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Mechanicrawl

Clockporn Tour for Retro Futurist Gearheads

Does it get you all wound up when you look at gears and measurement devices on giant, old machines? That's a perfectly normal reaction — we all feel a little awe in the face of machines whose precision and beauty has nothing to do with the digital. And the Long Now Foundation is celebrating those machines in the San Francisco Bay Area with a special "Mechanicrawl" tour this Saturday. A couple of weeks ago, Wired got a sneak peek at the tour route, which includes touring a 1940s warship whose sophisticated torpedo targeting computer (pictured) is all analog. Check out more clockporn below. More »

11:23 AM on Thu Jul 10 2008
By Annalee Newitz
1,708 views, 14 comments

Latest by n/a: Babbages Engines, and many other mechanical devices including some clocks, ARE digital. They just aren't electronic. more »

gears of war

Gears Of War Movie Brings Life To Alien Subculture

Bloody alien-killing video-game movie Gears of War may actually see the light of day thanks to new director Len Wiseman. Possibly one of the most popular video games, up there with Halo, Gears follows the Delta Squad fighting on the planet Sera. It's all-out war between the humanoid inhabitants of Sera and the Locust Horde that arose from beneath the planet's surface. Maybe now we'll learn more about what makes the Locust Horde tick. More »

12:51 PM on Tue Jun 17 2008
By Meredith Woerner
1,904 views, 17 comments

Latest by n/a: I'm just waiting for IGN to get started on that Zelda movie for which they made the trailer. I know it was a joke, but damn that looked good! more »

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The Insect Brain of a New Analytical Computer

Mike Libby uses the carapaces of real insects to create tiny, mechanical works of art. They look like they could be part of a new insect-driven A.I. Not only does Libby's work adorn a new anthology of speculative writing from Tachyon Press called The New Weird, but he has upcoming shows you can check out in Boston and Philly. A few more bugs (and one arachnid) lurk below. More »

10:20 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Annalee Newitz
13,504 views, 10 comments

gears of war

Destroy All Aliens With Nerf

For people who work in cubicle farms, Nerf guns are a great way to blow off steam. Forget to turn in your TPS Report? Just unleash a stream of Nerf darts onto Bob, three cubes over. But certain people take Nerf guns to a whole new level. Like this Nerfy-replica model of the signature Lancer from the Gears of War game, complete with a chainsaw, LED lights, and sound effects. How did this Nerf gun get to be so cool? More »

1:30 PM on Fri Jan 25 2008
By Kevin Kelly
2,867 views, 13 comments

Latest by Jimmy Dare: Where's my Nerf Hammer of Dawn? more »

microscopy

The Tarnished Gears of Steampunk Microscopy

Anne Bruce is a microscopy photographer who likes to put antique watches, gears, and gauges under her low-power microscope. She creates glowing, strange images of tarnished gears and fragments of watchfaces that look like giant, rusting dynamos and the remains of nineteenth-century factories. We've got a gallery of her haunting work after the jump. More »

11:03 AM on Wed Jan 9 2008
By Annalee Newitz
1,512 views, 9 comments