The New Mortal Kombat Will Want To Make You

I dunno, finish someone off?

Get it?  Finish someone off?  Ha ha ha.  <sarcasm voice> "Very clever."  </sarcasm voice> I know right?  Sometimes I even surprise myself.  But hey, have you seen the trailer yet?  It's the new installment in the Mortal Kombat franchise, Mortal Kombat X. "Is it read as Eks or Ten?"  I don't know.  Why would you care anyway?  It's a new Mortal Kombat and if the gameplay mechanics *cough* environmental objects *cough* would be as good as the trailer then it's going to be an awesome game.  If there's one thing that I don't like though, it is the outcome of the fight.  Oh and the music.  Guess that makes it two.

Hit the jump for the video.

Flying a Phantom Drone Into a Fireworks Display

Damn fine or stupid idea, you decide.

Fireworks in all its fiery beauty are best enjoyed from afar, yes?  I guess that's the general consensus because well, standing a meter from an exploding pyrotechnic may not be the best of ideas especially if you are concerned about staying alive. Thanks to these guys though, we can see the fireworks in a whole new perspective, and that is being right in the middle of it.  Personally, I would not risk a $500 drone to pull this stunt.

True story.  I once had a close call of being burned by fireworks when I was a kid.  You see, on New Year's Day, my friends and I would go out on the streets collecting black powder from fireworks that failed to go off from the previous night.  We knew it's dangerous but we were kids.. we were oblivious that the danger is real.  So there was this time when we've collected maybe a soda can-full of black powder.  That time we had the idea of laying it out on the ground in a trail just like in the cartoons, you know the one where Bugs Bunny is battling out Yosemite Sam in Bunker Hill Bunny.

I lit it up, and boy, it was not like the cartoons at all.  The fire chewed the trail of black powder so fast that it happened in a flash.  And there I was, sitting just several inches away from the end of the trail where we had a pile of black powder as the finale.  I recall a flash of blinding light and the heat so close to my face. The smell of singed hair in the air. Luckily I was unscathed, but boy was it close.

Keep going to see the drone being more than singed, no doubt.

Oh Wow, Wireless Electricity Is Really Here

I kid you not.

Back in my teaching days.. Yes, I used to teach Computer Science in College and Graduate School... Not the sexiest job for a man based on surveys I know, but it was my first serious job so.. there was this lecture I gave on technological innovations and we were talking about Bluetooth (it was new back then.. makes me feel real old thinking about it) and I jokingly said that someday there would be wireless electricity as well. I remember the class laughing when they imagined themselves walking over a wireless electrical connection and electrocuting themselves.  That was less than a decade ago.  Now lo and behold, it's actually here.

It's called WiTricity, a research that had its beginnings in MIT back in 2006.  Led by Professor Marin Soljačić, a team of physicists started working on the model and came up with what they call a Source Resonator, which when paired to a another coil (receiving device), will deliver electricity to an appliance. Wirelessly.  The secret?  Magnetic field.

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The Gravity-Defying Skateboard A.K.A Hoverboard from Back to the Future 2 Commercial Is Fake?

Sadly it is. Yes.

So hold your horses, don't go running to your favorite gadget stores just yet, hovering skateboards are not available for sale.  Because despite of the actors, athletes, musicians, and what not, there are no hovering skateboards in real life buddy.  Maybe they got one in Area 51, I don't know, I'd love to take a look but I think I have a bigger chance of seeing Superman in real-life than actually seeing the insides of that facility. Conspiracy I tell you.

Anyway, if you think for a second that the commercial you saw was real, sorry, got news for you.

Hit the jump to see the viral commercial.

Two Epic GoPro Videos

There are a lot of GoPro videos out there but I think these two take the cake.

I used to fancy myself becoming a world-class athlete when I was small.  Images of Olympic grandeur and the thrill of standing before a crowd of thousands often enter my young mind.  I dreamed of being a sprinter or a hurdler back then.  However, my dreams of being  a sprinter was cut short really early in life with an epiphany during a game of tag.  I could never be the kid that's never the "IT."  It's like fate was telling me something.  I'm in IT now, so I guess that's what it was telling me then.  Did that make sense?

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It's Called PotClock Err PlotClock

It writes the time for you so you don't have to.

Here's a video of a really cool and prohibitively expensive watch to use.  It's called the PlotClo..  Yeah, but does it tell the day?  "No."  I like my watch to have at least 6 buttons.  "Doesn't have one." Pathetic.  I want stopwatch and timer functions.  "It doesn't have those."  Right.  I want alarm functions.  "It can't do that." Display a second time zone?  "Doesn't have one."  I want illuminated dials.  "No."  What the heck?  Then what can it do?  "It writes the time on a piece of whiteboard, erases it, then writes the new time again." Cool! I want one! "You can't have it."  Noooo!!!!!

Hit the jump to see the sexy writing action and the instructions on how to build one.  Yes, build one.

A Dot Matrix Printer's Rendition of Eye of the Tiger

Wanda!!!

Here's something you don't see everyday, a dot matrix printer.  But you know what's something you don't see more of everyday than a dot matrix printer?  A singing dot-matrix printer!  Yes, sir.  This is a video of a printer with its own rendition of Eye of the Tiger.   It's not the full song co'z you know doing so might blow the printer's head but it's still awesome.  Oh and I should go back from my word, this guy's genius level is genius^9, which means you can't get more genius than that.  If you do you'd divide by zero.

Hit the jump to watch the printer sing this Survivor's classic.

What's Up with WhatsApp? Oh Nothing Much, Just 16 Billion Dollars

That's a huge purchase there my boy.

Facebook has made the monumental buyout of WhatsApp, to the tune of 16 Billion Dollars in cash and stocks as filed in this SEC document today making the buyout official.  16 Billion Dollars.  Wow.  And here I am, not even a $100 in my pocket.  *sigh*

Keep going for more of the story that's buzzing the internet like crazy.

Flappy Bird Final Level Boss

Who do you think stands before the duck bird.

Yes, yes, we've all heard of this awful, awful, game everyone who has played love to hate.  It's about the journey of one poorly-drawn bird (my 7-year-old son could do a ton better) navigating through a series of familiar-looking pipes with familiar-sounding chimes that appear to have no ending.  Or is there?

While I'm already contented with my personal best at 26, this guy in the video has taken the Fapping Bird game, did I just say fapping?  Sorry, Flappy..  well beyond the realms of reality.

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300-meter Sniping With a Glock 9MM

This guy could be in Impossible Shots.

I'm no expert at sniping for many reasons, mostly because I don't own a gun, but I imagine hitting a target 300M away is difficult enough, let alone hit it with a hand pistol.  This guy though makes it look easy. Three hits on a figure 11 target at 300 meters in a windy day with less than 40 rounds fired.. Sorry, I don't know what to make of that if it's epic or not, like I said I'm no expert.  But what am I saying, he's Instructor Zero!  Of course it's easy for him.  He's the resulting progeny of combining Chuck Norris and Leonidas genomes.  Just don't let him say "collateral damage."

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Castlevania: Lord of Shadows 2 Playable Demo Now Available

After two years of waiting, gaming fans, rejoice!  Wohoo!

The first Castlevania that I played was way back in the Nintendo Famicom.  It was the best side-scrolling game in my opinion then.  Believe it or not, I was only able to finish the game after college.  That long huh?  I always seem to get stuck back then in the Ripper's level and never got to finish the game before the game cartridge broke.  After college, I saw a Famicom for sale complete with several game cartridges that included Castlevania.  I just had to buy it.  I needed the closure.

Game trailer and  download link after the jump.