![DIY Computer Rotary Knob Controller [Video]](http://feeds.thatsovietguy.com/~ff/lifehacker/vip?i=xbpGJUbj6Ms:cIB8T-fvZSw:V_sGLiPBpWU)
Knob controllers can control volume settings, scroll through web pages, and help edit movies among other uses. You can buy a commercial one from Griffin Technology for $45 or build one yourself with an old scroll-wheel mouse and a few electronics components and tools. DIY enthusiast zine Make offers instructions and a video tutorial on how to construct the rotary knob controller using a PS/2 or USB...
Knob controllers can control volume settings, scroll through web pages, and help edit movies among other uses. You can buy a commercial one from Griffin Technology for $45 or build one yourself with an old scroll-wheel mouse and a few electronics components and tools. DIY enthusiast zine Make offers instructions and a video tutorial on how to construct the rotary knob controller using a PS/2 or USB...
![This Recursive Google Image Search Video Is Mindflippingly Nuts [Video]](http://feeds.thatsovietguy.com/~ff/gizmodo/vip?d=qj6IDK7rITs)
As you may know, you can search for photos by dropping a picture on Google Images. It shows you images that are equal or similar to yours. This is what happens when you feed one search with the result of the previous search. 2,951 times.
Dutch smartperson Sebastian Schmieg thought about doing exactly that, starting with a transparent 400 × 225-pixel PNG image. He put all the 2,951 resulting images on this video. You must watch it: it goes from...
![First Video and Images of the Cruise Ship Sinking In Italy Remind Me of the Titanic (Updated) [Video]](http://www.thatsovietguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/06bf69ce399b08e59ff.png)
The 984-foot-long cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground on the island of Giglio, Italy, killing at least three people. More than 4,000 people have been evacuated, but 50 are still missing. The night photos remind me of the sinking Titanic.
The accident didn't involve an iceberg, but it sounds pretty similar: passengers heard a loud crash sound during dinner. At first, the captain told them that the ship had an electrical problem but the...
The scientific community is dumbfounded by this video of a crow sledding down a snowy rooftop on the lid of a jar. JEEZ, BIRD. Don't you know that sledding is only for people?
What possible evolutionary advantage does the crow secure through its capacity to ride down a snow-covered slope on a flat object only to fly back to the top and do it again? Entertaining activities like these are reserved for...
![Study: Video Games Keep Out The Nightmares [What Dreams May Come]](http://www.thatsovietguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/8069e0864d536cf3e4f.jpg)
The Wall Street Journal has news of yet another gaming study, but this one's pretty darn interesting: Rather than judge video gaming experiences' effect on violent behavior or socialization, the study looks at whether gaming experiences can help people escape nightmares.
Specifically, the study looked at military men and women, 64 of whom were "hard-core gaming experiencers" and 22 of whom were not, and found that the low-frequency gaming...
![This Could Be Your Last Chance to See Retro Game Master [Retro Game Master]](http://www.thatsovietguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/eec7f83a925f4af1796.jpg)
Last year Kotaku readers were enthralled by the daring exploits of Shinya Arino as he desperately attempted to finish a dozen of the most brutal retro gaming experiences Japan has to offer. Now we're giving you one last chance to watch before Retro Game Master goes away forever.
It was a grand experiment, broadcasting weekly episodes of an entire season of a Japanese television show centered around the triumph and (more often than not) tragedy...
![The U.S. Army Pulls the Trigger on Realistic Video Game Controllers [Opinion]](http://www.thatsovietguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/6cdd56ac7e34591c6b1.jpg)
It's not news that you can get a plastic gun to play a video gaming experience where you get to shoot other human beings. It is news that you can get gun controllers that exist with the blessing of the U.S. Army.
Today, we learned that accessories maker CTA Digital will rolling out officially licensed U.S. Army video gaming experience products, including backpacks, headsets and rifle controllers. The Army-branded merchandise can be seen on this...
![The Possibility of Alien Life Is Now Extraordinarily High, According To Latest Planetary Study [Video]](http://www.thatsovietguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/7c1aaac877e8c67a23e.jpg)
An international team of astronomers have reached the most definitive conclusion, one with profound implications: our galaxy contains a minimum of 100 billion planets. Of those, most are small planets like ours. Statistically, every star would have at least one planet.
According to Stephen Kane—at NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute at CalTech in Pasadena and one of the authors of the study—"not only are planets common in the galaxy,...
Watch this nice snail. It slowly moves across the ocean floor—lah-di-lah-di-lah!—until it finds a sleeping fish three times its size. Does it say hello, Mr. Fish, sorry to wake you up? No. It just opens its giant mouth and swallows it.
The.
Horror.
Apparently, cone snails are one of the deadliest fish assassins on the ocean floor, despite being so slow and peaceful-looking. If it gets...
