On February 22nd, 2017 with 86 comments
T.L. Stanley, writing for AdWeek: It's a fine line between effective '80s homage and clumsy retro spoof, with the latter usually involving a lot of overplayed...
Topics: Hardware →
HP,
It's funny. Laugh.,
Printer,
Hardware,
Index
On September 5th, 2016 with 99 comments
Vlad Savov, writing for The Verge: Like a grand old dinosaur that's being left behind by the evolution of the tech industry, Sony is in desperate recovery mode...
Topics: Hardware →
Sony,
It's funny. Laugh.,
Hardware,
Index
On June 17th, 2016 with 81 comments
According to a report, a robot escaped from a science lab and caused a traffic jam in one Russian city. Scientists at the Promobot laboratories in Perm had...
Topics: Hardware →
Robotics,
AI,
It's funny. Laugh.,
Index
On September 24th, 2015 with 146 comments
hypnosec writes: A YouTuber named Tom Scott has built a 1,000-key keyboard with each key representing an emoji! Scott made the emoji keyboard using 14...
Topics: Hardware →
Hardware Hacking,
Input Devices,
It's funny. Laugh.,
Build,
Index
On September 14th, 2012 with 77 comments
theodp writes "When it comes to Google's futuristic Glass goggles, people seem to fall into two camps. On the one hand, you have people like NY Times Arts...
Topics: Hardware →
Input Devices,
Google,
It's funny. Laugh.,
Technology,
Index
On July 9th, 2012 with 169 comments
MojoKid writes "Samsung has some great news for Galaxy SIII smartphone owners. As it turns out, your mobile device isn't at risk of overheating to the point...
Topics: Hardware →
Cellphones,
It's funny. Laugh.,
United Kingdom,
Hardware,
Index,
Mobile
On April 8th, 2011 with 347 comments
jamax writes "From TFA: 'A Russian friend .... works at a hard-drive repair center in a Russian town, located near the Chinese border. A couple of days ago a...
Topics: Hardware →
Hardware Hacking,
China,
Data Storage,
It's funny. Laugh.,
Build,
Hardware,
Index
On December 25th, 2010 with 31 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Several robotics labs in the US and Europe have decided to make themed Christmas/New Years videos. The subject was left open but in...
Topics: Hardware →
Robotics,
Christmas Cheer,
It's funny. Laugh.,
Toys,
Index
On October 20th, 2010 with 87 comments
eldavojohn writes "Making a Lego printer is pretty cool if you've never seen The LegoMakerBot. The creator has instructions on his site on how to make (out of...
Topics: Hardware →
Hardware Hacking,
It's funny. Laugh.,
Printer,
Toys,
Hardware,
Index
On June 2nd, 2010 with 187 comments
Barence writes "If you've ever struggled to build anything more complex than a cube of Lego, this will blow your mind. It's a fully functioning Lego printer,...
Topics: Hardware →
Hardware Hacking,
It's funny. Laugh.,
Toys,
Build,
Index
On April 21st, 2010 with 268 comments
Recently some member of my household forced me to watch several episodes of A&E's Hoarders. This led to several *ahem* discussions about hoarding...
Topics: Hardware →
It's funny. Laugh.,
Hardware,
Index
On March 24th, 2010 with 248 comments
Token_Internet_Girl writes "Fewer than two weeks after Best Buy offered the first Full 3D HDTVs for sale in the US, its latest Sunday circular (3/21/10)...
Topics: Hardware →
It's funny. Laugh.,
Businesses,
Television,
Hardware,
Index
On January 29th, 2010 with 0 comments
Bleep Labs, the same people who brought you the Thingamagoop (and now Thingamagoop2!), have released a new fun gadget — the Arduino-based Nebulophone. ...
Topics: Hardware →
It's funny. Laugh.,
Toys,
Hardware
On August 6th, 2009 with 202 comments
Harry writes "For every blockbuster of the mouse world (such as Microsoft and Logitech's big sellers) there have been countless mice that flopped, or never...
Topics: Hardware →
Input Devices,
It's funny. Laugh.,
Index
On June 24th, 2009 with 213 comments
chiark writes "Remember Steorn? Free energy for all, coming soon, and a gauntleted slap in the face to the physics establishment: 'come be our jury, and prove...
