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Easter Eggs for PC games, console games, movies, books, etc. Posted: 3 years ago by Moe
All kinds of Easter Eggs that have been placed into various media forms. Read up on ones that are there or submit your own. Cool!
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 78 [+].
Shadow lamps are being used by Japanese researchers as an non-intrusive way for friends to stay in touch Posted: 3 years ago by deepchill
Called Teleshadow the system pipes video of what people are doing at home via the net to their friends' houses.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 23 [+].
Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy’s Couch Posted: 3 years ago by Bornbad
But now it seems quite possible. In fact, if you accept a pretty reasonable assumption of Dr. Bostrom’s, it is almost a mathematical certainty that we are living in someone else’s computer simulation.
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Keyboard Disco Posted: 3 years ago by gnikgnok
I don't usually get excited about keyboards, but this one really pushes my buttons.
Comments: 8 Score: [-] 171 [+].
The first terabyte 3.5" hard drive has been released Posted: 3 years ago by Galoot
Imagine one thousand thousand thousand thousand bytes.
That's over 13 80GB iPods' worth of storage (a quarter million MP3s), 1500 CD-ROMs (615 feet if laid end-to-end), and one estimate of the human brain's memory capacity (GWB excluded).
Comments: 11 Score: [-] 203 [+].
Handheld Electronic Games - the Early Years Posted: 3 years ago by gnikgnok
Anybody remember any of these?
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 198 [+].
An Emotional Cat Robot Posted: 3 years ago by neilharvey
Scientists in the Netherlands are endowing a robotic cat with a set of logical rules for emotions. They believe that by introducing emotional variables to the decision-making process, they should be able to create more-natural human and computer interactions
Comments: 0 Score: [-] 81 [+].
The Piss Screen Posted: 3 years ago by misswinkle
To encourage people to take a taxi after they’ve had a few drinks rather than get behind the wheel of their own car.The Piss-Screen -a pressure-sensitive inlay set within urinals, enabling users to play while they pee.
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Virgin Atlantic Space Flight Demo Posted: 3 years ago by ogri2003
Amazing flight demo! I hope I live long enough to do something like this. Richard Branson (Virgin) is just the guy to do it too.
See also:
(BBC news coverage posted by mrnelson)
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New Tesla-inspired light bulb Posted: 3 years ago by deepchill
The bulb is levitated by electromagnetic feedback, and energy is then supplied using wireless power transfer to light it up. Amazingly this set up uses less than half the power than a directly powered bulb.
Comments: 1 Score: [-] 53 [+].
New ship can reach FTL speeds Posted: 3 years ago by gratheo
Burbank, CA - A team of scientists working for the JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works plant has unveiled a prototype spacecraft which they claim can travel faster than light.
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Haptic Telexistence Posted: 3 years ago by misswinkle
We will be able to shake hands with people at remote locations but we will also be able to feel the warmth of their hands. While shopping on the web, we will be able to check the texture of an article before purchase.
Comments: 11 Score: [-] 132 [+].
Ladies and gentlemen, The Foot Mouse. Posted: 3 years ago by HeyMrP
This thing kind of freaks me out.
Comments: 3 Score: [-] 23 [+].
Official Blue Screen Of Death Screensaver Posted: 3 years ago by pocksucket
Want to get some time away from your desk? This screensaver mimics a number of BSOD views. Show your screen to your boss, pretend to call IT and then nip off to a bar for an hour.
NB - if you do install this, once it has launched, you have to press Esc to stop it. Moving your mouse or other keypresses won't work.
Comments: 7 Score: [-] 217 [+].
Dad shocked by sex show on phone Posted: 3 years ago by misswinkle
Man buys what he thinks a new phone-only to find the previous owner left a video he made-all by himself.
Comments: 3 Score: [-] 81 [+].
'Crowd Farm' Converts Footsteps into Electricity Posted: 3 years ago by deepchill
A responsive sub-flooring system could be placed under, say, the platform of a subway terminal.
Comments: 7 Score: [-] 67 [+].
Virus Alert: Delete Music Worm Posted: 3 years ago by drumingspz
The Delete Music Worm finds and delete ALL MP3 files on an infected system's hard drive.
Make me re-install my OS, that's fine, but leave my music alone!
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 119 [+].
Klaus The Gabelstapler Fahrer Posted: 3 years ago by pocksucket
Inspired by HeyMrP's Magic Moonwalking Forklift Truck post, I've hunted down Klaus The Gabelstapler Fahrer (Forklift driver)
It's a bit slow to start with, but once it gets going, it really gets going.
Kinda gory. Well, very gory. So probably NSFW on that regard
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Coolest lift truck ever. Posted: 3 years ago by HeyMrP
Oh my God. I have sunk so low as to submit a video of a lift truck. I'm such a loser. (but it IS a cool lift truck)
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0 to 60 mph in less than a second. Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
KillaCycle is the world's fastest electric motorcycle. An electric's engines instant torque makes them ideal for drag strip racing where it has achieved 155 mph.
Comments: 5 Score: [-] 127 [+].
Ten Reasons To Throw Away Your Cellphone Posted: 3 years ago by imagica
Having recently gotten rid of my own cellphone, I wholeheartedly agree with this.
Comments: 4 Score: [-] 67 [+].
Yet another way the cameras will rat you out. Posted: 3 years ago by drumingspz
License plate recognizing camera calls the cops when a 'hot' plate is spotted.
Comments: 2 Score: [-] 76 [+].
Pentagon to implant microchips in soldiers' brains Posted: 3 years ago by misswinkle
To "monitor their health" not to see what they do off-duty, as the soldiers see it.
Comments: 10 Score: [-] 156 [+].
Sweaty man electrocuted by computer Posted: 3 years ago by misswinkle
His sweaty legs came into contact with the computer's wiring and he got zapped.
Comments: 11 Score: [-] 100 [+].
Cell phones light up operating room Posted: 3 years ago by deepchill
Surgeons use the glow of cell phones to complete an emergency appendix operation during a power failure at a hospital.
Comments: 3 Score: [-] 132 [+].
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