There’s a good chance you may have encountered Crush the Castle before – it’s an older flash game, but still a great one. But if you haven’t checked it out by now, you should. Crush the Castle is simple but addictive: use a mouse-controlled trebuchet to launch stones at a castle, knock it down and [...more]
Every year, the South By Southwest (SXSW) music and movie festival attracts hundreds of best bands and thousands of fans from around the world. For the past six years, SXSW has been offering hundreds of tracks by performing artists for free. You can grab those songs individually here at the official site, or you can [...more]
Heel and toe of the foot give way, making for a more natural step than other prosthetics. The foot also provides a little push with the toe at the end of a step, pushing the wearer forward like a real foot would. A typical prosthesis doesn’t reproduce the force a living ankle exerts to [...more]
This news item is for an incredibly specific audience. Here’s who I image you are: You’re male, and you’re concerned about the environment. At least, your girlfriend is so you have to play along. You love sports cars with power and acceleration. You’re not rich, but you desperately want to appear rich. If you meet [...more]
This really interesting clock uses several small analog clocks to make up numerals. It’s a concept clock, so you won’t see it soon, but what an interesting concept. There is an interesting demo of the clock at the designer’s site. [...more]
A new technology looks to appease those wanting a sleek touch screen with the tactile feedback of a real button. According to the MorphPad company rep, the technology is only available in a few devices in Japan, but it will likely make its way to the US at some point. She did mention [...more]
Well, we wouldn’t be a blog without a little bit of Oscar coverage now, would we? Cool factoid: 9 out of the ten documentaries nominated for Best Documentary or Best Short Documentary were cut on Apple’s own Final Cut Pro. This is pretty cool news for the do-it-yourself filmmaker – until a few years ago, all [...more]
Bikers could soon have a little extra help with those tricky hills thanks to the technology behind hybrid cars. Finally, the most efficient machine is even easier to use thanks to Sanyo’s series of hybrid bikes. The series of bikes has been getting more advanced over the years, and the new SPL [...more]
An Indian satellite doing a flyover with a NASA radar spotted tons, and tons, and tons of ice — 600 million metric tons worth. The 1.3 trillion pounds of ice are very interesting to moon scientists and NASA explorers who could potentially use the ice to create water and to eventually create oxygen [...more]
I have yet to spend any real time with Google Buzz, and as such I’ve been looking for an easy way to turn it off. Like lots of email obsessives, I hate having a folder that has a ton of unread messages, so Buzz’s constant reminder that it exists has been a thorn in my [...more]
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