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Space Invader couch is perfect for your retro game room

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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.

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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 ...

125-piece puzzle in 6 different metals with hidden "Golden Gun"

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Michigan machinist GarE Maxton makes many different types of interlocking solid puzzles of this type..(Read...)

Home-made life insurance, the Apollo way

Boing Boing

apollocovers.jpgOf 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

Slashdot

rsk writes "Paul Tyma, the man behind Mailinator, has put together an excellent performance analysis comparing old-school synchronous programming (java.io.*) to Java's asynchronous programming (java.nio.*) — showing a consistent 25% performance deficiency with the asynchronous code. As it turns out, old-style blocking I/O with modern threading libraries like Linux NPTL and multi-core machines g...

Take the Plunge for Swiss Army's Dive Master Watch

Wired Gadget Reviews

Fancy a timepiece that's colored like a traffic cone and can survive a descent of a quarter-mile below the surface of the water? Have we got a watch for you.

ChouChou Electric Butterfly flutters to life inside a jar

Engadget

Most robot pets may not be easily mistaken for the real thing, but that's not likely to be the case with the ChouChou Electric Butterfly, which might even have a few people reaching to free it from its jar. Unfortunately, it's the jar that keeps the butterfly "alive" -- it has some AA batteries in its lid that apparently allow the butterfly to respond to vibrations and flutter about. That may n...

Dinosaur (and Warcraft Murloc) hoodies

Boing Boing

Dinohoodies. In addition to proper dinosaurs, the line includes World of Warcraft Murlocs, as shown above. (via Submitterator).

Requiem for the G1

TechCrunch

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.

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Tactile display allows you to 'feel' both light and shadow

Engadget

The concept of touching things such as light or smells isn't anything new, but there's so much room for interpretation that it's always interesting to see new applications. At Siggraph 2010, a new tactile display is being shown off which allows the user to feel light and shadow. Called Touch Light Through the Leaves, the device consists of a camera which detects light, and 85 vibration units...

Google Nabs Patent To Monitor Your Cursor Movement

Slashdot

bool2 writes "Google has been awarded a patent for displaying search results based on how you move your mouse cursor on the screen... Google's plans are to monitor the movements of the cursor, such as when a user hovers over a certain ad or link to read a tooltip, and then provide relevant search results, and ads, based on that behaviour. It means that it does not require users to actually...

Lookout Identifies Which iPhone And Android Apps Want Your Sensitive Data

TechCrunch

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

Boing Boing


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

Boing Boing


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

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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

Smashing Magazine Feed

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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?

TechCrunch

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, ...

OpenGL 4.1 spec finalized, streamlines 3D graphics for web and phones

Engadget

Only four months after OpenGL 4.0 hit the scene, the next revision of the cross-platform graphics API is here, bearing gifts of fancier math and more cribbed DirectX 11 features. Unless you're a graphics guru, though, we doubt you'll be that interested in "64-bit floating-point component vertex shader inputs," so let's get to the meat of what you're after: impressive 3D gaming. OpenGL 4.1...

Caterpillar torture porn

Boing Boing

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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

Boing Boing

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(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

Boing Boing

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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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