Model maker Geoff Collard spent 500 hours over several months recreating the D Bridge from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The attention to detail is mind boggling, and it even features a functional active view screen.

Finally completed model of the Star Trek TNG D Bridge with active view screen. My hope was to make a scale model that people would think it was the real set until I panned out. Apologies to people who did think that and were disappointed it was only a model, but your disappointment would mean that I had accomplished my goal.

This is an impressive use of shelter-at-home quarantine time. I’ve mostly just been mastur– I mean, um, not masturbating. I’ve been doing a lot of that.

Source: Geekologie – Guy builds recreation of the D Bridge from ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’

For your weekly fix of cuteness, here’s a video of a kid who loves being handed things. And by things I mean plates of food. Really, really good looking plates of food. I mean, c’mon, the meal prep happening in this house rivals most restaurants. A more accurate title would’ve been Normal Person Likes Food.

Keep going for the video of the most polite little kid you ever did see.

Source: Geekologie – Little kid loves being handed things

No Paint is a site that algorithmically generates “paint strokes” and then you click “No” or “Paint” depending on if you want to keep the “strokes” or not. I’m putting “strokes” in quotes because it’s hard to classify what’s actually happening as painting or paint strokes or what. Basically weird stuff appears on your canvas and you decide if you like it or not. I don’t know. It’s a terrible way to paint. It’s also great.

Source: Geekologie – No Paint let’s you paint without painting

Filmmaker Donato Sansone has put together an equally impressive followup to his original Concatenation short. Concatenation 2: Olympic Game is a mashup of Olympic athletes’ doing the things Olympic athletes do: jumping, spinning, flipping, and basically everything that’s not standing still. The most impressive part is how coherent everything is despite the insane editing. It’s basically the exact opposite of my personal vlogs, which have zero editing and are still 100% impossible to follow. Look, I’m just trying to review microwave pizzas, okay? Leave me alone.

Keep going for the full mind-bending video.

Source: Geekologie – Disorienting mashup of Olympic athletes moving their bodies

After years of teasing the apocalypse, robot death dealer Boston Dynamics finally has their Spot for sale for $74,500.00 which you can buy from their official site.

Spot Explorer is designed for developers eager to explore how flexible mobile robots can be adapted for tasks ranging from industrial inspection to entertainment. Spot comes ready to operate, right out of the box. With its flexible API and payload interfaces, Spot can be customized for a variety of applications.

I can’t tell if $74,500.00 is a lot or little for this. I’m also not sure what you would even use it for. Carrying your backpack around campus while you’re at school? Helping you move the dead body? I mean, yeah, okay, I guess I can think of a few uses. Looks like somebody is about to max out some credit cards.

Keep going for the full promo video.

Source: Geekologie – Boston Dynamics’ Spot is now for sale for ,500.00

This video of komodo dragons attacking a robot spy pig was taken from episode 3 of Spy in the Wild 2 on PBS. It’s honestly a little underwhelming, especially the entire premise of the spy pig. Most spies don’t waddle up to you and try to entice you into eating them. It’s more of a bait camera than a spy camera, but at least it still managed to get some shots from inside a komodo dragon’s mouth, so that’s kind of neat. Although they could’ve swapped out the footage from a gynecology exam and I bet nobody would be able to tell the difference.

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Source: Geekologie – Spying on komodo dragons with a robotic pig

Designer Matt Stevens has been working on an ongoing project of converting his favorite movies into the style of old book covers. He currently has about 60 pieces finished and has started a Kickstarter to turn his goal of 100 into an actual hardcover book. And once he’s finished publishing his book of movie book covers, it’ll only be a matter of time before somebody makes a movie about his book of movie book covers and he’ll be forced to make a book cover of that movie.

Keep going for a bunch more samples of his work.

Source: Geekologie – Reinterpreting good movies as old book covers

San Francisco designer Danielle Baskin has started a company Maskalike that custom prints faces (or any image) onto protective face masks. It’s a pretty brilliant idea. And by brilliant I mean weirdly creepy, as evidenced by their Hide The Pain Harold Face Mask which Danielle can be seen wearing in the image above. And sure, wearing a protective mask with your own face on it is fun and all, but it’s obvious the real move here is to print one with Ryan Reynolds’ face so that you can trick people into liking you. But instead of a protective face mask it’s a full mask. And instead of a mask it’s his actual skin.

