Geekologie I Watch Stuff The Superficial
  • WTF Did I Just Watch?: Trippy 'Screengrab' Video
    May 8, 2013
    This is 'Screengrab', a video short made using multiple printed screencaps of some dude's hands, which then become part of the movie. At least I think -- I think that's what I watched. Honestly, I have no clue. Films are always hard for me and more often than not I'm left as... / Continue →
  • Pretty Clever, Bro: One Piece 'Hand As A Hand' Tattoo
    April 10, 2013
    This is a tattoo of pirate Monkey D. Luffy from the anime/manga series One Piece in his 'Gear Third' giant hand form (I read the wiki) with the tattoo recipient's hand also acting as Luffy's. That's pretty clever, right? Maybe not as clever as an octopus, but a friend told me... / Continue →
  • Jewelry That Forces You To Make Different Gestures
    January 30, 2013
    This is a collection of jewelry designed by artist Jennifer Crupi that forces the wearer to make a particular gesture. You know, just in case you want to always be pointing but don't have the willpower to do it on your own. There's a bunch of different versions after the jump... / Continue →
  • Cyborg!: New Vibrator Makes Your Fingers The Vibrator
    January 17, 2013
    I happen to know finger vibrators have existed for awhile because I remember going to buy vitamins at Target (that's my story and I'm sticking to it) and seeing that Trojan was even selling one. That one wasn't nearly powerful enough for my needs though so I wound up giving it... / Continue →
  • Bony: Galileo's Fingers Still Look Decent After 370 Years
    November 5, 2012
    Decent being a relative term of course. This is one of the three fingers cut from Galileo's hand in 1737 when his body was being moved to its final resting place after spending almost a hundred years at a temporary memorial (he died in 1642). Wow, who the hell cuts the fingers... / Continue →
  • 'Hand Fixing Hand', A Futuristic Take On M.C. Escher's Iconic 'Drawing Hands'
    November 1, 2012
    This is 'Hand Fixing Hand', a transhumanist version of M.C. Escher's 'Drawing Hands' (links to original) by Shane Willis. Some copy/pasted info about transhumanism while I inject coffee straight into my heart: Transhumanism, abbreviated as H+ or h+, is an international intell... / Continue →
  • I Didn't Like That Finger Anyways: The Guillotine Ring
    July 16, 2012
    JESUS, STOP CUTTING YOUR THUMBNAIL SO SHORT. This is the Guillotine Ring (aka The Divorce) from Vagabond Jewelry. You have to constantly hold its little chain in your hand because if you let go it'll cut your finger off. No, no it won't. You will bleed though. And bleeding... / Continue →
  • Robotic Hand Never Loses At Paper-Rock-Scissors
    June 27, 2012
    This is a robotic hand created by the folks at the University of Tokyo's Ishikawa Oku Lab that never loses at paper-rock-scissors. How? By reading your hand then responding with the winning gesture in less than a millisecond. Whatever, I could still beat it. Ready? One, tw... / Continue →
  • Robot Designed To Give Human-Like Handshakes
    March 28, 2012
    Seen here ready to shake hands in the biblical sense, a Japanese robot designed to reproduce human-like handshakes prepares itself for a fistful of dong at a recent trade show. Oh man, I'd hate to the guy behind the curtain pretending to have the robot hand! This comes by way... / Continue →
  • Man Loses Thumb, Has Replaced With Big Toe
    December 5, 2011
    2012 Thumb-Wresting World Champion -- I'm calling it. This is James Byrne. PSYCHE -- it's just his hands. James lost his left thumb in a carpentry accident, and, after a botched attempt to reattach it, had it replaced with a big toe and NOT a lucky rabbit's foot despite that... / Continue →