets has always been a type of holy grail for arms manufacturers, and in the realm of science fiction.
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Jan 30, 2012, 5:36 pm
Normally when we think about trying to be ecologically green when it comes to all of our old gadgets and computers we check to see when out town is going to have their next big electronics recycling day or which company actually recycles our stuff for us instead of sending to China.
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Jan 29, 2012, 1:39 pm
While I may not be the biggest fan of Apple the company I have an immense respect for Steve Jobs and the amazing things he did to and for the company.
At this point the most definitive book about Steve Jobs would of course have to be his biography that was written by Walter Isaacson but another i... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2012, 9:42 pm
When I was a kid I had a treehouse, well actually it was a wooden platform jammed between two main trunks of a maple tree, but it definitely wasn’t anything like this awesome Ewok-style treehouse village built by ex-Green Beret medic Michael Garnier.
He has taken his passion for wood and living a... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2012, 6:00 pm
I hadn’t realized that there was any large number of people waiting breathlessly for a Half-Life 2 movie but according to the team at Gamma Squad this is indeed the case. The only problem is that the chances of this happening is less that pretty slim.
However that hasn’t stopped a really talent... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2012, 4:03 pm
I mean seriously guys … does it get any better than this awesome lady by the even better name of SillySparrowness.
Come on .. how many people, let alone a great looking lady, manage to build a portable TARDIS, then make an incredibly well down video of the whole build process. It’s funny, well... Comment - Like
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Jan 26, 2012, 8:41 pm
It is almost a given that the name of the craftsman who made this one-of-a-kind coffee table would go by the name of Barry Shields but this beautiful table took Barry a month to make out of cherry, ash, and poplar wood.
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Jan 25, 2012, 4:58 pm
While I am not sure I totally understand this fascination that geeks and nerds have with zombies but that shouldn’t stop one from be prepared just in case there is a real zombie Apocalypse coming our way.
However I’m also pretty sure that the old baseball bat with spikes in it or the top heav... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2012, 10:21 pm
Ever wondered how long it would take pitch, a derivative of tar that is used to waterproof boats, to travel from one container to another?
Well me neither but then we’re no Professor Thomas Parnell, who in 1927 began an experiment at the University of Queensland where he was their first professor... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2012, 7:57 pm
It’s getting closer guys and I know you are probably having a really hard time figuring out what kind of romantic gift to get for your sweetheart, because you know in your hearts of hearts that while getting her an iPad might earn you geek brownie points it would help win any romantic heart points... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2012, 6:12 pm
I’m not really sure where to even start with this one after all there is just so much fun to be had with not only the concept but the comparisons to other dystopian movies of our future.
There’s Mad Max, and Mad Max Thunderdome, and you can toss in that under the bridge scene from the Book of... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2012, 3:51 pm
It’s official folks – LEGO is teaming up with Minecraft to create and sell Minecraft LEGO Kits. This apparently happened after the idea receiving over 10,000 votes on LEGO’s make it a LEGO reality site.
From the announcement:
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Jan 23, 2012, 7:45 pm
Skyrim is all the rage, which given how good the game is shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise, and while we have already seen a bunch of great real life copies of items from the game it is probably only the beginning of what is to come.
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Jan 23, 2012, 6:44 pm
One of the problems with being a digital curator with a very wide range of interests is that you are always finding great stuff to share that doesn’t suit any one particular type of site.
For example here at Winextra is all about the really cool, the strange, and the cutting edge stuff that inter... Comment - Like
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Jan 23, 2012, 5:36 pm
While one might question the practicality of this, especially if you are someone like Robert Scoble, you got to admit the idea is pretty cute.
You see Uniform, a U.K. company, thinks that you should be rewarded whenever someone follows you on Twitter and what better way that with a nice piece of bu... Comment - Like
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Jan 22, 2012, 10:52 pm
Google made the news last year with its self-driving car and car makers are always showing off their cars that can park themselves but they have nothing on this BMW.
Now it’s one thing to sit in a car driving itself around the safe streets of a city or parking itself on some fancy street in L.A. ... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2011, 5:12 pm
A pair of Walking Dead Chucks for your next zombie walk
I’m not a running shoe type of guy. I have one pair of $15 ratty runners that I wear when I take our dog out in the morning but other than that I’m strictly a cowboy boot type. so I am probably not the best one to get all excited about som... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2011, 4:44 pm
Even as much of a geek and computer user that I am I hate the pain in the butt chore of doing backups. Sure they’re a necessary evil but just the tough of doing them makes me have all kinds of sympathy for the deep thinkers behind the concept of IRTBBC.
