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Today in Star Wars: Brian DeVitis’ DIY R2-D2 Game Droid for the Stylish Geek

Posted by mistergroonk in Games, Technology, Tutorials on October 18, 2010

This astromech droid is a highly modified ice chest packed with 11 consoles, both current and classic, that — thanks to R2’s projector — can be played wherever there’s a blank wall.

Build your own!: http://bdevitis.net/project_portfolio/R2D2.htm

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Brian DeVitis, diy, droid, R2D2, the games we play, today in Star Wars, video games

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Father-Son Launch HD Camera and iPhone Into Space Using Balloon, NASA Expected to Call Soon

Posted by mistergroonk in Just Freaking Neat, Space, Technology, Tutorials on October 13, 2010

Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.

Our inner Space Bastard will not stop smiling at this.

The team was headed by Luke Geissbuhler and his 7-year-old son Max, who found the camera about 30 miles from the launch site in upstate New York. At its peak, the balloon reached an altitude of about 100,000 feet and battled 100-m.p.h. winds before it burst, sending the camera and iPhone hurtling back to earth at rates of 150 m.p.h. A specially designed parachute attached to the capsule eventually slowed it to about 15 m.p.h.

If you want to learn how they did it so that you can do it yourself, they’re writing a book!

Please recall, faithful reader, this is not the first non-government funded pictures of space.

Taking Pictures of Space: V-2 Rocket vs 18 Year Olds with Balloons

Official site:http://www.brooklynspaceprogram.org/

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A Fine Ship, Brooklyn Space Program, diy, earth orbit, homemade, iphone, space bastard, spacephone, spaceship, tweet find

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Cool Car: Acrimoto, the Green Car of Your Future. Nathan Fillion Approved!

Posted by mistergroonk in Technology, The Future on September 20, 2010

The folks at Arcimoto would like to sell you a three-wheeled car. You know. The Future as depicted in that mediocre movie everyone feels so proud to quote whenever future-tech is made real in the 21st century.

On August 12 he crashed our servers when he tweeted to the world (or at least the 600,000 of them that follow him on Twitter) about our vehicle. Just a week later, Actor Nathan Fillion and Castle co-star Jon Huertas flew up to our little city of Eugene early Saturday to kick the tires and take our latest prototype out on the road.

Browncoats and Castle fans are familiar with the driver and rider of the Arcimoto pictured above. Check out Fillion’s Yfrog photostream if you want more photos of a celebrity showboating prototype green cars. You’ll have to scan back about a month from this post.

Below the jump, see Captain Tightpants’ video of the Arcimoto Tron’d out.

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Arcimoto, Captain Tightpants, cool car, electric car, gorram, green car, Jon Huertas, Mal Reynolds, nathan fillion, save the humans

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Put Your iPod Nano on a Watchband, Impress All Your Friends

Posted by mistergroonk in Technology on September 14, 2010

And now we’ve officially manufactured a reason we must own the new iPod Nano.

And yet we fall for this tactic every single time.

Places to buy them
http://ilovehandles.net/
http://www.countycomm.com/applewatch.htm

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Culture, iPod nano, put some clothes on, tech wear, watchband, wearable

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A Fine Ship: Dassault Aviation’s Civillain Suborbital Spacecraft

Posted by mistergroonk in Space, Technology, The Future on September 10, 2010

Dassault Aviation wants to put civilians in space, too, and it plans to accomplish that with this air-launched reusable hypersonic vehicle. Based on NASA’s X-38 experimental plane, this one will launch off the wing of a commercial aircraft flying at about 25,000 feet, rocketing its six passengers at Mach 3.5 up to 62 miles high.

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A Fine Ship: Manned Cloud, “Explore the World without a Trace”

Posted by mistergroonk in Technology, The Future on September 9, 2010

We’d gladly exchange a lowly domicile on the filthy earth with a gliding palace in the skies.

Manned Cloud â€¦Jointly developed by Jean-Marie Massaud and French national aerospace research body ONERA.

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The Sunday Punch: â€œDoes Bat-Mite also drive a Batmobile?â€

Posted by mistergroonk in Photography, Technology on September 5, 2010

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bat mite, batman, cool car, sunday punch, tweet find

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Patents: Apple Wants to Convert Your game Play into a Comic, eBook

Posted by mistergroonk in Comics, Technology on September 1, 2010

A ton of information in explicit detail await you over on Patently Apple. The short of what is going on here is this:

Today we’ve learnt from a new Apple patent that a wild new application could be in development that would record your personal journey through a video game like Mass Effect and then give you the option of turning it into a custom comic or ibook when you’re done playing.

What do ya know. Apple Geeks Lite already made a joke for this.