How ToSolve the Tetris Cube puzzle ByRobin Mansur 08/29/2008 12:57 am Puzzles You love the video game Tetris and you love the puzzle Rubik's Cube, then what's stopping you from attacking the Tetris Cube? How ToPlay the Warriors of the Promised Land board game ...
Legend has it that the Band-Aid was created by a Johnson & Johnson employee for his wife, who was prone to suffering nicks in the kitchen. Rather than wait to return and dress the wounds at night, Earle Dickson invented the Band-Aid so his wife could attend to her own wounds throughou...
Its popularity was driven by the Quake video-game series, which used parallel computing to render monsters that players could shoot with a grenade launcher. (Quake II was released when I was a freshman in college, and cost me years of my life.) The Quake series also featured a “deathmatch...
In his book, Young uses the example of increasing proficiency in Tetris, a block puzzle invented by Russian computer scientist Alexey Pajitnov in the 1980s. “People were spending 80-hour-week sessions on the game and playing on level 29 [the highest] was thought impossible,” he says. “N...
Bill Mongeau said it was a surprise for all homeowners. For the first time ever, the average value of a home in the Utica-Rome Mohawk Valley region had actually topped $200,000. It means that over the course of the last 12 months, home values have increased more than 8.5-percent. "Tr...
"I literally said that," McAlister toldCBS Mornings. "I said it to his face, and I was closer to him than I am to you." It's true that at the end of the meeting, the 59-year-old Prince Andrew announced that he would have to talk to his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, before he...
The small gaming system, which came packaged with the wildly popular Tetris, combined elements from Nintendo’s NES gaming console and the Game and Watch, the original 1980 handheld from the Japanese company. Although it was less advanced than competitors from Sega and Atari, the 30 hours of ...
So in a way, Christian Kraft’sTetriswas the first mobile game. There was also a similar game for theSiemens S1calledKlotzdeveloped around the same time, but it was never truly launched as the publisher gave up paying for the royalties. ...
Tetris, 25th anniversary The video game designed and programmed by Alexey Pazhitnov in 1984. Perhaps not quite as “sciency” as the other selections we included here, but considering how iconic it was and how loved by tech geeks it is, we included it anyway. ...
How Holography Will Refit Martech Holography was invented by Nobel Laureate Dennis Gabor in 1948, but most people didn’t know it existed until 1976 whenfilmslikeLogan’s RunandStar Warshit the screens. (“Imagine a world in which you need never be alone. You touch a switch, turn a dial...