Boiledbeans

Drama! Intrigue!! Geekiness!!!

July 2012

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Still alive.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Arbit geek-culture question. What’s this about?

Cracked by: Bharath, Bipin Banavalikar, Dibyo, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, raklodramA, Supritha Maiya, Manish Achuth, KK, mankuTimma and Ananth

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NASA sent an engraved Wheatley from Portal 2 into space.


Play for free

—devadutta @ 20:37

What it is?

Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, KK, Harsha, Bharath, Supritha Maiya, Bipin Banavalikar, mankuTimma, raklodramA, Ananth, Jayaprakash B R and rohanquizzer


Thursday, July 12, 2012

Dead?

—devadutta @ 20:32

I’d buy one of these. Just in case 28 days from now something happens..

What is this?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, KK, Harsha, Bharath, Supritha Maiya, Bipin Banavalikar, mankuTimma, raklodramA, Anjul and Ananth

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Hyundai Zombie Survival Vehicle


Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Not angry anymore

—devadutta @ 16:11

%gqh% Bipin Banavalikar sent the same question I wanted to ask today!

Identify.

Cracked by: KK, Bharath, Manish Achuth, mankuTimma, raklodramA, Don42, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, bhargava, Bipin Banavalikar, Ananth, Supritha Maiya, rohanquizzer, Lovish Pandey, Jayaprakash B R, Varun Singh and Logik

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Amazing Alex, Rovio’s new game


Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Think inside the (blue) box

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify device:

Cracked by: KK, Bharath, Manish Achuth, mankuTimma, raklodramA, Don42, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Bipin Banavalikar, Supritha Maiya, rohanquizzer, Ananth, Jayaprakash B R and Logik

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Sonic Screwdriver style universal remote control, released recently.


Monday, July 9, 2012

Small Stone

—devadutta @ 20:11

Guest question from %gqh% Bipin Banavalikar.

Identify and tell us what it did recently to super impress a lot of people

Cracked by: Anjul, rohanquizzer, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Ananth, Don42, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Supritha Maiya, Logik, rickde, Bipin Banavalikar and sandeep bhat

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Pebble Watch – Raised 10 Mil on Kickstarter


Sunday, July 8, 2012

$50 Million to $500,000

—devadutta @ 12:35

Now infamous cover. Who?

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, Anjul, Rogi, rohanquizzer, Bipin Banavalikar, mankuTimma, Supritha Maiya, KK, Don42, vinayaknp, Vishnu Prashanth, Jayaprakash B R, Bharath, rickde and sandeep bhat

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Kevin Rose


Saturday, July 7, 2012

Eat it

—devadutta @ 00:20

If you have one of these, you can sell it for half a million bucks. What is it?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Amarendra Kumar, raklodramA, Manish Achuth, KK, Jayaprakash B R, Bharath, Supritha Maiya, Ananth, Don42, Rogi, sandeep bhat, rohanquizzer, Bipin Banavalikar, rickde and Anand

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Apple I


Friday, July 6, 2012

Makers rejoice

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify this funky kit:

Cracked by: Bharath, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Amarendra Kumar, Don42, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, Supritha Maiya, Dibyo, Ananth, KK, sandeep bhat, rohanquizzer and Bipin Banavalikar

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Google’s ADK, or accessory development kit. Based off an Arduino and it can be interfaced to anything. Bring it on!


Thursday, July 5, 2012

Square is the new 16:9

—srikanth @ 23:59

I just made this connection. For any of you who hadn’t, allow me to be responsible for your epiphany.

What recent mobile posterchild is named after this?

Cracked by: Bharath, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Shyam, Don42, Bipin Banavalikar, Swarun, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, Jayaprakash B R, Dibyo, Ananth, KK, bastet, sandeep bhat and rohanquizzer

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Instagram. Named so because, apparently, one of their first filters allowed you to make images look like the ones taken from a Kodak instamatic.