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Will a Wiimote blend? [I Heart Tech]

It’s been a while since I’ve seen a new Will it Blend? video. The shelf life on these brilliant little viral videos is closing in, but we can have one more before the fun is over. Will a Wiimote blend? You know damn well it will, in a Blendtec® blender.

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Slot cars viewed at track level [I Heart Tech]

Many people had slot cars at one point in their childhood… many still have slot cars well into adulthood. While I lacked the steady, careful trigger finger to make slot cars anything more than an experiment in small plastic car ballistics, I’ve always had respect for those who have the skill to turn it […]

8May2008 | cranberryzero | 0 comments | Continued

Keepin’ it real with a hand-cranked matchstick drum machine [I Heart Music]

Damn sometimes people are so clever. This is a hand-cranked drum machine made out of a cylinder, three tiny drums and matchsticks. It’s pretty much the same principle as a music box– turn the crank and matchsticks on the cylinder trigger other matchsticks that tap the drums. And the damn thing has four tracks, depending […]

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This roller suit is full of epic win [I Heart Tech]

French design student, Jean-Yves Blondeau, has created a very eccentric suit of wheels, which allows him to rolls down everywhere from different angles and positions, that include gliding down an empty water slide. I wonder how the breaks work. But the invention, which allows a wearer to top 60 miles per hour while maintaining any position […]

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Robot can get 100% on expert in Rock Band, but you still suck [I Heart Games]

Just last weekend after a furious session of Rock Band, I wondered how possible it would be to create a bot to learn how to play drums in Rock Band to 100%. Well, it’s not drums… maybe someday someone will do that, but it’s a robot that can absolutely ace every song in Rock […]

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How To: Write a Hello World program in 366 programming languages [How To]

One of the very first thing everyone does when learning a programming language is the “Hello World” program– that is, a very short (usually) bit of code that produces a written output when run. It could say “God is dead” or “Smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em”, but it’s tradition for it to be “Hello […]

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How an O’Reilly animal is born [The More You Know]

One of the more interesting and endearing branding trends in book publishing is the O’Reilly animal. Those intricately drawn creatures staring up at you from the cover of a tech manual have become a staple of the geek world, but how are the animals chosen and how are they created?

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Making awesome fonts just became dog easy with FontStruct [I Heart Internets]

Fonts don’t just grow on trees you know– they’re made out of the sweat and tears of a tedious and grueling process. Well, at least they were. Until FontStruct came around, not but less than a month ago. FontStruct is an online font-making app that makes font creation for anyone dirt damn easy.

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Meet the robot that reassembles itself when kicked apart [I Heart Tech]

In this wacky video, a robot developed at the University of Pennsylvania is able to identify its scattered parts and put itself back together when kicked to pieces on its never-ending search for Sara Connor.

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A laptop you could hide in your pocket– the Libretto [I Heart Tech]

The Toshiba Libretto, made from 1996 to 1999 was a subnotebook that crammed all the functionality of a Windows PC into a device not much larger than a Nintendo DS. Toshiba released a single model in 2005, but doesn’t have any plans to officially continue the line. While the Libretto has been trumped in recent […]

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We now have a weapon against teenagers. Can you hear it? [News]

It’s the Mosquito tone– a high pitched screech that some adults are using to keep kids off their lawn and some teenagers are using as a ringtone that adults mostly can’t hear. It’s pretty similar to the high pitched noise a television makes when it’s on, only louder. And you can hear it here. Just be very careful with that click.

Mosquito ringtone: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Alien life? Likely or complete crap? [News]

I’m so confused. One day Stephen Hawking says that he thinks that primitive life is extremely common across the universe while intelligent life is rare– but out there somewhere. Now someone else (who is not wheelchair bound and can actually still use computers and do math) is saying he thinks that […]

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Edward Lorenz, father of Chaos Theory Dies [News]

Edward Lorenz, MIT meteorologist and father of Chaos Theory and the Butterfly Effect died on Wednesday in his home in Cambridge. He was 90 years old.

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We heart Ben Heck and his wonderful custom laptops [I Heart Tech]

It’s about time we catch up with the infamous Ben Heck, the man who can turn any console, any computer into a gorgeous custom laptop or handheld, the man to whom epic poems will one day be written. You knew that he had built an Atari 2600 handheld, a PSOne handheld and PS2 laptop, an […]

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Microsoft internal Vista sales video is as painful as it gets [I Heart Tech]

This video is pure embarrassment. It’s embarrassing to watch and I’m embarrassed for everyone involved. It’s got a really bad Bruce Springsteen impersonator crooning to overly exicted Microsoft salespeople about how to sell the fantastic features in Vista. And it’s really, really, really bad.

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How to: Build a hydrogen generator [How To]

Hydrogen energy is all the rage and is such fun to experiment with. But as much fun as it can be, it can also be highly dangerous. Remember the Hindenberg, “oh the humanities” and all that crap? Big fucking ball of hydrogen. So when you’re building your own hydrogen generator, for fuck’s sake be careful.

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Meet your 2008 Rube Goldberg winner: a 156-step burger maker [I Heart Tech]

And the winner of the 2008 Rube Goldberg contraption competition is this 156 step burger maker from Purdue University. Congratulations to all who spent countless hours making pointlessly complicated devices for our entertainment.

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Video of the inner working of an automaton from 1875 [I Heart Tech]

The world’s obsessions with robots didn’t just begin in the 20th century. As a matter of fact, the notion that some day we would be able to create robotic servants and companions goes back as far as history itself. There was a high tide of mechanical humanoid wonders in the late 1800s in Europe, where […]

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The history of computer data storage in pictures [I Heart Tech]

It’s pretty amazing that these days you can fit weeks of music on an iPod or large amounts of data on a tiny keychain flash drive when it used to be that fitting a few k of data on a floppy or a few hundred bytes on a cassette tape was hot shit.

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How To: Make your own steampunk penis pump [How To]

Merlin Mann of 43folders loooves him some steampunk. He also loves masturbation. Well what a coincidence! Here he is, showing you dear reader how in no time, you can have your own steampunk style penis pump for your Victorian era pleasures. And you can learn a little from the video as […]