Last week we announced the very first GeekMom Video Challenge! You (and your kids) have the chance to create a video accompanying GeekMom Rebecca Angel’s gently sung but very creepy bedtime song. The lyrics offer up all sorts of great potential movie visuals. Zombies. Turtles with knife-like nails. Disembodied arms. Rampaging monkeys. A bubbling pot […]
Continue ReadingTwo seven-foot tall Tesla coils, built by Steve Caton and Eric Goodchild, perform Space Song 3 in what appears to be a backyard. Apparently an audience is found by getting together with other geeks who use high voltage apparatus at regular Teslathons. The most recent gathering resulted in a number of videos on YouTube. Sadly […]
Continue ReadingThe Aqua Tek S, by SnowLizard, is the first battery powered, solar charged and rugged underwater iPhone 4/4s case. SnowLizard boasts that the case is waterproof up to 20 feet and can withstand drops, falls and those pesky accidental spills. The Aqua Tek S is an iPhone 4/4S case made with technology enthusiasts and adrenaline junkies in […]
Continue ReadingTimbuk2 is a company that started out making bicycle messenger bags out of a garage. The San-Fransisco based company caught the eye of computer-toting commuters, and the company started supporting a wide line of messenger bags, backpacks, and computer sleeves. Timbuk2 offers a unique experience for those of us who love practical computer wear – […]
Continue ReadingTED is an annual, global idea conference. TEDActive is the arm of the TED conference that engages thinkers and doers in projects centered on the TED Prize. What happens when an artist, an engineer, an inventor, and a technology guru at TEDActive put their heads together around the idea of urbanization? Talk turns to making […]
Continue ReadingEveryone longs to find their true love, and in this little app it’s your mission to help the boy get the girl. Game play is simple and straightforward with the boy running across the screen as he tries to capture his true love’s heart. But, just like in the real world, love is never that easy. […]
Continue ReadingOne of my geeky loves is technology accessories. If it will work with my iPod, I will fall in love. One day online I stumbled on a pair of Captain America headphones. The artwork brought me back to the earlier days of the character. As a child Captain America was one of my favorite characters. I even […]
Continue ReadingWhen I pre-ordered my Kindle Fire, I also pre-ordered the Verso Prologue case cover pictured in the center of this photo. When it arrived, my husband immediately wanted a Kindle Fire, not because he was a huge Fire fan, but because the case was so cool. It instantly turns your Fire into a steampunk costume accessory. […]
Continue ReadingIts likely that as a geek you are aware of the Maker movement. I have to admit it is hard being a parent in a house full of electronic parts. My kids are enamored with all of the shiny parts and LEDs that are hooked up to the latest project . Unfortunately it is pretty […]
Continue ReadingFor kids, riding in the back seat of a car is boring. We have all heard “when are we going to be there?” or “Mom, tell her to stop singing”. Enter WOO, the Windows of Opportunity project. With WOO, General Motors Research and Development paired researchers with students from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design […]
Continue ReadingI just got back from CES, and boy is it great to be back where there aren’t over 150,000 people competing for Internet access. As it turned out, I walked close to two marathons in Las Vegas during during my week at the show. Lots of people asked me what cool things I’d seen at […]
Continue ReadingThis Wednesday, January 11, is SparkFun Electronics’ third annual Free Day. If you’ve never participated before, you’re missing out on a lot of sparks and a lot of fun. What’s SparkFun? A great site where you can buy nearly 2,000 components and electronics. It’s like the RadioShack of the 21st century, if you think of […]
Continue ReadingOnce upon a time I dreamed of owning a watch that would not only tell time, but have multiple alarms and a calculator that had more functions than I could hope to understand. I remember when calculator watches first appeared and I remember the first kid in school that showed up with one after Christmas. […]
Continue ReadingMy household is still in full on holiday mode here, we are still enjoying the decorations and the music. One of my absolute favorite Christmas songs is “Carol of the Bells”, so when I found this video by one of my newest favorite music groups, I was giddy. The Piano Guys are a group of […]
Continue ReadingFor my Muse of Nerds this month, I’ll formally introduce you to someone I have talked about in the past: Dr. Michele McColgan of Siena College. I met her through our homeschooling group (she has two elementary-aged children) and she has introduced my kids to science, math, robots, computer programming, alternative energy, a Lego Robotics […]
Continue ReadingFritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz of Maine have done it again. After captivating the internet five years ago with colorful displays created from Diet Coke and Mentos, they have since kicked it up a notch. Using 54 bottles of Coke Zero and 324 pieces of Mentos they have created a single-passenger rocket car. After a previous attempt […]
Continue ReadingAn old classic plays a much older (much classier) classic, the Russian Dance from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. Find more floppy drive tunes on Sammy1Am’s YouTube channel.
Continue ReadingOh, to be in graduate school again. It doesn’t seem like it was that long ago, but I graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 1999. Before iPads. Before iPhones. Before iPods. Before Facebook. Before YouTube. I learned how to edit analog video before progressing into digital, and even then showed my work using […]
Continue ReadingI’ve probably mentioned this before, but I adore those lists they hand out to college professors telling them things they should know about the matriculating freshman class. You know, the ones with bullet points like: They have never lived in a world where Madonna is not famous. When I think about The Cartoon Network, it […]
Continue ReadingThe latest Nintendo DS release set in the Zhu Zhu universe brings the Zhu Zhu Babies to life and makes it your mission to bring them all home. The littlest Zhu Zhus have managed to get lost and you must race from St. Louis to places like Rome, London and Cairo in order bring them back. Each […]
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