Chipworks and iFixit teamed up to take a look beneath the Kin Two's black and lime exterior, finding some things that were expected, like the NVIDIA Tegra APX2600 processor, and some, like a Sony image sensor, that were, well, not. More »

This teeny little robot is the size of a toy truck - just 50 square inches. It'd be cute, almost, if it wasn't armed with "dozens" of eight-inch rockets. More »

Back from a week out of country, I confirmed a theory: the iPad makes a fantastic travel computer. So much so that I'm going to be selling my laptop. More »

For once, I'm not being sarcastic. You don't have to bother running your sarcasm-detecting algorithm over that headline, students at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Because it's true! More »

Foxconn—one of Apple's main providers—is so worried about employee suicidal rate that they've hired 100 counsellors to help. Their concern isn't only about the living, however: They're bringing 30 Buddhist monks to release the suicide souls from purgatory. More »

I can't say I've ever had a problem with the current design of scissors which has served us well since the mid-1700s, but designer Spencer Nugent has seen fit to magic up these Comfort Grip scissors. More »

Behold, my ultimate wet dream: Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Galaxian, Galaga, Zaxxon, Pengo, Frogger, 1942, 1943, Phoenix, Time Pilot, Bomb Jack, Arkanoid, and even Burger Time—48 classic games inside a beautiful Lego arcade cabinet. More »

Last month, Twitter bought Tweetie—our most favorite of all iPhone Twitter apps—with the intention of rebranding it as the free, official Twitter for iPhone app. It looks like that change is imminent—Tweetie 2 disappeared from the App Store this morning without a trace, and presumably Twitter for iPhone will show up sometime soon—possibly even today or tomorrow—to take its place. We'll have a hand-on when it does. More »

Nick Bilton flags a surge of job openings at Amazon, all for the Kindle team. Word is that Amazon's working on a touchscreen color Kindle, and if anything, this hiring spree shows that they're not screwing around: They're gathering software engineers, new QA staff and apparently talking to game publishers about games for the platform. This wouldn't be a Kindle 3, it'd be a Kindle tablet. More »

Sure, the ghost special effects somehow have gotten worse in the last 20 years, but it's pretty much impossible to not be charmed by the Ghostbusters returning to the New York Public Library. [Improv Everywhere] More »

If you've been waiting for the iPod-compatible Nike+ heart rate monitor to really start exercising in earnest, well, you've been waiting a really long time. But now you can dust off those running shoes and start planning your jog on Google Maps—June 1 is the first day of the rest of your life. More »

After BP's many failures, Obama and his Energy Secretary Steven Chu have assembled a team of five "extraordinarily intelligent" scientists, whose specialties range from bomb design to Martian mining, to clean up the Gulf spill. Here's the all star team: More »

Oil spill - Environment - Energy - Petroleum in the Environment - Spill Containment and Remediation

Two high school DIY-ers will present Saphira, their animatronic dragon, at the upcoming Bay Area Maker Faire. I'm not sure they quite understood when the guidance counselor told them to stand up to bullies by fighting fire with fire. [Make] More »

San Francisco Bay Area - Maker Faire - Do it yourself - United States - California

According to research by mobile ad team Smaato, U.S. users of Symbian-based devices—few and far between as they may be—click 2.7 times more mobile ads than other users. How to explain this tiny victory? More »

Smaato - Click-through rate - Mobile Computing - Advertising - Symbian

It's that time of year again, when TV studios pick up a bunch of new shows and decide the fates of old ones. V and Chuck will live to see another season; Heroes and FlashForward will not. Good riddance! More »

Television - Chuck - Arts - History - Programs

Since last August, 62 workers at Wintek, who supplies Apple with touchscreens for iPhones and iPods, have been treated for N-hexane poisoning, one of whom died from exposure to the screen-cleaning chemical. Now, 44 of the workers from the Wintek factory in Suzhou, China, are planning to sue Wintek over the poisonings. [Wired] More »

iPhone - Apple - Wintek - China - Handhelds

It's not nearly as weird as some stuff we've seen, but this particular sequence offers a rare glimpse into the heat-of-the-moment decision making that precedes an amusing Street View snapshot. As Hemingway said, true courage is grace under pressure. [BuzzFeed] More »

Google - GoogleStreetView - streetview - Wi-Fi - Companies

If you're ready to start making this whole solar power thing work for you, this 20,000mAh battery, which comes with 29 adapters for charging phones, MP3 players, cameras and laptops of all stripe, will keep all your gear covered. More »

Batteries - Battery - Business - Energy - Shopping

You might think that Futurama's an unlikely place to find a grab bag of graduate-level physics, but in an excellent new interview with the American Physical Society, creator David X. Cohen says viewers of his show will find just that. More »

Physics - Education - Organizations - David X. Cohen - American Physical Society

When Toyota gave the iQ, their tiny new four-seater, the tagline "nimble as a mouse," they were probably referring to the cheese-loving rodent. But just to cover all the bases, they turned one into a giant, functioning computer mouse, too. More »

Toyota - Business - Automotive industry - Advertising - Marketing and Advertising