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When NASA and Goodyear set out to develop a tire, they could not do so with the Earth in mind. This tire is Moon-bound and beyond, you see, where failure is not an option. More » read full article »

Microsoft, seeing an opportunity in the very young and undefined "tactile touchscreen" space, has filed a patent for pixel-sized plastic cells that can give a sense of touch and feel to tomorrow's touchscreen devices. More » read full article »

The next version of the RoboCup-famous DARwIn bot is about ready to give the Nao a run for its money. The new DARwIn-OP from Robotis and Virginia Tech's RoMeLa (led by Dr. Dennis Hong, who joined us on the Engadget Show earlier this year) is just about to land, and the first pictures of the .. read full article »

We've been following Aldebaran Robotics' Nao humanoid robot literally since it took its first steps, and it looks like interested developers will finally be able to get their hands on a bot of their own quite soon. To do so, they'll have to sign up and quality for the just-launched Nao developer .. read full article »

TechCrunch is wondering if the 25 percent price drop of Sony's Blu-ray / Google TV set top box is a sign that Google TV is already failing. There's only one problem with the theory: the SonyStyle site says the special price is only good through Nov. 29. Sounds awfully like a Black Friday / .. read full article »

Australia has one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world. Thus, to help with that concern, there's an app for that.A free iPhone application, SunSmart, has been created by the organization Cancer Council Australia. Australia sees more than 1,850 people die of skin cancer annually, .. read full article »

Given the dominance of Sony's Walkman over in the Land of the Rising Sun, it's a little surprising to think that Sony has been all but silent regarding the Japanese e-reader market. We heard back in May that the mega-corp was planning an e-reader launch in Japan by the year's end, aiming to .. read full article »

DNS servers are that part of the Internet that translate domain names like www.yahoo.com into the IP addresses necessary for your computer to reach that site. OpenDNS, founded in 2006 and fmmous for its speed and reliability compared to other DNS servers, can be used in place of your ISP's DNS .. read full article »

Rovio has announced some nice stats for its Angry Birds Android release. The much-loved and -played video game has reached 7 million downloads from the Android Market.Rovio's Angry Birds is free on the Android Market, though it costs $0.99 in the App Store. When asked why it is free on .. read full article »

See those smiling twentysomethings up there? That, folks, is the kind of happiness that can only be achieved with 150 glorious lux of LED intensity. Fortunately, Siemens subsidiary Osram Opto Semiconductors has packaged a new LED chip that capable of putting up such impressive figures, a claimed .. read full article »

I love the Holidays….the brisk winter weather (or for us here in the Pacific Northwest, the dumping rain),  the hustle and bustle, getting together with family and friends, eating too much, buying gifts for everyone, etc. Often I am consulted to assist those same friends and family members in .. read full article »

If Intel prognosticated correctly, context is the future of apps -- your device's array of sensors will determine where you are and what you're doing, and clever programs will guess from there. Problems arise, however, when one tries to run those accelerometers, microphones, radio antennas and .. read full article »

The future of Australian's Labor Party-backed National Broadband Network is looking much brighter today. The Senate voted in favor of an A$11 billion bill for Telstra's copper network that also has the Telecom company (and former government-owned entity) splitting into both a retail group and a .. read full article »

These wooden Blackbox Macbook cases are more stylish than the one's we've seen before and even more detailed. Each case is hand oiled, hand sanded, hand rubbed and individually numbered. It only weighs 1.5 pounds too. More » read full article »

Do you know what's a good way to know if people are shopping? By checking the parking lots. And according to satellite images from Remote Sensing Metrics, people have been shopping a lot more this year than years past. More » read full article »

Do you want to have a Vertu replica luxury mobile phone that you can proudly take out of your pocket. Here you can get one at lowest price. You don’t need to be a millionaire to purchase a really... (follow link to read) read full article »

