Sugar Pie Desanto sings "Rock Me Baby"

Pi Day is coming up this Saturday. To celebrate, here's a cool little demo of 3.14 using four pizzas and one circumference of crust. With Pi Day just around the corner, let's remember what Pi is all about. After washing your hands thoroughly, cut the crust off a pizza pie and lay it across four… READ THE REST

Canton Becker, an electronic music composer and programmer, composed a procedurally generated song that uses the first billion digits of pi as its input. I haven't listened to all 114 years of the song yet, but I like what I have heard so far. From his statement: Becker programmed — or composed — an algorithm… READ THE REST

Happy pi day! Today we think of pi as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter (3.14…). But in the olden days (and even today) some people thought pi should be the ratio of a circle's radius to its diameter (6.28…), Today, that symbol is called tau, and in some cases, it makes… READ THE REST

If you're going on a trip, it isn't enough to bring your smartphone and your tablet and your laptop. You also have to bring all the charging cables for your phone. And the one for your tablet. And the charging brick plug-in. And the ones for your laptop. Before you know it, the stockpile of… READ THE REST

For years, karaoke was relegated to those places with a dedicated system and an archive of tracks for use. Now, Karaoke On Demand essentially gives you frustrated artists the chance to bring your song stylings out of the bar and into the outside world 24/7/365…whether the world is ready for you or not. Karaoke On… READ THE REST

With everyone looking for increased portability from all their necessary items, it's a surprise monocular telescopes haven't eclipsed binoculars yet. But it may not be too long before these lightweight marvels are nudging their way past their big, bulkier brother as the instrument people reach for to get a quality view from a distance. While… READ THE REST