That's right folks, a Brazilian man held a 60-year old woman hostage for ten whopping hours with a Sega Master System Light Phaser. Captain PEW was looking to collect on an unpaid debt, and things got 8-bitty when the lady refused to pay. The Light Phaser, the light gun that shipped with the Sega Ma...

Apparently, sometimes lightning comes in ball form, slowly falling out of the sky and exploding on contact. Unsurprisingly, people want to turn lightning balls into weapons. Oh, humanity. Ball......

Let’s face it. As far as superpowers go, the ability to move things with your brain is pretty awesome. Sure, flying is cool, turning invisible would have fun benefits, and super-strength could always come in handy. Plus it’s a lot cooler than all the “problem” superpowers, li...

I’m off to the Zap Your PRAM conference this weekend. It should be some awesome nerdy maritime fun and I’m really looking forward to it. Regular conferences have a little too much desperation going on and this one feels like it’ll be more of a bunch of like-minded (but not too like-minded) fol...

Le principe est le même qu'au basket-ball classique à savoir marquer le plus de paniers possibles, à la différence près que, le contact est permis comme au football américain, quatres trampolines ont été "enterrés" sous les paniers et il n'y a pas de touches car le terrain est entouré de m...

So many festivals this summer, so little time. If you’re into jazz though, this one’s for you. The JVC Jazz Festival will be in in NY June 15-28 at various venues. They have a wide variety of performers and somewhat loose interpretation of jazz–artists as diverse as Gil Scott-Heron...

These Kondo KHR-1HV robots are all rocking lasers for a world domination training exercise poorly disguised as the Blazer robot tournament in Fukuoka City, Japan. The little guys ran around shooting each other and pew-pewing to their mechanical heart's content in a little mock-up city made just for ...

The lads from upstairs and I have begun to assemble the horses for the next incarnation of Zap Your PRAM, our quinquennial fall conference about stuff that we find interesting. This time we're taking over the Dalvay-by-the-Sea on the Island's north shore, and the conference is a sort of north-shore ...

Attitude: It was probably a good couple of months back that we said right here that the Detroit Electric is making a comeback and now after a hiatus of almost a century, it finally is back and this time hopefully it will last much longer than the first time around. Now after good long couple of mont...

Attitude: If you thought that the old electric car was a thing of the past, then you are in for one hell of a surprise. History has an odd and ironic way of repeating itself. While it might not do so in its entirety, it does seem that the electric car is going to be up and running again, even if it ...