Hurley, New York: John Gill and Gary Arnold built this: It can be heard from miles away, it can shoot a large squash a mile, and leaves the barrel at around 600 mph. Being a geek can be a very cool thing.

Apple has set a date for its next unveiling. Jan 27 Apple will make an announcement. That’s all we really know. FOX News has “confirmed” that Apple will unveil the 22″ tablet, but really, who knows for sure. What we do know is that Apple is teasing us with the title “Come see our latest [...]

That picture? Yeah, that was the 50′s. Now, 60 years later we are once again sitting in the theaters looking like these people. Well, we have much cooler hair, and really, who wears a tux to the movies anymore? The next step in 3-D tech is here. This past week at the CES (Consumer Electronics [...]

Will this be the new look of Apple’s new Tablet? Or this? Speculation has been wild and extravagant, but most sources agree on the obvious conclusion that it will be a Mac/iPhone hybrid. Apple is set to make an announcement this month (January), or February, or March. Apple, of course, won’t make an announcement about [...]

Just in case you missed it this weekend…here’s a video of someone hooking up their Guitar hero game to their Xmas lights. This is far and above more awesome than someone sequencing their Xmas lights to a music output.  Good choice of the Eric Johnson tune too! Look like they can only do an easy [...]

OK, here’s how we’re gonna work this. In the comments, leave a message about the gifts you are getting for that special geek in your life. If you can, leave a link to a picture or write up about the item. Merry Christmas, Geeks!

The geeks at the University of Antwerp’s Vision Lab have put together a desktop supercomputer for right around €6000. It utilizes 13 GPU’s, a little Linux, and a custom BIOS. From the FASTRAII website: Although the system is up and running, we are still experiencing software stability issues, probably caused by an incompatibility between the video [...]

Finally music geeks can really call their own. This is the Super Mario Brothers Theme played on a Solid State Musical Tesla Coil built by Joe DiPrima and Oliver Greaves and the Austin, TX Chapter of The Geek Group

This robot from Bristol Robotics Laboratory uses “whiskers” to navigate in the dark. This mockup is called Scratchbot and Popsci.com had this to say about it: Borrowing a trick from the lowly rat, the SCRATCHbot uses whiskers instead of cameras to see in the dark. Researchers at the University of Bristol in England hope to [...]

Black Friday is back. The day after Thanksgiving, that kicks off the feeding frenzy that is Christmas shopping. Adding to the fray Apple has announced a one day, Black Friday shopping “event” this Friday, November 27. The ad states: Come back to the Apple Online Store this Friday for a special one-day-only shopping event. You’ll [...]