March 29, 2013

DIY: How to Make Android Easter Eggs

Posted in Just for fun by sgeier

You think dyeing eggs is boring and for children and grandmothers only? You’re definitely wrong! Let me convince you of the contrary: There are far more possibilities rather than dyeing single-colored eggs. Our mysms team had great fun creating geeky Android eggs today 😀

Make your own Android Easter eggs

Make your own Android Easter eggs

Would you also like to have such remarkable geeky eggs? Here’s how to do it!

 

Before you start make sure you have the right materials at hand:

  • Raw eggs and egg dyes or pre-dyed eggs (from the supermarkets or your grandma)
  • White self-adhesive labels
  • Colored paper or white paper and colorful pens
  • Double faced adhesive tape or glue
  • Scissors
  • Some time and patience

 

How to make Android Easter eggs

 

1. In case you have much time left, you can buy blank eggs and dye them with egg dyes. Rather than making it on your own, you’ve also got the choice to buy pre-dyed eggs. It’s not as cool as making it yourself, but timesaving and more convenient. 😉 Basically, the color of Androids is green, but we didn’t want to give the colorful Easter eggs a miss, that’s why we decided to go for these ones.

 

2. The eggs are ready, so now you need to prepare the additional material for the eyes, ears and body of the Android. Cut thin stripes and dots from the self-adhesive labels for the separation of head and body and for the eyes. Additionally, cut out and prepare the ears by using the colored paper or the white paper which you paint with colorful pens.

 

3. You’re nearly at the end: Glue the ears and stick the separation stripe and the eyes on the egg. Afterwards, put the eggs in a smooth nest and you are finished with your DIY geek Easter project!

 

Have fun trying to make your own Android eggs – Would be nice, if you send us some pics! Happy Easter everyone 🙂

April 6, 2012

Google’s Top 8 Easter Eggs, Tricks and Hoaxes

Posted in Just for fun by afeiner

What’s your favorite thing about Easter? Is it the first bite of your chocolate bunny (I’d take the ears of course), or maybe going to an egg hunt? I think the best Easter eggs can’t be found in a basket. They are unexpected, hidden gifts that Google surprises us with every now and then. New Easter eggs do not pop up often, so we decided to show you some classics we love.

Easter egg hunt... on Google

Easter egg hunt... on Google

8. Hexadecimal and Binary

What you need to do: Go to Google and enter “Hexadecimal”.

What you get: The number of results is shown in that format. Hexidecimal is a number system that uses the numbers 0 to 9 and the letters from A to F. If the number of results shows 0x16b28c0 that means 23,800,000 web pages have been found for your query.

If you’ve liked this one, also try “Binary”.

 

7. Once in a blue moon

What you need to do: Search for “once in a blue moon”

What you get: Google reveals the mathematical value. Similar to this one is “number of horns on a unicorn”, and “the loneliest number”. And of course, if you are a fan of Douglas Adam’s novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, type in “the answer to life, the universe, and everything” which equals 42.

 

More than just words - Google reveals the "real" value of certain phrases

More than words - Google reveals the "real" value of certain phrases

 

6. Pacman

What you need to do: Go to http://www.google.com/pacman/ and start playing!

What you get: It’s not really an Easter egg, but still deserves to be mentioned here. Go back in time and enjoy. Btw, Google showed this page to honor the 30th birthday of the game.

 

5. Recursion

What you need to do: Go to Google and enter “recursion”

What you get: The spelling check “Did you mean” will show the exact same word “recursion”. If you click on it again and again, Google will keep on displaying it.

MathWorld describes a recursive process as one in which an object is defined in terms of other object of the same type.

 

Google helps us understand recursion

Google helps us understand recursion

4. Google Sphere

What you need to do: Search for “Google Sphere” and click on “I’m Feeling Lucky”.

What you get: Google Sphere transforms the whole web page to a ball or sphere. If you move your cursor, the whole interface moves too. What I find really cool is that you can still search for images. However it gets a bit harder to find the search button. 😉

 

3. Do a Barrel Roll

What you need to do: Enter “do a barrel roll” in Google

What you get: Simply go for it and try it yourself! The barrel roll is named after an aircraft maneuver in which the airplane carries out a complete rotation.

 

A barrel roll is sometimes descricbed to as "a combination of a loop and a roll"

A barrel roll is sometimes descricbed to as "a combination of a loop and a roll"

 

2. Tilt or Askew

What you need to do: Type in “tilt” or “askew” and hit enter.

What you get: See the screen tilt to the right.

 

1. Google Gravity

What you need to do: Search for “Google Gravity” and click on “I’m Feeling Lucky”.

What you get: You see Google really has Gravity. But still, all functions are working.

 

Gravity is everywhere

Gravity is everywhere

 

What are your personal favorite Easter eggs? Did we miss out on a great one? Let us know in the comments!

 

PS: Some tricks might only work on Google.com. If you get redirected automatically enter Google.com/ncr for no country redirection.