Tag: GEEK

February 10, 2012. Mark that day on your calendars, and make sure to be nowhere near a movie theater. On that fateful Friday, 'Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace' will once again violate theaters (and your childhood memories), only this time it will be doing it in 3-D. The rest of the franchise will get the 3-D treatment in annual installments. ...

Customized kicks aren't just for the cool kids. For proof, check out these customized Nike Dunks inspired by Firefox, Twitter and Google. The colorful hi-tops are designed by Daniel Reese, who sells a number of other nerd-themed kicks at his site Brass Monki. Most of his custom sneakers, which are available in limited runs, retail for between $200 and $250. Honestly, that's a small price to pay ...

Hu Chuang may have passed away, but his geeky legacy will live on. After the 26-year-old Chinese man died in the course of sending e-mails to his friends, his family decided to honor him with a tombstone carved in the shape of a computer monitor, which displays his dates of birth and death. Stonemasons also crafted a keyboard, mouse and camera, which sit alongside a photograph of the deceased ...

Seeing as Apple's CEO likely wouldn't know what to do with a kung-fu grip, let alone a rocket launcher, the Steve Jobs action figure strikes us as problematic. (Maybe the "action" lies in the market-analysis skills of that oversized noggin.) Some folks, though, don't see the problem with it. Manufacturer MIC quickly unloaded the 300-figure run -- before Apple demanded that it cease and desist. ...

'Super Mario Bros.' recently turned 25-years old, and the birthday gifts keep coming in. One Spanish neighborhood has given the iconic hero an impressively geeky present that may be the first of its kind: an entire street. During an elaborate public ceremony, the planned community of Arcosur, Spain officially unveiled the 'Avenida de Super Mario Bros.' Along with the expected costumed spectators, ...

One of the benefits of being a parent is being able to channel your inner geek into your child. Of course, this would normally lead to him or her being branded as "that nerd kid" for life, and being given a solid introduction to the internal structures of toilet bowls, garbage cans and lockers. But, on Halloween, you can get away with normally unacceptable levels of geekery in the name of ...

Bringing a smile to a geek's face is easy: take several things they love (especially things they love ironically), and jam them together in some ridiculous way that's both incredibly novel and completely useless. It's a flawless formula that leads to the creation of things like this tweeting Snuggie (or Slanket if that's your bag). The recipe is simple. Take one cheap piece of infomercial-famous ...

There is almost nothing a dedicated DIY nerd can't cram into an R2-D2 chassis, and here's some solid proof from UCLA engineering student Brian DeVitis. This astromech droid is a highly modified ice chest packed with 11 consoles, both current and classic, that -- thanks to R2's projector -- can be played wherever there's a blank wall. Check out photos of the build at DeVitis's site and coverage ...

We can't tell what's more endearingly bizarre: French-Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond's freeze-frame, live-action game of 'Pac-Man,' or the game's 8-bit sound effects mimicked in a French accent. Head after the break, and decide for yourself. ...

Search engines typically dispatch "robots," or "spiders," to systematically crawl the Web for timely, pertinent and specific information. Programmers control the actions of those crawlers with robots.txt files, which command the spider to patrol certain websites and to index specific material. Inevitably, huge nerds will also hide quirky messages right in the heart of the geeky protocol. The ...

You can tell somebody is into exercise for the right reason (namely, to stay healthy, and not to get "totally ripped"), when they're willing to look completely goofy while doing it. "After all," says the true health nut, "the more comfortable I am, the further I can run/bike/speed-walk!" Well, sir, meet your new best friend: the Uplink. Designed by Adam Hammerman, this solar-powered personal ...

Chances are you've never heard of JavaZone. And nobody is going to blame you for being unfamiliar with "Scandinavia's biggest meeting place for software developers." But we guarantee you that after watching the video below you'll never forget it. As part of its marketing campaign, and anti-Microsoft agenda, the conference put together a trailer for a fictional film called 'Java 4-Ever.' The ...

How do you know when your iPad love crosses into unhealthily obsessive territory? When your entire wedding ceremony revolves around it. As Gizmodo reports, one happily married couple recently had the geektastic idea of conducting their entire wedding (i.e., the most important day of their lives) with an iPad. As you can see in this video, appropriately titled 'iPad Wedding,' the officiant ...

It should absolutely go without saying that geeks love LEGO. The LEGO affair has spawned an infinite array of designs and contraptions, which typically forces block-heads to exponentially increase the size, complexity and scope of their creations. YouTuber and LEGO engineer Invisibules has shed those expansive trappings, though, and crafted a compact, interlocking machine that is simplistically ...

Since toy building-block fans, both children and adults, have seemingly constructed LEGO-everything, you'd think, at this point, it would be impossible to craft innovative, entertaining, and noteworthy interlocking art forms. Somehow, despite that overabundance of blocks, though, a group of impressively skilled stop-motion 'Star Wars' fans has painstakingly pieced together an admirable and ...