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I’ve been working on an objective ranking system lately that could be applied to groups with large numbers of individual competitors, like the sport of mixed martial arts (MMA). The biggest issue compared to typical ranking systems is that there are so many participants that they cannot all compete against each other in a round-robin [...]

I’ve found that the content that really shows off the HDTV format is that of the natural world. While sitcoms might be a bit more clear, the format really shines in situations where the extra detail is actually relevant, like in documentaries such as Planet Earth. Here’s some of the best free high-definition content I’ve [...]

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 [...]

Geoff hasn’t put instructions for this up yet, but I have some shots of the new version of the laser show… don’t worry, they’re coming soon!

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 [...]

This is a personal pet peeve of mine. In an age where free trade between Canada and the United States is taken for granted, I find it absolutely ludicrous that tariffs have moved from the domain of government to that of private corporations.