Retro

Super Mario chess: 1-upmanship?

Get your chess face on with this Super Mario-themed board.

Another week, another LED-based monitor review

The AOC V22: Drawn, quartered and reviewed!!

Time to start that Kraftwerk cover band

The Stylophone Beatbox rekindles our fascination with old school drum machines and toy synthesizers.

Why hack a calculator? Why climb Mount Everest?

There’s more to programming than aspiring to be the next iPhone app rock star. Texas Instruments’ unhelpfulness toward calculator hackers can even be an incentive.

Originally posted at Deep Tech

PC vs. Mac now vs. PC and Mac then

In its latest ad, Apple is taking a poke at old Windows versions. Let’s look at Apple, shall we?

Top costume searches include ‘Adult Care Bear’

The top searches this year are “Michael Jackson” and “Balloon Boy,” but it’s the ones further down the list that really start to up the creepiness factor.

Originally posted at The Social

This dress is made of Tetris!

If I ever meet a girl in this dress I am bound by law to make out with her.

Sega Zippo lighters spark nostalgia

Give the PlayStation 3 10 years, and I’m sure it’ll be inducted into the Zippo game console hall of fame too.

Man fakes moon landing in own garage for $800

I’m serious, people: this Brit shows it was all a hoax!

Why won’t they die? The tech we won’t forget

There are some gadgets that just refuse to kick the shiny bucket. Why do real people–not IT departments or tech professionals, but the chap in the street, who’s paid tax on this money–keep buying this obsolete junk?