Boiledbeans

Drama! Intrigue!! Geekiness!!!

March 2011

Thursday, March 3, 2011

You can text and "drive" this car?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Yay! Sitter!

Identify

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Dibyo, raklodramA, vinayaknp, Vinay Nair Karath, shrik, SYED MOHAMMED MUNEER ALI, Bharath, Anjul, Rogi, dineshk, Raghuvansh, jowens, lanu, Qbrain, krikkrak, udupendra, Ananth, Sandesh and Thejas V R

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Google’s awesome self driving cars.


Take it higher.

—srikanth @ 23:59

You are likely to know the three on the right. Who’s the chap on the left (circled)?

Cracked by: Bharath, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, KK, dineshk, Abinash, jowens, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, raklodramA, Vrashabh, lanu, Qbrain, vinayaknp, krudebox, Raghuvansh, rohanquizzer, Thejas V R, Siddarth Pai, SYED MOHAMMED MUNEER ALI, v.chandrashekar, Ananth and Shwetha Maiya

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Roger Mayer, a sound engineer. He is responsible for creating several electric guitar effects that have come to define the “sound of rock”, so to speak.


Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Tape them together!

—devadutta @ 22:51

Identify the white object in 1 and connect to 2

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Thejas V R, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, vinayaknp, Siddarth Pai, Rogi, Manish Achuth, KK, krudebox, jowens, Bharath, dineshk, Ananth and Mo

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A Gömböc, that comes back to its upright position no matter how you place it (on a flat surface). A turtle’s shell is shaped up like a Gömböc (not all turtles), which helps it get back on feet when it is flipped over!