The Nintendo Entertainment System is one of the iconic game consoles and the one that resurrected console gaming after the crash of 1983. It also had a reputation for incredibly difficult games, as TV Tropes attests. One guy’s created a program that can play those difficult games for you.
Programmer Tom ...
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For Star Trek fans, the release of a new movie is always an event (though the less said about “Nemesis,” the better). It happens that there’s a new Star Trek movie coming out this summer called “Into Darkness.” A couple of fans have made a LEGO version of the trailer ...
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For many of us, although furniture has a decorative element, it’s there primarily to do a job. Restoration Hardware, however, has introduced a complete furniture set made out of steamer trunks.
Steamer trunks recall the days when people crossed oceans on big boats instead of planes, when there was still an ...
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The Raspberry Pi may only cost $35, but people seem to be doing amazing things with this small board. One person has built a working Super NES out of it.
Waterbury of Fermilab had the idea back in 2004. The Raspberry Pi is a small board that’s a complete, Linux-based computer ...
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The Atari 2600. Intellivision. The NES. The Genesis. Vectrex. Most of those names mean something if you were a kid of the ’80s or the ’90s. Unless you’re a serious fan of retro gaming, you probably aren’t familiar with the last one.
The Vectrex was a video game console from the ...
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The Segway tried and largely failed to become a personal transporter, somewhere between walking and driving. The main problem was that people looked ridiculous on them, even as fun as they were to ride. (I’ve been on one as part of a human factors engineering course.)
The Dutch Qugo Personal Urban ...
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You might have a Roomba vacuuming your floor, but wouldn’t it be nice to have a robot defending your house?That’s what Steve Norris thought. There aren’t a whole lot of home defense robots available, so he built his own, The Patrolbot Mark II. It has a night vision camera and ...
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We’ve seen some cool case mods before, and even some cool Star Wars-based case mods, but this R2-D2 computer case might be the best one we’ve seen yet.
This one was built by Podpadstudios in Wiltshire, U.K. You have to see it in action to believe it (No sound):
It does everything ...
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Apple might have recently launched the iPad Mini, but Apple’s long-standing rival, Microsoft, it looking to steal some of the company’s thunder with Windows 8.
A new release of Windows might seem like a new car from General Motors: exciting for people who are really into that kid of thing, but ...
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A Persistence of Vision (POV) globe is cool enough on its own, displaying a spherical image, but one user decided to make it even better by turning it into a mini Death Star.
Jason Hotchkiss came up with the project. He describes it in his own words:
I’ve wanted to make a ...
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