Mechanical Watch

Very cool video showing how a mechanical watch is made (in this case the Seiko Ananta – a premium mechanical watch from Japan).

The "green" way to charge an iPhone

Innovative Parking Garage Signs?

These are some amazing parking garage signs developed by Axel Peemoeller.  Peemoeller worked out the math to create, optically, directional signs that appear to hang in the air.

Cool Math Trick

Here is a cool math trick that I found online:

– Grab a calculator (you won’t be able to do this one in your head)
– Key in the first three digits of your phone number (NOT the area code)
– Multiply by 80
– Add 1
– Multiply by 250
– Add the last 4 digits of your phone number
– Add the last 4 digits of your phone number again
– Subtract 250
– Divide number by 2

Recognize the answer?? If you followed the steps correctly, the final number should be VERY familiar to you.

Assembly Blackjack Game

I was going through some of my old stuff and I found this game that I worked on as an undergrad (done completely in x86 assembly). Click here to check it out.

Cool Backgrounds

I recently decided to update the theme on my computer and while I was searching the net I ran across this cool background site (hqwalls.blogspot.com). I especially liked some of the nature backgrounds from this site.