OK, at first, I thought this was more stupid tech brought to my attention from the glorious Geekologie from their post here. I thought the only use for this would be for casanovas to wear these glasses in bars and clubs, the whole time, looking down the blouses of the women they were talking with… once I read a little about it, I realized, even though this really wouldn’t be terribly useful for consumers to own, if MRI labs in hospitals or in other medical facilities bought a handful of these for their patients, this would be an interesting new way to make, what is normally an uncomfortable 20min-60+min test, a more bareable experience. I know some facilities offer patients headphones, so they can listen to music, but music may not help fight the clawing feeling of claustrophobia as much as a pair of glasses, which allow a patient to see through the MRI tube to the open air outside the machine, instead of having to look directly at the top of the enclosure they are stuck inside for so long.
Thanks to SkyMall for maybe, creating something somewhat useful for once, instead of their usual fare…
You may not have realized it, but Geekologie knew you needed this technology (which is under $13), so they reported about it here.
Do you have AA batteries lying around your house that you want to waste? Then buy this device! Do you want to look at this ugly ass toy (magnetically attached to your fridge or nailed to your wall), whose only function is to use that battery power to light up its LED eyes? Then rush out to a useless tech toy store near you!… err, I mean buy it online. Do you want to give a gift that people will laugh at you for? Here’s the perfect option…
If you are going to create something called the Battery Muncher, then make a toy that actually MUNCHES on batteries and finds a way to dispose of them (and since it’s potentially a children’s toy, either find a way to dispose of them safely or do a complete 180 and cover the whole thing with yummy lead paint).
The Onion has released yet another funny fake news video of a panel trying to discuss a news story coming from Nigeria, when only the moderator of the panel has any idea what is going on in the country. Watching an entire panel trying to sound like they all know what they are talking about, when they probably couldn’t even point out the country on the map, just like a lot of US Americans, is absolutely side splitting.
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After reading about the Wilhelm Scream years ago from Hollywood Lost and Found, Net@Nite brought it up in their most recent episode after they found a compilation of some of the most famous film moments with this, truly classic, post production sound effect. I was also able to find a few more interesting clips, one was another compilation set (with some repeats, but some funny new ones too) as well as a clip of the history behind the clip, some of which is told from the founder of Hollywood Lost and Found, coincidently. The whole thing is hilarious, my favorite moment is when Luke shoots a stormtrooper and he falls down the open shaft in the originalStar Wars.
It looks like Gateway is sending a shot across the bow of Apple’s iMac, releasing their own version of a full all-in-one desktop called Gateway One. The price ranges from $1,300-$1,800, so it falls in the middle of the iMac’s price range. The only problem seems to be that the screen is only 19 inches, compared to the iMac, which ranges from 20-24 inches. The big advantage to the Gateway One is that you can swap out the hard drives when they start to fill up (even though they come with 320-500 gb drives).
I still think the iMac is a better deal for home users, since they still don’t have to think about viruses and malware at this point, but it’s good to see Gateway competing.
Thanks need to go to Engadget for the article(s) with all the deets and areacode212 over at flickr for the original pic (which I edited a bit since I didn’t know any of the people in the original pic)
Do you hate your old boring mailbox? Do punk kids pummel your mailbox when you aren’t home? Want to show the entire neighborhood how big of a geek you have become?
Why not take your old G4 Apple tower and replace that old, boring mailbox (a great excuse to buy a new computer too!). Thanks Geekologie for the post.
Future generations will now remember Master Chief for building the Harvard campus and destroying the aliens that had initially overrun the campus all those many years ago, Microsoft created the original Halo storyline in hopes of retelling this heroic story to today’s youth. For a more detailed telling of this story, just watch Alien vs Predator Requiem when it comes out, until then, check out the HD trailer or just watch it here.
Did you ever want to know the time, decide to look at your watch and then realize you forgot your watch at home? Well, this is just like that, except even when you remember to wear THIS watch, you realize you still don’t know the time! The best part is, it will only set you back $152.91 to feel like the big galoot who wears a watch that doesn’t need to tell you the time, why should the watch actually tell you the time when you pay less than $153?!?! I need to stop before I start foaming at the mouth here about this
Thanks Geekologie for showing me the light (just not the time) with this one.
I went into this movie with such high expectations after the last collaboration between David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen (A History of Violence) and watching the trailer. I wondered though, if all that excitement I was bringing with me would ruin my experience with this movie, in the event it wasn’t up to my expectations.
Now that I’ve seen the film, I can’t wait to buy the film on DVD! The movie shows a side of London that isn’t really talked about. This isn’t the touristy or historical London, us Americans are used to seeing. Instead it is a dirty and dangerous view that feels like only locals would be familiar with.
Watching this remake of 3:10 to Yuma makes me interested in finding time to see the original. This is the most intricate, detail oriented and fun to watch western since Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood’s masterwork combining his directorial and starring talents). The movie is more proof that Christian Bale is a chameleon in every role he plays. The man went from a sleepless, emaciated mess in The Machinist, to a chiseled and imposing Batman/Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins (which has completely revived a dead franchise after the horror that was Batman & Robin) and now he plays a one and a half legged former soldier from the US civil war, portraying a role that most westerns neglect (a secret I will leave for you to find, only if you watch the film). It almost goes without saying that Russell Crowe brings a funny, memorable and layered performance (no real surprise after enjoying him in L.A. Confidential, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind and Cinderella Man, to name a few).
