As the Wii has shown, motion gaming means additional safety instructions and demos will accompany consoles as they ship to consumers, as will humorous Photoshops lampooning their kid glove nature. Kinect and PlayStation Move are no exception. [Androsko via Kotaku] More »
The suspected vaporware-come-reality Android phone Lumigon T1 will run Android Froyo, its Danish manufacturer has revealed. The news arrived alongside a more official-looking render of the final product, seen here. More »
Nerdy juxtaposition, courtesy a costumed kid, life-size TIE Interceptor, and the wonderfully retro-tastic Star Wars Celebration V in Orlando. Cameos by George Lucas, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher Hoth'd the cake. [DVICE] More »
Twenty-five-odd years ago or so, I seem to remember my parents strapping me into their cars using duct tape, a plastic cell and a prayer. Today's kids, with their Britax superseats, seem positively enveloped in comfort and safety. More »
Truth be told, I can't figure out if this is a seaplane's dream, or nightmare. I mean, cool or not, who voluntarily puts sharks in an active landing zone? [Oh My! Look at This Gosh Darn Boat! - Thanks, Richard] More »
Toshiba's dual-touchscreen Libretto is still waiting for its limited release, but the folks at Wow-Pow were apparently able to secure a localized English version early from Japan. It's still an expensive curiosity, but the virtual keyboard layouts are admittedly clever: More »
So I have this running bet with myself that the "Singularity" (man's union with machine, et al) will arrive on a space elevator (a near mythical delivery system to space). In other words: Pessimism. Yuri Artsutanov is more optimistic. More »
Meet the Sand Shark. Unveiled this week on the sands of Alabama, this imperfect tool is perhaps the best weapon yet against the oily disaster BP has wrought against the Gulf coast. Updated. More »
A duo of leaked Intel roadmap slides have purportedly revealed the company's plans for its Sandy Bridge CPUs and an expanded SSD lineup for 2011. Let's look! More »
10,267 Chinese participants did just that, sitting in a field till it was there turn to topple onto the person behind them. They smashed the old world record set in 2000 by a whole order of magnitude. More »
We desperately hope that the computers which we ship to developing countries will be genuinely beneficial to locals, but unfortunately that isn't always the case—more often than not, they're simply abandoned until they're searched for precious metals. More »
Transcendental Tunes combines RFID technology (in the form of a golden, translucent gem) and a retro-looking wooden audio device to play digital music that releases the memories held captive by the mind in Alzheimer's patients. More »
There's something incredibly satisfying about watching a torpedo shoot from your battleship and crash into your opponent's submarine with a booming sound. There's something even more satisfying about watching this happen from the safety of your iPad. More »
Struggling to remember faces? Forgetting how your favorite Backstreet Boys member looks? Help could be on its way in the form of the first non-invasive way of stimulating the brain that can boost visual memory: Scull electrodes. More »
Ever wondered how the Kindle and iPad displays compare if placed under a microscope? Me neither, but some folks decided to see how things look magnified. They even got closer than the picture above: More »
The police force of a small New Jersey town has a Facebook page. And on it go the mugshots of people caught breaking the law. Car thieves, shoplifters, and even a child pornographer have been named and shamed so far. More »
The idea behind the Vertrax concept skateboard is the ability to cruise over a variety of non-paved surfaces with thick treads. Does it look cool? Sure! Would it work? We'll never know! But it is a neat piece of design. More »
According to the architects, the "Batumi Aquarium is inspired by the characteristic pebbles of the Batumi beach-–the residue of dynamic seas continually shaping the shorefront throughout millennia." Each of the stones forming the building will hold a unique marine biotype. More »
