Microsoft Posts E3 Countdown Clock, May or May Not Have to Do With New Xbox
It seems like only yesterday when Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was hailed as the pinnacle of video game hardware and left us all waiting in long lines in front of the local Best Buy to bring home the future...
View ArticleHave an Unblown Mind? We’ve Got a Video You Should See
AsapSCIENCE has taught us a lot of things with their YouTube videos, and we’ve shared many of them with you, because, generally speaking, they’re awesome. Just in case you haven’t had your mind blown...
View ArticleMeet Vomiting Larry, The Robot Who Vomits For Science
Vomiting Larry, The Robot Who Vomits, may sound like a character in a short-lived and particularly unpleasant Saturday Night Live sketch, but the world we live in is not that simple. Far from a joke,...
View ArticleTake That, Lord Kelvin: Researchers Create Gas Particles Colder Than Absolute...
Absolute zero might not be so absolute anymore, according to a study published this week in the journal Science. A team of researchers at Ludwig Maximillian University in Germany are reporting that...
View ArticleOh Me, Oh My, Rare Tumor Causes Hair to Grow on Man’s Eye
Human hair has that unique quality of being both a blessing and a curse. While it gifts us with luscious locks that can make others swoon, hair also has the inconvenient habit of sprouting out of...
View ArticleNever Say Never: Surgeons Make Thousands Of Inexcusably Dumb Mistakes Every Year
There is a certain class of boneheaded mistake that is supposed to be so rare in surgical settings that it’s referred to as a “never event” — as in, this should never happen. The category covers...
View ArticleMan Recovers Stolen iPhone by Luring Thief to His Apartment Through OkCupid
One of the unfortunate happenstances of the digital age we live in is the fact that items like iPhones have become increasingly more likely to be stolen. Everyone wants the latest phone, tablet,...
View ArticleBritish Retail Chain GAME Offers Lock-In Preview Events for Customers, Dead...
Too bad none of us gamers here at Geekosystem are living across the pond right now, because if we were, we’d actually have something to look forward to this January. British retail chain GAME — think...
View ArticleTeen Accidentally Shoots Brother in Head While Posing for New Year’s Eve...
When you’ve been out on the town drinking the night away, and someone produces a very real handgun after you’ve returned home, the next step is absolutely not to begin striking poses with it for...
View ArticlePinterest Acquires Punchfork, Which is Basically Pinterest
Pinterest, a social network that lets people share things like recipes, has acquired Punchfork, a social network that lets people share recipes. This marks Pinterest’s first acquisition of another...
View ArticleEat, Drink, and Play Pac-Man: Namco Plans to Expand Arcade Business With New...
Even well into our adult years, we never appear to break out of that desire to seek out venues that in some way emulate our fond childhood experiences spent at Chuck E. Cheese’s or ShowBiz Pizza...
View ArticleMan Consumes Hallucination-Inducing Spicy Curry, Misses The Point Of Eating...
British radiologist Dr. Ian Rothwell recently consumed a bowl of curry –named “The Widower” – containing 20 Naga Infinity chilis, among the hottest peppers on the face of the planet. You’ll notice I...
View ArticleGeekolinks: 1/4
45 amazing facts for National Trivia Day (Mental Floss) The Library of Congress can’t search their tweet archive well (The Mary Sue) Photos of animals roaming wild in grocery stores (Flavorwire) Rex...
View ArticleYour House Tastes Terrible, Now Go Wrap it in Bacon
Bacon has a long and proud tradition of being wrapped around things to make them better, but those things are usually food. Would wrapping your house in bacon make it better? Probably, but how does one...
View ArticleEditors’ Picks 1/4: Young Working Pen Center CX
This week in Editors’ Picks: Rollin starts a new show, Ian fixes stuff, Glen doodles, and Steven loves him some Japanese television. Rollin’s pick: Young Justice Once I finished Adventure Time, I...
View ArticleYeah! Shake It, Baby: Feathered Dinosaurs Shook Tail Feathers in Courtship...
There’s a reason why, despite even the best of efforts, us human males egregiously fail at trying to attract the attention of our female counterparts — and evolution’s to blame. Lacking the colorful...
View ArticleHow to Look Like You Can Solve a Rubik’s Cube [Video]
Not everyone can solve a Rubik’s Cube, and that’s okay. I know I can’t. That isn’t to say a number of people aren’t capable of learning how to solve one, but it sounds like a frustrating process. I’d...
View ArticleDoing It Right: Wreck-It Ralph Available for Download Before DVD and Blu-Ray
Wreck-It Ralph was perhaps, without a doubt, one of the greatest odes to the modern video game industry as a whole and the golden age of video arcades during the early ’80s. As such, if you’re one of...
View ArticleThere’s Cleaning Your Pool and Then There’s iRobot’s Mirra 530
Swimming pools accomplish two things: They provide a source of cooling relief from the oppressive heat of the summer sun and demonstrate mankind’s dominion over a once unstoppable natural element in a...
View ArticleGoogle Maps Never Supported Internet Explorer on Windows Phone 8, But What’s...
Google and Microsoft have a history of not exactly being on the most amicable of terms. Like any good technology company, they’ve reluctantly worked and existed within the same sphere together, but...
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