Keep going for one more shot of Hide The Pain Harold, along with Danielle demoing one with her own face on it.

Source: Geekologie – Protective face masks with your own face on them

Because the world isn’t scary enough as it is, researchers from Israeli’s Ben-Gurion University have developed a way to eavesdrop on conversations by analyzing the vibrations off a light bulb. They call the technique “lamphone” and say anyone with a laptop, a telescope, and a $400 electro-optical sensor can do it.

This is the kind of thing that would normally worry me, but I mostly just pity the spy that has to listen to the sounds of my lonely sobbing, occasionally broken up by the slurping of SpaghettiOs. Look, Mr. Spy, you don’t even have to use my light bulb. Just join me at the dinner table and save yourself the trouble.

Keep going for the full research video.

Source: Geekologie – Spies Can Now Eavesdrop Using Ordinary Light bulbs

There’s obviously no way to fill the void left by Mr. Geekologie Writer, so in looking for a replacement we’ve decided to go for quantity over quality. That’s right, instead of even attempting to find an equally talented writer we’re holding a group of monkeys at gunpoint hoping they’ll be able to cobble up some magic. Will the site continue? Yes. Will our interns be covered in monkey poo? Also yes. But these are the sacrifices we’re willing to make for your entertainment.

Please bear with us. We know we aren’t as good as the old writer. Our mothers already tell us that every day.

Source: Geekologie – No, Geekologie isn’t going anywhere

I hate goodbyes, so I won’t make this any longer than it needs to be. It is with no small amount of sorrow that I leave my post as Geekologie Writer. After thirteen years and 24,900+ articles, it’s time to move on. If we held hands and went back and read every article together, I’m confident we could agree on at least forty that were okay. Because I don’t know what I’d do with myself without an outlet to write dumb shit on the internet, I’ll be writing over at www.borninspace.com. You can also follow me on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter while I work the kinks out of the website like a sensual masseuse, which should be rocking and rolling within the week. I can also be reached via email at hitelikesthis@gmail.com with business inquires or if you just want to Venmo me all your money. Like Celine Deon’s heart, Geekologie will go on. Jack will probably still die because Rose didn’t save him any space on her raft, but that’s life (and death). Thanks for reading throughout the years, and *raising glass* I hope to see you all in space shortly.

Source: Geekologie – Geekologie Writer, Blasting Off

This is a video of a pilot with no shortness of believing in himself landing a Cessna on a runway in the middle of a jungle. And I use ‘runway’ loosely, because I wouldn’t even feel safe riding my four-wheeler on that. I can only assume this man is either running drugs, this is the island from Lost, and probably both.

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Source: Geekologie – Jesus Take The Yoke: Pilot Landing Cessna On Runway In The Jungle

These are the limited edition Pringles x Wendy’s Baconator artificially flavored potato crisps. Each can comes with a coupon code for a real Baconater, and the chips allegedly taste like “beef, American cheese, applewood-smoked bacon, ketchup, and mayo.” How well do they actually replicate those flavors? Probably not all that well to be honest. But I haven’t had them so I could be wrong. I’m not, but I could be. I could also be the Tooth Fairy. “You traded my kid a tooth for another tooth.” It had a filling, he got a deal!

Thanks to Shane F, who agrees once you pop you should just throw the lid away so there’s no going back.

Source: Geekologie – Pringles Teams Up With Wendy’s For Baconater Chips

This is a short video of a mechanic troubleshooting a vehicle’s turn signal that the woman who brought it in says won’t stay engaged when signaling a right turn. Should, uh, should she even be driving? *wiping oily hands on jeans* Looks like you’re gonna need a new $280 turn signal actuator relay to me.

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Source: Geekologie – Jesus Take The Wheel: Mechanic Troubleshoots Broken Turn Signal

This is a bardcore cover of Radiohead’s ‘Creep’, as performed by Hildegard von Blingin’ (previously: Foster The People’s ‘Pumped Up Kicks’). I also included her bardcore version of Lady Gaga’s ‘Bad Romance’, because it was right there staring at me like a dog that wants to be fed. Don’t worry, I gave it the rest of your sandwich.

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Source: Geekologie – Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ Gets The Medieval Treatment