Android's app trajectory is insane: December saw 4,000 new apps. Last month saw 8,000. This month? On track for more. In a year, the App Market will approach infinity, and our universe will collapse into a sizeless point. More »
Running Flash on Mac OS is, in a word, miserable. It's slow, resource-sucking and crashy, compared to Windows. Which is why Apple's new video acceleration API—which Adobe plans to use in upcoming versions of Flash—is great news. More »
Or, to precise, what were these apparent test devices doing on eBay, before they were unceremoniously yanked? And are they real? More »
We've talked about how the commenting system and those crazy tagpages work, but it seems that it's time for a different sort of discussion. Yeah, it's apparently time to talk about trolls, jerks, doo-doo heads, lousy commenters, and the banhammer. More »
This is Connected, a self-portrait sculpture by artist Kasey McMahon. It's made entirely of Cat 5 cables and other wires, wrapped around a steel frame. It's absolutely stunning. More »
It's not easy to come up with a volcano name that forces people to sound like they've got something jammed down their throats, but someone's gotta do it. Here's the trick to doing it properly. More »
What would life be like without all of those helpful infomercial technologies? Without the Awesome Auger, the Doggie Step, the Closet Organizer, the Egg Genie, or countless others? As this impressively thorough compilation shows: a big, miserable mess. [Kottke] More »
Since the iPad came out, I've been waiting, trembling, for a killer pinball app. The Pinball HD falls well short of pinball nirvana, but there are worse ways to drop $3—especially in the App Store. More »
While Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein says the company would certainly "consider takeover offers," he insists that Palm can survive as an independent company. Not only that, but he has hope for the future: More »
The painful days of updating Android apps one—at—a—time might be at an end with Android 2.2. But is automatic updating really preferable to an "update all" button? It opens questions, and doors, possibly bad ones.[Phandroid] More »
I always imagined fairies as pansy Disney cartoons. But Gwenael Nicolas' 'Sparks' lamp paints a different picture—one of a brazen, orbicular creature of light that leaves sharp crystals in its wake. [designboom] More »
Pepsi and Waste Management are teaming up to make every kid's on-the-go recycling dream come true with Dream Machine, a giant, computerized recycling bin that doles out points for returned bottles. Because who needs deposits when you can have dreams. More »
Kindle and iBooks on iPad still have a long way to go. Craig Mod, publishing experimenter, breaks them down, tells us what needs fixing and offers up some future functionality for digital books. More »
There's a reason why more people haven't seen the next iPhones before Steve Jobs makes an announcement: They're in disguise. More »
A study of fruit flies that have had their scent genes mutated shows that they live up to 30% longer than normal flies. Quick, buy some noseplugs! More »
