Warning: also Incredibly Sad, but Good

Some bloke over at Battlebricks has built a toilet flushing robot that only goes off when it senses the user has gotten off the crapper. Now this is sad, but it’s useful, and it also appeals to my legendary laziness and love of stickable plastic bricks.
It was built using he NXT Mindstorms kit which is [...]

Warning: Incredibly Sad

Some people have too much time and not enough life. Some sad loser(s) over at Gizmodo have actually gone our of their way to do a narrative of the process of unlocking an iPhone in a Star Wars style. This is why I don’t like people who Star Wars freaks.

Nintendo is second most valuable Japanese stock

Toyota is number one by a large margin (valued at 24 trillion yen compared to Nintendo’s 8.4 trilion yen) and Mitsubishi has suspended trading its shares ahead of a planned share split but its a hell of an achievement nonetheless. Its stock price is expected to stay continue to rise ahead of the end [...]

N64 controller makes good hashpipe

Actually, looking at it I’d say it makes a shit hash pipe. Any hash pipe made of plastic is never going to be good news. But top marks for creativity.

Original story on Aeropause

Microsoft Live Search gearing up for another stab at Google

Live Search is being retooled by Microsoft in such a way that it won’t show search results in a standard list form but more like a specially designed page on the subject. If your run a search on a particular product the results will be broken up into different sections e.g. news, reviews, costs etc…
Live [...]

Google Video is the new Pirate Bay

Apparently, Google video now carries over 300+ full length movies. I unfortunately don’t have the time to research them but from this article on Marketing Vox the original Mad Max appears to be one. If you can find any more please send them in and I’ll add the url’s to this post.
Now go watch.
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iMeem going straight

Sony BMG is reported to have licensed its catalog to music based social network iMeem. It looks like Universal and EMI are next to sign up. Pretty sweet.
Full story on Billboard

402,988,939 peeps killed on Halo 3 already

and that’s just online figures. After the US launch on Tuesday and the European launch on Wednesday the most succesful launch of any form of entertainment ever has seen a veritable bloodbath of pixelated characters and a deluge of sick notes making their way to schools and employers alike. At one point the 1.2 million [...]

DRM is killing Vista

The always interesting Don Reisinger has written an article on CNet news decrying the state of Windows Vista and its in-built draconian DRM and licensing scheme which ends up ‘picking on the wrong people’. He goes on to say that Windows should just put Vista to bed altogether as it’s not only a pain in [...]

B&O have iPod rival… sort of

The Beosound 6 is an mp3 player that has 4GB of storage. It will also be compatible with iTunes by using a special plug in. the £350 quid asking price does include the A8 earphones which are worth 90 notes alone – so its all grand then. It’s the only bit of Bang & Olufsen [...]