Hasta La Gadget!

Music videos are made to appeal to non-geek masses, but some were made by some bigtime nerds—while others are just are unmistakeably nerdy. You already know where we’re going with this, so let’s just move:

I had to kick off this otherwise unordered list with the all-time geekiest song, Mr. Thomas Dolby‘s “She Blinded Me With Science,” a comic video that started the whole ball rolling.

The Beastie Boys, nerdy at heart, do battle with a giant boxy robot over Tokyo. Exactly.

Michael Jackson‘s bizarre stop-motion video from that period after he was huge but before he was really really creepy.

Ah Spike Jonze, you are the prince of Geek Video. May your army of bad dancers never want for recruits.

Speaking of Spike, here’s an overly elaborate video of a smooth song. How’d they do that? ACTING! No, wait, SHOOTING IN REVERSE WITH NO CUTS!

Before he became a Hobbit, Peter Gabriel was a video pioneer, experimenting with a lot of at times kinky stop-motion photography. “Sledgehammer” is the epitome of the style.

There’s stop motion, and then there’s Lego stop motion, which Michel Gondry used to pretty up the White Stripes.

I may be too old to consider Power Rangers nostalgia, but there’s definitely fun to be had with the Bag Raiders (Adrian says he wants more Zords).

Weird Al speaks nerd. So many gems to choose from, but “White & Nerdy” really sums it up.

Saving the best for last, here’s the otherwise extra-classy Dire Straits cheesing it up bigtime—with real (primitive) computer animation!

If you can’t get those MTV embeds, here’s Weird Al and Dire Straits on YouTube, sadly not available for embedding.

And if you’ve got your own favorite geek videos, embed them below. That’s what enhanced comments are all about!

Listening Test: It’s music tech week at Gizmodo.

This article was written on August 25, 2006 by CyberNet.

How It All Began…

Every now and then it is fun to take a look back at what Web sites looked like when they first started. This is made possible thanks to the Way Back Machine. So why don’t we take a stroll back to 1996 and take a look at what Dell looked like.

When I first saw the homepage the first thing that I remembered was the low monitor resolutions that were available. The site was obviously optimized to fit a 640×480 resolution so that the user wouldn’t have to scroll horizontally.

I chose to checkout those “Dependable notebooks with superior battery life” next. Man, this Latitude is really decked out with the 133MHz Pentium Processor, 12X CD-ROM, and best of all it has 64K colors:

Okay, so the laptops are always a little less powerful than the desktops. That was definitely true because you could get a 233MHz Pentium with 2 USB ports on a desktop! ZIP drives were the “in” thing back then and it was an optional component for these high-end beasts:

Let’s not forget about those gamers out there. They would want to buy the “Powerful Full-Featured Desktop with Cutting-Edge Pentium II Processors,” right? Rolling in at 266MHz and an 8MB video card these things would surely satisfy the hunger for power. After all, if you can splurge on one of these babies “You’ll get blazing-fast 3D performance as well as stunning multimedia.” *drool*

The good old days. Looking back really makes you appreciate the 3GHz machines that we can buy now at the 233MHz prices from back then! However, they don’t seem any faster because the applications are more resource intensive.

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LG Banter now available from U.S. Cellular.

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We mentioned that the LG Banter would be available from U.S. Cellular back at CTIA 2009, but U.S. Cellular just made it official with pricing. The design is similar to that of the LG Rumor 2, …

Inhabitat: Think humankind discovering fire was revolutionary? How about a cardboard box that uses the sun’s rays to cook without burning firewood? That’s precisely what the Kyoto Box, a cardboard solar cooker, can do. Made out of basic, 5th-grade-science-experiment type materials, the Kyoto box solar cooker offers a life-altering solution for thousands of people: the ability to cook and heat water without burning wood. So how does it work? Inventor John Bohmer says the box uses “the greenhouse effect for something good.”

The Kyoto Box consists of two cardboard boxes, one which Bohmer’s own 5-year-old daughter helped him paint black, and another covered with tin foil to help concentrate the sun’s rays. A plexiglass cover is used to trap heat inside making it possible for the box to boil and bake, but not fry, so it is arguable that it is healthy as well. The Kyoto Box is already in production at a factory in Nairobi, and Bohmer hopes to offer a the box in a recycled plastic form in the future. The cost of the box will be a mere 5 euros.

More information can be viewed here.

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