Schlagwort: geeky news
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Happy 1st Movember 2013 everyone
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBy digital artist Mike Meth, this is one seriously “real-life” version of Mario! All about the MOVEMBER Gentlemen’s Club right here: http://at.movember.com/en/ DURING MOVEMBER GROW A MO FOR 30 DAYS For 30 days, cultivate a moustache according to the RULES: no beards, no goatees RAISE AWARENESS Use your moustache to raise awareness for men’s health…
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5 Weird and Bizarre Things That Actually Exist in Space
Reading Time: 3 minutesDid you know that there’s a real-life Tatooine planet, complete with two suns? Kepler-16b is a Saturn-mass planet consisting of half gas and half rock and ice, and it orbits a binary star, Kepler-16, with a period of 229 days. „[It] is the first confirmed, unambiguous example of a circumbinary planet –…
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This is Not a Real Lamborghini Reventon Roadster, Just a Replica
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt first glance, this actually appear to be a Lamborghini of some sort, but in reality it’s just a Reventon Roadster replica. It’s built around a steel frame with body panels constructed out of what appears to be fiberglass. Unfortunately, the interior definitely does not look like it’s from a $1.3-million…
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Strange Ancient Pyramids Discovered in Antarctica
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA group of explorers have reportedly discovered strange man-made ancient pyramids in Antarctica. For those who don’t already know, „when life first came onto the land, Antarctica was one of the continental landmasses to be covered in forests and animals. Much of the fossil record of the Antarctic landmass is under…
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First leaked photos of MOGA’s iPhone gamepad
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwitter user „EvLeaks“ has posted the first pictures of MOGA’s in-development gamepad for the iPhone, and it looks like it will come with a built-in 1800mAh battery. The controller, which EvLeaks labeled as the MOGA Ace Power, also includes a traditional D-pad on the left side, buttons on the right, dual thumbsticks on the front side…
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Dead Rising 3 first TV Ad emerges
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAre you excited about Dead Rising 3? Ready to annihilate hordes of procedure-generated zombies? Then you may like to watch the TV commercial Capcom has prepared to the release of the game the next month. Take a look. Just in case you didn’t know, the game is releasing the same day…
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Company Unveils Shreddies, Underwear Designed to Filter Your Farts
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA British company has unveiled Shreddies, flatulence-filtering underwear that works by using an „activated carbon back panel made from Zorflex. This material is highly porous, so (the company claims) the odor vapors from the farts become trapped and neutralized before they reach the olfactory glands of any innocent bystanders in close…
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You’ll Soon Be Able to Take Trips to the Edge of Space for $75,000 in This
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor $75000, you’ll soon be able to take trips to the edge of space in this special balloon. Developed by World View, the flight would take 90 minutes to go up at about 1,000 feet a minute, set sail up high for 2 hours with an emphasis on smooth riding, hit…
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Mother Creates Mini DeLorean to Travel Back to the Future
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs children of the ’80’s continue to have children of their own, it’s only appropriate that the toys reflect those rad times when high top sneakers, Nintendo, and big hair were totally in style. With a love for both cars and Back to the Future, clever mom corey4281 created this DeLorean Push Car…
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Star Wars: Frames – Book Trailer
Reading Time: 2 minutesGet an inside look at the making of Star Wars: Frames, a new two-volume box set release from Abrams, featuring individual frames — selected by George Lucas himself — from every Star Wars film. According to Lucasfilm’s Howard Roffman, Lucas had the idea to look at the Star Wars films one frame…
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Watch Apple’s October Keynote Event Live – Starting 10:00 AM Pacific Time
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYay! Apple’s gonna live stream today’s event so everyone can watch! Tune in at 10AM PT/1PM ET for Tim Cook and the gang. They’ll be revealing tons of new stuff like iPads, Macs, and the new 10.9 Mavericks release date. What are you looking forward to the most? Official Source: http://www.apple.com/apple-events/october-2013/…
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7 of the Coolest and Geekiest Pumpkin Carvings
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOfficially called jack-o‘-lanterns, this term refers to a carved pumpkin, turnip or beet, associated chiefly with the holiday of Halloween, and was named after the phenomenon of strange light flickering over peat bogs, called will-o‘-the-wisp or jack-o‘-lantern. Here are some of the world’s coolest and geekiest examples.
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Stunning Award-Winning Wildlife Animal Photos
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTo keep things a bit more on the geeky side, we’ll start things off with a fascinating look (yet non-award-winning photo) at the black dragonfish, which lives in the deep parts of the Atlantic Ocean beyond where any plant life grows or light reaches. Official Source: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/temporary-exhibitions/wpy/index.jsp http://www.boredpanda.com/wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2013-winners/
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Gundam Cafe in Akihabara, Tokyo
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Diver City Plaza location will offer around ten menu items and fifteen drinks, including the 「Haro Latte」, exclusive 「Gundam, Char’s Zaku, and Acguy lattes」 (\380 each), and an exclusive Char’s Zaku Gunpla-yaki (\250). There are also 20 varieties of gifts, from keychains and mugs that make perfect souvenirs to the…
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AK-47 Underwater at 27,450 frames per second by Smarter Every Day
Reading Time: < 1 minute Official Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp5gdUHFGIQ
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Things You May Not Have Known About the Harry Potter Movies
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDid you know that Harry’s birthday is July 31, 1980 and J.K. Rowling’s birthday is also July 31, but in 1966? Or, that only Alan Rickman, the actor who played Professor Snape, knew his character’s fate before the release of „Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows“, because Rowling told him? Harry…
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5 Amazing Pictures Showing „AVATAR Land“ at Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo years after Disney officially announced „AVATAR Land“, set to be located inside Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom, the company has released the first amazing pictures of what the Orlando-based attraction will look like. The largest expansion in the history of the park, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Chairman Tom Staggs…
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UK newspaper The Sun thinks Deus Ex is real
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn a feature about future technologies, UK newspaper The Sun shows a picture of a cybernetic eyeball, saying that it is the kind of thing that will be commonplace with future generations. However, the eyeball is clearly labelled with the name of Sarif Industries, which -as you may know- is a fictitious company in…
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These Are Not Real Cars, Just a Mind-Bending Optical Illusion
Reading Time: < 1 minuteProfessional model maker and photographer Michael Paul Smith spent the last 25 years making miniature vehicles and photographing them, set in a fictional 1950s American town called Elgin Park. His models are so detailed that when placed in miniature dioramas and photographed using forced perspective, you’ll think that they are real…
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24 Beautiful Scenes That Were All Captured from Video Games
Reading Time: < 1 minuteVideo games continue to get more realistic by the day, and these immersive worlds created by digital artists prove it. To celebrate the ‚passion and talent behind the world’s most exciting video games‘, Dead End Thrills was created. This Flickr community captures beautiful scenes from their favorite video games – HUD’s…
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GTA V Poster – GTA V Girl the real deal
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThanks to Patrick Brown, for knowing what he’s doing 🙂 Here’s some fresh Masterpiece from the GTA Girl from the Beach: Official Source: http://patrickbrown.deviantart.com/art/GTA-V-Poster-372578594
