At one point, I could do your basic “Sleep,” “Walk the Dog,” and “Around the World.” I can’t even follow what Hiroyuki Suzuki is doing here.
Archive for the ‘Toys’ Category
Impressive
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007Gad, what fun!
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007Show those alien blighters you’ll brook no impertinences – Dr. Grordbort’s Infallible Aether Oscillators provide the means.
This vital information was provided through the good graces of The LawDog Files.
Well, maybe they can, but I sure couldn’t
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007And, continuing on the subject of toys from the last post, a team of scientists has proven that you can solve any Rubik’s Cube configuration in not more than 26 moves, beating the prior record by one move.
I used to be able to solve Rubik’s Cube when I was younger (and playing with it fairly regularly), but I couldn’t do it now without help. I remember the first computerized Rubik’s Cube solver I ever saw – it was a program for the Apple ][. You would enter your configuration and tell it to solve the cube. A short time later, it would come back and tell you that it had solved it, and how many moves it took.
What those moves were? Who knew. The program wouldn’t tell you. Why they expected anybody to buy that program, I’ll never know. I’m just glad that programs came in baggies and without activation codes back then. Because of that, there was no problem getting the people at the computer store to open a baggie and run a program so you could see it in action.
A better-flying cake pan
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007I wasn’t aware of this, but this year marks the 50th anniversary of the Frisbee. Getcher souvenirs here.
Via GeekDad.
I suspect this is a misprint
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007I like shiny tech toys as much as the next geek, but there may be a problem with the 1TB drives described here:
Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.11 and Barracuda ES.2 feature 7,200-rpm spin speeds, up to 32MB cache, average seek times of 8.5 milliseconds, and a 1.2-hour mean time before failure (MBTF) rating, according to Seagate officials.
A 1.2 hour MTBF? Really?
Remind me not to buy one, then.
Things have changed
Thursday, June 7th, 2007And you can find visible evidence with respect to video games here, where they’ve done a tear-down of the Atari 2600, and compared it with the current crop of video game systems.
Very nice, but a bit out of my price range
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007The Optimus Maximus keyboard – every key has an OLED display for the ultimate in reconfigurable keyboards.
Fun stuff
Sunday, May 6th, 2007Public Service Announcement
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
You can make the case for American ingenuity
Friday, March 16th, 2007… but I think whoever came up with this is just lazy.
Then again, maybe it would keep the cat from unrolling it all.