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We all love and remember trying to find Waldo. But the real question is will he ever really find himself? I can remember spending countless hours tucked up on the floor, hunched over my beloved Where’s Waldo books. Trying to seek him and his wonderful red and white stripped beanie out. I would meticously find all of the hidden items before moving on to the next one. Man…this is bringing back all sorts of memories…and also reminds me of the good ol’ I Spy books. Who’s with me?

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I know the hip cool thing to have is iPhone but more so than ever people are choosing to opt of the close market of Apple and use Google’s Android based phones. Personally I made the switch myself and find it awesome! Being the computer geek that I am, I find it refreshing to not have to be pigeon holed to only approved apps (unless you want to jail break your press decedent for Mr. Jobs).

If you’re like me you grew up playing with LEGOs and probably later in life played chess. Well I actually had the original LEGO Mindstorm set and I loved that thing to no end. Some dudes over at Team Hassen have built the ultimate combination of both. They’ve made a fully playable monster chess set using the LEGO Mindstorm set. How dang awesome is this thing? Check out the videos.

Quick Facts
Over 100,000 LEGO® pieces
37,612 in the chess board
17,748 in the robot bases
17,114 in the bodies
22,688 in the mosaics
1,853 in the move selection center
Total retail cost: around $30,000
Size of board: 156ft2 (14.5m2)
Took 4 people about a year to create

This is just absolutely insane. The geeks over at ARM have used the Lego Mindstorm Kit and a Motorola Droid cell phone to solve a Rubik’s Cube in just over 24 seconds. They call it the Speedcuber and will have it on display at the ESCsv2010.

This Rubik’s Cube solver was designed and programmed using an ARM Powered Android Motorola Droid mobile phone, a LEGO Mindstorms NXT and lots of yellow LEGO technic pieces! The Android App running on the DROID uses the phones camera to take pictures of each face of the cube and sends the solution to the LEGO NXT controller via Bluetooth.

Virtual Laser Keyboards, Wrist Keyboard, and 13 more. CHECK OUT THE REST HERE.

The 28 year old high score record for the classic arcade game Asteroids was broken Monday by a Seattle locksmith, John McAllister. It took the 41-year old 58 continuous hours of play to achieve the new benchmark. To cap his record he entered ELF as his moniker. It will take another 2 months for his score to be verified by the world record officials. The previous high score was set by Scott Safran just three years after the game was released and has held until now. McAllister beat Safran’s score by meager margin of 2,300 points, just edging out the record.

There are cool clocks and then there’s the Segmentus. CHECK OUT MORE ON SEGMENTUS HERE.

What works with your iPhone or iPod, looks like something you would actually display in your house, and sounds like a BOSE radio but costs less? The Yamaha PDX-60 Speaker Dock does, that’s what!

I don’t think I’ve used a CD in years. I gave up on that dinosaur when I got my first iPod. Now, I pretty much use my iPhone for all my music. Hooks up in my car, at home, and obviously whenever I’ve got time to kill, like when I’m waiting on my girlfriend cause she’s always effing late… to everything.

I'm sorry, your Tamagotchi has died

With rapid advances in technology over the past two decades, our ability to create useless and irritating garbage has increased exponentially. Here are some of the worst developments of the past 20 years.

Remember; people actually bought this stuff.

1) Tamagotchis – Hey, here’s a great idea. Let’s make a video game that you have to carry around everywhere you go. Oh, and you can never pause or turn it off. And it will double as a key chain for some reason.

SAVING GRACE: I’m pretty sure Tamagotchis had something to do with the emergence of Pokemon. That, and the fact that the fad was mercifully short lived, is enough for me to forgive the Tamagotchi. At least partially.

2) Big Mouth Billy Bass – I don’t even know what to say about this. What is this? First of all, no one would ever mount a fish on a board like a deer head because it would make your house smell like vagina. Second, I’m pretty sure the early models didn’t have an off button. Why does there seem to be a correlation between not being able to turn something off and how aggravating it is?

SAVING GRACE: We were lucky to get a  pretty catchy McDonald’s commercial out of this.

Blame this man for Auto-Tune

3) Ring-back tones – What am I, too poor to afford an FM radio? Oh man,  it’s so convenient that you have a ring back tone, because normally I would never get to hear this Top 40 song that comes on every station sixteen times a day. I think ring back tones were invented so that when you’re calling someone who sucks, you get distracted by the music and don’t want to kill yourself as much. Only it doesn’t work because then you start to associate your favorite songs with people you hate.

SAVING GRACE: Ring backs do offer you a unique call screening method. If you are calling someone you’ve just met, and they have a ring back tone, hang up and never call them again.

4) AutoTune – This had so much potential until rappers got a hold of it. Use it as an insurance policy during live shows, toss it into the occasional dance song, sure why not. Basing entire albums, though, off of an artist’s inability to sing is where I have a problem. Auto Tune kind of reminds me of the automated check out system at the grocery store. Sure, it’s a marvel of modern technology, but between the repair man, the supervisor, and the installation crew, you might as well just hire cashiers. There’s an analogy in there somewhere.

SAVING GRACE: Auto-Tune the News

AT&T has gotten some bad press over the past year or so, mainly due to complaints from iPhone users. They’ve become famous for dropped calls and being behind on standard technologies like MMS, etc. So, it’s likely to assume AT&T receives a lot of calls from upset customers. Here’s the chat log that shows just how AT&T employees feel about working for AT&T, or at least how this one feels: