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Limited Designer Flash Drives Meet Batman, Superman, Etc.
Flash drives have become one of the most customized computer accessories that we have seen since... well, ever! I wrote a huge piece on my other website Minervity.com a while ago where I listed the most creative and insane flash drives to date, and since then, it has generated quite a following. H ...
Geeks Store Their Cables The Recycled Way!
Sometimes I get really annoyed by the massive amount of cords that I have laying on the floor around my workstation at the office in order to have the fullest and most extreme experience in front of the computer. We're talking two computers, a bunch of USB gear, three monitors, a speaker system (in ...
The Pick-Apart Hard Drive Is A Partitioner’s Dream!
Right now I am sitting here with 3 stacked up Porsche external hard drives and not a single GB left to store on them. They are all filled with graphics, ideas and what have you. Sometimes I wish I could just reach into each of those drives and fast and easily extract exactly what I wanted without ...
A Geek’s Tombstone: Be Honored As A Geek Even After You Die
Yesterday Richard wrote an article about a service called Webwill that, after you die, will allow you to send a goodbye message to all your friends on Facebook, turn your Twitter account over to a trusted friend and send emails to inform people of your death.
I figured while we are on the topic o ...
How To: Tie Your Shoes Really Fast
It's true that our world is getting busier and busier each day. We want everything to be fast. We have fast computers, we eat fast food, we drive fast cars and we even communicate with our friends in the fastest ways possible.
So, why do we buy shoes with laces that take so long to tie? I'm no ...
The Ultimate Time Capsule: Geeks from the 1960s
I am totally a product of the 70s and mostly the 80s; however, I have often told friends of mine that I wish I had grown up the 60s. There is just something about that time that seems so happy and free. It's the whole psychedelic, love everyone, peace, flowers and rockin music that I'm attracted t ...
Real TRON Skatecycle: The Age Of TRON Has Arrived!
Right now TRON is on everyone's lips, and it's hard to find a place or gadget that hasn't been Tronified. There are newly rendered imaginative gadgets, and then there's the gadgets that are real but have gotten some modification added to them to appear as much TRON as possible. I saw the movie a c ...
Recycle Those License Plates Into Retro Bowls!
Recycling is important nowadays and people are very conscious of how they dispose of their unwanted belongings. This is, of course, thanks to the many blogs and write ups that educate people about the importance of how their daily actions affect the environment. At a conference that I was fortunat ...
Master Your Messy Desk With The LCD Monitor Hub Station
Right now, the top of my desk looks like a tornado recently ripped through my house. Of course I have the usual junk like used sticky notes with phone numbers written all over them, old receipts, hard drives and papers that need to be filed.
However, in addition to that, I also have a few empty ...
Here’s An Easy Way To Design Your Own Watch!
I like customization. I guess everyone who wants to be unique does too. Have you ever gone to a place and seen someone wearing the same outfit that you are wearing? I have, and it was a pretty funny experience. People were staring at us. I really did not mind it at all considering that it was m ...
A New And Improved Commodore 64 Soon To Be Relaunched!
Oh how I miss the '80s sometimes when I see all the stuff we used to play with. The computers back then had a certain grace and appeal to them, and as long as I live they will be retro to the degree that I always wish they would come back in some new incarnated form. Even though I wish I had never ...
All In One: Chameleon X-1 Mouse Two Times As A Game Pad!
Gamers have a thing for game pads. When they first appeared a long time ago in a galaxy far far away... hmm... they were simply called controllers. They were a way of controlling the sprite, the object you were playing, on the screen. Back then it was the 8th wonder of the world, but today the te ...
Gesture Technology Teaches You About Nuclear Fusion
There is no longer any doubt that technology will become our most useful tool in schools when it comes to delivering knowledge and teaching us in a more up-to-date fashion. We already see a full integration of computers, and as applications and computers get even more powerful, the learning will no ...
Old School Art & Technology Collide To Create Digital Collages
It must be a double-edged sword to be an artist or musician in today's world. As technology advances, there are constantly more and more tools and applications created that can help enhance and add a new level to your artistry. However, when you use and experiment with those tools, there will alwa ...
Share Your Smileys IRL With The Emoticon Calendar
I'm a big fan of emoticons and smiley faces. I know many people think they are silly and serve no purpose, but I like to put them in most of my tweets, Facebook updates and texts. I've noticed lately that on more and more apps I download, it asks if I want to include my "mood." I suppose emoticon ...