Google Earth Leads Scientists to Undiscovered Forest, Brand New Species

Google Earth is fantastic, but this might be its most amazing feat yet: A scientist stumbled across an unknown green patch that turned out to be an unexplored forest home to brand new undiscovered species.

World's Highest Lego Tower Construction on Video

We told you about the 460,000-brick, 96.73-feet Lego tower before, but here is the video showing how it was built by Lego experts with the help of 3,000 kids, who assembled 121 sections made with 2 x 4 Lego bricks to raise this titanic monolith—the highest ever in world. [460,000-Brick Lego Tower Breaks World Record]

Mobile Phone Subscriptions to Reach 4 Billion by Year's End

The UN's International Telecommunications Union announced Friday that mobile phone subscriptions will reach 4 billion by the end of 2008, far more than half of the estimated 6.7 billion total world population. Of course, there are some, like John Mayer, who throw off that number by having more than one cell phone (damn you, Mayer!) but it's still a huge milestone. The bump from last year's total of 3.3 billion is primarily due to emerging countries like China, India, and Russia, as well as lower prices and lots of healthy competition between carriers. [BreitBart via Drudge]

Customizable Analog Clocks Show What Time it is Anywhere

Got a lot of family all over the world? Need to stalk and track every single Giz editor? This customizable analog clock is for you. It shows the time on a 24 hour scale, divided up into night and day, and gives you five hands that point to various time zones throughout the world. This way you can easily label everyone in your family whether they're in London, Madrid, Osaka or just in NY. It takes a bit of getting used to, since there's no minute hand, but you've got enough regular clocks lying around to take care of that. Label one of the hands "beer" and you've got a party all the time. [Funshop via Nexus404]

PC World Names its 100 Best Products of the Year

The PC World Top 100 products of 2007 have been announced, before we are even halfway through 2007. Don't ask me why, but this means they have had to leave out stuff like the iPhone, which they awarded top spot to in the Most Anticipated Product category. More »

Western Digital My Books Get Terabyte Storage, Internet Connections

Western Digital's expanding their line to 1TB and 500GB drives in the My Book World Edition family, which means they have either dual-drive configuration and RAID capability, or just a USB port for added storage and an Ethernet port. More »

Oregon Scientific SmartGlobe

As the military begins recruiting kids at younger and younger ages it is important for our youngsters to know exactly where they will be shipped off to. Even elementary school kids need to start learning about the different countries in the Middle East—the knowledge will come in handy. This SmartGlobe from Oregon Scientific is an educational toy that can teach kiddos about the world with fun games and quizzes. It has modes for all ages and the ability to compete against other future soldiers players or against the computer. Unfortunately this toy carries a hefty price tag: $130. – Travis Hudson More »