The creature you see standing before you is a 22-foot tall Styrobot constructed entirely from spare polystyrene packing materials, and no, each piece didn’t just show up that way. Michael Salter managed to whittle away on this beast until its completion

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The alarm clock dials a random number in your mobile contact list for every three minutes that you address the obnoxiously loud ringing. Brilliant. Pure, sadistic, barbarous brilliance.

Duh people like to sleep, that's why I'm saying they could get more of it by going to bed at a decent hour. Teachers & Professors give students plenty of time to work on projects, homework, etc., but the students choose not to do them…

Intel is telling software developers to start thinking about not just tens but thousands of processing cores.the chipmaker is now thinking well beyond the traditional processor in a PC or server.”The more cores we have the better. Provided that we can supply memory bandwidth to the device.”

But the chipmaker is now thinking well beyond the traditional processor in a PC or server. Jerry Bautista, the co-director of the Tera-scale Computing Research Program at Intel, recently said that in a graphics-intensive environment…

When you do the math, it turns out AT&T is charging an ASTRONOMICAL amount for texts when you go over your set amount. Not that we really expect ethical business practices from a company with the Death Star for its logo, but this is ridiculous.

2) I’m not disagreeing with you, but your math is a little off. 160 bytes is the data YOU are sending, but there’s other data that has to go with it. Timestamp, destination, etc. So maybe a text message is 200 bytes. Maybe…

Today, AT&T announced the iPhone 3G pricing plans. New customers/upgraders will get their shiny gadget for $199 - $299 (depending on whether you choose the 8 GB or 16 GB model). Early upgraders will have to pay $399 or $499, all with a two year contract and $18 upgrade fee. A no-commitment iPhone will be available for $599 & $699 after the launch.

Wow. These prices are insanely high. Even if you are eligible for the 199/299 prices, you are going to be paying unbelievable amounts per month. The old iPhone is/was $20/month for unlimited data and 200 texts, and this one is $35/month for the…

Microsoft gets more crap than any other company in tech. That’s partly because it’s given us garbage like Clippy, Microsoft BOB and Windows Vista. And it’s partly because it’s arguably the most important company in personal computing.

I remember the world before DOS, when I had to do everything in CP/M. It sucked, but I hated DOS even more. Then when UIs became graphical, I hated MS even more. However, the brilliant thing they did was license their technology so that anyone…

Unlimited data isn’t one of them…

Let's all be clear, folks: this is not the fault of Rogers. Rogers is just doing what every good monopoly should do, namely royally screwing over their customers. They are a CORPORATION answerable only to their shareholders, and their job is…

What you see here is not a simple array of LCD displays. This is NASA’s hyperwall-2, the world’s highest resolution visualization system. At 23 by 10 feet wide, hyperwall-2 uses 128 screens driven by 128 graphic processing units with a total of 1,024 processor cores capable of displaying quarter billion-pixel graphics. That’s 74 teraflops of power.

What you see here is not a simple array of LCD displays. This is NASA's hyperwall-2, the world's highest resolution visualization system. At 23 by 10 feet wide, hyperwall-2 uses 128 screens driven by 128 graphic processing units…

June 27th 2008 marks the day that Bill Gates steps out of his role as nerd-baron and into the shoes of full-blown immortal philanthropist. Thank You!

Steve Jobs is pretty arrogant. I could see him donating to charities but not that much.he regularly parks in the handicapped spot at Apple, Inc. I dont think that anyone can deny that he is arrogant and has high demands for perfection. He…

Of all the ware Microsoft churns out from its sweatshop of “lightning bolt, lightning bolt” nerds, Windows is the one most inexorably tied to the public image of the company. Although we agree that Vista could have used a bit more time shoved back into the silicon womb for some feature buffing and bug fixing, it’s not nearly as bad as people say.

Like I said, even if they outsell every other computer manufacturer in the world, their market share for their OS will never be over 30%, putting windows market share at approx. 70%. Sure they will become more susceptible to viruses the…

Weve put together a list of 30+ must-have Firefox 3 extensions that we know youll enjoy, whether youve upgraded to Firefox 3 and are looking for something new to add to your browser, or have yet to make the upgrade and are looking for a reason.

Update Notifier - You’ve been adding all these extensions, but it’s easy to forget to check to see when they’ve been updated. This puts the notifications out front where it’s easy to keep track of them.

Images of the microsoft group when they first began and now…

wow this is gonna attract some posts…FLAME ON !!@clak, btw, i think similarly, that people take all these words so seriously. for me, i have a constant (idiotic) grin with every word i type on this forum/blog. if everyone replied to a…

Here are nearly 50 Photoshops envisioning Bill Gates in retirement. They range from the hilarious to the mean-spirited to the downright-insane, and are all pretty damned awesome.

Last week, I asked you to create visions of Bill Gates in retirement. You responded. As per usual, the easiest joke had the most entries (this time, it was Bill Gates working at the Apple Store/at the Genius Bar), many of which were left…

Italian architect David Fisher is building his first skyscraper, the Dynamic Tower, and it happens to be one of the most ambitious construction plans since the Pyramid of Khufu. Every floor of the 80-story self-powered building rotates according to voice command, and nearly the entire construction of the $700 million structure is pre-made.

@mumin: Look at the picture of the wind turbines. It shows a 5-bladed turbine between each floor, looking to be about 6 feet high. The stress on each scoop would be huge, so it's made of carbon fibre. The close-up shows a big gap…