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Geek Scooter

Posted on May 9, 2008 by madmarv

Geek Scooter It has GPS, bluetooth, TV/FM tuners, wi-fi, webcam, LCD touchscreen and no roof. Marv

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Grizzly + Polar = Grolar Bear

Posted on May 9, 2008 by madmarv

Grizzly + Polar = Grolar Bear DNA testing confirmed that the bear in this picture is a hybrid between a grizzly and polar bear. Scientists attribute the hybrid to global warming forcing the two bear species into each others’ habitats. … Continue reading →

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Big Minds Colliding

Posted on May 9, 2008 by Kreg Steppe

Colliding with nature’s best-kept secrets – CNN.com Visiting a particle accelerator is like a religious experience, at least for Nima Arkani-Hamed. Immense detectors surround the areas where inconceivably small particles slam into one another at super-high energies, collisions that may … Continue reading →

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Infocom – Hitchhikers Guide

Posted on May 9, 2008 by Kreg Steppe

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Reuse your CDs as a Record

Posted on May 9, 2008 by Kreg Steppe

Very cool…where new school meets old school. Well, CDs aren’t exactly new school I guess. Oh well cool non-the-less. Using a record-cutter to turn old CDs into 45RPM singles – Boing Boing As part of Manchester’s Futuresonic 2008 conference, you … Continue reading →

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Tardis MAME console

Posted on May 9, 2008 by Chuck Tomasi

Long time Technorama listener pointed us at this DIY project to make your own Tardis shaped game console. “Honey… I know what I want for whatever the next holiday is….” http://www.asciimation.co.nz/tardis/index.html Pictures and instructions included!

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I want an R2 Unit!

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Kreg Steppe

This is an interview and video with a R2 builder at Maker Faire 2008. It looks amazing, and it looks like fun especially with the kids. I had a remote control one years ago, a much smaller early 80s version, … Continue reading →

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Don't Panic! Towel Day is Near.

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Kreg Steppe

Don’t forget on Towel day (May 25th), or even if you carry it with you all the time, take a picture of yourself with it. Add it to the Technorama group and also tag it with ‘towelday’, ‘towelday2008’. It asks … Continue reading →

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Wow…Nasa knows how to Build stuff

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Kreg Steppe

Link on over to Gizmodo. They have a video of an old launch pad that they are demolishing. This is better than my Implosion Video. Launch Pad Crash: NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back We have seen many spectacular … Continue reading →

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Adam Savage's Dodo Bird Skeleton

Posted on May 6, 2008 by madmarv

Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame put this together over the course of about 6 weeks and showed it off this past weekend at Maker Faire. Marv

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