New stopmotions http://www.youtube.com/user/cat325ccr2 From: cat325ccr Views: 132 1 ratings Time: 00:11 More in Autos & Vehicles Continue reading → (follow link to read) read full article »

Don't call it a netbook, capiche? Gateway has just outed a new 11.6-incher over in Japan, with the EC19C-A52C/S boasting some of the most impressive specifications we've seen in a unit this compact. A 1.33GHz dual-core Core i5-470UM processor sits at the heart of this here lappie, and it's .. read full article »

It's so surprisingly fantastic and magical that I'm going to go buy steel wool and light it on fire right now. It's like having front row seats to an intergalactic light show. [Boing Boing] More » read full article »

It appears we may be on the eve of another document release by whistleblower site Wikileaks. Der Spiegel, which has been thus far always the recipient of previews from the site, along with the New York Times and British newspaper The Guardian, and French newspaper Le Monde, posted a Q&A about .. read full article »

Artist: Soulja Boy Song Name: Blowing Me Kisses Genre: RNB Year: 2010 Label: ColliPark Music/Interscope Records YouTube VIDEO: Continue reading → (follow link to read) read full article »

CAT 320DL caterpillar 320dl excavator at work From: cat325ccr Views: 73 1 ratings Time: 00:30 More in Autos & Vehicles Continue reading → (follow link to read) read full article »

Oh, sure -- we've seen a litany of knockoff MacBook Pro units, but how's about one that actually ships with OS X? As the level of nerve skyrockets towards infinity, an unnamed manufacturer in an unnamed section of China seems to be hawking a lookalike MBP with Snow Leopard onboard -- a feat that .. read full article »

Ever wanted to know what it's like to work at an Apple Store? Well, according to this mysterious, semi-angry, semi-funny Apple blogger you'll learn to hate hipster customers, hipster employees, hipster products and the atrocious "Apple grammar". More » read full article »

In a rather unique publicity stunt, Fredrik Hjelmquist, purposely swallowed a pill that contained a wireless sound system. No, really. He wanted to become a Human Jukebox with music coming out of his stomach. More » read full article »

Tokyoflash, purveyor of all things awesome when it comes to watches, has just unveiled its latest addition. If you're of the eagle-eyed variety, you've probably spotted it just to the right (or after the break in video form). The difference between this fellow and most of the timepieces found .. read full article »

Well, pardon us. We balked at the $208 price tag affixed to Tokyoflash's RPM LED wristwatch, but the value proposition there now looks an awful lot brighter when compared to this. Manufacture Royale's looking to catch at least one or two elitists off guard with its new Opera Time-Piece, a $1.2 .. read full article »

If someone opened my beer with this Klein Bottle opener, I'd probably yelp in fear. It looks so alien and just plain weird that I can't believe it actually works. More » read full article »

Boeing's Spectrolab subsidiary has been working on making solar cells more and more efficient for years now, and it looks like it's now set to put its latest record-breaking cells into mass production. Those come in the form of the company's new C3MJ+ solar cells, which boast an average .. read full article »

This computer icon notebook is just perfect for the guy who balances new technology with old school knowhow. It's like doing things the old fashioned way but with a wink towards technology. Buy one for $10. [Brigada Creativa via DesignMilk] More » read full article »

Intel's Core i7-2630QM chip has made the leap from the company's roadmap onto its first spec sheet, courtesy of HP's dv7. We've come across a fully detailed component listing for HP's entertainment laptop, which includes the 2GHz quad-core chip as the star of its show. Now, of course, neither HP .. read full article »

An upcoming study claims that test subjects were able to accurately predict future events—and that pornography was one of the tools used in research for the project. Crazy, right? More » read full article »

The Media Computing Group -- otherwise known as the dudes and dudettes responsible for making multitouch hip again -- is back, and some might say better than ever. The BendDesk is an outlandish new concept workspace for the future, relying heavily on a curved multitouch display to bring the wow. .. read full article »

