Category: Technology & Science

iDermal: Body piercer implants arm w/studs to magnetically attach iPod as a watch. Really.

iDermal: Body piercer implants arm w/studs to magnetically attach iPod as a watch. Really.

When we first came across this story, we all said “Really??” Yes, really. Body piercer Dave Hurban, from Dynasty Tattoo  in New Jersey, has a love of body art and technology. […]

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Video Of The Day – Higgs Boson/Nobel Prize Edition: Rolling In the Higgs, A Capella Science

Video Of The Day – Higgs Boson/Nobel Prize Edition: Rolling In the Higgs, A Capella Science

Congratulations to über-Nerds, Peter Higgs and François Englert on their Nobel Prize for Physics.  Their Higgs Boson Theory, originated in the 1960′s, was the basis for the creation of the […]

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Things That Are Awesome: The World’s Heaviest Metal Band [All Robots] Cover Motörhead’s ‘Ace of Spades’

Things That Are Awesome: The World’s Heaviest Metal Band [All Robots] Cover Motörhead’s ‘Ace of Spades’

  When two of my favourite things are combined – music & robots – it may be my best day ever. Self-described “world’s heaviest metal band” Compressorhead, is a trio […]

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Why Is Kim Kardashian More Famous Than Doug Engelbart, Inventor of The Mouse?

Why Is Kim Kardashian More Famous Than Doug Engelbart, Inventor of The Mouse?

The young woman is instantly recognizable, the gentleman, probably not.  The pretty young woman is American reality television star, Kim Kardashian.  Even if you’ve never seen an episode of her […]

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Happy Pi Day! BYU’s rap makes Mathletes cooler than athletes-WE LOVE THIS!

Happy Pi Day! BYU’s rap makes Mathletes cooler than athletes-WE LOVE THIS!

Brigham Young University believes that its star Mathletes should receive the same kind of adulation and school spirit as its star athletes.  And so they created this totally awesome BYU […]

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In Which Science And Body Art Intersect: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed

In Which Science And Body Art Intersect: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed

Awesome geek tatttoo. If you’re a frequent visitor to this site, you know we love nerds.  Science nerds, math nerds, computer nerds – all variety of thoughtful humans committed to […]

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Video: Alien Spacecraft Flying Over Moon? You Decide…

Video: Alien Spacecraft Flying Over Moon? You Decide…

Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan and many other notable contemporary thinkers have posited that we are not alone in the universe, that aliens are a mathematical probability, but so far we […]

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Things That Are Awesome: 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics Explained in 2 minutes and 35 seconds.

Things That Are Awesome: 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics Explained in 2 minutes and 35 seconds.

On October 9, the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Serge Haroche and David Wineland for their work in the area of the interaction between light and matter.  So […]

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Jetman flies over Grand Canyon …

Jetman flies over Grand Canyon …

Too Cool .  To see this dude on his flying machine — we sure have come a long way from the old days of flapping wire frames and balloons !!!

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When Apps That Are Awesome Become Awesomer: Real Actors Read Yelp Reviews

When Apps That Are Awesome Become Awesomer: Real Actors Read Yelp Reviews

  Yelp is an awesome app, right? – real people around the globe, rating and reviewing all manner of restaurants, shops & spas in passionate detail.  Reviewers take their Yelping […]

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