This water fountain located in Osaka Japan is more than just a bubbling display acting as a public meeting place. This water fountain projects streams and sheets of water; they flow in patterns creating everything from flowers and vines to helpfully telling the time.

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Need the time? This water fountain displays it in jets of water

I lied in the title. It’s not actually a t-rex, it’s a Tyrannosaurus bataar , a slightly smaller relative of the t-rex (read: Geekologie Writer size *wink* ). And now it’s up for auction with a minimum bid of $875,000. You and I: we’re going to buy it. No, no we’re not. We’re gonna STEAL it — in my pants . “What do you need me for then?” Distracting the guards and driving the getaway car! The quality of preservation is superb, with wonderful bone texture and delightfully mottled grayish bone color. In striking contrast are those deadly teeth, long and frightfully robust, in a warm woody brown color, the fearsome, bristling mouth and monstrous jaws leaving one in no doubt as to how the creature came to rule its food chain. Equally deadly and impressive are the large curving claws, with pronounced blood grooves. The body is 75% complete and the skull 80%, and it is mounted on a discreet gray-painted armature. Measuring 24 feet in length and standing 8 feet high, it is a stupendous, museum-quality specimen of one of the most emblematic dinosaurs ever to have stalked this Earth. Man, that thing would look great in my grand foyer, greeting all the visitors to Geekologie Writer manor. “You don’t have a manor.” I live in a 200-square foot basement apartment with no windows. I can open the fridge from the toilet. Hit the jump for a couple more shots of the it will be mine, oh yes, it will be mine. MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!

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Go Halvsies With Me?: T-Rex Skeleton Hits Auction Block

Months and of teasing culminated in a painfully long unveil for the Samsung Galaxy S III . While it can be joked around that the S III design was created to be Apple lawsuit-proof , it would appear fans who aren’t “sheep” are very excited for the next great Android smartphone.

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Samsung finds success with 9 million pre-orders for Galaxy S III

Seen here about to find out the hard way he’s not an alligator wisperer, some idiot in North Carolina prepares to get his arm bitten by an alligator on the side of a road. “The most exciting thing to happen all year” the local headlines read. Hit the jump for a news report including the arm-biting footage.

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I Didn’t Like That Arm Anyways: Gator Wrestling Fail

Seen here making the researcher in the background jealous he didn’t get a beverage, a paralyzed woman uses a mind-controlled robotic arm to drink her morning coffee. If I were her? I would have made the arm punch itself in the elbow until it broke. I DON’T NEED YOUR HELP, TERMINATOR. Because the pathways between the brain and the limbs are cut off in paralysis cases, the Brown team decided to skip those pathways altogether and send signals directly from a brain-implanted sensor to the robot limb. The technology still has a ways to go — researchers want to miniaturize it and create a wireless version — but it could be a major breakthrough in allowing people with paralysis to accomplish more tasks on their own. Yeah, a wireless version would definitely be better. I’m not a big fan of having things attached to my head — I get nervous enough wearing a hat. Also, I think all mind-controlled robotic arm users should undergo psychiatric analysis before being allowed to operate one because all it takes is that one guy thinking, “KILL KILL KILL, CHOKE CHOKE CHOKE” to ruin everybody else’s fun. Hit the jump for the video.

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Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Mind

Facebook’s Initial Public Offering (IPO) drops today . The social media giant is being valued at up to $100 billion — are you buying into Facebook? Read more about the IPO below.

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Infographic of the Day: Facebook goes public today

This is a series of portraits by photographer Tadao Cern dirtily called Blow Job, showing people’s faces being brutalized by high winds . God, they’re all just so…gummy. I just couldn’t do it. I’d be too afraid of my eyeballs getting blown out and then flapping around behind my head like two tetherballs fighting in a tornado. No thank you. Hit the jump for a good smattering of examples, but be sure to check out Tadao’s Facebook page for the project where there’s like a hundred.

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Your Face Is About To Fly Off: Wind Tunnel Portraits

Google X boss Sebastian Thrun revealed on Charlie Rose that sharing a photo from Project Glass to Google+ was as easy as a nod, but a new Google patent suggests that the AR glasses could be controlled with the fingers.

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Patent reveals possible finger-related control for Project Glass

Many love to bash Twitter as a shallow mouthpiece for celebrities — its words fit for toilet paper . The advocacy group One is seeking to change the message of some tweets, and then print them on city streets using a “gigantic ink-jet printer on wheels.” The goal is to get people talking about poverty and global hunger issues in advance of the upcoming G8 summit.

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‘Street Tweeter’ paints your political pleas onto city roads

We’re talking NCC-1701, a Constitution -class starship, more than 200 years ahead of schedule. A brilliant (we hope) engineer, identified only as “BTE Dan,” has worked out not only how to build us the pinnacle of our geekiest Trek dreams , he has worked out how to pay for a space-worthy USS Enterprise , too.

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One man’s dream to build a real, space-worthy Starship Enterprise