With the summer heat upon us, you're gonna have to stay cool somehow. Try importing these eerily-realistic ice cream popsicles from Stoyn in Russia. You might object, but we've already been eating creepy popsicle heads for decades. More »

When I was growing up, you weren't a kid if you didn't have a sword. Foam, plastic, or even just a tree branch. Naama Agassi's Branch Holder is an elegant reminder of that time when you could really be the neighborhood samurai. More »

Hovering landers or drones look as though they're suspended in the air, because you can't see the vortices caused by the propellers or the heat emitted by the thruster, or whatever mechanism enables the hovering. Well, here you can. And it proves that the act of hovering is anything but delicate. More »

Anything Bjork ever does is noteworthy, musically speaking, and now that she's decided to release her next album Biophilia, as a multimedia project comprised of 10 iPad apps, she's also become noteworthy in a technological sense. More »

Bad news for anyone who might be thinking about committing a crime anytime soon: the National Institute of Justice, a division of the Department of Justice, just put out a report saying tasering is A-OK. With a few important caveats. More »

Since the World Health Organization's report that cell phones may cause cancer in humans, there has been a lot of talk about how to keep yourself safe. More »

I can't promise you enough times over that this isn't the type of porn rental you think. Sweet lord I hope it's not, anyway. Does it bother anyone else that Dexter is the least creepy person in this video? More »

Clean water. Not being tortured. Torrents. Yep—the United Nations has enshrined the right to not be booted off the internet by your government has a fundamental human right, slapping proposed draconian European intellectual property laws in the jaw. More »

The notification system in iOS sucks. Especially on the iPhone. That's no secret, but it bears repeating because it's gone unchanged since the first iPhone was introduced in 2007. Hopefully this is the last time it'll warrant complaining about. More »

This week is the centennial of the Titanic's launch, May 31st, 1911. Why was she considered unsinkable? Because of her 30 compartments which could be sealed against one another with a pull of a single lever. [The Scuttlefish] More »

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It could very well be fake, because people love to create hoaxes before Apple events, but if this is Apple's iCloud Login Screen, it's a pretty one. [Cult of Mac] More »

If you've used Rosetta Stone in the last year or two, you already know how their new app works—an idea that was likely planned from the get-go. More »

Sony's been hacked again, with over a million SonyPictures.com accounts lifted, containing vital personal information like home addresses. Is yours included? We've got an exclusive, easy database to check. Just enter your email address, and see if you've been compromised: More »

Amazon's having another one of its mondo smartphone sales, this time featuring seven discounted Verizon handsets. But the deal that's going to tempt you is the Xperia Play, which is basically free with a two-year contract. More »

Jack Kevorkian died this morning in a Detroit hospital at the age of 83. In the 1990's, he assisted with more than 100 suicides from the back of his converted VW Vanagon. The Atlantic discusses the tools he used to end lives. More »

Hard drives are all about how much you can store and how quickly you can store it. And this soon-to-be-unveiled phase-change memory drive is expected to up the ante quite a bit. More »

A study conducted recently found that nearly 11 out of 12 sunscreens on the market are inadequate. There are two ingredients that make sunscreen work: zinc oxide and titanium dioxide. In concentrations above 18%, either will effectively block out both the UVA and UVB spectrums. Here are a few good ones—they turn out to be baby sunscreens, but they'll work fine for anyone. [via scuttlefish] More »

Atten-shun, fanboys, trolls, and all you beautiful normal people you: We will covering the WWDC 2011 keynote this Monday, June 6 at 10:00am. I feel a surprise in the air! Or it may be the cookies in the oven. More »

Most NASA innovations come from within their own labs, which are used in space, then sometimes produced for the masses. In the case of potential heads-up displays in space helmets, NASA is looking at Recon Instruments' HUD tech for ideas. More »