They may not have laser eyes or butler skills, but junkbots have a charm all their own. That's why I'm so glad someone's finally gotten around to paying tribute to them in this big ol' junktastic gallery. [Dark Roasted Blend] More »
Sure, we associate the iPod and the iPhone with Steve Jobs, but in reality there were of course many people working on these devices' creation. Tony Fadell was one of those people and he played a significant role in bringing the idea of a hard-drive-based digital music player to the market. Now he leaves Apple, the company with whom he managed to realize his vision with these parting words: More »
Want to help save some lions in Kenya? Well, help these guys make some open source lion-tracking collars, complete with GPS and GSM on board. More »
Twirling your pasta around a fork is an artform. Some people twirl it on the side of the bowl, other use spoons and people who are lazy and unimaginative cut their pasta up. And now, from Japan, a new option. More »
Daring Fireball builds on the WSJ iPhone 4 rumors earlier today by dumping what they know: An almost iPad-level 940 x 640 resolution display, an iPad-esque A4 CPU and a front facing camera. AND, multitasking in iPhone OS 4. More »
Computer genius Alan Kay designed the Dynabook back in 1971, the first notebook and allegedly the first iPad. In 1989, Tom Dair—co-founder and president of Smart Design—worked in this other iPad predecessor for Apple. Here is its story: More »
Look at all the pretty iPad apps! Then, look at this one. The iPad's earliest apps may be blessed with good looks and high production values, but it's only a matter of time until the rest show up. Like Twitepad. More »
Witchcraft! The philosopher's stone is now real: It comes in a spray can and will turn any food into gold (or silver). I want a bling bling pizza for dinner. [Deli Garage via Likecool] More »
In today's Remainders: the Dark Side of the Force. Boingo tries to seduce you with $2 Wi-Fi access; Fake Steve Jobs runs into TV show trouble; College Humor espouses the Galactic Empire State of Mind, and more More »
Could it be? The WSJ busts out the "breaking" graphic on the front page to say a new iPhone's coming this summer, and Apple "appears to be working on another model for U.S. mobile phone operator Verizon Wireless." Updated. More »
The iPad is not expensive. In fact, compared to other products through Apple's history, it's very cheap. It's not opinion. It's fact, as you can see in this comparative graphic, covering every major Apple device launch since the Apple I. More »
It's a beautiful dream: buy whatever phone you want and then use it with whatever service you want. And it looks like that's a dream that will come true in Japan. More »
Concrete Pong, a console made by Guus Oosterban by insulating a Pong clone console's guts into plastic, dropping it into a box, and pouring concrete all over it. [Guus Oosterbaan via Make] More »
Over at the Google Blog today they've announced new file transfer capabilities in iGoogle and orkut. That's fun! But what I'm most excited about is their promise of file transfer in Gmail Chat. More »
Dell's promise: that the Alienware M11x is the "most powerful 11-inch gaming laptop" around. And they're right! It's hard to imagine packing much more oomph into such a portable frame. Then again, there's a reason Muggsey Bogues never won MVP. More »
Hold on to your Spiderman underpants because here's a planetary-sized nerdgasm. NASA's Cassini spacecraft has made the most amazing discovery in the history of science: Pac-Man actually lives on the Death Star. There. Beat that, Large Hadron Collider. More »
Through absence of light, the shadow celebrates the unseen. And for this week's Shooting Challenge, 103 of you captured what's so entrancing about photography that looks at what we literally can't see. More »