Topics: Hardware →
It's funny. Laugh.,
Power,
Index
On June 14th, 2009 with 177 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Johan Van den Brande has developed a Twitter client for the Commodore 64, allowing 140-character messages to be posted directly...
Topics: Hardware →
Hardware Hacking,
It's funny. Laugh.,
Social Networks,
Build,
Index
On May 7th, 2009 with 181 comments
Phase 1: Break into a realty office, and steal a computer hard drive.
Phase 2: Ask if they will pay you $50 to fix the computer.
Phase 3: Get charged with...
Topics: Hardware →
It's funny. Laugh.,
Hardware,
Idle
On March 4th, 2009 with 108 comments
carusoj writes "The folks at iRobot apparently have plenty of time on their hands. They created a prototype wireless, robotic vacuum cleaner... powered by a...
Topics: Hardware →
It's funny. Laugh.,
Robotics,
Index
On February 18th, 2009 with 874 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Anne Loucks built a device which, when her cat steps on it, can click the 'I Agree' button of a EULA. Who knows what the lawyers...
Topics: Hardware →
Input Devices,
It's funny. Laugh.,
Index
On January 2nd, 2009 with 125 comments
Brendan Gregg of Sun's Fishworks lab has an interesting video demo up at YouTube demonstrating just how bad vibes, if expressed with sufficient volume in front...
Topics: Hardware →
Data Storage,
It's funny. Laugh.,
Sun Microsystems,
IT,
Index
On May 8th, 2008 with 74 comments
An anonymous reader writes "The folks over at Thought Lab have produced an extremely high-density mobile computing platform in a scooter and have been kind...
Topics: Hardware →
Communications,
Hardware Hacking,
It's funny. Laugh.,
Transportation,
Build,
Index
On April 20th, 2008 with 46 comments
rafaelmizrahi writes "WiiMan the Super Hero is a full action figure costume of a super hero that functions as a Nintendo WiiMote remote. Having trouble playing...
Topics: Hardware →
Hardware Hacking,
It's funny. Laugh.,
Nintendo,
Build,
Games,
Index
On April 12th, 2008 with 317 comments
opencity writes "The Register reports that the (perhaps inevitable) robot rebellion has been avoided ... for now. 'Ground-crawling US war robots armed with...
Topics: Hardware →
Robotics,
It's funny. Laugh.
On March 28th, 2008 with 528 comments
StealMyWiFi writes "C-NET.co.uk has a lighthearted look at ten of the best obsolete ports. The biggest surprise is that C-NET claims Firewire is obsolete,...
Topics: Hardware →
It's funny. Laugh.,
Hardware,
Index
On February 11th, 2008 with 139 comments
Active Seti writes "The NY Times reports that nearly half of British men surveyed would give up sex for six months in return for a 50-inch plasma TV. The firm...
Topics: Hardware →
It's funny. Laugh.,
Hardware
On February 9th, 2008 with 563 comments
The Star reports on this inventor breaking all the laws of physics as far as free energy goes. It even provoked interest from "esteemed Massachusetts Institute...
Topics: Hardware →
Power,
It's funny. Laugh.
On January 14th, 2008 with 179 comments
Romana Reynolds writes "The CES 2008 Innovations Design and Engineering Awards Showcase honored the Atom Chip Corporation, which was exhibiting the same 100GB,...
Topics: Hardware →
It's funny. Laugh.,
Hardware,
Index
On January 7th, 2008 with 113 comments
An anonymous reader writes "The Beer Brewing Bender Project is finally completed. This is a fan built, full sized Bender from Futurama featuring a 6502 CPU...
Topics: Hardware →
Robotics,
It's funny. Laugh.
On December 25th, 2007 with 324 comments
Ev!LOnE was one of several readers to point out an interesting LCD stress test: "ASUS recently came out with Asus LS201 — a TFT monitor with a protective...
Topics: Hardware →
Displays,
It's funny. Laugh.,
Hardware,
Index
On November 12th, 2007 with 245 comments
Dan Jimbokla submitted a story that normally i would pass over, but I actually oddly enjoyed it. "CNET.co.uk has a truly funny and read-worthy article up about...
Topics: Hardware →
It's funny. Laugh.,
Hardware,
Index
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect "Hungry." -- a Larson cartoon
