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Mercedes team buys teen £35K artificial hand

Shane McGlaun, Aug 15th 2011 Discuss [4]

It has been more than a year now since we talked about the awesome high-tech and very expensive artificial limbs made by a company called Touch Bionics. These hands are able to sense the electrical pulses from the muscles in the arm of users and activate artificial bionic hand. The artificial hand is so high-tech that the user can do just about anything they are able to do with a normal hand. Read The Full Story

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Is Anything Really Necessary?

Philip Berne, Aug 14th 2011 Discuss [22]

Necessary. It’s like a dirty word. A curse, or at least it was at my house. Activities were defined on a scale of how “necessary” they were. Snagging a couple Tagalongs before dinner. Is that necessary? Want to drive 20 miles to visit my girlfriend on a school night. Is it necessary to see her before the weekend? Waiting in line at midnight for the new Sonic the Hedgehog game (it was the 90s, after all). Definitely unnecessary. It is with those voices in my head that I read Mike Perlman’s column about whether tablet computers are “. . . Really Necessary.” Necessary? I consider myself an expert on battling the subject.

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Weird tech fashion dresses let wearer type on the skirt and change color with mood

Shane McGlaun, Aug 12th 2011 Discuss [0]

Geeks like odd clothing often that tells the world just how geeky they are. Generally, we think of the geeky guys wearing clothing of questionable taste, but there are a lots of odd garments out there for the lady geeks too. One such geeky dress is dubbed The Printing Dress. The dress has a keyboard on the corset that the wearer can use to type out a message. Read The Full Story

Star Trek theme park coming to Aqaba, Jordan in 2014

Shane McGlaun, Aug 9th 2011 Discuss [1]

Apparently, there are Star Trek geeks in all parts of the world as evidenced by the pending launch of a Star Trek theme park in Aqaba, Jordan. The park is set to open in 2014 and will be part of the Red Sea Astrarium. The entertainment resort will be built on 184 acres and the Star Trek park will be among the attractions. Read The Full Story

I2R e-Paper is erasable and reusable

Shane McGlaun, Aug 9th 2011 Discuss [0]

If you say e-Paper, most of us will think of the e-Readers that have the displays needing little power and offering lots of readability. A new sort of e-paper has surfaced in Taiwan that has some very cool properties. The e-Paper uses a thermal printer like you would find in a fax machine and it prints on the e-Paper using that heat. Read The Full Story

Robot created by MIT grad student bakes cookies!

Shane McGlaun, Aug 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

Robots are pretty cool when they can do stuff on their own. I'm impressed to see robots that can vacuum or help people do simple things around the home. When the robot can do more complex things like make a recipe with multiple steps, I am even more impressed. When after the recipe is complete I can eat the cookies said robot makes I am ready to get my own robot. Read The Full Story

Gogo Vision video streaming takes off with American Airlines

Shane McGlaun, Aug 4th 2011 Discuss [0]

If you recall way back in February I mentioned that Gogo was looking at getting into the in-flight movie streaming business as a way to keep you entertained on those long flights. It's taken longer than I expected for the service to launch but it is finally here. Gogo has announced that the Gogo Vision video streaming service is launching on American Airlines now. Read The Full Story

Newzbin2 threatens to break BT’s filtering system if it tries to block their site

Shane McGlaun, Jul 29th 2011 Discuss [3]

Yesterday I mentioned that over in the UK the High Court had ordered BT to block access to the pirate website Newsbin2. The original Newzbin site had been closed down previously and went into administration to pay back money the owners were fined. The site was later sold to new owners. The new owners opened Newzbin2 and continue to offer up the same catalog of pirated content to members for download. Read The Full Story

Paper craft Nyan Cat is weird and cool

Shane McGlaun, Jul 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

Not too long ago Chris Davies was having a nerdgasm over the Nyan Cat videos on YouTube getting that rainbow Nyan Cat custom load bar. We had a little chat about me not understanding the point of Nyan Cat and the best Davies could come up with was "it's a cat, in space, with a Pop Tart body." I still don’t get it. If you do get the point of Nyan Cat or if you just want to make something interesting out of paper on a boring summer day, here you go. Read The Full Story

White House Rickrolls twitter user for complaining about briefing

Shane McGlaun, Jul 28th 2011 Discuss [10]

I have always thought that life is more fun when you take the time for the little things like smelling the flowers and making fun of people when they least expect it. This is something you might expect from bloggers and your friends, but you might not expect someone at the White House to have a sense of humor, especially considering how unpopular Obama is in some circles. Read The Full Story

If Goldmember were a gamer…

Shane McGlaun, Jul 26th 2011 Discuss [2]

Anyone that was around in the 80's will remember the Atari. This was the console to have back in the day. It never ceases to impress me that the graphics on my smartphone are infinitely better than the graphics on the best console of the early 80's. The console you see here is what Goldmember would play. Read The Full Story

Idiot gets stuck in manhole trying to retrieve mobile phone

Shane McGlaun, Jul 26th 2011 Discuss [9]

How do I even start this? If stupid was an Olympic sport this dude would be the Michael Phelps of idiots. You have to watch the whole video below see the dude's injuries for yourself and then decide how legit his story is. I'm calling BS. To the dude stuck in a storm drain, think up a better lie to avoid embarrassment next time or better yet, just stay off the news. Read The Full Story