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We all have obsolete gadgets in our home. If they’re TV games, old computers or old laptops we can find a good use for them. The best use for an old laptop I ever saw is this: Oh … and by the way … if you have old gadgets and you’re planning of doing something [...]

It’s coming: Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty. The game will launch worldwide (except China ) on July 27 for the PC and Mac and will retail for $60 in the US. The game will also be available in a deluxe $100 Collector’s Edition that will include a 176 page art book and a flash drive [...]

HP has designed a new architecture within which multiple layers of memristor memory can be stacked on top of each other in a single chip. As a result, the company believes devices incorporating memristor-based chips could hit the market in five years. Such devices would include handheld gadgets offering 10 times greater embedded memory than [...]

Young talented artist Antoinette Citizen has decorated a normal room to look like the first level from the Nintendo game Super Mario Bros. It contains all the bricks, question marks, coins and boxes that you can find in the real game. The boxes are in 3D, and the background that would be the room’s walls [...]

When you look at most of the two dozen or so people in this photograph, which belongs to a Canadian museum, there’s no doubt that they’re from 1940, the year in which it was taken. But what about that guy? Those trendy sunglasses? That T-shirt and hippie shawl? The disinterested expression? He sure as hell [...]

Christian, rise and act thy creed; Let thy prayer be in thy deed; Seek the right, perform the true, Raise thy works and life anew. Hearts around thee sink with care; Thou canst help their load to bear; Thou canst bring inspiring light, Arm their faltering wills to fight. Let thine aims be hope and [...]

CTRUS is the first intelligent soccer ball – the solution to a lot of soccer scandals. Alberto Villarreal and Michael Rojkind (it’s creators) announced in Spain that the new ball could be used in soccer games 2 years from now: We believe that this ball can add a lot of fair-play to the future soccer [...]

Here’s a pic I found today in my e-mail and made my day. The crab Grapsus grapsus (known variously as “red rock crab”, “abuete negro”, and, together with other crabs such as Percnon gibbesi, as “Sally Lightfoot”) is one of the most common crabs along the western coast of South America. It can also be [...]

The Dark Lens is the set of images where we can see that the Star Wars has never looked so real and it’s on Earth. A shooting happened in Dubai and it is directed by photographer Cedric Delsaux ( an awarded photographer and winner in the newcomer’s France Bourse du Talent competition which stands for [...]

Have you licked your toilet seat recently? Sound gross? Try typing, or talking on your phone. A new study found that of 12 places in the average office, the toilet seat had the least bacteria. They also found that wiping everything with Clorox wipes kills the bacteria, which is a shocker, considering the study was [...]