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  • Bright Idea: Artist Turns Simple Materials Into Massive Lighting Installations
    It took English lighting designer Bruce Munro a while to come around to the art world, but when he did, he did it in a big way. Munro¿s first solo show, Light: Installations by Bruce Munro, covers 23 acres of Longwood Gardens, just outside of Philadelphia. The show, which opened this month and runs through September, comprises 12 installations and a set of sculptures that use a whopping 235 miles of fiber-optic cable.
    06.29.12
  • Dork Tower Friday
    Dork Tower is an online comic created, written and drawn by John Kovalic. It chronicles the lives of a group of geeks living in the fictional town of Mud Bay, Wisconsin.
    06.29.12
  • Late to The Game: Mastermind
    Mastermind is a logic game that has possibly the simplest rules of any game I have ever played, yet don¿t let that fool you. Although the rules of the game are as simple as they come, actually winning requires a huge amount of brain power.
    06.29.12
  • Portal on Lego Cuusoo
    Lego Cuusoo, the place where new Lego ideas are incubated, currently has two Lego Portal sets up to be voted on. The first set to be introduced, back in January was by user T-Brick. The Portal Test Chamber Set features Chell with a portal gun as well as turrets, a thermal discouragement beam emitter, and blue and orange portals.
    06.29.12
  • The Launch Season Puzzle
    When launching a giant do-it-yourself rocket, it's easier to get permission to blast off at sea. But Copenhagen Suborbitals co-founder and Rocket Shop blogger Kristian von Bengtson describes the often unpleasant tradeoffs with ocean launches.
    06.29.12
  • Three X-Treme Theme Park Designs Debuting This Year
    Walt Disney never wanted his park to be completed. "It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world," he said. Today the heirs to Disney's legacy continue to push the limits of what is possible, redesigning the whole theme park experience from roller coasters to ice cream to tchotchkes. In 2012, this is the state of the imagination.
    06.28.12
  • Robots Compete for Soccer World Domination
    It's a practical embodiment of profound challenges in artificial intelligence and robotic engineering. It's also robots playing soccer. The 15th annual RoboCup, featuring 25 teams from around the world, recently concluded in Mexico City. The competition provides a common (and entertaining) goal for robotics researchers, concentrating their efforts on computational quandaries embodied by the beautiful game. "The ...
    06.28.12
  • Review: People Like Us
    Here's an interesting question: what happens when a screenwriter best known for big, dumb, loud, effects-laden genre films gets the chance to make the movie he really wants to make? That's exactly what happened to Alex Kurtzman; the co-writer of Transformers, Star Trek and Cowboys and Aliens is now the writer (with Robert Orci and Joel Lambert) and director of People Like Us, an intimate and beautiful film that is the exact polar opposite of the work for which he is best known.
    06.28.12
  • Rock Paper Robot: You Lose, Every Time
    Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a robot that cheats at rock-paper-scissors by detecting the gesture you¿re about to throw. It's the automated equivalent of your jerk friend hesitating a moment before committing to their move ¿ except that it happens at superhuman speed.
    06.27.12
  • Dork Tower Wednesday
    Dork Tower is an online comic created, written and drawn by John Kovalic. It chronicles the lives of a group of geeks living in the fictional town of Mud Bay, Wisconsin.
    06.27.12
  • Inspiring Teacher: Mister Craig New
    Craig New has been inspiring students at Lake Cowichan Secondary School for over two decades, passing on his love of math and science.
    06.27.12
  • Tokyo Heist - A YA Mystery
    Tokyo Heist by Diana Renn is a young adult novel that follows sixteen year old Violet as she attempts to solve the mystery of a missing Van Gogh painting while in Tokyo. The book combines mystery, a teen's relationship with her father, and manga, as Violet's drawing are part of the story.
    06.27.12
  • Build With Lego Bricks Online in Google Chrome
    As if Minecraft wasn't enough of a distraction. Now, news has come from the Official Google Australia Blog that you can lose more untold hours building - this time with Lego bricks online. The project, called "Build", is a venture between Google's Chrome browser, Google maps, and the Billund brick maker.
    06.27.12
  • GeekDad HipTrax #90
    Welcome one and all to the GeekDad HipTrax summer music spectacular. We've got thrills, chills and spills. And also Nine Inch Nails!
    06.27.12
  • Lego Build With Chrome Wins the Internet
    If you've got kids or just really like Lego - that pretty much includes everyone, right? Use your Chrome browser to navigate to Build with Chrome and start grabbing a piece of virtual Australia or New Zealand. The rest of the globe will still have to wait.
    06.26.12
  • Think Big! A Company Selling Miniatures Finds Massive Success
    Slobbering aliens, mutant zombies, and heroic space marines have helped raise over $1.2 million on Kickstarter¿and climbing. The 30mm-tall customizable figurines, or minis, are parts in two boardgame projects that the company Cool Mini Or Not (CMON) recently floated out over the funding platform.
    06.26.12
  • Women in Technology: Get With the Picture
    As a woman in technology, I hear a lot about the lack of women in the field. While I was in college I noticed that I was usually the only female in the class. My teachers treated me the same and the guys never cared. After I graduated and I started attending events like Microsoft¿s annual Tech Ed, I realized just how much of a minority we are. The thing that keeps catching my attention, though, is how much of an issue people want to make out of it.
    06.26.12
  • Squid and Octopus: Friends for Always - A Children's Book
    Squid and Octopus: Friends for Always is a new children's book by award-winning author and illustrator Tao Nyeu. This book is comprised of four short stories revolving around the ups and downs of friendship of two underwater creatures, Squid and Octopus.
    06.26.12


 

 

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