Marvel has proved that it can do interlinked story-lines with the recent few years of offerings, that from an editorial perspective are up there with the first and greatest of them all, Crisis On Infinite Earths. Read more »
Mr. McCormick founded a British company that manufactured the ADE-651, a bomb detector that doesn’t need any form of battery to be powered. By harnessing the kinetic energy directly from humans, the mere holding of the device powers the ADE-651. The bomb detector claims to work in the same way that a dowsing or divining rod for water functions. Every type of bomb has a specific frequency, identified by a number of cards that supposedly carries a signature which the bomb detector can find by matching its frequency. The problem is, the whole set up is a fake. The ADE-651 is nothing more than a glorified divining rod. Upon opening Read more »
Do you count photography as one of your geek passions? In the past couple of years I can certainly raise my hand to that, being interested in the principles of both film and digital photography, technical aspects, composition and art. It’s all very well drooling over the latest Canon or Nikon DSLR whose body alone costs a few thousand dollars without even adding some decent lenses, but that outlay counts as nothing when up against an auction to be held in Vienna later this year. The world’s oldest commercial production camera, the “Daguerreotype”, is a wooden sliding-box camera made in Paris in 1839 by Alphonse Giroux. There are only a Read more »
I am going camping this weekend, and I am stoked! To be honest, I am also a bit apprehensive as I have not gone camping since…hmm…since I was a little girl. This trip is just an overnighter and shouldn’t be that much of a shock for this pampered person. Anyhow, roughing it out and being one with Mother Nature is always good from time to time. It would have been perfect if I had one of these water bottles with me. I stumbled upon the LightCap 300 Solar Powered Lantern & Water Bottle at Amazon, and my interest was immediately caught. It’s really just a water bottle (definitely need drinking Read more »
For those who don’t want all those computers and other cables to ruin their interior design there is now “Wireblooms”. These are nail-in cable clips to keep your cables to the wall while being decorative to the room interior. While personally I would like everything to be wireless, like electricity cables, monitor cables, etc. We are not completely there yet so these will have to do. This product is a pretty cool idea, currently they only have the models of a bird and leaves. But I think it would be a hit if they also had movie/tv characters, games characters, etc. With my current “The Big Bang Theory” obsession I Read more »
We’re great fans of decent home audio systems, so the Divo 2.1 compact iPod dock caught our eye. Yes, the speakers are visually appealing (perhaps not so much as the Harman Kardon GLA-55 speakers we showed off last month, that obviously inspired a lot of you) but there’s more to it than that. Yes, it will dock your iPod or iPhone and do all the stuff you’d expect from that. However, it will also improve the sound quality from any device you choose to plug in to it. Given the fairly poor audio output you get from the built-in speakers many items such as laptops and TVs, that has to Read more »
Although it can be good to invest in an old, defunct domain name because (unless it was blacklisted or had questionable content) of search engine optimisation benefits, I’m not wholly convinced the same can be said of Twitter usernames. I’ve just read about TwitterCounter introducing a new alert service to tell you when a previously used but now inactive Twitter username becomes available. Apparently, Twitter has announced that names which have been inactive for six months will be deleted — effectively released for reuse. There’s the trouble, though. How do you know what was lurking in that stream of tweets? Chances are high that accounts like this were the haven Read more »
This is probably one of the series of first wave reviews for Mass Effect 2 for the PC. One of the advantages of living in a place with GMT set to +8 is that you tend to get retail copies a few hours earlier. I didn’t get ME2 through Steam for this precise reason, and yay, USD $29 USD price tag too. Still way cheaper than Steam. After running the install, I popped in the access key to Cerberus that allowed me to download a number of things. Since I had a copy of Dragon Age: Origins, I was able to redeem the Blood Dragon Armor through a coupon. With Read more »
If you ever wanted to know how and where you slept based upon the pattern of your hair in the morning, look no further than the Bed Head distribution graph below, which details 12 possible sleep patterns. Looks like it’ll only work if you have very uniform hair. Check out what your hair looks like if you fell asleep at your desk while studying, or woke up in a dumpster. To be honest, even if I had slept on my back and barely moved, I’d be a bit worried if my hair looked like #1. Still, my hair’s so short it barely changes no matter what I do. The graph Read more »
I must say I’m liking what Evil Mad Scientist has been doing recently, such as this fine creation: a coffee bean cooler. If you tend to buy ready-brewed coffee at Starbucks, buy ready-ground beans for use at home, or (shock) drink instant coffee, you might wonder what all the fuss is about. However, if you take the trouble to roast your own beans, you might actually need some way to cool them down afterwards (they continue roasting for as long as they’re hot, apparently). Well, EMS now uses two hot-air popcorn makers. One roasts the beans and the other has been modified to cool them down afterwards. I’m sure you Read more »
