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Do You Have the Chops to Solve the World’s Largest Maze?

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Joe Wos

There are puzzles, and there are puzzles. Then there is Joe Wos’s puzzle that will puzzle even the most experienced and skilled of puzzle solvers in the world.

Mr. Wos is the director of ToonSeum, a cartoon museum in Portland. Not only does he manage the place, he also founded it himself. He has been doodling since he was a kid, and he has made a fairly solid reputation as a maze maker. In fact, some of his colleagues have solved his mazes in the past.

His latest – and largest – creation is proving to be a challenge from the get go, however. There are no takers as of yet. Even those who have tried Wos’s mazes in the past. [Read more…] about Do You Have the Chops to Solve the World’s Largest Maze?

The Popinator Takes the Finger Out of Finger Food

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Popcorn launcher
The Popinator

How many times have you played the game of “throw popcorn at me, and I’ll catch it with my wide open mouth” with your friends or siblings? I have not done it in a while, but there it is hard to think of a silly activity that can offer so much fun. Well, unless you count throwing peanuts, and other similar finger food.

All that is fun if you have a throwing partner whose aim is ace, but what if you’re alone? Or what if you simply don’t feel like expending much energy but want to eat some popcorn. Yeah, sometimes you can’t believe how lazy people get, huh?

Enter the Popinator. The machine that takes away the need to use your hands to have some popcorn fun. [Read more…] about The Popinator Takes the Finger Out of Finger Food

Must-have: First Aid App by the British Red Cross

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Red Cross First Aid App
Red Cross First Aid App

There are lots of cool apps to download for practically any smartphone today. Then there are cool AND useful apps.

The First Aid App by the British Red Cross definitely falls under the second group, and it is something that I believe everyone should download. The First Aid App is totally free – woohoo! – and contains vital information that can help save lives in case of emergency. [Read more…] about Must-have: First Aid App by the British Red Cross

This Virtual Laser Keyboard Will Make You Look Cool

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Virtual Keyboard
Virtual Keyboard

…or like a fool, depending on how it actually performs in real life.

Actually, when I first heard of the virtual keyboard, I was rather excited. I was thinking about Tony Stark’s awesome set up. Scenes from The Minority Report came to mind. It is something that I have been dreaming of for a while.

The realist in me says that we are not going to have this kind of technology in the short-term, but it is very much possible to enjoy it in our lifetime. Then again, this virtual keyboard from Brookstone may be the beginning. [Read more…] about This Virtual Laser Keyboard Will Make You Look Cool

Data on Data [Star Trek Alert!]

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Data on Data
What was the first storage device you ever used? I guess the most accurate answer for me would be the 5 1/4 floppy disk. If you’re really young, you probably have no idea what I’m talking about, but Google it. It will do you some good.

Anyhow, data storage has always been a big thing, even when the Internet was totally different from how he know it today. From the punch cards and magnetic tapes of the old days, we now have USB sticks of all shapes and sizes, not to mention cloud storage.

And of course, what more humorous way to take a look at all these types of data storage than to inject a little bit of Star Trek into the scenario?

Enter Data on Data.
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What Kind of Social Gamer Are You?

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The landscape of video games has drastically changed in the past few years, thanks largely to the prevalence of social networking. There are, of course, other factors, but one cannot deny that the rise of social networking has greatly impacted the way people play games.

While it used to be that video games catered to a very specific niche, now everyone – from age 2 to 92 – plays games in one form or another.

Social gaming – and social gamer – has become a commonly used terms these days, with good reason. [Read more…] about What Kind of Social Gamer Are You?