Sunday, October 31, 2010

The Easiest Way To Dress Up As Steve Jobs For Halloween

Sadly, iWear is fake. But oh it would be magical! Packaging a black mock turtleneck, blue jeans and New Balance sneakers is remarkable. The glasses (sold separately) are a great touch. You’ll feel incredible, amazing, and phenomenal. Apple just re-invented clothes.

This Is What A Nuclear Test Site Looks Like From Above

This is a Google Maps Satellite View of Yucca Flat, one of the Nevada Nuclear Test Sites. Over 739 nuclear tests were run between 1951 and 1992 which has left the region scarred and pockmarked to this day.

Science

Superhero-Style Spacesuits Could Provide Vital Compression For Astronauts

This new Spiderman-style spacesuit may not win astronauts a spot in the fashion hall of fame, but it could help keep their bones intact during long spaceflights.

Geek Out

Create A Pumpkin Carving Stencil In Photoshop

So you’ve read our guides to carving, preserving, and illuminating the perfect pumpkin, but you still need an idea of what to carve. Our friends at the How-To Geek show us how to make a stencil out of any picture with Photoshop.

Concept Butter Package Packs A Butter Knife In The Lid

Single servings of butter are almost always a pain to use. This concept packaging would revolutionise single serving butter because you don’t need a butter knife. The lid of the package is the butter knife. I want this so bad.

A Typography Geek’s Dream Bookshelf

The Aakkoset bookshelf from Kayiwa might not be the most efficient way to store your things, but the alphabet shelf sure would get a typographer excited. Look at how useful a well constructed ‘W” can be!

Google Co-Founders Wanted Steve Jobs To Be CEO Of Google

When Sergey Brin and Larry Page were first looking for a CEO to run Google, they went to Apple’s headquarters to meet with Steve Jobs. The Google co-founders left that meeting wanting the CEO of Apple to become CEO of Google.

There’s A USB Stick In The Brick Wall

Across New York, there are USB drives embedded in walls, buildings and curbs. The idea is to create an anonymous, offline file-sharing network in public space. The drives are completely public and anyone can plug in to drop and download files.

Entertainment

Ootini! 4 Year Old’s Jawa Costume Is Adorable

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Apple Sues Motorola Over Multitouch

Earlier this month, Motorola sued Apple for pretty much everything phone-related: MobileMe, the App Store, location based services, antenna design, and so forth. One thing Moto didn’t mention however, was multitouch. So guess what happened? Apple decided to sue Motorola right back, filing two patent infringement lawsuits that cover six patents regarding, you guessed it, multitouch.

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