Today is inventor extraordinaire Nikola Tesla's 154th birthday. To celebrate, someone made this gushing video overview of Tesla's life, including a lengthy digression on how Thomas Edison was a "jerk." Is this, I wonder, our very first Tesla fanboy? [Reddit] More »
Nikola Tesla - Thomas Edison - Tesla Motors - Technology - Physics
For a relatively low number of American dollars, you can own your own Atari TT 030 computer, used by testers to work on the Jaguar title Aliens vs. Predator and—according to the weird file show here—shenanigans. [eBay] More »
Atari - Video game - Game - Console Platforms - VCS Family
In an interview with CNN, Martin Cooper, the man who invented the cell phone for Motorola in 1973, says he knew one day the devices would be ubiquitous. But today's smartphones are more complicated than he ever imagined possible. More »
Motorola - Science and Technology - Cell Phones - Cell Phones and Driving - Communications
When it comes to bulletproof material, I think of strong, dense objects like concrete and really thick glass. I've never thought of liquids. But British scientists have, and they say liquid armor is better than ordinary Kevlar. More »
bulletproof - Business - Kevlar - BaeSystems - Dilatant
This is a map of The University of Warwick's 700 acre campus. If some of the lines are a little bit squiggly, that's because all 238 miles of them were walked on foot, traced by a GPS satellite. More »
Global Positioning System - Geomatics - Earth Sciences - University of Warwick - GPS
The World Cup has inspired Americans everywhere, heck, I was even thinking about joining a soccer club. But I'm lazy and probably never will, so I'll just stick to juggling a virtual soccer ball on my iPhone. Augmented reality is awesome. More »
World Cup - Sport - Soccer - Competitions - United States
Traditionally, only the mammoth Hollywood studios could afford to work with 3D—it's too expensive to build the necessary, air-conditioned 24 hours a day, server farms. The company behind Despicable Me decided to try something new, and cut the AC. More »
3-D film - Energy - Technology - Film - Business
Drones are ubiquitous on today's modern battlefields, from Iraq to Afghanistan and everywhere in between. Automated, gear-lugging golf carts? Not so much. That's about to change though, thanks to a little guy named GUSS. More »
Golf - Business - Accessories - Sporting Goods - Consumer Goods and Services
Jeanne Mundango Manunga, scumbag, was recently jailed by Santa Ana, California police for sending nasty, threatening texts to herself. She was posing as her sister-in-law and ex-boyfriend, both of whom were jailed. Now she's in prison where she belongs. More »
Police - Prison - Law - Law Enforcement - California
If you're too young to have experienced Univac of Eniacs or any of the ACs, like I am, this bit of computing history, at 36 years old, is all sorts of neat. More »
History - Asia - Social Sciences - Hardware - Historical
I can't see NASA clamoring to get this Lego design onto the Moon or Mars anytime soon, but man is it neat to look at when it gyrates across that glass table. [Catarino's Flickr via Brothers Brick] More »
Lego - Toy - Recreation - Collecting - Toys and Games
Joining Blockbuster on that depressing 2011 deathwatch are two companies we've been known to cover here at Gizmodo: T-Mobile and RadioShack. Is anything good going to happen next year? More »
RadioShack - Cadel Evans - Tour de France - Lance Armstrong - Sylvain Chavanel
I'm baffled. How a phone that is both a writing utensil and a device for making calls to other humans—humans who might also be writing with their pen phones when I call upon them—could fail is beyond me. More »
Consumer Electronics - Shopping - Arts - Association football - Science and Technology
Blockbuster? We knew it was dying, courtesy Redbox, Netflix and the changing ways people consume their entertainment, but when will it finally expire? Probably next year, according to one analyst and the company's own balance sheet. Updated. More »
Blockbuster - Netflix - Business - redbox - Rental shop
Were you a Comcast subscriber between April 1, 2006 and December 31, 2008? Did you use Ares, BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack, or Gnutella? Yes? Then it's payday for you, to the tune of $16, as the now infamous PSP class action lawsuit against Comcast has resulted in a previous mentioned $16 million settlement fund. You have until August 29, 2010 to file a claim. [Ars Technica] More »
Class action - Comcast - File sharing - BitTorrent - Clients
I haven't been to Burger King in a long while, but if the States implemented the "musical shower" heads that the Japanese experience in their "upscale" Burger Kings, I could be enticed back into the glutinous fold one last time. More »
Fast Food - BurgerKing - Recreation - Food - Business
Fujitsu, former iPad trademark owner and soft-spoken tech manufacturer, is jumping into the Android smartphone game. It will be the company's first smartphone since it stopped selling the multifaceted devices back in 2007. More »
Fujitsu - Android - Smartphone - Handhelds - Toshiba
One mysteriously labeled AT&T "VIP" customer (they've complained, politely? Love wearing AT&T t-shirts?) has been gifted one of those handy MicroCell, and no one seems to know why. Viral marketing stunt? Rounding error? Whatever. Free 3G femtocell: Updated. More »
iPhone - Smartphone - Handhelds - 3gMicrocell - Apple
Tweet Defense, the Twitter-connected tower defense game, is free today courtesy of the always reliable (and reliably free) FreeAppADay.com It's usually $3 for iPhone and $8 for iPad, so grab both and buy a loved one $11 in flowers. [JoyStiq] More »
iPhone - IPad - Smartphones - Handhelds - Apple
