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Bottom Line: An amazingly comfortable and well manufactured pillow that will lull you off to sleep – if you can stomach the steep price tag. $199 MSRP, available from Essentia. Introduction Once you get a memory foam bed, you tend to evaluate every other foam product in your house with a critical eye. The couch [...]

“The low hanging fruit, i.e. idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale, and then the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking.”

Internet advertising is a strange beast. Some of the most popular ads play directly off our insecurities – that we’re fat, that we’re lonely, or that our penis is far too small. The immediate emotional response to what basically amounts to a controlled insult online can gall you into the all important “click” of the ad.

This is probably the last thing you want to see if you’re dropping your daughter off at her new dorm.

Last year I traveled around Europe in search of the greatest signs known to humanity. Here’s the cream of the crop.

Well, a concept is all very well and good, but if the parts are unaffordable or unavailable it isn’t going to be much good. It took me a little while to find some good places to buy from, and here’s what I found out.

This is probably the coolest thing I’ve ever made. It’s quite a step up from the Five Dollar Laser Show I posted a bit back. The only logical step after building that was to drastically increase the power and number of beams.

Laser safety is serious business. No no, not in the internet meme sense, but blind you forever with no way ever to fix it serious. I know I’m about to rant, but I’ll do it anyways. This applies double for any girl/boy geniuses working with lasers. I know that you’re going to play with lasers [...]

When I first built Dr. Altman’s Amazing Laser Music Can, I was captivated. This is true science! Gorgeous laser light that was unimaginable before the development of quantum physics. Patterns generated by varying partial derivatives of the surface of a rigid plate on a vibrating membrane – and you thought calculus was boring! I loved [...]

I’ll be honest – I didn’t take anywhere near enough pictures of this. After the first hour I quickly descended into a geek trance and emerged a few hours later, slightly disheveled and holding a working working laser show but possessing only 13 pictures, many of which were terrible and irrelevant. So I apologize, and [...]