I know two things: Only fools fall in love and only geeks use pixelated versions of themselves as wedding cake toppers. I just don't know if the toppers are edible, but I want to nibble on the bride's dress anyway. More »
In this Week's sadly-still-monotasking app roundup, villains and heroes, conjured from paper! Comics, beautifully presented! Things, climbed, forever! Car crises, mitigated! Calculations, calculated! Turn-by-turn navigation, set free! And more... More »
You might have noticed that the comments aren't working the way they should right now, but don't panic! We're not taking them away or anything like that, but our tech team is needing to work on fixing some minor issues. Things will be back to normal again soon. More »
When Jobs announced multitasking for iPhone OS 4, everyone got giddy... until Apple said that this important feature wouldn't work in older iThingies because of "hardware limitations". The hardware, however, fully supports multitasking. Why not enable it, then, Apple? More »
This Beijing installation is not suitable for asthmatics, to say the least. Colored fog was piped through an art gallery, causing havoc and confusion for those walking through. More »
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has to withstand 150% of its wing's load limit for three seconds. It looks like the upcoming airliner can handle the stress just fine. [Boeing] More »
This is the Dashboard app for iPad. It brings OS X's dashboard to the iPad. Cool, right? Well, you're not getting it. More »
If you don't have the time to research the benchmarks, fear not. Tom's Hardware has come to your aid with a simple list of the best gaming CPUs offered at each and every pricepoint. More »
Sharp. Black. Buttons. A power cord. We see Art Lebedev's logo, so "alien weapon" can be ruled out right off the bat. But actually, the truth is still fairly epic. More »
iPhone OS is on perpetual lockdown. Android hacking's boring, considering the platform's Linux credentials. It's webOS, Palm's Linux-based OS, where some of the best gratuitous, for-the-hell-of-it hacking is taking place nowadays. Exhibit A: OpenOffice, running on a Pre. A Pre! More »
If you're set to hop on board AT&T's network, Amazon has a tasty deal: it's selling every AT&T phone it offers for one penny, with a new 2-year contract. Among those included: the Motorola Backflip and the BlackBerry Bold 9700. More »
I always wanted to know how a rocket engine looked right from below, peeking into its nozzles. So I got a high definition NASA photography of Discovery approaching the ISS, and passed it through Photoshop. Here's the result. More »
Here we see the first prototype of the LapDock, a laptop docking station for the iPad. How this is more convenient or practical than Apple's keyboard/dock is beyond me. Just stop, lousy iAccessory makers. Please, please, stop. [ipadlaptdock] More »
The big daddy of the Zune HD family is now available for order. Aside from the increased capacity, it's the same as the older Zune HDs, coming in 7 snazzy colors. It'll set you back $350. [Zune Originals] More »
Why is it that we're perfectly fine reusing some glass and completely refuse to reuse other glass? For $60, you can buy a six pack of tumblers, made from real beer bottles. [Windy City Glass via MAKE via boingboing] More »
Twiddling our thumbs while waiting for files to download is one of the great frustrations of our high-speed, technologically interconnected world. Computer scientists are unlikely to eliminate the waiting any time soon, but they've done the next best thing. More »
The iPad won't charge with all USB chargers. But that's because your USB chargers are weak. The reVIVE II Dual USB Charger can charge both your iPad and your other weakling gadget. The reVIVE II is not weak. More »
Mozilla's serving up a beta of Firefox Lorentz, a version of the browser that runs Flash, Quicktime, and Silverlight videos as a separate processes. If plug-in-caused crashes and stuttering YouTubes have you red in the face, Lorentz offers sweet relief. More »
The controversial Body Worlds creator Gunther von Hagens opens his latest anatomical exhibition at the Neunkirchen Zoo in the state of Saarland, Germany. The 'anatomical safari' contains over 100 animals in various degrees of dissection showing von Hagen's famed plastination process. Presented as a holistic and sculptural anatomical menagerie, the display features the most revered species in the animal kingdom: among them a long-lashed, freckled tall blonde—a giraffe; and two regal, husky, graceful, behemoth elephants.The animal revue posed immense technical challenges for Dr. von Hagens and his plastination team. "Samba" with her size of 6 meters long and 3.5 meters tall is the largest creature that Dr. von Hagens has ever plastinated – the specimen is as heavy as three passenger cars. The preservation required 64,000 working hours, four tons of silicone and 40,000 liters of acetone. By comparison, a human plastinate is completed in 3,000 hours. The exhibition allows a peek under the thick yet light-sensitive skin of an elephant. Its trunk with its network of 40,000 muscles is a feat of design excellence, as well as virtuosity. Visitors will see a plastinated giraffe and learn how its unique cardiovascular system prevents it from being in permanent cardiac arrest and allows it to overcome the challenges of its extreme physique....
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