Geek Out

Violent Hair Weave Crime Wave Sweeping Nation

Texas, Michigan, California—states throughout the union are being hit by thieves with a particular target: human hair. Beauty salons and supply shops are being robbed bald. Weaves are getting snatched over flatscreen TVs.


April 28, 2011
Science

Lasers Can Turn Your Hair Into An Hourly Forensic Record

Using delicate lasers to ionise but not burn difference sections of your hair for precise chemical analysis, this new forensic method can theoretically tell what you ate and where you were in the world on an hour by hour basis. (Usually, the entire hair gets mashed up into one vague average sample.)


April 22, 2011
Science

FDA Gives Robots Permission To Sew Hair On Your Scalp

Balding sucks. But will you trust the machines to repair your scalp? The US Federal Drug Administration does, which is why they approved this piece of robotery to perform hair transplants. It’s name is ARTAS, and it lives in your dermatologist’s office.


October 28, 2010

RIM Employees Growing Moustaches For Charity And Sport

In Canada, they have no use for Octobeard. Instead, Ontario-based RIM is encouraging employees to cultivate moustaches along with smartphones in Movember. But to what (finely waxed) end?


August 15, 2010
Gadgets

This Hair Dryer Has A Ferrari Engine Inside

The new Conair BaByliss Pro Volare hair dryer packs an “engine” built with Ferrari’s team using real Ferrari parts. I’m hoping that the Volare can dry wet hair faster than a Ferrari can hit 100km/h.


September 9, 2009
Science

Forget Silicon, This Teenager’s Solar Panel Uses Human Hair As A Conductor

If eighteen-year-old Milan Karki doesn’t turn out to be the next Tesla or Edison, then I’ll chop off my locks. This kid invented a solar panel which uses human hair as a conductor and could solve an energy crisis.


July 14, 2009
Geek Out

Repost: Geek Moustache

There is history between geeks and facial hair. See: 1978.


April 1, 2009
Geek Out

Geek Mustache

Now there’s a facial hair treatment that lets you get rid of some gray!. TOUCH OF GRAY™ from Just For Men. Get a FREE Box! There is history between geeks and facial hair. See: 1978.


March 21, 2009
Gadgets

Japanese Shower Cap Claims to Regrow Hair at the Cost of Dignity

Laugh all you want. But there’s a balding guy reading this right now who can’t help but to hear the whole pitch. (I’m with you, buddy! Let’s do this!)


March 3, 2009
Science

The Science Of Belly Button Lint Shows Your Navel Is Like A Sarlacc Pit For Fluff

Gizmodo AU

For three years, Georg Steinhauser spent his waking hours analysing the contents of his navel. In particular, he used his skills as a chemist to study 503 pieces of lint from within his belly button to create a scientific explanation for what causes your man-belly to collect fluff like a Sarlacc pit eating Jabba the Hutt’s foot soldiers.