Saturday, January 16, 2010

Cameras

The Greatest Archive Of Junk Store Cameras

7:00PM January 16, 2010 | Dan Nosowitz

Laugh at the website’s design if you want, but the subject matter depicted therein is un-mockable: Decades upon decades of sometimes beautiful, sometimes ugly cameras bought from junk stores. More »


Entertainment

This Is God’s Computer

5:20PM January 16, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

He doesn’t believe in touchscreens or tablets, and maybe He is right. It’s all old school buttons and switches for The Dude in the Heavens. More »


Mobile

Hold It! The iPhone Is Still Steve Woz’s Favourite

4:00PM January 16, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

After a quote that Google’s Nexus One is his “favourite gadget” went around, Steve Wozniak took the time to leave us a note. Read on for his explanation of how everyone misunderstood him and why fanboy-style arguments are ridiculous. More »


Geek Out

Nipple Lasers? NPLE LAZRZ!!! (NSFW)

3:20PM January 16, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

Shark with lasers are so aughts. Nipple lasers? So old they are the newest new. If anyone can please explain me what’s going on here, feel free to talk in the comments or shut up forever. More »


US Military Discharges Part Of Robot Army Over Budget Issues

2:40PM January 16, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

It’s rough for robots in the armed services lately. Lack of funding is forcing the United States military to end the Army’s Future Combat Systems program and eliminate many robotic soldiers, including autonomous helicopters and mine-sniffing transport vehicles. More »


Inverted Reflected Art Warps Space, Time And My Mind

2:00PM January 16, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

You can easily render these wicked images – which look warped on paper and straight when reflected on a metal cylinder – with a computer and a raytracing engine. But the fact that someone did this by hand blows my mind. More »


The Xbox 360 Storage Locker Is Charmingly Horrible

1:20PM January 16, 2010 | Sean Fallon

Nice try PCgadgets, but I know a plain old storage locker when I see one. I’m sure that branding it for the Xbox 360 is the difference between a $US40 price tag and $US15 price tag. More »


Software

iNaked Application For iPhone Could Bring World Peace [NSFW]

12:40PM January 16, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

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I wish this iPhone video app to get people naked in real time actually worked as perfectly as shown here. In fact, I wish it just existed, period. For now, I would just get amused by the perfect choreography. More »


The Importance Of Good Dental Care

12:00PM January 16, 2010 | Mark Wilson

Monsters are scary, but it appears that animatronics are far more frightening without all their makeup. See more shots in roboticist/director John Nolan’s personal collection: [John Nolan Films via jwz via boingboing]


Software

The Week’s Best iPhone Apps

11:30AM January 16, 2010 | John Herrman

In this week’s self-contradictory app roundup: Videos, recorded! Hoops, shot! Stuff, copied and pasted! Photos, LEGO-ed! Navigation, given away! Classic movies, obsessively documented! Marbles, gratuitously exploded! Rivals of Yelp, marked for murder! And more… More »