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Wonder if it has the 3 laws?

—srikanth @ July 10, 2010

Identify the device and what it’s up to:

Cracked by everyone, I think.

Bharath, Shwetha Maiya, dineshk, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Raghuvansh, Ananth, Dibyo, Logik, Thejas V R, raklodramA, lanu, Rahulk, Qbrain, Jean Valjean, varuns88, krudebox, udupendra and Vinay Hegde


I, Writer

—devadutta @ July 9, 2010

In 2006, 1 (in)famously made controversial claims about Wikipedia. 2 rebuked it with class. Identify 2 and tell us what 1’s controversial claims were.

2 is one of the early employees of a very popular website.

Cracked by: Vinay Hegde, Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Rogi, Bharath, Shwetha Maiya, dineshk, Manish Achuth, Ananth, Logik, Thejas V R, raklodramA, lanu, Rahulk, Qbrain, Jean Valjean and krudebox


Holy Ocean Floor!

—devadutta @ July 8, 2010

Another Guest Question from Rogi! Thanks!

Identify

Hint:

Cracked by: Aparna, Rogi, Rahulk, Logik, Bharath, Rahul Rajeev, Shwetha Maiya, dineshk, Qbrain and lanu


Smile!

—devadutta @ July 7, 2010

Fresh! off the press. What is special about this image? or tell us what this picture is supposed to be of?

Hint: 6.626068 × 10-34 m2 kg / s

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, vijayaraghavan, shrik, udupendra, Ananth, Aparna, Logik, dineshk, Sumanth Patlolla, Gurupad, Rogi, Qbrain, lanu, Thejas V R, Rahulk, Rahul Rajeev, Dibyo, Bharath, krudebox, SV, Amar Peluri, Manish Achuth, dhruv sharma, Vivek, umang, Sudhanva Sreesha and Shwetha Maiya


Call me mad scientist

—srikanth @ July 6, 2010

What’s the (recent) story?

Cracked by everyone.

Logik, dineshk, Aparna, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, krudebox, Rahulk, lanu, Rogi, Qbrain, Thejas V R, raklodramA, Manish Achuth, shrik, Ganesh Prasad, Shwetha Maiya, ep vinod, Mo, udupendra, Ananth, Gurupad, Rahul Rajeev and Dibyo


Lets play

—devadutta @ July 5, 2010

If 1: Windows 95 :: 2 : What?

1. [audio:http://boiledbeans.net/audio/95.mp3]

2. [audio:http://boiledbeans.net/audio/3s.mp3]

Hint: 2 is from a totally different company

Cracked by: pop richards, Rogi, udupendra, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Rahulk, Tejaswi, madhur and vijayaraghavan

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Thats the PS3 start sound. (1 is Win 95 start sound)


Round one - fight!

—srikanth @ July 4, 2010

What famous event connects:

Cracked by cracked_by_

Logik, Goyal, Rogi, Aparna, Manish Achuth, shrik, Dibyo, lanu, Qbrain, Rahulk, Jean Valjean, mankuTimma, udupendra, Thejas V R, Bharath, varuns88, dineshk and Shwetha Maiya


Top Spin

—devadutta @ July 3, 2010

Different versions of the same robot. Identify.

I like the latest terminator styled version. Freaky it is!

Happy Independence Day to our US members!

Cracked by: Logik, dineshk, Aparna, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Qbrain, lanu, Shwetha Maiya, Thejas V R, Dibyo, shrik, raklodramA, madhur, Rahulk, udupendra, Ananth, varuns88 and mankuTimma

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TOPIO – Ping Pong playing robot


Smash Hits

—devadutta @ July 2, 2010

Guest question from Rogi. Thanks!

Tell us how these “music” clips were made.

1 [audio:http://boiledbeans.net/audio/l1.mp3]

2 [audio:http://boiledbeans.net/audio/l2.mp3]

Hint:

P.S: Ladies and Gents, please to send guest questions to [email protected]. We like them a lot, but we have only a few trickling in lately. So, please to send. KTHX

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, dineshk, Rogi, Aparna, Dibyo, Logik, Vishnu, Thejas V R and Shwetha Maiya

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‘Sonification’ of data collected at the LHC


Wooo... trippy.

—srikanth @ July 1, 2010

Integral part of which algorithm?

Logik, Rogi and Dibyo