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Cool Pi Products

admin — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:50:59 +0000

The “Pi Dye” T-Shirt shop has some pretty cool products for Pi fans, including their “How’s My Deriving” bumper sticker and these:

Super Pi T-Shirt		Pi-less World T-Shirt
Pi Ice Cube Tray		Pi Cookie Cutter

Pi on TV: Mythbusters’ Grant Imahara’s Prisoner Number

Dan — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:00:33 +0000

On Discovery Channel’s show “Mythbusters“, there’s an episode where Grant, Tori & Kari escape from jail using various kinds of ropes. Grant’s prisoner number is “3.14″:

Spell Google with Circles

Dan — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:18:46 +0000

Google’s “Doodle” in many parts of the world is featuring Pi Day today:

Google on Twitter says they’re feeling geometric today. Happy Pi Day, Google!

Pi on TV: Psych Season 4 Finale

Dan — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:18:36 +0000

On the USA Network show “Psych“, private investigators Shawn & Gus find themselves in a room creepily trimmed with the digits of pi:

MIT loves Pi

Dan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:00:52 +0000

Each year the Massachusetts Institute of Technology releases its admission decisions at 1:59pm on Pi Day.

In 2009, the artwork on their homepage sported pi day greetings, and in 1994, as part of an elaborate prank, students put a campus police car number “Pi” on top of the “Great Dome”.

A Pizza Place named “Pi”

Dan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:14:25 +0000

This Pizza shop was spotted by Eric, creator of the pisicle, in New Orleans:

Trader Joe’s Sells Pi(e)s

Dan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:00:45 +0000

This Pi Day promo sign was spotted outside Trader Joe’s in the Twin Cities:

Π-Water?

Kevin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:30:55 +0000

Korean company WONYONG markets a product called Π-Water. The site is in English, though some of the translations are a bit rough. From what I can tell, “Π-Water” (which also may be known as “Tarama Water”) seems to be some sort of drinking water, designed to mimic the water found inside the cells of living organisms. They suggest that it can also be used in food preparation, agriculture, and even in swimming pools.

I’m not entirely sure what this product has to do with Pi, thought the bottles are round. I’ve never seen this product on the shelf in the US or southern Europe (or anywhere else, for that matter), nor have I seen it sold online anywhere.

There are probably many products that use the letter π in their name, like π perfume.

Are “you” in Pi?

Kevin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:30:05 +0000

Over at Facade.com, they’ve got a neat little utility for searching the digits of Pi, if you’re not inclined to search them manually. Their idea is that you can “find yourself in Pi” by searching for your birthday, thought the utility can find any string of numbers you choose. According to the search engine’s page, it searches the first 1254543 digits of Pi, looking for the number you provide.

New Sport Invented: “Pi Ball”

Dan — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:11:30 +0000

In 2009 in South Africa, a new sport was invented – played on a circular court around a central circular ball strike area – called “Pi Ball”. It’s comparable to beach volleyball, but where two players on a team are separated by a net, pi-ball players instead stand diametrically opposite one another within the confines of a circular court. Learn how to play Pi Ball & watch videos of people playing Pi Ball at PiBall.com.