I'd have learned the alphabet so much faster this way. The Console Font is now in excellent t-shirt form for $9. [Tee Fury] More »
The Gamer’s Alphabet, on a T-Shirt [Gaming]
AT&T’s Faster HSUPA Upload Speeds Returning in Places They Poofed? [At&t]
We're hearing that HSUPA-fast upload speeds are returning to normal in places where a software defect in Alcatel-Lucent equipment caused them to tank. AT&T's not officially confirming it, though. [Uneasy Silence] More »
Pay Your Bar Tab With An iPhone App [Apps]
In the perfect life, I'd have an open bar everyday. In this life, I'd take having TabbedOut work in every bar. It's an app that let's you pay for your bar tab straight from your iPhone. More »
"Critical Alarm System" Turned Off Before Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Explosion [Oil Disaster]
BP knew about the Deepwater Horizon oil rig's safety risks a year while ago. So, naturally, the "critical alarm system" that would've warned workers bad things are happening was intentionally disabled before the explosion that took down the rig. More »
This Must Be Kinda What It’s Like Trapped Inside of a Snow Globe [Art Installation]
Hundreds of pounds of feathers, rising, swirling and settling in a 50-feet installation—Tokujin Yoshioka's "snow" aims to evoke the snowscapes of our memories. I hope it's really cold inside. More »
Cleaning Up the Gulf Oil Disaster With Dustbusters [Oil Disaster]
How is the scrappy Plaquemines Parish Inland Waterway Strike Force cleaning up BP's mess as oil creeps into their backyard—the wetlands of southeastern Louisiana? With dustbusters. And they say they're "knocking the socks off" BP's cleanup crews. Video: More »
An App That Turns Cameras Into Time Machines [Apps]
Perfectly matching snapshots-in-progress with a photo taken in the same spot a hundred years ago is an awesome idea. Turns out, it's kind of hard. But Adobe and MIT have figured out a way to make it happen more accurately. More »
World’s Best Preserved Crater Found Using Google Earth [Crater]
This crater, located in a remote area of the Sahara desert, was discovered by researchers using Google Earth. And that's actually not even the coolest part. Kamil, as the crater is called, may be the world's best preserved crater. More »
Jelloware Cups Transform Summer Picnics Into Hot, Sticky Messes [Food]
Good idea: Tossing plastic cups for disposable, edible ones made out of agar agar, in flavors like lemon-basil and ginger-mint that can be tossed in the grass afterward. Bad idea: Using them outside right now. [thewayweseetheworld via Treehugger via PSFK] More »
iPhone and iPad Strategy Games That Are Better Than Risk [IPhone Apps]
Much like Words With Friends on iPhone and iPad is a cheaper, better implementation of the official Scrabble app, there are no-name Risk knockoffs that outclass the official app. More »
Sharp Creates First 100GB Blu-ray Disc [BluRay]
Thanks to nifty lasers, Sharp has created the first 100GB Blu-ray disc. The new Blu-ray format, called VR-100BR1, uses a new triple-layer standard that allows storage space of up to 128GB on single-write discs and 100GB on re-writable discs. More »
New Embedded YouTube Videos Play as Flash or HTML5 [YouTube]
YouTube's Flash-less HTML5 video offerings keep expanding: The latest is a hybrid embedded video that'll play HTML5 or Flash video, depending what a viewer's system supports and their preference. It's still being tested, but hurray HTML5, etc. [YouTube via Cnet] More »
HP Won’t Make Any Windows Phone 7 Devices [WebOS]
HP won't be double dipping when it comes to webOS and Windows Phone 7—they'll only make webOS phones. And well, it shouldn't be that surprising, Palm and webOS is their $1.2 billion baby after all. When you spend that kind of cash, uh yeah, you're going to use them. More »
Intel’s Cash Register Concept of the Future [Cash]
If Intel has its way, boring cash registers will be replaced with these machines of the future. They're more than just sexy glass, metal and touchscreen too—they're an Intel-powered experience that recognizes you and the way you shop. More »
What It Takes for AT&T to Suck Less [At&t]
How To Be an Android Power User [Android]
From its auspicious start as the brainchild of Internet giant Google, Android has matured into a well-rounded, extremely capable smartphone operating system. Here's everything you need to know to master Google's smartphone OS. More »
California team to receive up to $122 million for energy innovation hub to develop method to produce fuels from sunlight
As part of a broad effort to achieve breakthrough innovations in energy production, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman today announced an award of up to $122 million over five years to a multidisciplinary team of top scientists to establish an Energy Innovation Hub aimed at developing revolutionary methods to generate fuels directly from sunlight.
Cutting Edge Razor Blade Gets Even Sharper with Diamonds
A German high-tech company has created a razor made with a nanocrystalline diamond coating that can split a human hair several times in a row.
NanoKTN announces winners of its 2010 EPSRC collaborative studentships
Winners include research proposals looking at development of longer life secondary cells for electric vehicles and nanodiamond coatings in engineering applications.
First step towards electronic DNA sequencing: Translocation through graphene nanopores
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new, carbon-based nanoscale platform to electrically detect single DNA molecules.