Following Matthew’s last post, I’d like to thank him for his wonderful contribution to Gearfuse. The last three months have been an enchanted parenthesis. While it’s been very refreshing working with Matthew, the kind of content that has been published here was too pointedly highbrow to attract new readers and to be a rapid grower. Yes, professional blogging is about money, too. Continue reading

Dear readers, We’re currently in the process of making editorial and design changes and we are afraid there will be no new posts this week. Starting November 8, there will be a new editorial team at the helm and we are looking forward to welcoming you in our new environment then. Thanks for coming to the site and stay tuned! Your humble servant, Steve Rufer.

Not just so the people in know can show up Blizzard developers, but so everyone else can watch it happen. Now known as the “Red Shirt” guy, which I assume is because he’s wearing a red shirt and not because he always dies a violent death soon after entering the scene. But who the hell knows with you people. In the video above, this World of Warcraft lore nerd totally disses the Blizzard speakers with his complete knowledge of Azeroth.”No,... Continue reading

If you can’t do 3D right, don’t do it at all. I’m looking at you 3D cinema! I much prefer the classics. The Axsotic 3D Spherical Mouse provides maximum navigation of your 3D images and design projects, allowing you to move your creations around as if you were actually holding them in your fingertips, instead of pointing and scrolling. Using Axsotic is said to be as natural as drawing with a pen tablet. The mouse is instantly compatible with most... Continue reading

After seeing the alleged smartphone time traveler in a documentary featured on the DVD of Charlie Chaplin’s “The Circus,” I became intrigued with the concept of time travelers popping up in Chaplin films. In fact, I’ve been seeking them out. You can imagine my surprise when I was watching the 1936 Chaplin film ‘Modern Times’ and came across this eerie image of a faux-turltenecked man holding what appears to be a smartphone of some kind. Perhaps even an iPhone. I... Continue reading

Last year, John Savio, Apple fanboy and avid Halloween fan, created an iPhone 3GS costume that impressed the geek community. It was both a thing of beauty and yet somehow aesthetically ‘off.’ He incorporated a display that made the costume look like a functioning device, but the form factor was all wrong. The corners were too squared… the width too — wide. It left you feeling torn. But this year, Mr. Savio has mastered his art with the iPhone 4... Continue reading

Micromouse competitions are an attribute to the growing popularity of robotic entertainment. This particular competition in Chubu, Japan appears to be going normally until you hit the 4:30 mark, at which point the EggTorte bot solves the maze in less than five seconds. Its owner probably threatened it with a robotic mousetrap. According to Wikipedia, the world-record for solving a 16×16 maze is around 6 or 7 seconds. If this counts, EggTorte might have a record on its hands. Though... Continue reading

If you shake your baby to death for ANY reason, you have more problems to worry about than Farmville addiction, but this is a case of Zynga devotion taken to a whole new level. 22 year-old Jacksonsville, Florida resident Alexandra V. Tobias shook her baby to death after the three-month old Dylan Lee Edmondson had been crying during a rousing session of Farmville. Tobias allegedly shook the baby once, then had a cigarette to calm down, and then shook the... Continue reading

Just for a moment, take into consideration that in the 1950s, it would have taken a supercomputer of this size just to power your cellphone. And that much computing power might have even been a stretch. Today at the Annual Meeting of National High Performance Computing (HPC China 2010) in Beijing, the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in China unveiled the Tianhe-1A, now the fastest supercomputer in the world. Tianhe-1A uses 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 GPUs and 14,336 Intel... Continue reading

LumiNet takes the conventions of a central processing unit, such as an Arduino, handling most of the workload and spreads the responsibility across a series of parallel ‘LumiNet modules’ which only depend on the four modules directly connected to it. This way, if one module goes bad, the rest of the wearable network will stay up and running. It’s programming by infection. Each LumiNet module measures 1.2? square and contains an RGB LED, an ATTiny84 and connectors to its neighboring... Continue reading