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mental_floss Blog - Sep 25, 2008
What can a team of design students create in just 24 hours? How about a complete video game level, crammed with animation, danger, and innovative art? Last weekend, students from New York City’s slightly …
mental_floss Blog - Jul 23, 2008
Productivity site 43 Folders has turned up a 2005 article from MIT’s Technology Review on two of the most elemental innovations in office technology: the tab (as in a tabbed folder) and the index card. In Keeping Tabs …
Also tagged: technology, blogs, antiquity
mental_floss Blog - Jul 22, 2008
Here’s a silly thing that brightened my day. When you mail in an original iPhone for repair, Apple provides the “iPhone SIM Removal Tool” to help you take out your SIM card before sending the phone in. The “tool” is …
Also tagged: technology, blogs, humor
mental_floss Blog - Jul 22, 2008
Remember Showbiz Pizza Place? In the 80’s, Showbiz franchise restaurants competed with Chuck E. Cheese’s, offering animatronic robot rock, an arcade, and (perhaps only incidentally) pizza. The most memorable aspect of …
Also tagged: music, technology, blogs, weird, pop culture, bizarro
mental_floss Blog - Jun 13, 2008
Andy Baio of Waxy.org has begun posting digitized versions of a 1992 documentary about personal computers entitled The Machine That Changed the World. Narrated by Frontline veteran Will Lyman, the WGBH Boston …
Also tagged: technology, blogs, science, computers
mental_floss Blog - Jun 5, 2008
Danny Hillis is best known for his Connection Machine, a massively parallel supercomputer that led to breakthroughs in computational science and parallel computing. (It also was the subject of Hillis’s book The …
Also tagged: technology, blogs, mathematics, science, computers, physics, math
mental_floss Blog - May 31, 2008
Last night’s LOST season finale made mention of a “Dead Man’s Trigger,” which is another term for a Dead Man’s Switch. Although these devices are well known to some geeks, I thought I’d write a little explainer to …
Also tagged: technology, blogs, gadgets, science, planes trains and automobiles
mental_floss Blog - May 25, 2008
Here’s a tangentially related followup to the article on Polaroid photographer Jamie Livingston earlier this week. Some commenters asked about the quality of the photos — many images seem to be better than what we …
Also tagged: technology, blogs, gadgets, advertising, photos
mental_floss Blog - May 20, 2008
Portland, Oregon has long had a Weather Ball — a series of lights that tell you, in rough terms, a weather forecast. It’s located downtown, on top of a building. From many locations in Portland you can spot the ball …
Also tagged: technology, blogs, advertising, weather, environment, around the world
mental_floss Blog - May 9, 2008
Engineer/economist Bill Phillips, a New Zealand native, built a machine to model the British economy in 1949. Although it was high-tech for its time, today the Phillips Machine seems a little…nutty. What’s odd about …
Also tagged: technology, blogs, history, science