ViaGippo.

More science here.

Beyond geek.

Nerd.

ViaSM

Bit long and the voice is annoying but the tech is pretty impressive.

Facebook here.

HTML5 accelerometer + scroll bar browser brick breaker game. To play it you’ll need a computer with a built-in accelerometer (most Apple MacBooks, MacBook Pros and Lenovo Thinkpads do have one) running Google Chrome version 7.0 or later or Mozilla Firefox version 3.6 or later.

Here.

Info.

Hacked Kinect camera for multitouch (Microsoft Surface) interaction.

Built on Ubuntu Linux using libfreenect (open source Kinect driver) and libTISCH (Tangible Interactive Surfaces for Collaboration between Humans).

UPDATED: Loads more here (check out the Night Vision video) and here.

Just point your Kindle @ http://www.portablequest.com/

ViaAdLab

The full 4K 64 level version is playable here (if you can’t get your hands on a cart).

Via here.

Freeman’s Auction House in Philadelphia is auctioning off 100 Darth Vader helmets customized by an underground artist who started with a full-size prop replica.

Catalogue here.

Created by Ben Marsh.

Here.

A real 8-Bit man.

Here.

The image is from a software called Astrometrica, which is an interactive software tool for scientific grade astrometric data reduction of CCD images. According to Tomas the stars in the image are down to 21 magnitude (which is about 1 million times fainter than what you can see with unaided eye on the best night far away from light pollution). What Tomas does is stare at the flickering image (which is essentially a time lapse of a portion of the sky) looking for movement. Any movement he sees means that me may have found a new planet, star or asteroid. For example the circled object is a previously unknown minor planer (asteroid).

The following is the measured astrometry from that asteroid:

TOV03Z *IC2010 06 10.26021 16 58 33.15 -19 10 13.8 H21
TOV03Z IC2010 06 10.26478 16 58 32.93 -19 10 13.7 H21
TOV03Z KC2010 06 10.26943 16 58 32.66 -19 10 13.7 19.5 V H21

TOV03Z is the temporary designation, I and K are flags that described conditions under which the measurement was made (I = Involved with a star, K = stacked image), 2010 06 10.26021 is the date and time (.26021 is a fraction of day corresponding to 6 hours 14 minutes and 42.14 seconds), 16 58 33.15 is the Right Ascension and -19 10 13.8 is the declination, 19.5 V is the apparent magnitude and H21 is the code of the observatory at which the data was taken.

Tomas does this as a part of the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) program and has been known to have found a few stars which he can name then as a result – obviously rubbishcorp® is a very pretty name for a star.

Thank you Tomas for putting me up and teaching me a little about the sky.

Tomas’ site is here.

His first minor numbered planet here.

Apparently inspired by Michel Gondry and R-Type.

Nice.

Google has unveiled its first-ever interactive doodle to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man –  which you can play straight from Google home. 

The game was first released on May 22, 1980 in Japan by Namco Bandai Games. Originally called Puck Man, the name of the game comes from the sound of eating, according to the official Pac-Man website. “Paku” is the Japanese sound for “chomp.” Pac-Man is listed by Guinness World Records as the world’s most successful coin-operated game.

Insert coin here for just 48 hours.

Here.

ViaMelleBos

A video game made entirely in MS Paint by Tom Sennet and Matt Thorson – coming to PC in October.

More here.

ViaPascal.

Cupidtino is a soon-to-be-launched dating site created for fans of Apple products by fans of Apple products (I shit you not). According to the site ‘Diehard Apple fans often have a lot in common – personalities, creative professions, a similar sense of style and aesthetics, taste, and of course a love for technology.’

And (obviously) no partners.

Here.

While we’re on the subject, this JibJab Star Wars site means you can put yourself in The Empire Strikes Back. Could have been better, but fun nonetheless.

Here.

Here.

Sweet.

More here.

ByJustinVanGenderen

Here

Banner generator which turns text into an Empire Strikes Back retro-styled banner.

Here.

Only if you’re a fan.

Hell yes.

The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.

More here.

Star Wars Weather is a website that gives the current weather conditions for an area in reference to a planet from Star Wars. The above refers to the city of Narch.

Here.

Sweet Flickr set.

Bad puns nice art.

Here.

Here.

Here.

This is apparently an actual game and will be available for free download on PC around January 4th, 2010.

FromEricRuthsGames