Thanks to the good folks over at the Star Trek webcomic “Unforeseen Consequences” and the io9 blog we finally get to find out what Geordi really sees from behind that visor.

It is almost a given that the name of the craftsman who made this one-of-a-kind coffee table would go by the name of Barry Shields but this beautiful table took Barry a month to make out of cherry, ash, and poplar wood. The glass top is cut to follow the front of the starship and it all rest on base fashioned in such a way to make it appear like it is…

I mean seriously – it doesn’t get any cooler than this when it comes to mailboxes, and even though I live in an apartment I’m jealous as hell. via imgur.com

As my good friend Paul O’Flaherty asked when I sent him the link – WTF!?!? did I just watch? Well … it’s an ad for a mattress company, I think, and apparently they have a real love for Star Trek; although we really wish they didn’t. Now since we both had to suffer through it it is only fair that we thank the folks at Geeks are Sexy for cursing…

Yesterday I wrote about some pretty cool ‘touch’ technology from Microsoft Research called OmniTouch but as cool as that might be this ‘HoloDesk’ thing from the research group is just plain Star Trek Holodeck cool. It might not be as big or all encompassing as something like the holodeck from the science fiction television series but even on a small scale like shown in the video you got to admit…