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The Moon has been Googled

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

The folks at Google have released a partial map of the moon, based on their exisiting mapping sites.

TIP: Try zooming all the way in!!

In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we’ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor. Happy lunar surfing. More about Google Moon.

* Google Moon

* Google Earth

Real Life Tron

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005

Yay this is great (important) news for all you gamer lamers, enjoy the summer by playing Tron in your hood. We seriously can’t get enough of these computer game conversions.

* Real Life Tron

Also see
* Human Pacman
* Mixed Reality Pacman

Star Destroyer Built Before Your Eyes

Tuesday, July 5th, 2005

hardcoredreamer writes These people spent 10 hours constructing their very own Imperial II-class Star Destroyer from LEGO and capturing over 7000 frames of the process with their webcam. The images were encoded with divx5 and are available to download in a 4 minute avi. mirror 1 , mirror 2 , mirror 3.”

* Slashdot | Star Destroyer Built Before Your Eyes

The iGun

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

Wulffmorgenthaler presents:

The iGun!!

Soon you will wish to be shot with this handy gadget ;)

* Wulffmorgenthaler - The daily comic strip. Great cartoon and comic books.

Ars’s Skeptical Take on Wired’s NextFest

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

/. jamestech writes “Over the weekend, Wired magazine held its ‘NextFest‘ in Chicago, a demonstration of what the future supposedly holds. Arstechnica’s Hannibal visited NextFest, and was not impressed.

Regarding a dolphin-shaped water vehicle and exoskeletons for the old, he notes, ‘if you’re being pursued by a senior citizen then you can use the dolphin to escape.’ Wired’s been more about style rather than tech since the late 90s, but have they finally dropped science in favor of science fiction?”

* Slashdot | Ars’s Skeptical Take on Wired’s NextFest