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July 30 2010
Space Invader couch is perfect for your retro game room
Back in the day, I had a few favorite video games that I played on my Atari. I would often move from Pac Man to Asteroids and then to Space Invaders and back again. If you have a love for retro gaming this sweet Space Invader Couch will bring back memories.
If I had a retro gaming room, this would totally be the couch I would play games on. We don’t have many details on the thing. It looks like ...
July 29 2010
July 27 2010
Home-made life insurance, the Apollo way
Of all the places I never expected to learn anything cool about the Apollo astronauts, number one would have to be the blog run by ukinsurance.net. ("For many years we have provided buildings and contents insurance for home owners, landlords and business premises.") I mean, it doesn't exactly promise a light, zippy read, does it? But it delivers one, and this week's post on "The Apollo...
Java IO Faster Than NIO
Take the Plunge for Swiss Army's Dive Master Watch
ChouChou Electric Butterfly flutters to life inside a jar
Dinosaur (and Warcraft Murloc) hoodies
Dinohoodies. In addition to proper dinosaurs, the line includes World of Warcraft Murlocs, as shown above. (via Submitterator).
Requiem for the G1
Today saw T-Mobile finally retiring the venerable G1, forerunner to the ongoing Android revolution. I’ve been using a G1 since launch, so this is an emotional moment for me. Let’s just take a quick trip down memory lane out of respect for a solid phone.
Tactile display allows you to 'feel' both light and shadow
Google Nabs Patent To Monitor Your Cursor Movement
Lookout Identifies Which iPhone And Android Apps Want Your Sensitive Data
Lookout, a company that offers security data backup services for smartphones, is announcing the results of its App Genome Project, a continued effort to map and study mobile applications to identify security threats in the wild, and determine how apps are using users’ personal data.
The App Genome Project has already scanned nearly 300,000 free applications, and fully mapped nearly 100,000...
Lampshade made from X-rays
Swedish design student Sture Pallarp created this "X-ray lamp" as a school assignment, incorporating real X-rays in to the lampshade for a lovely effect. With digital radiography becoming the norm, there's a limited window to produce this kind of thing: get cracking!
X-ray lamp(via Street Anatomy)
Free, CC licensed Steampunk RPG: Lady Blackbird
Lady Blackbird is a quick-playing steampunk tabletop RPG that's free to download and Creative Commons-licensed for your sharing and remixing pleasure: "Lady Blackbird is on the run from an arranged marriage to Count Carlowe. She hired a smuggler skyship, The Owl, to take her from her palace on the Imperial world of Ilysium to the far reaches of the Remnants, so she could be with her once...
Current Market share of Smartphone Makers
Digital Inspiration Technology Blog
A recent story published in the NYT painted a bleak picture of the future for smartphone makers Nokia and RIM, the developers of BlackBerry.
R.I.M.’s share of the American smartphone market fell to 41 percent in the first quarter from 55 percent in the previous year, according to Gartner. The combined share held by [Apple] iPhones and [Google] Android handsets rose to 49 percent, from 23...
50 Useful Tools and Resources For Web Designers
An effective, well-organized workflow is an important asset of professional web designers. The more useful and time-saving your tools are, the more time you can focus on important things, thus creating a foundation for timely good-quality results. The problem is that there are just way too many tools, services and resources out there, so it has become difficult to keep track on them and...
Are We On The Cusp Of A Jailbroken App Revolution?
The DMCA ruling won’t change things for the average iPhone user — the main difference being that jailbreakers now can’t be sued by Apple successfully under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Apple will continue their attempts to block the jailbroken phones with every iOS update and jailbreakers will keep getting more and more savvy, like a vicious cycle of digital cat and mouse.
Jay Freeman, ...
July 26 2010
OpenGL 4.1 spec finalized, streamlines 3D graphics for web and phones
Caterpillar torture porn
Wired's Erin Biba brings us this image of a caterpillar literally bursting with parasites. Taken by Flickr user sugarpond, this moment of sheer horror is probably the handiwork of one of several species of wasps that lay their eggs inside caterpillar bodies.
A visit to Spirited Away creator's museum in Japan
(In July, I went on a family vacation to Japan. Here are my posts about the trip: Watermelons in the shape of cubes, hearts, and pyramids | What happened to the Burgie Beer UFO of Melrose Avenue?)
A couple of days after we arrived in Tokyo, we visited the Ghibli Museum. It's in a suburb of Tokyo (we had to take a train and then a bus to get there) and was designed by the famous animator Hayao...
How to restore the color of dingy old Lego bricks
UPDATE: Boing Boing reader Jody thinks these are two different flags, and I agree.
Here's a recipe for making a wonderfully caustic goop called Retr0bright that restores the color of of old computer cases and Lego bricks. It contains hydrogen peroxide, glycerine, vegetable gum, and sodium percarbonate.
Anyone who has dug their old computer or console out of the cupboard or loft for some retro...
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