Granted we’ve seen LEGO Mindstorm sets people have built to solve Rubik’s Cubes in the past, but never anything that moves with the speed and dexterity as CubeStorm CubeStorm Cubestorm . Whoa, nice echo effect. Kidding, I’m hiding in the closet (my mom’s trying to drag me to a doctor’s appointment). The Worlds Fastest Lego Mindstorms RCX Speedcubing Robot. Built entirely from lego elements with a lego web camera to scan the faces of the cube, The solve engine (algorithm) running on the computer is provided by the incredible “Cube Explorer “software which also provides the colour recognition required to determine the exact location of each coloured square. Thanks to Herbert Kociemba for making his work available to anyone wishing to use it! Respect! “Cube Explorer” has the ability to produce very fast solutions to a successfully scanned cube, usually around 20 face turns! Doesn’t sound a lot , but it is believed that around 20 turns are enough to solve ANY 3×3x3 cube combination. I’m still working on “CubeStormer” I would like to see it reach sub-10 and feel it’s close to that. but reliability begins to suffer when you start to push things just that bit too far….. You know what else begins to suffer when you start to push robotics too far? Humanity. Just sayin’, you ever seen that movie Terminator ? I haven’t — I’ve got enough nightmare fodder! Youtube Thanks to Osku, Logisticz, Gir, Ringo, Raúl, meeotch, Frank, james, Bolleke, PrestickNinja, raficus and Clint, who would have disassembled that sucker and built a sweet-ass LEGO castle.

This is an interview with Nathan Sharratt, who went and made a ridiculously amazing Big Sister costume (not to be confused with Harrison Krix’s Big Daddy getup ) from Bioshock 2 . It is most impressive and I can say without a doubt that I wouldn’t want to meet that in a dark Rapture alley. Or anything for that matter. There is nothing I can think of in Rapture that I’d like to run into. Well, besides an x-ray vision plasmid. Oh — and Sander Cohen. He seems like a pretty cool cat. Bleep Bloop: Bioshock 2 Costume [collegehumor] Thanks to Shmitty, who harvested every little sister he could find and is a real jerk.

It was only a matter of time before Avatar killed somebody , and it’s finally happened. Which is exactly why I haven’t gone to see it. Well, that and I’ve been banned from all the local theaters for public indecency excessive awesomeness and killer style. According to AFP, the 42-year-old cinemagoer, surnamed Kuo, had a history of high blood pressure and suffered a stroke while watching the film in in the northern city of Hsinchu (Taiwan). Emergency room doctor Peng Chin-chih told AFP: “It’s likely that the over-excitement from watching the movie triggered his symptoms.” The China Times reported that the incident represented “the first death linked to watching James Cameron’s science-fiction epic”. Interesting, China, but if it was actually Avatar that killed him then how do you explain THIS GUNSHOT WOUND?! Dum dum dum! Avatar kills Taiwanese man [theregister] Thanks to Justin, who was *this close* to losing consciousness during Titanic .

Because there’s nothing more enjoyable than watching jackasses hurt themselves attempting feats of stupid , this is a compilation of the best (and most painful) fails of 2009. It’s chock full of future Darwin Award recipients, and I wouldn’t be surprised if half these jokers don’t make it to 2011 (please exit the gene pool ladder left). Although, as a guy who’s shattered his arm twice and now has a Luke Skywalker arm, I want to cut it off and be human again. Best Fails of 2009 [collegehumor] Thanks to Fran, who has never broken a bone, but has cracked a few skulls.

Because there’s nothing more enjoyable than watching jackasses hurt themselves attempting feats of stupid , this is a compilation of the best (and most painful) fails of 2009. It’s chock full of future Darwin Award recipients, and I wouldn’t be surprised if half these jokers don’t make it to 2011 (please exit the gene pool ladder left). Although, as a guy who’s shattered his arm twice and now has a Luke Skywalker arm, I want to cut it off and be human again. Best Fails of 2009 [collegehumor] Thanks to Fran, who has never broken a bone, but has cracked a few skulls.

This is a video of a little boy opening up an XBox 360 on Christmas. Except, instead of a console in the box , it’s a pair of pajamas. Then the boy proceeds to cry while his dad laughs at him hysterically. Maybe next year they’ll run over your dog! Peor Papa en la Historia!!! [randomsadas] Thanks to Carlos, who agrees crying children rank right up there with people hurting themselves on the funny meter.

This is a video of a little boy opening up an XBox 360 on Christmas. Except, instead of a console in the box , it’s a pair of pajamas. Then the boy proceeds to cry while his dad laughs at him hysterically. Maybe next year they’ll run over your dog! Peor Papa en la Historia!!! [randomsadas] Thanks to Carlos, who agrees crying children rank right up there with people hurting themselves on the funny meter.

Superherofhype forum member Masterle247 went and made himself a War Machine costume in anticipation of the new Iron Man 2 movie . It’s super impressive . And it would be even more impressive if he hadn’t posed in front of Talbots at the mall. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure all the moms shopping there were super tickled pink (read: horrified there’s a terrorist at the mall), I just would have posed in front of something a bit more serious. Like the Pretzel Palace or arcade. Or, if you could hold out a few months, with the Easter Bunny! Listen rabbit — you’ll tell me what you did with Jesus or I’ll blast your rodent brains all over this food court! Oooh, Orange Julius! Hit the jump for several more, including one of War Machine kicking back and drinking a Corona.

This is a video of an old Jeep Cherokee being used to make a song by combining all the different sounds it can make (trying to start, locking/unlocking doors, door ajar alarm, etc). It is highly impressive/unbelievable. The sounds in this video are ACTUAL sounds from the Jeep. Everyone began rehearsing their parts 2 weeks before we shot the video. It took us 7 hours of filming to get a solid take. Enjoy! The song starts off kind of slow but really picks up around 1:00, so go ahead and skip to there if you don’t have much time. And, if you really don’t, how about including me in the will? Youtube Thanks to naas and STEPHENORUS, whose cars only go tsssssssssss because I’m letting the air out of their tires.

This is a little funny cartoon . Funny in a sad way. Like watching an old lady with a flowery hat on trying to open the door to the thrift store even though the sign clearly states, “Closed on Sundays”. The Chive Thanks to Captain_O!, who drives an electric car because electricity comes from dead witches.