When they’re not cross dressing as women while playing rock music, reinventing every technological doodad we thought was already perfect, riding trains that would make nascar lovers piss themselves and nascar drivers squeal like kids at Christmas…

When they’re not spending their entire days doing schoolwork, doing karate, learning several instruments, or making (and/or staring) in ridiculous game shows, they still find time to improve the little things in our lives.

Like folding t-shirts…How to fold a tee-shirt perfectly

Hello Everyone (which is how many people again?),

Does the cannoli have a fan base? Lets see if we can change that.

My name is Kyle and I’ll be your resident ronin, writer for the foreseeable future. You may call me Rown for short.

I promise I’ll make a longer post when it’s not so close to round 1 of UFC 118. Here is what I aim to bring to the cannoli.

-Life lessons (the hard way)
-Interesting videos
-Art help
-Psychology
-Persons of interest
-and a bitchin’ story which I’ll be posting to this site. I’m WAY excited about it.

In light of the UFC fight tonight, I thought I’d give you a story about a fight I had in New Orleans. It’s entertaining and I hope you like it.

MyOrleansTrip

I didn’t really want to see it either the day it happened, but let me regale you with the story.  So every morning I go to get the MOST amazing coffee from some Duct Brothers.  The girl who runs the particular store I go to, knows me at this point and we talk a big when I get there in the morning.  On this particular morning she gave me my coffee and then asked me if I had ever seen a Unicorn Fight…I responded with yes, but it was only in a dream and it only lasted a few minutes, but they were both okay… THANK GOD!  She then asked me if I WANTED to see one.  I of course said “HELL YEA SISTA!”  and we high-fived!  At this point I was expecting her to grab my arm and take me around back to show me the most beautiful fight I had ever seen in my life….INSTEAD she turned around and I started to hear the sound of rubber clicking together. I got confused ask hell as she turned back around to look at me like I was missing something, or she was waiting for a response. I looked down to see she clicking her shoes together like she was Dorthy trying to return home…and then I saw it. The unicorn fight of the CENTURY, I started sweating with excitement and my eyes widened in shock and awe of the spectacular sight, but your going to have to hit the jump to see what I did….

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So here it the deal, I am back…and with a friend bringing you the best, nerdiest and most fashionable from all over subspace, the Milky Way and beyond! I’ll start off with our new writer. He is a friend of mine and aspiring writer of novels, comics, video games, movies and YOUR autobiography! His name is K-Dil or Rown for short. His posts will be about…well I have no idea what they will be about, but I am more than positive they will melt your eyes out and explode milk from your ears!

Keep checking back for the regular updates and hopefully some new features and games for you to play!

Sounds dirty, but looks cool

Augmented Reality has become exponentially more popular in the last few years. It seems like a daily occurrence that I log onto one of the many blogs I visit and see something that has an Augmented Reality component to it. I found this and 1) Found it fucking awesome, 2) Needed to post it. What your going to see in the video is that they are using shock-wave lengths from taps on the arm to interact with a display that is projected on your arm via a small projector and computer strapped to your bicep. The technology could be used to make display screens on phones obsolete or revolutionize MP3 player control input. For example, you could do such actions as skip songs or pause/play by touching fingers together or clenching a fist. Expect to see more and more technology like this as we get further into 2010. I’ll say it now, 2010 is going to be the year of technology integration away from a monitor and into the environment. I expect to see something revolutionary this winter to early next year that will become the standard on how we interact our technology (though the touchscreen pretty much did that with the DS and the iphone ie: we’re still tapping on our arm).

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Bottle Service

Ever been at a busy restaurant where the waiter just couldn’t get to you fast enough? Designer Doyeop Kim has an idea using recycled bottles from the restaurant itself to remedy that problem. A small stand is placed at each table with a cleaned out clear bottle. In the center of the stand is an LED light that changes to three different colors based on which button is pressed. The “WATER” button turns lights up the bottle blue indicating more water is needed. Clicking the “ORDER” lights up the bottle pink and lets your waiter that you are ready to order and the “BILL” button lights up the bottle green indicating you need to go.

Speaking as a waiter this system would be absolutely fantastic. Sometimes you just can’t tell when a table is ready to do something and visual cues would be a big help when your busy running around the establishment trying to please all the needy assholes that are going to leave 10% or less. In addition, most restaurants incorporate some sort of mood lighting, keeping the room a little dark, this would add a nice dazzling display for when new or returning patrons arrive!

Cover Your Head

New Era has in the past few months began an attack on all things nerd. I am not one to wear a ball-cap, but if it matches the outfit or looks bad-ass I can’t see why one shouldn’t. New Era’s comic book line of caps does just that. With over 50 different styles to choose from, ranging characters from superman to megatron, there is a cap for everyone in this selection. The price range is from $20.00 to $50.00 and each comes with a nice shiny New Era sticker that seems to be fashionable to leave on (if you ask someone more urban). The above styles are from left to right bane, megatron and wolverine. I would spring the the wolverine especially because blue seems to dominate a lot of my wardrobe.

Wear your hero on your head

Minority Report may be Reality Soon

Everyone remembers the scene from Minority Report where Tom Cruise is manipulating the interface in front of him with a pair of gloves and gestures. Well the folks over at MIT have been working on this sort of thing for about 20 years now and are finally in beta! The chief engineer on the project was actually the science consultant on the movie…which makes perfect sense. The only problem with the whole thing is that it will take up an entire room of your household (if you want or you can get a scaled down single user interface) meaning that spare bedroom just because reserved.  The project had formed into a company called Oblong industries and they plan on going commercial in the next few years. Observe the video below and get blown away (it’s older footage of the interface which is now called g-speak)

Who Doesn’t love new Toys!

Popsci.com brings us the best of the Toy Fair 2010 in NYC. Really the coolest new toy is the music maker in the middle, although I like the idea of the population replacing cars with pogo sticks. I feel like everyone would be a lot happier and we would all look really swell in our helmets.