This is not a western that will win over non-western fans, especially since this is a western made for the 21st century, it is one of, if not THE MOST violent westerns I can remember. It is also a wonderful film for the Firefly/Serenity community, with the quick witted and hilarious Alan Tudyk (I miss Wash).
I grew up watching westerns (mainly John Wayne and Clint Eastwood) and playing Cowboys and Indians. Probably the best western I’ve seen is The Searchers, the most recent western masterpiece to hit theaters has been Unforgiven and this remake follows in the footsteps of these two films (it is by no means better than the other two though). If you are a western fan, this movie needs to be on your list to see (the theatrical experience for this movie is great), especially with the surprise performance by Peter Fonda.
This news brought to you because of the good folks at Geekologie, they always try and shine the light on products like this, whose designers should have been smacked in the face with a giant newspaper and been told “NOOOOO, BAD!”
I never would have thought I would be wishing that a product would be vaporware more than this product, which somehow already made it to market. It is called the Head Spa and for whatever reason, Edmund Scientific released this nonsense!
This thing is the 21st century, updated and now high tech equivalent to the old dunce cap. Sure, it’s only $50, but since it’s marketed as being useful for those stressful moments inside your office cubicle, you’re really just paying $50 to eventually have your boss walk in on you with this thing on and either boot you out the door to the unemployment office or send you to the company shrink, so they can ask you if you have difficulty reading because all the pop-up books in your collection are too complicated for you…
Now to the trailer itself. It’s only fitting that a movie with this strange a cast has a trailer that is equally bizarre (if not more so). It looks like this movie is set sometime in the near future and is all about the end of the world, with some crazy government organization spying on the main character, who may or may not cause that end or may even be able to prevent the whole thing in the first place (does this sound anything like Donnie Darko to you, just set in the slight future instead of the recent past?). The movie looks interesting, but it is also listed as running 2 hrs and 41 min! This is either going to be a very exciting epic about the end of the world or a drawn out goose egg.
In the coolest vaporware news today, Sony’s new concept notebooks with a clear screen and all slick black keyboard while the computer is turned off, is fully holographic when turned on and from the pictures look just slightly thicker than the DVD, that may or may not fit in the notebook without connecting it to a docking station.
Whatever the details really are with this notebook, we don’t know when it is coming out and it will probably be wallet blisteringly expensive.
Never mind building a Second Avenue subway line, the MTA has approved a deal to eventually provide full cell phone coverage to, at first, 6 subway stations in the next two years and then the rest of the stations, 6 years from now.
It looks like the cell coverage will only blanket the stations themselves, keeping the underground tunnels free from cell traffic so that daily commuters don’t end up murdering every annoying talker they are stuck with on a filled subway car at 7am.
Who who would have thought at the end of May, that the most exciting (or nerve wracking, depending on your point of view) story in baseball this season, would be the Yankees/Red Sox rivalry? At their lowest point in the season, the Yankees were 14.5 games behind the high flying Red Sox. The Red Sox have been the number one team in the Majors all season long, maintaining the best record in baseball for almost the ENTIRE season!
These two teams just finished off their season series with the Yankees eeking out the advantage, winning 10 of the 18 games these two faced off.
Now, with just under two weeks left in the season, the Yankees have surged to within 1.5 games of that former 14.5 game lead! Both teams have their Ace starters vying for a 20-win season, Boston’s Josh Beckett has two games left and is sitting on 19 wins, while New York’s Chien-Ming Wang also has two games to pitch and has 18 wins.
It looks like again this year, both of these teams will make the postseason, the question now is who will win the division and who will get the wild card.
Both teams have today off, so I can relax, at least for a little while from this whirlwind, but it will all start up again tomorrow.
Who would think that there would be more than one taser stories to talk about today?
First, we need to talk about the college student at the University of Florida, who decided to try and hijack the question podium when Senator John Kerry came to the school to speak and when he wouldn’t leave the podium was eventually forcefully removed from the area by a group of rent-a-cops and was tasered for resisting the officers. This clip is both funny and sad. The first clip is just the student getting tased, while the second clip is a longer version that gives a fuller version of the story.
The other taser story comes via Geekologie, check out their story and you can get a taser (well, 900,000 volt stun gun) that looks like a cell phone (as long as you don’t too closely at it), so if you get held up, you can pull this “phone” out, it will look like you’re handing over your phone, but you can tase your attacker instead.
In case you have $170 to throw away on USELESS technology, you can get a lovely clock that is about as useful as asking a stranger who doesn’t carry a watch the time.
According to this article from Geekologie, this clock constantly gives you a vague idea of the current time and rolls around while doing it! It’s called the About Time Clock and if anyone ends up getting it, just remember, you will never make it to another appointment on time EVER again with this thing.
With today’s hustle and bustle world, with deadlines, meetings and appointments, most people carry around AT LEAST one clock (either a watch, cell phone, PDA, etc), it’s nice to know that there is at least one company trying to destroy all this and make sure that our whole civilization crumbles to the ground with people having no clue when they need to be somewhere important.
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