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So this was obvious: Place a few dividers into an otherwise normal front-loading washing machine, and separate your reds from your whites without washing a whole separate load. [ Yanko Design via Ubergizmo ] More

Giz friend Adam Savage , in our estimation, can make just about anything. Here he explains the path he took to turn a toy gun into an astoundingly sharp Blade Runner pistol replica. I made my first Blade Runner pistol when I was 18, while living in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC.

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MythBusters’ Adam Savage: My Lifelong Pursuit of the Perfect Blade Runner Gun [Ultimatediy]

It’s official, Valve’s digital distribution service Steam is coming to Mac, and bringing Left 4 Dead 2 , Team Fortress 2 , Counter-Strike , Portal , and the Half-Life series (along with Source) with it this April. But there’s more. Apparently, through Steam Play, gamers will be able to play supported titles (anything built on Source, it seems) on a PC (say, at work) then continue the game from the same point on their Mac (say, at home)

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Steam Comes to Mac, Offers Cross-Platform Gaming Free of Charge [Steam]

This fully-functional wheelchair comes complete with, well, everything I could possibly think of that’s necessary for something to be called a Steampunk Professor X chair. Vodka cranberry dispenser? Yes. Booming Arduino/Adafruit sound effects?

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Professor X Chair Dispenses Vodka, Announces Presence with Arduino Sounds and Smoke [Wheelchairs]

Remember December 31st, 1999? The lines of people at supermarkets, stockpiling tins of baked beans and bottled water, convinced the millennium bug would strike at midnight? Turns out the PS3 Error 8001050F was a millennium bug 10-years in the making. The PlayStation blog has been updated with Patrick Seybold, the senior director of corporate communications writing: “We are aware that the internal clock functionality in the PS3 units other than the slim model, recognized the year 2010 as a leap year.

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Error 8001050F: Why the 10-Year Delayed Millennium Bug Brought Your PS3 To Its Knees [Playstation]

The latest iMac was released 16 weeks ago. Since then, it’s been plagued with problems, most notably flickering and/or yellow screens.

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The Conclusion to the Faulty iMac Saga: The Beginning of the Fix [Apple]

It may be small, but it’s HD-compatible when connected to a monitor or TV, and has all the trimmings you’d expect from a larger machine. An Intel Atom D510 1.6GHz processor and NM10 Express chipset are combined with an Nvidia GT218 graphics card, and connections-wise there’s five USB ports, VGA out, a LAN port, memory card reader and of course the HDMI-output. Inside, there’s a 2.5-inch HDD—though at what capacity it hasn’t been said yet—and an optical drive

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Shuttle XS35 PC Is Only 33mm Thick [Computers]

This sushi-making robot, along with the Okonomiyaki robot and the omelet robot, aren’t new, but they are featured in this NYT story about chef robots to get you up to speed on machine-prepared cuisine. The only question I have, since these robots are from Japan, is about where else that hand has been. [ NYTimes ]

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Robots Making Your Food [Image Cache]

Realizing that tech nerds like space, the environment (well, in small doses—and only on a 1080p monitor) and everything else that Mother Nature supplies us with, National Geographic has teamed up with Gelaskins for some natty nature covers. Not just available for the various iPods and iPhones, they’ve also got some Kindle 2, Kindle DX and Nook covers plus skins for 13-inch MacBooks and 13.3 – 14.1-inch laptops. My favorite is the slightly naff Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A space ones, but the wild green sea turtle is also pretty special too

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You Haven’t Left the Office in 5 Years, But These Nat-Geo Gelaskins Will Recall Memories of the Outside World [Accessories]

Train stations in the UK sometimes broadcast mosquito noises that are so high-pitched they can only be heard by those under 25 years of age, but Japan’s taken it one step too far with this age prediction gadget. Designed to be used on blind dates to determine their age, the Age Prediction Machine plays a buzzing mosquito sound, which will tell the user whether they’re actually a teenager, in their early 20s, 30s or—heaven forbid!—over 40, depending on how well they can hear it. If they start slapping imaginary mosquitoes away on the 40-year old setting (which should be the loudest), then you know you’ve been set up with a goose of a blind date. [ Plusd itmedia via Newlaunches ]

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Japanese Gizmo Plays Mosquito Buzzing Noise To Determine the Age Of Your Blind Date [Japan]