While I certainly remember Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, my earliest memory of an arcade game is of the 1983 Atari game Star Wars. Now, a man going by the name of “Le Chuck” has built a 1:6 scale version of the classic game and put it …
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Chinese Microblogs Ripe with Reports of Fruit-Scented iPhones
First, people wanted to smell like brand-new Apple products. Now it appears brand-new Apple products smell like fruit.
Well, that’s the news coming out of China, anyway. M.I.C. Gadget writes that the Chinese Internet is awash …
‘I Cried’ YouTube Button Lets the Internet Know When You’re Sad
Google already did research to find the funniest YouTube video of all time, but what about the saddest? What videos make you break down like James Van Der Beek on Dawson’s Creek?
Thanks to Project Goodcry, now you can mark …
“Until I took an arrow in the knee.”
Hey, Politicians: This Is How You Get the Gamer Vote
My interest in politics can best be compared to my feelings toward cat ownership: It’s an important institution for cat lovers but I add no value to it by haphazardly talking about how great (or not great) cats are, offering …
Man Rigs His Exercise Bike to Work with ‘Super Mario Kart’
Remember that exercise bike you bought? The one coated in dust in your “exercise room”?
Well, dig it out, because it’s time to win the Mushroom Cup. Brent Smith, hero to lazy people everywhere, has rigged his old exercise bike …
Callaway Lets Golfers Custom-Design Their Own Drivers Online
Callaway is now letting creative duffers personalize their own RAZR Fit drivers online with the new “udesign” (get it?) customization platform.
You’re able to choose your own club head (mens or ladies; right- or left-handed; …
How Topps Is Taking Baseball Cards Digital (Without The Gum)
Remember baseball cards? Those cardboard collectables that came packaged with a stick of gum, which you’d flip, trade and store in your stock drawer? With the release of two new Apple apps, Topps, the iconic card company, is …
WATCH: Autonomous Robot Band Plays the Beatles’ ‘Come Together’
Today’s non-conformist robots don’t want to work in your factories and vacuum your floors, maaan. These babies were born — or more accurately, carefully constructed in a laboratory — to rock.
First, there were the flying …
Alternate Universe: Twitter Invented in the ’80s, Facebook in the ’90s
Exciting times, friends: Behold the future, as if it happened in the past – and by “future” I mean “present” instead.
If Twitter would have been invented in the 80s. [Squirrel-Monkey.com]
WATCH: Rescuers Use iPhone to Save Little Boy from Well
In what will hopefully one day become a TV movie, a little boy in China was rescued from a well with the help of an iPhone.
The two-year-old fell down a narrow, 40-foot well in Mengzi City, a small city in China’s Yunnan …
Flying Cars: Finally Here… Kind Of
Whenever I imagine a flying car, which is quite often for some reason, it usually looks like something out of The Jetsons or Back to the Future. Sadly, today’s flying cars look more like lackluster Transformers.
Not that the …
