March 2008
21 posts
Error'd: Not Always Coca Cola →
Marten van Wezel notes, “seems like it isn’t quite ‘Always Coca Cola’ on Piccadilly Square in London.” Zoom! “Wait a sec,” Tim O’Keefe writes, “since when is childbearing’s even…
Mar 31st
Convincing Pickup Line →
Mar 31st
Comic for 29 Mar 2008 →
Mar 29th
College Quidditch Gains Media Coverage →
Over the past several years we’ve reported on the rise in popularity of Quidditch being played at various Harry Potter gatherings and especially now at US universities. This week, the Middlebury…
Mar 28th
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 →
Mar 25th
Off the Mark for Sun, 23 Mar →
Mar 24th
Calvin and Hobbes for March 24, 2008 →
Mar 24th
Wayback Machine 1933: Writing Letters On Copper →
Imagine that; now houses and electrical substations get broken into to steal the copper wire; In 1933 in Arizona they couldn’t give it away and used it as paper. ::Modern Mechanix…
Mar 22nd
Mario kart Wii →
Mar 18th
Onderzoekers simuleren intelligentieniveau van... →
Onderzoekers van het Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute zijn in staat om de intelligentie van een vierjarige te simuleren binnen Second Life. Hierbij maken ze gebruik van een supercomputer om de…
Mar 16th
iPod takes one small step for PMPs, one giant leap... →
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video Oh sure, iPods have found their way outside of our atmosphere before, but there’s just something magical about spotting one front and…
Mar 15th
Audeo "Think N' Spell" neckband allows voiceless... →
Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals You know what’s wrong with phone conversations? All that dang talking you have to do. Luckily for us, some scientists at Ambient Corporation are…
Mar 15th
Wii "Twilight Hack" now works sans GameCube... →
Filed under: Gaming Have you been sitting on the sidelines while all the cool people stick Linux distros and Snes9x on their “Twilight Hack” Wiis? Seems like there aren’t any more…
Mar 15th
MIT's Siftables let you juggle your data... for... →
Filed under: Displays, Peripherals The cats and kittens at the MIT Media Lab are always on some next-level type of wackiness, and the Siftables project doesn’t break from that…
Mar 15th
Wii "Twilight Hack" now works sans GameCube... →
Filed under: Gaming Have you been sitting on the sidelines while all the cool people stick Linux distros and Snes9x on their “Twilight Hack” Wiis? Seems like there aren’t any more…
Mar 15th
MIT's Siftables let you juggle your data... for... →
Filed under: Displays, Peripherals The cats and kittens at the MIT Media Lab are always on some next-level type of wackiness, and the Siftables project doesn’t break from that…
Mar 15th
Space Jam →
Posted by Lior Ron, Product Manager Code Jam is one of our most famous traditions. Programmers compete to hack and solve complex programming challenges in a very short time, and the winners are…
Mar 15th
More evidence of Apple's iPhone eventually going... →
There’s some more anecdotal evidence this week to suggest that Apple Inc.’s iPhone will eventually abandon its Samsung-based roots and make the jump to Intel’s freshly-coined Atom architecture….
Mar 12th
Morning →
Mar 12th
Off the Mark for Sat, 8 Mar →
Mar 8th
Video: reporter vs. the Air Force pain gun. Guess... →
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets It’s funny, no matter how many times we see some poor, hapless reporter getting wave after wave of pain washed over them like a cool summer storm, it really…
Mar 5th