This is the entirety of The Hobbit printed out on a single page as a decorative poster. It's available from Spineless Classics, and they have a ton of other single page book posters available too if Hobbits aren't your thing. The Secret Garden? Yep. Harry Potter And The Phi... / Continue →

This is the BFS-Auto, a robotic book digitizer that can flip and scan over 250 pages in high definition in under a minute. For reference, I can read about a page every two minutes. "And how much of that is page is picture?" About half. Or its the first page of a new chapter... / Continue →

This is the crocheted Dwarf helmet and beard made by DeviantARTist SadDaysCrochet (similar in fashion to these ones we saw before). Crocheted is a weird looking word, isn't it? I had to double and triple check to make sure I wasn't saying crotched. Because a crotched helmet ... / Continue →

'GIF' (graphic interchange format) was officially named the US word of the year by the Oxford Dictionary, while Britain's was 'omnishambles'. Both are terrible decisions and I demand a recount. RECOUNT OR I'M MOVING TO CANADA. "Do it." MAYBE I WILL. "Do it." MAYBE I WILL... / Continue →

This is a video of Microsoft's Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid explaining and demonstrating their speech recognition software that can translate his English into other languages (in this case Chinese) in his own voice. The implications this has for ordering at ethnic restau... / Continue →

My Galaxies is a website that translates text into images of real galaxies that look like the letters. Fun! Don't like the way it turned out? Just hit the 'Try a new combination of galaxies for the same message' button --- there's more than one 'E' galaxy out there you know!... / Continue →

Because we can never have enough words, Merriam-Webster has announced the 100 new additions to its dictionary with the hopes people still buy dictionaries and the one you've had your entire life doesn't cut it anymore because it doesn't contain words like man-tits or blog. The... / Continue →

WriteWithImages is a website that turns text into images using the first Google Image search result for each word typed. Unfortunately, "the" always gets you that creepy 'Art of the Devil II' movie poster. Which is EXACTLY why I just changed the filename for the picture I use... / Continue →

To celebrate The Simpson's 500th episode, somebody went and compiled every Bart chalkboard quote from the show's opening. These are them. Well, these are part of them -- you'll have to hit the jump to see them because including the whole graphic on the front page would've mad... / Continue →

Soon scientists may be able to create brain-monitoring technology that will allow us to recreate the speech a person is thinking. This will be particularly useful for those who have been left unable to talk but still have fully functional brains. Like this one I've been keepi... / Continue →