Behold the Bullet 580, the world’s largest blimp. It’s 71m long, 19m in diameter and it’s available to rent – if you have $300,000 for a month. If you should choose to spend your hard-earned beer money on this sucker, you’ll need about six hours to inflate it with helium. The balloon is made from [...more]
The details are still trickling in from Google’s IO event, but the mega-tech company has just announced the new version of the Android operating system for mobile phones. We’ll have all the official details later, but for now here’s what Android 2.2 is promising: Speed App data backup Improved Enterprise / Exchange Support Push services – “Android Intent” Tethering [...more]
I know what you’re thinking.The answer to that headline must be “No, of course not! Are you crazy. Have you seen Waterworld?” Yes I have, and it’s pretty bad. But maybe that movie gave him and his brother the idea for the device above, which Costner claims can filter up to 97% of oil from [...more]
Scientists say a new breakthrough in artificial photosynthesis could make the most annoying part of creating hydrogen a lot easier. Currently, separating hydrogen from oxygen in water takes electricity — more electricity than the resulting hydrogen could create. So, unless this electricity is coming from a solar array or wind energy, it’s not [...more]
I sleep like crap, too much caffeine and too many video games to play put sleep on the back burner. But if I had this sweet bed, I think I could stop both — and I would probably have to since it would cost a fortune. Designed for extreme insomnia sufferers, the “Once Upon a [...more]
I watch a lot of shows on Hulu, because watching shows when The Man says you have to is for suckers. The unfortunate downside to my strategy is that many times, the Hulu viewing experience kinda blows. It has a tendency to pause and stutter, and my the less powerful of my two laptops can’t [...more]
Not long ago, the internet got its first glimpse of Microsoft’s answer to the iPad, the Courier. The dual-screen tablet PC folded like a book and operated with a swanky stylus-based interface that looked a bit too good to be true. Perhaps it was, because the project was unexpectedly canceled late last month. The project [...more]
Do you have a Wii? You do, huh? Well, do you have a black one? No? Better get on that. Nintendo’s living room-dominating Wii will be available in black starting May 9. The new bundle will be priced at $200, the same price as the current white Wii. However, the new edition will come with [...more]
We try not to get carried away with video game coverage here, but certain titles are so big that they definitely cross over from the gaming world into popular tech culture. The beta program for Halo: Reach begins today, which means that anyone who purchased Halo 3: ODST will be able to play an early [...more]
Do you pick your hotel based on its Wi-Fi? Then this chart is for you. It lays out, in pretty visual form, the best and worst hotel chains for your wireless internet connection needs. Now if it could only also predict which hotels have paper-thin walls or rattling AC units. Source: Hotel Chatter via Boing Boing [...more]
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