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After sucking our planet dry of any useful resources, we turn our eyes upward to the skies and search for another beautiful planet to rape. Scientists are hoping to mine helium-3 (He3) gas from the lunar surface — a gas that’s rare here on Earth but is like a veritable Starbucks on the Moon. The…
It’s a good day for people who love things that go really, really fast. Our favorite super electric car — the Tesla Roadster — has won an INDEX prize for being so damn cool. The INDEX prizes are the world’s most lucrative design awards, given every two years for five categories — body, home, work,…
This Microsoft patent describes a heads up user interface on windshields that shows useful information for the driver right where the eyes are. The patent takes information from cellphones, car stereos, your GPS, maps, weather, temperature, email, car instruments and probably the Zune, and places it your eyeline. Much more useful than taking a big…
Some man in Ohio had his Dell laptop catch fire yesterday. That’s weird, thought Gizmodo, since Dell offered replacement batteries for all the combustible versions of their batteries last year. What’s this guy doing with a laptop on fire? And why’s he making demands that Dell pay for the damages to his house and the…
Our Dear Leaders are always looking for new ways of quelling unrest in nonviolent—at least, notoverly violent—ways. (Let’s face it, smacking someone over the head with a truncheon, and causing the blood to flow doesn’t look great on news bulletins, does it?) The latest idea emanating from the Pentagon, according to a report by the…
This is unconfirmed for now, but some forum poster at Neogaf claims that Nintendo is going to discontinue the DS Lite web browser. Seeing as you had to pay $29 for a web browser that wasn’t even that great, we can understand why. [Amazon via Neogaf via DS Fanboy]
A version of Pac-Man that administers electric shocks to gamers has been shedding light on how the human brain reacts to danger. Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging at UCL found that the closer the gamers got to danger, the more impulsive was their response. “In effect, the less free will you will…
The GP2X emulator-friendly handheld game unit is about to get an upgrade. THE GP2X F-200 game system comes in white, but has “Dual CPU Cores,” 64MB flash ram, USB 2.0, runs Linux, plays back DivX, XviD, MPEG4, MP3, OGG, supports video encoded at 720×480 resolution video at 30fps, SMI subtitles, TV-Out, E-Book viewer (txt files…
This Tempo design project is a small, recycle bin-like external hard drive that’s supposed to save your files from deletion hell. Whenever you delete a file, your OS transfers the file over to Tempo wirelessly, which then keeps the file temporarily until it’s out of space. LEDs light up the tempo from the bottom up,…
Boy Genius Report says they’ve been told that the BlackBerry Pearl 2 will be vomited up like so much turkey dinner this Thanksgiving dinner. The bucket? Sprint, who will also add GPS to the mix. Not much other detail on this BB2 as of yet, including pricing. [Boy Genius Report]
Click to viewThere are no words… they should have sent… a poet… (Click through to see me getting motion sickness playing Gears of War and Forza 2 as well. Video of said activities will be coming next week.)
We’ve gotten some independent confirmation/rumors on the leaked Sprint roadmap we posted on Tuesday. Our source is saying that the Moto ic602 and Moto V9M will come in September, the Sanyo S500 S1 and HTC Vogue will come in October, the Moto Q9c and LG 260 will come in November, and the international Blackjack will…
Does your inhaler look as drab as an IBM Thinkpad? Never fear—your asthma meds get a stylish makeover with Respire’s magnetic silver container. On sale for about $15, these sleek geek accessories come in two sizes, with glossy or satin finish. I love the weird ad copy from Respire, which claims its cases are made…
HDMI cable (6-footer), humorously labeled as retailing for $69.99, now selling for $1.20. Ha ha ha. [Amazon]
These may look like regular headphones, but the spikes on the top are designed to shock your hair into behaving. And by behaving, we mean grow again. The KeUpper, made in Japan, is supposed to make you slightly less bald in just tens of weeks. Sounds just as good as that Hairmax Laser we tested.…
This $10.5 million cellphone from Sprint comes with many nice features we’ve covered before, but has a delicious bonus that you can’t find anywhere else. We’re in for five. You win again, advertising. [Sprint]
We’re not really sure what’s going on with this chocolate calculator, or Chocolator, but we’re pretty sure it’s not edible. Well, probably more edible than the LG Chocolate, but less edible than say, an actual chocolate bar without electronics inside. Now I can do my taxes and make a big mess all at the same…
We hinted at it this morning, and now here we are – at the Panasonic HQ in New Jersey getting up close and personal with one of the largest TVs in existence. Yes, it’s heavy. Stay tuned for a great example of how I have the sweetest job ever as I play Bioshock, Gears of…
Either this Best Buy listing is wrong, or there’s a $349.99 version of the Xbox 360 Core with HDMI coming in September 1. We’re leaning towards wrong listing since the box shows a Premium (the DVD drive is silver) and the price is of a premium, but who knows what’s going on in Microsoft’s stable.…
Despite reported bugs, Palm is denying that their Foleo UMPC-like device will be delayed. [MacWorld]