Boiledbeans

Look closer.

srikanth — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:59:06 +0000

Slightly obscure question. What are these tiny devices called? They were created more as an amusement than a scientific instrument. The bottom part of (2) is a good clue.

DFA?

devadutta — Sun, 13 May 2012 21:24:26 +0000

Awesome question from Manish Achuth. Thanks saar!

Who/What draws these things?

Cracked by: Rogi , Bharath , Manish Achuth , Dibyo , Sujoy , Vishnu Prashanth , raklodramA , badideabear , Bipin Banavalikar , Ananth and Sumanth Patlolla

Answer:
Answer, straight from Manish – Automatons, similar to the ones described in Hugo by Scorsese.
Source – http://www.fi.edu/learn/sci-tech/automaton/automaton.php?cts=instrumentation

Where’s Djibouti?

srikanth — Sat, 12 May 2012 18:28:49 +0000

Identify the organization:

Cracked by: Rogi , rickde , Manish Achuth , Bharath , badideabear , Sujoy , Dibyo , raklodramA , Bipin Banavalikar , Ananth , KK , Sumanth Patlolla and Amarendra Kumar

Answer:
This question was automatically moderated by AutoRaja and is yet to be assigned an official answer. Please come back later

You do this

devadutta — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:12:32 +0000

Which website started out like this?

Cracked by: Ananth , KK , Sumanth Patlolla , Rogi , badideabear , rickde , Bharath , Erlese , Manish Achuth , Sujoy and Bipin Banavalikar

Answer:
Youtube

This just in:

srikanth — Fri, 11 May 2012 03:39:42 +0000

Identify the service that this guy started:

Cracked by: Shwetha Maiya , badideabear , Ananth , Manish Achuth , KK , Sumanth Patlolla , Rogi , rickde , Bharath , Clotildes , swapnil.m , Sujoy , Dibyo and raklodramA

Answer:
Justin.tv. Justin Kan, pictured, started the online video broadcast service. It initially consisted of just one channel – him. He used the camera/mic to broadcast his entire life live via his website.

#WIN

srikanth — Thu, 10 May 2012 07:59:32 +0000

Who is she and what did she do recently?

Cracked by: Bharath , KK , badideabear , Ananth , Manish Achuth , Sumanth Patlolla , rickde , Bipin Banavalikar and bhargava

Answer:
Claire Lomas recently won the london marathon wearing a bionic suit – making her the first ever person to do so.

Retracting last night’s question

srikanth — Thu, 10 May 2012 04:20:08 +0000

Sorry folks. Looks like last nights question was a blatant repeat, so we’ve gotten rid of it. I’ll be posting another one soon.

Poke

devadutta — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:14:20 +0000

This is supposedly Abe Lincoln’s failed attempt at patenting something. What?

Cracked by: badideabear , rickde , Rogi , Sujoy , Bharath , Manish Achuth , Dibyo , raklodramA , vinayaknp , KK , Ananth , Vishnu Prashanth , Bipin Banavalikar and Sumanth Patlolla

Answer:
Facebook style social networks!

Huff and puff this!

devadutta — Tue, 08 May 2012 07:59:31 +0000

What is special about these bottles?

Cracked by: badideabear , rickde , Rogi , Bharath , Manish Achuth , Dibyo , Sujoy , Ananth , Vishnu Prashanth , Sumanth Patlolla and Bipin Banavalikar

Answer:
Heineken Wobo, which doubles as a brick to address housing and recycling crisis in the Caribbean.

Waiting to get one

devadutta — Mon, 07 May 2012 07:59:57 +0000

What is this?

Cracked by: Anjul , rickde , Sujoy , Bharath , Manish Achuth , raklodramA , KK , Ananth , Sumanth Patlolla and Bipin Banavalikar

Answer:
Visualization of data collected on Google Cars.