In Real Life

Laser Sings Portal’s ‘Still Alive’ Off-Key

If Portal taught me anything, it’s that any machine possessing even the most rudimentary degree of artificial intelligence is a potential threat, so I think I’ll just sit back and quietly enjoy the Automated Laser Corporation 20-watt fibre laser’s rendition of Jonathan Coulton’s “Still Alive”.


September 17, 2011
Retro

The Most Amazing Double Dragon You’ll Ever See

A laser-cut Double Dragon II as seen at the Old School Video Games Show at Gallery 1988 Venice. The image was laser-cut into plywood and then framed in bambo.


February 19, 2011
News

Light-Absorbing Anti-Lasers Could One Day Rule Your Computer

Scientists at Yale University have created the world’s first anti-laser, a device in which two beams of light clash together, ultimately cancelling each other out. How could such a device change the way we do our computing?