I Have One Simple Request and That Is to Have Sharks with Freakin’ Laser Beams
It’s taken fifteen years, but Dr. Evil’s dream has finally come true. In April, marine biologist and TV personality Luke Tipple attached a 50-milliwatt laser emitter to the dorsal fin of a lemon shark. Can the shark control the laser beam? Not yet. The march of technological progress is a slow one. But we, the human race, [...]
World’s Largest Collection of 250 Year Old Liquor Goes on Auction
For premium liquor collectors, there could be virtually nothing better than to lay hands on an entire collection of rare liquors. No wonder the Domaine de la Romanee Conti auction in Hong Kong last year fetched above $800,000 at an auction. But now, what is set to take place in the records books as one of the [...]
Zany Swiss Man Installs Wood-Burning Stove in Car
Zany Swiss man installs wood-burning stove in car “It’s hard to imagine what led Pascal Prokop to install a wood-burning stove in his 1990 Volvo 240 station wagon. Though we’re safe to say that the trend won’t catch like wildfire. Prokob built and installed the wood-fired stove himself and got an operating permit from the [...]
The Pool Table That Levels Itself In Rough Seas
Some things don’t make sense. At least to one’s eyes. So when I saw the YouTube video I’ve embedded, I wondered whether it could possibly be real. Yet this purports to be a pool table on a cruise ship in rough water. The poster claims that this pool table was a cruise ship called “Radiance of [...]
iPad 3 Could Arrive In An 8-Inch Version
The Wall Street Journal has been slowly leaking details about the iPad 3 attributed to anonymous sources, so, it could very well be all conjecture. The latest round of rumors today finds the device arriving in an 8-inch iteration, 1.7 inches smaller than the iPad 2’s screen. Yet, it’s slated to ship with a 1024×768 [...]
Drinking Vodka Makes You Talk More Better
If you’ve been looking for an excuse to drink all morning, I just found you one: according to a recent study, drinking vodka improves word association and verbal creativity. Somebody pass the bottle. Science News reports that people who are intoxicated, though not legally drunk, have more intuitive insights into difficult word-association problems. The research, carried out [...]
How a Laser Could Make Your Hard Drive 1,000 Times Faster
The reason people are so pumped about solid-state hard drives right now is because they’re super-speedy. But if you think your SSD is fast, just wait until a new breed of laser-based hard drives comes to market. A team of scientists has demonstrated an amazing new way of writing data to magnetic storage devices. It uses lasers, [...]
NASA Giving Out Free Satellites to Save Money
NASA has a knack for making stuff that lasts a lot longer than it thinks it will. This is a good thing, of course, except that missions are often only funded for a set period of time, and NASA occasionally ends up with perfectly good spacecraft and not enough money to keep them operating. There may [...]
If this metal strongbox looks like a military surplus ammo box to you that’s because it is one. Actually, it’s a Zombie Box, which means it has been modified to be even more indestructible. They also get cleaned, blasted and refinished to look prettier than hell and even come with optional keyed locks. It’s like [...]
Zombie Chocolates: Share the Love and Braaaaains
Geek love can be a challenge on Valentine’s Day. Roses are too old-fashioned, and chocolates are dull–unless they happen to be ThinkGeek’s zombie head chocolates. The $9.99 Chocolate Zombie Head Bon Bons show your special geek that you love him for his tasty brains, not his muscular World of Warcraft avatar. Each box holds six grimacing, growling [...]
