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Windows Calculator: I Am Error

Windows Calculator: I Am Error

I've been using PCs for the better part of two decades, and in all that time, I've used Windows' calculator...

Sorry I’m Late, Guys – Car Got Stuck In My Printer Again

Sorry I’m Late, Guys – Car Got Stuck In My Printer Again

Soon, you may have an entirely new scapegoat for not attending all manner of functions: a printer jam. 3D printing...

A Dark Day for Gaming: Zynga Is Bigger Than EA

A Dark Day for Gaming: Zynga Is Bigger Than EA

I've never liked Electronic Arts much, DRM-hawking corporate bad guys that we hardcore gamers make them out to be. But...

Cellphone-Wielding Time Traveler Spotted In Charlie Chaplin Film

Cellphone-Wielding Time Traveler Spotted In Charlie Chaplin Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6a4T2tJaSU I've been engaged in a hot debate over the last hour with a friend of mine over just what...

Y’know, I Bet Sports Programming Would Die Off Altogether With This Tech

Y’know, I Bet Sports Programming Would Die Off Altogether With This Tech

Oh, Japan. You'll never cease coming up with the best stuff. Why, just last night I was regaling a friend...

Rock-em, Sock-em Robot Beats Up Volunteers In the Name of Science

Rock-em, Sock-em Robot Beats Up Volunteers In the Name of Science

Six Slovenian volunteers have been undergoing a bizarre test: being punched in the arm over, and over, and over, and...

Eric Schmidt Wants To Get Creepy

Eric Schmidt Wants To Get Creepy

"There is what I call the creepy line," Eric Schmidt said last Friday at the Washington Ideas Forum. "The Google...

Wearable Device Judges Your Hugs and Tweets The Results

Wearable Device Judges Your Hugs and Tweets The Results

"People love hugging", states designer Celina Alvarado.I dunno, Celina, that's pretty broad. I mean, I like hugging - hugs are...

For The Gentleman Who Would Like Nothing More Than To Wear Obsolete Tech On His Head

For The Gentleman Who Would Like Nothing More Than To Wear Obsolete Tech On His Head

This is where it's at, guys. Remember the 5th gen Nano? Wimpy capacity aside, that thing was the tits. Truly...

To Boldy Cut, Yadda Yadda Yadda, Star Trek-Slash-Pizza Joke

To Boldy Cut, Yadda Yadda Yadda, Star Trek-Slash-Pizza Joke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWNc0yjC3T4 Tell you what: I'm just gonna leave this here, and you can totally just talk amongst yourselves. Or buy...

Hunters Take Aim at Google, Google Sends Skiers To Help

Hunters Take Aim at Google, Google Sends Skiers To Help

Google's currently working on an underground path for the previously-aerial fiber connected to its data center in the Dalles, Oregon....

RFID-Ready Trash Bins Can and Will Betray You

RFID-Ready Trash Bins Can and Will Betray You

Remember when internet refrigerators were attempting to become popular, way back in, like... 2001? Or, rather, I'm pretty sure all...

A Little Blinky Blinky For The Ladies

A Little Blinky Blinky For The Ladies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luOeJdosct4 Engineer Marc DeVidts is my favourite person today. Marc's unconcerned with not being totally fly and getting all the...

Mind-Controlled Moog Theremin Ain’t No Mozart, But It Sure Is Cool

Mind-Controlled Moog Theremin Ain’t No Mozart, But It Sure Is Cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ0So3q9cT0 It would be a day wasted if I didn't show you a bafflingly unique piece of musical technology, so...

Alien Pez Dispenser Destroys Your Childhood… In the Best Way

Alien Pez Dispenser Destroys Your Childhood… In the Best Way

Today is Toronto's FanExpo. In celebration of utter geekdom for all, I present to you this day the Alien Pez...

From the Department of Things That Don’t Need To Exist: Keyboard Shoes

From the Department of Things That Don’t Need To Exist: Keyboard Shoes

Yo, dawg. I heard you like Twitter, so I installed a keyboard in your shoe, so you can tweet while...

TorrentReactor Purchases Entire Russian Village, Renames It ‘TorrentReactor’. No, Really.

TorrentReactor Purchases Entire Russian Village, Renames It ‘TorrentReactor’. No, Really.

What are you downloading right now? Don't give me that face. Few people don't hit the torrents. I've got season...

Video Artist Fills His Scanner With Ants – What Are You Doing With YOUR Weekend?

Video Artist Fills His Scanner With Ants – What Are You Doing With YOUR Weekend?

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/13703448[/vimeo] Straight outta the wish-I'd-thought-of-that department comes François Vautier, a video artist unafraid to sully precious technology with soil and...

Sony Gets Up To All Kinds of Techno-Sorcery With Multiplayer 3D Gaming

Sony Gets Up To All Kinds of Techno-Sorcery With Multiplayer 3D Gaming

Alright, this just blew my mind a little. Not so much that I'm left a catatonic husk, though - I...

Yes, I’ll Have The Chocolate Half-Caf Soy Mochaccino Hazelnut Frappe iPad, Please

Yes, I’ll Have The Chocolate Half-Caf Soy Mochaccino Hazelnut Frappe iPad, Please

It's no secret that Apple is big in Japan. That everything is big in Japan is besides the point -...