Monthly Archives: March 2010

Geek The Library Week

by Noemi Twigg
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Geek The Library Week

I just realized how significant this week is. At the beginning of the week, I posted something about Pi Day (which, by the way, got a lot of mixed reactions; some thought it stupid while many others thought it cool). I just found out that this week, March 15-19 is also Geek The Library Week – at least in the United States. Geek The Library Week is basically an awareness campaign that aims to promote the local library. While there are people who totally get how important libraries are in education and self development, not everyone really gets involved. Indeed, in this age of instant information (via various media), hardly Read more »

Five concept watch designs that make you calculate the time

by andy
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Five concept watch designs that make you calculate the time

Inspired by the likes of Tokyo Flash watches, I started thinking about some concept watch designs that would force the wearer to work the old grey matter in order to work out what time it was. Some offer more precision that others, and some are easier to read, but all are definitely not your average analog or digital watch. 1. Fraction Clock Granted, this is a simple digital watch so it’s not hard to see what time it is. However, what this watch will do is to chime once in each one hour period — not necessarily on the hour but based on the associated fraction for that hour. The Read more »

WTFJeans – Geek Friendly Clothing

by Kevin
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WTFJeans – Geek Friendly Clothing

At my last job, one of the IT guys used to wear these jeans with rhinestones and patterns imprinted on them. We joked a lot about his “bedazzled” jeans and his preference to wear sandals with everything, so seeing the picture above made me think of him. That, and debate whether or not this is a marketable product. The concept is simple: make a pair of jeans that works for the gadget friendly geek. Just like that, WTFJeans was born. For example, there’s a pocket built for the iPhone of iPod Touch, which makes it easy and simple to remove from your front pocket. That same pocket is lined with Read more »

Storage – The Great Debate

by Kevin
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Storage – The Great Debate

I do a lot of different things for work. I write, I blog, and I take lots and lots of pictures for magazines. As a result, I have tons of pictures stored in various places, and I’m triple backed up at all times. Right now, it’s a fairly simple setup, but it’s going to get a lot more complicated pretty soon. That’s because of two things: I want to do a home theatre setup I got a new camera. In the past decade or so, I’ve taken a lot of pictures. But at the beginning, a lot of my work was in film, so I have to keep the original Read more »

Repairing the world with LEGO bricks

by Robin Parrish
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Repairing the world with LEGO bricks

Proving once again the versatility of the world’s greatest toy, a German artist named Jan Vormann is traveling around the world, “repairing” old buildings and decaying structures with LEGO bricks. This “guerilla art,” which he’s dubbed Dispatchwork, has already taken him to major global cities like Tel Aviv, Berlin, Amsterdam, St. Petersburg, Zuerich, and most recently, a two-week stint in New York City. In each location, Vormann gathers an army of assistants — made up of children and adults alike — and wanders the streets in search of missing bricks, tiles, stones, and other construction materials in need of replacing. There’s no method to the placement of the plastic bricks, Read more »

The PS3/XBox 360 Decision

by Kevin
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The PS3/XBox 360 Decision

My wife and I are pretty avid video game fans. We own every Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft console produced in the past 20 years, with a few handhelds and a Genesis in there for good measure. Up until recently though, we didn’t own a PS3, and there was a pretty big reason for that. The first reason was the price. I wasn’t down with paying half a grand for a console, no matter how awesome or cutting edge the technology was. I resisted purchasing almost out of principle, because it just wasn’t worth the extra cash. The second reason was the games. I love platformers, and the Ratchet & Clank Read more »

Anime To Look Forward To

by Nopy
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Anime To Look Forward To

Winter is ending and spring is almost here, and that means that there will be some new anime coming out very soon. As usual, there’s a lot to choose from when deciding what to watch, but there are three anime that will no doubt please a lot of people. Angel Beats Set in the afterlife in a school dedicated to helping the dead pass on to heaven, Angel Beats is about a group of students that attempt to rebel against God and his angels. One of the characters, Yurippe, has some similarities to Haruhi from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, but you can be assured that the plot will not Read more »

The Tablet Wars

by Kevin
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The Tablet Wars

A few years ago, my father – who runs a software company – took on a new client. They wanted something small and portable to use on the job, while still being able to connect to a central server. The answer was a tablet PC, and my father was so positive about the project that he bought a few so that he could design his software around the tablet concept. It was a pretty cool piece of software; I helped to design the UI and it was pretty neat. Problem was, the tablet itself sucked. The touchscreen was wonky and unpredictable, it required a stylus for most reports – which Read more »

The most affordable IKELITE underwater solution for video ever bundled!

by Jayvee Fernandez
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The most affordable IKELITE underwater solution for video ever bundled!

I had wanted to post this sooner, but I delayed a bit after contacting a dealer and making a reservation. I expect these things to go like hotcakes. MWEHEHE. In fact, they’re already selling out. As a diver, I’m always looking for really great underwater casing solutions for video and photo capture. Usually I just borrow marine casing from the local reps at SONY and they lend me anything from a W or T series camera with a marine pack housing that can go down up to 140 feet in depth, a little beyond the maximum limit for recreational diving. Other marine solutions such as the FLIP camera have el-cheapo Read more »

Digital cloud tower to hover over 2012 Olympics

by Robin Parrish
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Digital cloud tower to hover over 2012 Olympics

Olympic games always inspire architectural feats that capture the imagination, but the 2012 London Olympics are getting a monument like nothing the world has ever seen. It’s called the Cloud, and it’s envisioned as a symbol of the digital age. The Cloud tower is made up of inflatable, light-emitting spheres floating above lightweight, slender columns, which together create a three-dimensional display you can go inside, that feeds real-time information to London’s skies. Citizens and visitors all over London will be able to see the information displayed by LEDs embedded into the spheres that make up the top of the structure. Though it’s only one of several proposed monuments that may Read more »