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Android Driven Oven Lets You Control It From Your Smartphone
As we have concluded before, smartphones will soon control pretty much all of our everyday gadgets. Everything will get its controls built into our smartphones. It doesn't matter if it is an iPhone or an Android driven phone, they all have one thing in common, to control things. Practically every ne ...
How To: Fold A Piece Of Paper So It Reaches The Moon
As a geek, you are most likely aware that there is a common misconception about how many times a piece of paper can be folded in half. Experts used to say that a paper could not be folded in half more than 7 times. Go ahead and try it. It's bizarre. Then MythBusters came along and busted that myth. ...
Immortalize Your Youth With A LEGO Self-Portrait & Become A Minifig
If you grew up playing with LEGO, you know how fantastic those building blocks and minifigs are to play with. Whether you are still a LEGO-loving child at heart or have a child who now loves it as much as you did, you can immortalize your youth with a self-portrait of you as a minifig. LEGO building ...
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Celebrity Geeks You Should Know About [Infographic]
The world is full of geeks. Some look more like the stereotype than others, but they all have one thing in common, they are all geeks. It's easy to judge people by their exterior. For example, who would think that a model who charges thousands of dollars just to wear a designer's clothes and be phot ...
DIY Smartphone Hologram Display Puts A Twist On Reality
I don't know what it is, but there is something about holograms that keeps us mesmerized. The ability to manifest something real in a fake way is something that we are apparently very keen on accomplishing. As you might have seen already in my earlier realistic hologram article today, there has been ...
How To: Make Your Own Virtual Reality Glasses With Your Smartphone
Even though there hasn't been a lot of progress made recently in the area of virtual reality, it can still be a lot of fun. Combining a simulated environment with a physical environment is still popular at arcades and game rooms everywhere. Wouldn't it be fun to make your own virtual reality glasses ...
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Indulge Expensive Taste With Inexpensive Home Ideas [Infographic]
While you're pinning that cool vase or couch on Pinterest, you could be at the store picking out your own new furnishings. You don't need a big budget to trick out your space, even if you have expensive taste. You just need a little preparation, a can-do attitude and maybe a paintbrush. This infogr ...
SpiroSmart: The Simple App Some Doctors Use To Monitor Lung Health
Every day it seems we write about how technology enhances our lives in every way. Unless you're living in a forest somewhere deep in the woods, chances are, technology affects your life in more ways than you may realize. One aspect of that which I don't think we write about enough is what happens at ...
Feline Architecture: This Is Your Cat’s Dream Home
If you are like a lot of people on the Internet, you have a cat. Somehow cats make people look cool online, or at least people think they do. They are like the ultimate accessory in photos on every photo-sharing site. I know people who have gotten a cat just so they can take pictures and share them. ...
Ultra-Compact USB Flash Drive Boasts Insane 16GB Storage Capacity
Just a few days ago, Kingston announced their incredibly impressive 1TB flash drive (with a price tag thought to be well above $3,500). It's a lot of storage on such a small device. But how would you be able to carry one of those with you without fear of losing it? After all, it's not exactly the ch ...
Deter Burglars The Geek Way With A Fake TV
Getting robbed is one of the worst experiences ever, and if you are like many people, you take precautions to deter burglars when you leave your home. Whether you have your lights on a timer, you have a video system you can access on your iPhone or you use another device, or perhaps even a full-fled ...
World’s Oldest Rock Found…It’s 4.4 Billion Years Old & Tiny
If you are wondering why that picture is so blurry, it's because it's magnified so much. The world's oldest rock was recently found in Australia, and it's the size of a grain. It's about as wide as a human hair, and this 4.4 billion year old "rock" is turning out to be quite significant as far as pr ...
Montblanc Honors Albert Einstein With An Elegant Pen Design
When I think about who the first geek was, the one who paved the way for all the rest of us, my mind always goes to Albert Einstein. Although most of us will never know what it's like to have a genius mind like his, he definitely made it cool to be curious about the world and how it works. I'm a hug ...
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Popular Twitter Hashtags For Entrepreneurial Rock Stars [Infographic]
For every day that goes by, it gets harder and harder to break through the noise on Twitter. In the beginning, the interaction rate of each tweet was off the scale compared to what it is today. Maybe it's the overload of sharing and tweets that have saturated our interests. It's difficult to know th ...
Thermoelectric Wristwatch Converts Body Heat Into Electricity
Thermoelectric generating devices are more common than you may realize. It's a device that converts heat directly into electrical energy. Right now, they are mostly used in the space and automobile industries, but as the technology progresses, we will start to see thermoelectric generators used in o ...