It’s not that it’s disappointing or anything. In many ways, it’s anticlimactic to see what the little device that’s causing all the stirring around the blogosphere, at businesses, and even in Washington DC. Google Glass, for all of it’s flaws ahead of its public release, doesn’t have unicorn blood or a phoenix feather inside. It’s just circuits. The folks over at Catwig took their coveted device and took it apart. Thank you for the sacrifice. More importantly, thank you for the entertaining spin on the boring task of describing circuits, plastic, and yes, glass. Growing up on a rich diet of dystopian…

Life can quickly become encumbered by clutter. It seems like you turn your head and suddenly counter tops are piled with stacks of CDs and other dust attractors. There is a good way to get rid of stack of CDs around the house: go digital. Here are a few of the best reasons for artists and fans to go digital.   No clutter & dust Stacks of CDs left around the house are unattractive, outdated, and they attract dust. A decade ago it might have seemed cool to have an entire wall of CDs, and people might have been envious of you. However, today people see stacks of CDs and assume you’re too lazy to burn…

Coffee isn’t exactly a technology topic that we would normally cover, but when it’s the subject of an infographic that was creatively placed on a Starbucks sleeve, it qualifies as something interesting enough to post. Visual.ly desiger Raj Kamal put this little graphic together. This isn’t an official Starbucks infographic, but it should be. As the designer said, “I am an infographist who has nothing better to do, but to annoy everyone around me.” We’re definitely not annoyed. In fact, we’re pretty impressed. Here’s the original graphic as it was put together followed by an enlarged and vertical…

It’s a tough call. On one hand, the detail and craftsmanship of these wonderful creations should be preserved for as long as cake can stay without rotting. On the other hand, letting them get to that stage at all would be a bad thing as well. After all, it’s cake, right? The folks over at that’s nerdalicious have an eye for finding geeky cakes on a regular basis. Here are some from their archives that we found exceptionally geek-worthy. Let them eat cake!   Jawa Cake [caption id="attachment_37165" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Source: Neatorama[/caption]   Assassin’s Creed Cake…

Since the early days of Pong to the rise of Angry Birds, video games have been an active part of many children’s lives. Today, the fun of picking up a controller and taking over the actions of a virtual character has moved well beyond the reach of kids as people of all ages pass time through gaming. It is big business and there are those who spend a huge amount of time gaming. They can be educational like The Oregon Trail. Some have been blamed for the dangerous behavior of people that has resulted in deaths. Whatever your personal opinion of video games is, it’s hard to find someone who hasn’t been affected…

It’s a gadget-overload world. Society and advancing technologies are making us more gadget heavy than ever, by far. It’s not even close. A recent study showed that we carry 2.9 gadgets on average. To put that into perspective, we have more gadgets on us at any one time than most of have arms. Smartphones are the obvious winner in the gadgets-on-hand segment, followed by laptops and a growing number of tablets that are approaching the half-way mark. MP3 players, hit hard by the musical capabilities of other devices, still account for 40%, and eReaders aren’t quite dead yet, rolling in at 29% despite…

Whether it’s because they really didn’t want to have the iPod they ordered online engraved or if they saw this post on Buzzfeed a couple of years ago and thought it would be a great novelty item to carry around with them, someone did it again with their iPod order. “No thanks. I don’t want my iPod engraved.” In a world where automation is in order processing is the key to success for companies like Apple and Amazon, one should just leave forms like these blank rather than leave instructions that only humans can comprehend. Don’t kid yourself. There’s no human on the other end of the form. It’s only the Matrix…

You can mark this one down for the “do not try this at home” category for two reasons. The first is pretty obvious. You shouldn’t play with fire, particularly with a high-priced vacuum cleaner like Dyson. The second reason is that there’s no practical application for doing this other than to make a video that tech bloggers can post on their websites. Check out this strangely compelling video as a pair take on on a journey of their Extreme Dyson Test. The video by Photonicinduction never mentions why they decided to light the ground on fire before sucking the fire out of combustible existence with their…

Tech geeks around the world love mods. Any time we have the opportunity, the resources, and the know-how to take something amazing and squeeze out more performance, we do it. There’s a reason why it used to take a special type of computer to run Crysis. The same holds true for motor heads. Squeezing out a few extra horses from a modified engine has helped to bring the highest levels of technology to garages across the globe and continues to give us more parts to the Fast and the Furious movie series. When Chevrolet unveiled the 2014 Corvette C7 Stingray, the excitement didn’t just center around the first…

It’s a coin on a treadmill. That’s it. The coin is rolling on a treadmill for over an hour. There are a few notes of “exciting” things that happen below, but otherwise, it’s just a treadmill with a coin rolling on it. For an hour. Now, think about the science behind it, though. That’s where there’s at least a bit of coolness. If you were asked if a coin could roll on a treadmill non-stop for an hour, you’d probably say it was possible but it would be hard to get the speed adjusted to just the right point to keep it from falling off either end. Not so! Here are the spoilers: 06:09 to 08:50 attempts with another coin,…