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Crazy Glow Stick Experiment: Let There Be Light!
My first contact, visually that is, with glow sticks was when I watched some movie for the first time. It was a lot of years ago, but I still remember the cool attitude those puppies gave off. I was mesmerized by the light and the simplicity of how they worked. I don't exactly remember which movie i ...
Geolocated Paintings: The World Has Many Faces
With technology becoming more and more powerful, we can experience the world getting smaller so to speak. It has been predicted by many scientists over the years that we will keep feeling the world shrinking, and that may very well be the reason why we are undertaking the huge endeavor of trying to ...
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Global Data Storage: How Much & Where It Is [Infographic]
It seems like lately I've been reading information about the Internet that forces my brain to think in a different way than I normally would. It's really inspiring when something can change our perspective and take us in a direction we hadn't thought of before.
For example, I wrote the article Ut ...
Photography: Squished Up Faces On The Tokyo Train
We have a train here in Atlanta called Marta. Marta stands for Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. It's awesome because for about two bucks, you can get anywhere in the city without having to drive in traffic. Sometimes when I get on Marta it's crowded, like during rush hour, but for the m ...
The Lego Zoo: Life-Size Animals All Made From Lego
I realize this Lego installation was designed to entertain and teach children about animals, but I want to go check this out for myself! At the Bronx Zoo, next to their real-life counterparts, these Lego animals are displayed along with information about each one. For whatever reason, there is a Leg ...
Star Wars Fleet Commander Game On A Huge Touch Wall
The epic battles in Star Wars have mesmerized millions of people throughout the years, and I don't think they will stop doing so anytime soon. The feeling I got when I saw those battles for the first time was that they would make for an awesome game if they could keep them in the format in which the ...
Creepy Cool Illustrations Of Mario’s Enemies
What do you get when you mix a love of playing Mario games, some insane sketching talent and a dash of dark energy? You get these very creepy cool illustrations. I stared at these for a while just admiring the details. We've featured a lot of different Mario artistic interpretations before, but I've ...
Gaming Injuries: It’s A Dangerous Business
We've all been there and had sleepless nights in front of the screen playing away on our favorite games nonstop. We're determined and fanatical about reaching the next level, and then the next, and so on. We take it so seriously that we forget time and space, and sometimes we go overboard trying to ...
The Best Time Of Day To Tweet (To Get The Most RTs)
Twitter retweets are really quite fascinating once you start studying them. I find them interesting because the science behind them is not always what you'd expect. As you learn more about retweets, you'll find several twists and turns that don't seem obvious. I've written about this before in an ar ...
World’s Most Epic Wrist Watch
As some of you may already know, I am a huge wrist watch collector. I started collecting them because to me, it's one of the real accessories a guy can always wear. I can switch them up to match whatever I am wearing. Girls have a ton of stuff they can put on; however, us guys don't have THAT much t ...
12 Bird Nests In Unusual Places: Get Inspired By Nature
I've always had a soft spot for bird nests and the baby birds that the mamas take care of inside those nests. I've written before about Tweet-Tweet, my childhood pet. Tweet-Tweet was a wild sparrow that I rescued after he fell out of his nest. After he was strong again, I tried to let him go back in ...
Star Wars & Star Trek Dollar Bill Origami
There is a whole ranking kind of community when it comes to origami. I don't think everyone knows this, but there are actually pretty cool competitions around the world where contestants get to show off their skills by creating some rather spectacular origami creations that go beyond what you previo ...
Nokia Is Alive & Kickin: Achievements In Mobile Technology
When I read last week that Nokia had settled its lawsuit with Apple, I was shocked at the amount of money Nokia would receive. Depending on the source, the amount is somewhere between $600 and $900 million, and that's just in the second quarter. Nokia will also receive future royalties. In my mind, ...
The Star Wars Millennium Falcon Coffee Table
There is no shortage in geek customizations these days, and the more we look, the more we find. So far we've seen everything from Nintendo NES controller coffee tables to large working iPhone blow-up (meaning uber scale) coffee tables. The imagination of home tinkerers is never ending, and I foresee ...
Road Signs Don’t Always Mean What You Think…
There is an art form out there that we all get exposed to every day. Not many people think about it, and when we do look at it, we don't really see it as an art form, but it is. The fact is, it's one of the most recognized art forms that we are all aware of. Well, maybe we're not aware of it, but at ...