Wendy Scott, a teacher of at North Brookfield Elementary School in Massachusetts, tried to ban pencils and pens in her classroom. It's completely ridiculous because you sorta need them to do schoolwork and because it's just a freaking pencil and pen. More » read full article »

We'd heard that the Symbian Foundation would undergo some drastic changes as it transitions to a licensing body, and here's number one -- every official Symbian website will be shuttered on the 17th of next month. That goes for every page from symbian.org down to the Symbian Twitter and Facebook .. read full article »

Here's an extra bonus for those of you who snapped up an unlocked Xperia X8 on a frosty Friday morn -- Sony Ericsson is starting to push Android 2.1 to the handset right now. Thirty-two tasty batches of Eclair are already in the oven, and you can easily check to see if you're a likely candidate .. read full article »

The weekend after Thanksgiving/Black Friday is definitely relaxing but also a little boring. But it's not the most boring day in the 20th century. That'd be April 11th, 1954. A scientist developed software to determine that as the boringest day ever. More » read full article »

After Black Friday, and before Cyber Monday, there is a new "day" this year. For the first time, today is Small Business Saturday, something American Express hopes to make an annual event, one designed to support local businesses.This is not the sort of day that shoppers expect for Cyber Monday .. read full article »

UK based Liberty Games has launched a cool new home-market focused multi-game arcade machine, which can be completely customized from the look of the cabinet, display size, controllers, sound system and more. The PC based system is powered by a Dual Core processor with 2gb of RAM, 160gb Hard .. read full article »

It's not that surprising (given previous bans), but Apple recently rejected a small Danish Android magazine app from the App Store. It's unlikely that many people would've bought the magazine in the first place, which makes it an odd-ish ban. More » read full article »

Quantum anything has typically fallen into our oft-used category of 'awesome things that'll never happen,' but if a crew of researchers at the California Institute of Technology have anything to say about it, they'll soon be changing the fortunes of this here segment. The team has recently .. read full article »

If you are connected, as we are, to a variety of retail sites from past purchases, you have probably been inundated with Black Friday emails from them. We haven't started to see Cyber Monday deal emails just yet, but know we will. While we have a tendency to default to a couple of sites, .. read full article »

Based on new manufacturing information and corresponding rumors of a CDMA iPhone, one analyst thinks he has the iPad 2 release narrowed down to April.Now it looks like April may be the magic... (follow link to read) read full article »

Auluxe Dew Review From: shinymedia Views: 103 2 ratings Time: 02:22 More in Film & Animation Continue reading → (follow link to read) read full article »

If we're talking about Peter Pan's Lost Boys, then a sackful of marbles should do the trick. For every other man who spends more time playing with his son's or nephew's Christmas presents than his own, consider the following... More » read full article »

KOOSTIK, the wood amplified iPhone sould docks set you back $85-$90, depending on the type of wood you choose. Main features:Specially designed sound channels and hemispherical sound chambers create... (follow link to read) read full article »

Go 'head Acer! Get down with your bad self! After introducing a bevy of tablets at a press event earlier this week, it seems as if the company has at least one more trick up its sleeve: this. The AZ3750-A34D all-in-one PC is easily one of the sexiest AIO units we've seen in quite some time, .. read full article »

Earlier this year, I told you about some Moleskine-style cases for the iPhone from Pad and Quill, a family-owned company in Minneapolis.  The folks at that company have been busy refining the products and upgrading the materials they use.  They now use real leather for the exteriors, but they .. read full article »

All too rarely we get to see a product that does exactly what it promises for a fair price, with good support and a solid design. The BearExtender N3 is that kind of product but only for folks running Mac OS X. They’ve now released the PC version, called the BearExtender PC, and we’re going .. read full article »

Want an iPad but can't countenance the associated outlay of cash up front? Orange is making that pill easier to swallow today with the revelation of its contract-tied pricing for Apple's tablet in the UK. Pre-orders are about to start today for obtaining the 3G-connected iPad at prices of £199 .. read full article »