Are you losing reception when you hold your iPhone 4? "A Wrap for That" is a vinyl sticker cut to fit the rim of your phone in a variety of colors for $10. Sigh. [A Wrap for That via Twitter] More »
IPhone - Smartphone - Handhelds - Apple - Mobile phone
Last week, a whole lot of people spent a whole lot of time waiting in line for the new iPhone. It was spectacularly boring! If only some of the below events had unfolded, things would have been more interesting. More »
IPhone - Handhelds - Smartphones - Photoshop contest - Graphics Interchange Format
Air-Hair is a "virtual reality haircut simulator" from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, although it looks like that virtual reality is more Lawnmower Man than...whatever good virtual reality is. More »
Virtual reality - Companies - Tokyo Institute of Technology - Conferences - Research Projects
Why hack your Evo? Free Wi-Fi tethering and plenty of other benefits. OK, but how hard is it? Not too bad with the help of a few apps. This step-by-step, "idiot-proof" guide from Android Forums will hold your hand, gently. More »
Android - Handhelds - HTC Evo - Programming - Home
We haven't forgotten! This week's technical difficulties regarding our image uploader coupled with an incredible amount of entries (over 500) have forced us to delay this week's Shooting Challenge results to tomorrow. More »
Recreation - Guns - Competition Shooting - Shooting Challenge - Photography
You caught your cat, Fiona, doing something positively wacky on video. This thing could go viral! With FriendlyMusic, you can get professional, copyright-cleared music in any genre, suitable for complementing any wacky feline behavior, for just two bucks. More »
YouTube - Music - Copyright - Cat - Pets
FIFA president Sepp Blatter has acknowledged that referee mistakes were made and that FIFA will "take on board again the discussion about technology." But he's not going far enough. More »
Soccer - Sport - Sepp Blatter - Video Games - Games
I can see the potential with Foursquare, don't get me wrong—but I do think at the moment it's missing a few vital ingredients. One of them being, err, "fun"—but this Monopoly tie-in could be just the trick. More »
Foursquare - Religion and Spirituality - Pentecostalism - Denominations - International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
Tesla raises $226 million in IPO. That gives Elon Musk two years and two months of cash to burn through. [WSJ] More »
Tesla Motors - Elon Musk - Initial public offering - Technology - Model S
You'd be forgiven for thinking that College Humor's' take on the Facebook deactivation page is the real thing at first. They're actually pretty similar! Which is what makes it so funny and so creepy all at once. More »
Facebook - Humor - CollegeHumor - Recreation - Online Communities
Weird story out of Bristol, Va.; a judge there has abandoned his seat after it came to light that he'd been a constant video gaming companion of a man he'd sent to jail at least three times over the years. More »
Bristol Palin - Bristol - Levi Johnston - England - Anchorage Alaska
NASA's green supersonic dart, courtesy a design team at Lockheed Martin, isn't all conceptual looks and aggressive lines, as there's an environmental angle—pardon the pun—that's present here too: More »
NASA - Space - Technology - Education - Lockheed Martin
Swimmers running into trouble at Malibu's Zuma Beach this summer might owe their lives to a robot named EMILY. The robo-raft, set to launch there and 25 other beaches by December, could rescue victims six times faster than a human. More »
Robotics - Robot - Robot Wars - Competitions - Building
Gaming with goggles? Haven't tried it just yet, though I hear it's coming in our uncomfortable, slightly expensive futures. 3D PC gaming? Even more obscure to me, although Sapphire's single card setup sounds multi-monitor cool. More »
Multi-monitor - game - Video Games - Gambling - Equipment
The folks at Terrafugia have moved the flying car even further into the mainstream this weekend thanks to a weight exemption granted by the FAA. More »
Terrafugia - Recreation - Autos - Flying car - Business
In this video, an iPhone 4 owner demonstrates how the antenna problem also affects transmission in voice calls. Using only one finger, the voice quality degrades, even dropping completely. He explains the process: More »
IPhone - Smartphone - Handhelds - Apple - Antenna
At least one country is taking note, and objecting to, Apple's now well-known data transparency issues, which made a subtle appearance in the software license every user must agree to before installing iOS 4. More »
Apple - Privacy - Security - IPhone - Macintosh