Never heard that before?
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Nov 1, 2011, 11:37 pm
From left, Edward Lu, James Gosling and Roger Hine with the four Wave Gliders that will soon begin a cross-Pacific odyssey.
It is commonly accepted that we know more about the space around our planet than we know about the oceans that cover our world within that space. This is something that a comp... Comment - Like
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Nov 1, 2011, 7:15 pm
Inside the top 5 data centers
Data centers are all the rage these days. Everyone want to have one of their own. Facebook wants one or two, Twitter wants one, Apple is building one. It’s all about having your data in one place under their control, so who has the largest ones right now?
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Nov 1, 2011, 6:45 pm
Just what every superhero needs - a wristbow
Okay so you’re a little older and that whole Nerf sniper rifle thing is just a little passe for you, what is one to do eh.
How about your very own wrist mounted crossbow with laser sighting and finger trigger?
Think that would hit the spot?
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Oct 30, 2011, 3:13 pm
My Little Geek ABC book
When raising one’s children in the finest of geek traditions it is ultimately your responsibility to make sure that the children learn their ABC’s the right way, and what better way than with the help of My Little Geek ABC book.
Not only that but if your children are s... Comment - Like
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Oct 29, 2011, 9:16 pm
Custos Cavum (detail) - U-Ram Choe
This amazing piece of mechanical sculpture is by Korean born artist U-Ram Choe, who is best known for his kinetic sculptures that are made out of acrylic and stainless steel and animated with robotics that developed and programmed by Choe.
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Oct 29, 2011, 8:05 pm
The simple fertility chip includes fluid channels and electrodes.
So it seems that in our over populated world the idea of how to accurately count a man’s sperm concentration and mobility is something of a going concern, to the point that a researcher at the University of Twente in the Netherlan... Comment - Like
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Oct 29, 2011, 2:22 pm
Occupy Wall Street without power for the weekend
You gotta hand it to those crafty Occupy Wall Street folks.
It seems that Bloomberg and company figured that by declaring their portable gas generators as fire hazards the cops and fire department could step in and confiscate those generators. As ... Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2011, 3:06 pm
Time Twister - a LEGO digital clock
I admit that I am fascinated by all the really cool things that people do with LEGO but sometimes I think that they have way too much time on their hands, but at least now they’ll have a Mindstorms powered LEGO clock.
It’s called Time Twister and it was cr... Comment - Like
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Oct 27, 2011, 8:13 pm
Scott Olsen before and after the police attack
In a move that I will admit surprises me somewhat Google let it be known that they have been receiving requests from local law enforcement agencies around the United States to take down videos that show any police brutality, as well as any that are ... Comment - Like
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Oct 27, 2011, 3:43 pm
The Ripple of Louis Gray's post about Google+ Ripples
Google just turned a really cool new feature in Google+, which for those of you under a rock is their rather interesting attempt at a social network. It is called Ripples and is a pretty awesome way of visualizing how posts or other stuff shared... Comment - Like
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Oct 27, 2011, 2:08 pm
There’s a really awesome video that hit the web today which showcases a future of touch and holographic computing as envisioned by Microsoft. Granted it isn’t meant to be some magical template of what Microsoft wants to bring to market but rather interesting ideas for us to consider.
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Oct 27, 2011, 1:02 pm
The Millennium Falcon model
Star Wars is one of those iconic geek type things with people going to see the movies more times than years they’ve been alive, snapping up every media version that hits the shelves, or memorizing every scene in every movie in the series.
As one of those geeky cultura... Comment - Like
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Oct 26, 2011, 4:43 pm
Claudia from Warehouse 13
One of my favorite geek type characters on television right now has to be Claudia from Warehouse 13, and no I don’t care about your fascination with some silly show called Fringe (it lost me back in season 2). When it comes to awesome geekiness Claudia is the bomb and ... Comment - Like
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Oct 25, 2011, 9:29 pm
Meet Rubik’s Cube super geek David Calvo from Spain. He already has a place in history, and a Guinness World Record for the number of Rubik’s Cubes solved in one hour but now he has to go and further prove his greatness by juggling three Rubik’s cubes as he solves one of them.
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Oct 25, 2011, 8:24 pm
Guinness squirrel agrees
Ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you that I am a big fan of Microsoft and its products, but the reality is that my appreciation for the company is only a very small part of my larger love of technology in all it’s nerdy forms.
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