In 1955, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and film director Louis Malle sailed 12,000 nautical miles aboard the Calypso to film the first underwater color movie. A year later, they showed everyone a whole new world, and the exhilarating freedom of diving. More »
Jacques-Yves Cousteau - Scuba diving - Silent World - Recreation - Outdoors
Sure, you can buy the next iPhone from Apple, AT&T, Radioshack (and Best Buy?) on June 24th. But for the first time, Walmart will be selling an iPhone on launch day. You know, if you wanted to be stampeded. [CNET] More »
iPhone - Apple - Smartphone - Handhelds - Radioshack
For this week's Photoshop Contest, lets make the World Cup a little more interesting. I mean, it's a great sport and all, but there's nothing that can't be improved via robots, jetpacks and the like, right? More »
World Cup - Photoshop Contest - Graphics Interchange Format - Photoshop - Contest
The woman in this photo is an employee at the Library of Congress. She is using a high-tech scanner to map the individual chemical components of a century-old book in order to learn how to better preserve it. More »
Hardware - Components - Memory - Library of Congress - Recreation
A mother wanted to discover her son's risk for certain diseases, so she mailed a DNA sample to genetics testing company 23and Me. The results made her cry: Her child's genetic profile was entirely inconsistent with his family's. What happened? More »
Genetics - DNA - Biology - Genetic testing - Science in Society
This has nothing to do with gadgetry at all, but how am I going to pass up posting about Sony Dong? More »
Nintendo Wii - Nintendo - Wii - Video game - Games
BP can't control its oil leak, but it's also having a rough time with image control. More »
Business - Social media - Marketing and Advertising - Internet Marketing - BP
This 18.5-inch screen doesn't exactly look exciting with its 1366 x 768 resolution, but it has a secret: It draws about half the power of a standard monitor and it does it through two USB 3.0 ports. More »
Universal Serial Bus - Hardware - USB - display - Peripherals
This isn't a blurry, low-resolution clip of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. This is a crisp, high-resolution video that the House and Senate pressured BP into finally releasing. What a freakin' mess. More »
BP - United States - Government - Senate - Legislative Branch
When I'm buying a nice cut of meat, I like to talk to my butcher and feel like I'm in touch with the source of my food. Either that or I just slip a fiver into a vending machine. More »
Business - Vending - Opportunities - Food and Drink - Vending machine
The second question about the AT&T iPad security breach, after "Should I be freaking out?" is "How the hell did it happen?" Well, AT&T was just trying to make your life easier. More »
IPad - Business - IPhone - United States - Apple
In the first meeting, the word "creepy" was only mentioned once in two hours. In the second meeting, the word "creepy" defined the conversation. More »
Facebook - Social network - Online Communities - FAQs Help and Tutorials - Google
The iPad, the future of computing, touchscreen this, touchscreen that, yadda yadda, blahblahblah. BLAH. What about connecting it to a joystick to get an instant mini-arcade machine? That's what Hideyoshi Moriya did, using Arduino circuitry and cardboard. Imagine the possibilities: More »
IPad - Games - cabinet - Coin-Op - Arcade Games
The new iPhone 4 looks pretty nice. But it also is chained to godawful AT&T and forces you into a capped data plan. Bummer! So does that count the iPhone out for you, or are you willing to suffer through? More »
IPhone - Smartphone - Handhelds - AT&T - iPhone 4
This works at so many levels. For some, the iPhantom Zone could be a metaphor of the people trapped into Apple's closed iUniverse. For me, it's a metaphor of how much time I spend absorbed into the iPad. [Thanks Marco!] More »
Apple - IPhone - Macintosh - Apple II - Steve Jobs
