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Human Tetris

By Posted on 3.4.2008 2 Comments
Tetris is one of the all-time classic video games, but its best suited to people with a lot of free time on their hands. Apparently, though, maneuvering those little polygons around a video screen still wasnt enough of a time suck for Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond. So, he set to work on a real-life version of the game with people in place of pixels.

4.28.2009 at 08:20pm - Comment by popsci.com fan

WoW they have way to much free time on their hands. i mean its kind of weird, well to me it is. i think its kind of creepy!
Gadgets

Movie Phone

By Sean Captain Posted on 3.30.2009 5 Comments
The stunning colors and contrast on the Samsung Show's 3.2-inch OLED screen would be enough to make it a multimedia wonder. But the phone really earns its name from an integrated projector that displays 100-inch images. Other "pico" projectors are themselves bigger than iPods and attach to a cellphone with a cable. By squeezing a projector into the phone, Samsung ensures that you always have a big screen handy—say, for viewing movies on an airplane seat back or photos on a tabletop.

4.28.2009 at 07:51pm - Comment by popsci.com fan

Ya it looks like a neat phone but the price, I mean they could atleast chop it down a bit, but all of its great features might be worth it. It could be something to keep watching. Overall it looks like a neat little gadget, one that may bring some attention to the human eye. If of course it even comes to the us lol.
Gadgets

Thin and Rich

By Posted on 4.28.2009 4 Comments
Think of Toshiba's TG01 cellphone as the world's smallest PC. It powers 3-D games, plays high-definition movies, and smoothly runs many programs at once, a combo few other phones offer. Yet it's less than four tenths of an inch thick — 20 percent thinner than an iPhone — thanks to Qualcomm's Snapdragon system, which packs several previously separate chips into one case the size of a dime.

4.28.2009 at 07:46pm - Comment by popsci.com fan

wow! that phone looks so cool! i love it that it is so thin. also another benefit is that if you're traveling somewhere you can just pop out your "mini laptop" and start surfing the web! This I think will be such a big-huge hit if the communications and the wifi for this phone goes good. A great innovation in technology for the 21st-century! P.S I hope it actually works like they say it will!
Gadgets

A House That Walks

By John Brandon Posted on 11.6.2008 19 Comments
Houses are normally fairly stationary objects, and that's not considered a bad thing. But innovation never stands still, and a new prototype house that can walk on six legs has been built . The house is ten feet high, powered by solar panels, and is outfitted with a kitchen, toilet, bed, and wood stove. Last week, the house, a collaboration between MIT and the Danish design collective N55, took a journey through Cambridgeshire in England as part of an art project at the Wysing Art Center. Designed to move at the muscle speed of a human, the house walked at about five kilometers an hour around the 11-acre campus. (See video)

3.30.2009 at 08:32pm - Comment by popsci.com fan

This is a very cool house, but a couple concerns. 1. If only it could move faster. 2. Can it move sideways? 3. How sturdy is the house during storms and bad weather ect. Because you could probably feel it sway on the inside( Which I would very much dislike). QUESTIONS 1. How much did it cost to build? 2. How much do they weigh? !!!!!!!!!!GREAT IDEA THOUGH!!!!!!!!!!
DIY

Making Music with Lasers

By Posted on 5.7.2009 9 Comments
Playing the harp isn’t the most high-tech pastime—unless, like Stephen Hobley, you use lasers in place of the strings. Though not the first home-built laser harp, Hobley’s creation is unquestionably the coolest. Played by disrupting the laser beams with his hands, it can produce just about any sound. Better yet, it’s also a fully functioning controller for a version of Guitar Hero.

3.30.2009 at 08:24pm - Comment by popsci.com fan

Wow,Very cool. But I would like to know how you would sync the laser harp, so you can play the notes. This is so cool though!
DIY

The Best Game-Console Mods

By Posted on 5.19.2008 17 Comments
Ben Heckendorn’s game-console creations, from a portable Atari 2600 to a pocket-sized Nintendo 64, are famous in the modder world. But he may have topped himself with his Xbox 360 Elite laptop. To shoehorn a full 360 into the 2.25-by-16-by-12-inch case and keep it playable, Heckendorn had to install fans and speakers and redo the internal layout of the machine several times. He then rewired the console to output the video to the 17-inch LCD display, on which he mounted an Xbox Live Vision camera for online multiplayer games.

3.30.2009 at 08:20pm - Comment by popsci.com fan

I have an Xbox360. And I would so want it to be portable. I so would want one of those. It even looks like a custom Halo laptop. The only downfall is that it is probably a little bit on the heavy side, for a portable gaming console.
Entertainment & Gaming

The Spawn of Spore

By Posted on 6.17.2008 5 Comments
Years in the making, Will Wright’s Spore peeks out today with the release of the Creature Creator. The free download is a toolkit for designing the life forms that will inhabit the Spore universe when the full game launches on September 7.

3.30.2009 at 08:15pm - Comment by popsci.com fan

I own this little fun packed game. I found it very fun to build hundreds of monsters. The only downfall of this little $9.99 game is that when you want to play with your creature it can get a bit repetitive and boring. THE FULL GAME VERSION IS MUCH BETTER. This game is very very fun though. It has many great elemetns to this game also.
DIY

Extreme Shepherding

By PopSci Staff Posted on 3.18.2009 6 Comments

[Via Kontraband.com] This ia a pretty impressive display of DIY creativity using an... unconventional set of raw materials.

3.30.2009 at 07:30pm - Comment by popsci.com fan

wow. I never would EVER think of such a weird way of trying to use LED lights. But overall, Bravo!
Technology

Wingman

By Eric Hagerman Posted on 1.14.2009 29 Comments
The warm autumn sun has burned a hole in the morning haze and opened up the sky above the South Foreland Lighthouse, a historic beacon along the White Cliffs of Dover, England. It marks the narrowest point of the English Channel. You can't quite make out where the sea meets the coast of France, a tantalizing 22 miles distant, but a little surface gauze won't interfere with what's coming across the Channel today.

3.30.2009 at 07:25pm - Comment by popsci.com fan

I would love to do that so much. That must be a one in a lifetime experience. I would love to also know how to make it.
Science

A Real Cloaking Device

By Catherine Schwanke Posted on 1.26.2009 32 Comments
It's like something out of a science fiction novel or a Harry Potter book. Engineers from Duke University have constructed a device that can "cloak" items placed on a mirror surface.

First designed in 2006, the new version of the device is a more sophisticated and complicated design that can cloak a wider variety of waves.

3.30.2009 at 07:21pm - Comment by popsci.com fan

Oh man, I really hope that this comes out as a finished product soon. I love it that it is like a mirage. I would also really want to know what materials and fabrics were used in the making of it.If this turns out to be a really good working products, I will be truly amazed.