January 2010
3 posts
Welcoming 2010 →
People all around the world gathered in groups large and small last night to usher out the previous year, and welcome the arrival of 2010. Under a rare New Year’s Eve Blue Moon, crowds watched…
December 2009
31 posts
Ping Pong Robot Hides in the Ceiling Until the... →
There are office pranks and then there are office pranks. This ceiling-mounted, ping-pong-ball-firing robot is distinctly in the latter category. Built by someone from the CKBot group at…
The decade in news photographs →
Call it what you will, “the noughties”, “the two-thousands” or something else, the first decade of the 21st century (2000-2009) is now over. Looking back on the past ten years through news…
Engineers Turned Into Human Cannonballs to... →
I’ve suspected that Intel’s engineers were somewhat crazy, but I never thought they’d hop into cannons and shoot themselves toward giant tube-shaped bells in order to recreate that catchy…
Most Popular DIY Projects of 2009 [Best Of 2009] →
We love DIY projects here at Lifehacker. Whether we’re building computers, backyard projects, or turning office supplies into artillery, we’re always tinkering. Today we’re taking a peek at the…
Jaw-dropping fully articulated machined figurines →
In brass bronze and stainless steel. From Mark Ho of Zoho International Artforms. Thank you, Mark, for inspiring us all. [via The Automata / Automaton Blog] Read…
Building Left 4 Dead Maps With Google Sketchup →
notthatwillsmith writes “If you’re a fan of Left 4 Dead and you’ve ever wanted to build a zombie-filled map of your hometown, office or grocery store, Maximum PC just posted a how-to that shows you…
Mint Explains Why The Real Unemployment Rate Is... →
The U.S. unemployment numbers are out today, and most headlines will show that the U.S. unemployment rate in November was 10.0 percent, down from 10.2 percent in October. That number is…
Continuity, a student-made and brilliant... →
Filed under: Games, Time-Wasters
Here’s something you don’t see every day! A game that I have no source for other than Twitter.
The game’s website would suggest it’s a student…
Wolfram Alpha Teaches You Math, One Step at a Time... →
Wolfram Alpha may be a data geek’s dream, but if you’re not all that interested in its more obscure uses, here’s one thing we could all use a little help with: step-by-step math calculations. Just enter in the equation you want solved (say, for example,
A world flag →
What the world needs is a great flag, a flag of pure bliss. Here’s one of the intermediate steps to the finished product; it’s an average of all the world’s countries’ flags weighted by…
25-Minute Lego Halo Fan Movie: Watch the Trailer!... →
I got a kick out of watching the Matrix’s bullet-dodging scene recreated using Lego over the weekend, but this? Wow. Alex Kobbs has spent six years shooting Lego frame-by-frame to create…
Minimum wage machine →
Ever feel like you are just cranking away and not getting anywhere in life? Well, at least with Blake Fall-Conroy’s Minimum Wage Machine, you are guaranteed to get paid…
OK Go, WTF →
A delightfully low-tech but colorful music video from OK Go. Looks like it was shot it one take. You may remember OK Go from their famous treadmill video. (thx, mike) Tags: music
November 2009
17 posts
61 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For [Downloads] →
As we prepare to stuff our faces with a bountiful Thanksgiving feast, we turn our Thanksgiving spirit to the gobs of free software we love to say thank you to the developers, and to give our…
Dragon Skin body armor gains piezoelectric... →
This Dragon Skin armor has been knocking about since 2007, but now that piezoelectrics and intelligence have been thrown into the mix we couldn’t stop ourselves from taking a peek at it….
Large Hadron Collider reboots, makes first... →
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that most epic triumph of human engineering and physics research has finally taken place, and strangely enough our planet’s still in one piece too. The search…
Muppets Take On Bohemian Rhapsody at 1080p [VIDEO] →
The below video wins the Coolest Video of the Day, or perhaps of All-Time, Award: it’s the Muppets taking on Queen’s mega-hit Bohemian Rhapsody.
It’s also a good excuse to remind you…
Saturday Morning Nightmare: The Worst Theme Songs... →
They were the melodies that announced that cartoon funtime was here, that it was time again to surrender to the animated haze. In our Pavlovian raptures, us kids didn’t notice that a lot of those…
The 100 best quotes from The Wire →
This is really well done. (thx, joris) Tags: The Wire TV video
Why U.S. Wireless Pricing Sucks [Cell Phones] →
The New York Times ran a story today that helps explain why the American cellular industry is so screwy. In short: It’s our fault. There are two main problems: We like bills to be consistent,…
1920s footage of London, in color →
If you liked the film of the 1905 streetcar ride down Market Street in San Francisco, you might enjoy this 1927 film of various sites around London, including several down-the-street shots. Oh,…
Homopolar motor →
Slow day at the office? Here’s a trick that’ll make your coworkers smile. Dangerously Fun has a guide to build a homopolar motor from a battery, copper wire, and magnet. A homopolor…
Where’s The Tie-In Newspaper Strip? →
Have you ever wondered what The Matrix would have looked like in the era of silent movies? Yeah, neither did we. But then, just today, we were browsing the blog Nerdcore and found… well,…
What Space Invaders Really Look Like (T-Shirt)... →
All these years, we pegged the Space Invaders for grotesque aliens. Really, they’re men and women just like us, flying spaceships in a war they neither want nor understand. $18. […
Martian landscapes →
Since 2006, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High…
Ok, Now I Totally Get Aardvark →
This is, apparently, not a fake exchange. A young journalist comes to Aardvark user Ryan Asava for help. Things go downhill from there. If you never quite understood the service, you’ll get it…
The Beatles catalog being released on limited... →
You know what’s kind of like online digital distribution, and yet not at all like that? Selling the entire re-mastered Beatles catalog on a USB drive that slots into a fake apple. The…
Improved arm mounted flame thrower →
[Everett] is at it again with Prometheus, an arm mounted flame thrower.This is the third generation of the project and makes some huge advances over the second generation we saw last…