You would think a simple aesthetic choice, a binary question of preference, would have an easy answer. The black iPad or the white one? But it's slightly more complicated than you might think. More »
You already know most of the story: The iPad 2 is crazy thin, it's lighter in a way that really matters, and it's much faster than the original iPad. More »
With everything that Japan is going through—the quake, the tsunami, the nuclear scare—it'd be sorta understandable if things like the Internet stopped working. Amazingly though, the Internet stayed up. More »
This is a portable toolkit for foley artists, the people that create the "everyday" sound you hear in movies. It was designed by Chiara Onida and rolls up neatly inside the canvas mat. More »
For many MMA fighters, surgeon Frank Stile offers the ultimate combo: more fighting and less bleeding. More »
At 3:40pm local time in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture, an explosion shook the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Four people were reported injured from the initial blast, but broader concerns over increased radiation leakage have lead officials to double the evacuation zone around the plant from 6 to 12 miles. What the ultimate fallout will be is anyone's guess. More »
Remember the opening scene of Snatch? The robbery with men dressed up as Hasidic Jews? Some guys mimicked that in real life—and got caught. More »
I've got bad news for those who have checked out the website of my favorite hacker-turned-rapper, George "Geohot" Hotz, at any point between January 2009 and now: Sony has been granted the right to acquire your IP addresses. More »
Online retailer Japan Trend Shop describes this $4909 crystal ball, which displays video from an analog source, as visually stunning. I describe it as objectively tacky (not to mention overpriced for something I'm pretty sure is made of plastic). And could they have picked worse stock photos to superimpose in this thing? I think not. [Japan Trend Shop via Nerd Approved] More »
So what do you do when you're a sovereign government that's short on fighter jets and cash, but flush with frozen chicken? Call up Lockheed Martin! According to a WikiLeaked cable, the US State Department helped broker such a deal between the Thais and Lockheed Martin. It almost happened, were it not for a coup that ousted the poultry-pushing buyers. Oh well. [Atlantic Wire] More »
Click to viewIt's not easy being a stormtrooper, especially when your equipment malfunctions. Then again, if a force field goes down, but was invisible in the first place, does it really make a difference? More »
Sometimes your computer's CPU uses a lot of electricity—like when you're encoding an HD video, or playing a game. Sometimes it doesn't use much, like when you're writing a college essay on some dead guy or browsing Craigslist. Modern processors are able to down-shift when less power is needed—but it's slow. Faster throttling would mean less wasted power. More »
There's nothing in this world quite so delicious as cheese. And while I knew there was all sorts of bacteria and fermentation involved in delivering me unto cheddar, I never imagined it would be quite so graphic. More »
I have no idea what my mom's cell phone number is. I don't think I've ever known the phone number of a girlfriend. Why would I? You probably don't either! Contact lists killed them. But web service Go800 wants to skip the whole number thing entirely, letting you hit people via their Twitter handle to connect a call. More »
N64oid, a Nintendo 64 emulator, will let you indulge your nostalgia wherever you go. Though other video game emulators for Android devices exist, nothing else can bring you this kind of 64-bit gaming goodness. $6. [Android Market] More »
The Motorola Atrix 4G and the LG Optimus 2X both feature the same Tegra 2 Chipset that uses the same 1.2 Ghz, dual-core ARM Cortex A9 processor, the same GeForce ULP GPU and the same version of Android (2.2.1). Yet, when benchmarked, the Optimus 2X outgunned the Atrix in nearly every test (the Galaxy S even jumped ahead in a few of those). So what gives? More »
Bored with CDs and things of the like, the psych-rock weirdos Flaming Lips want to deliver the physical version of their album in an all new format: gummy candy skulls. And it only requires your mouth and a laptop! How does one listen, you ask? First you, eat the life-size candy skull. Then you eat the gummy brain embedded inside the skull. Then take the USB drive embedded in the gummy brain and plug that into your computer (don't eat it!). Enjoy your three new Flaming Lips songs, which should be out sometime next month. [Pitchfork] More »
Click to viewWhen he's not driving around in circles, NASCAR racer Dale Earnhardt Jr. apparently likes to opine on the state of electric cars and green technology. CNS news tracked down Earnhardt to ask him what he thought of electric cars, specificially the Chevy Volt. Here's what he said: More »
