2008

Aug

Red Bull Makes Your Blood Sticky

Young people are being warned to treat the caffeine drink “with caution” after...

Toshiba is going on the offensive in the DVD wars with a new...

The Economy: The Worst Is Yet To Come

Credit market turmoil has driven the U.S. into a recession and may topple some of the nation’s...

Apple had a huge success with the iPhone, the iPhone 3G and...

Meet the Deus Ex Machina, a wearable motorbike that brings...

New Website Pushes Copyright Boundaries

The magazine industry, already facing a decline in newsstand sales and falling ad revenue, is being...

David Byrne And Brian Eno Together...

Brian Eno’s career has a kind of “gas and brake” quality. A performer of fine rock with Roxy Music...

Outside.In Let's You Know What's...

From Outside.in, Radar’s powered by a brand-new Yahoo(!) platform that geo-pinpoints...

A beautiful Coca Cola commercial from the 1940’s.

Satisfaction Leads To Customer Spending

American consumers are showing Apple and Google love — lots of love. In the latest national economic...

Together Under One Roof: Making a Home of the Buddha’s...

Fewer Children For American Women

Women are waiting longer to have children, and more women than ever are choosing not to have...

The Internet: We've Only Just Begun

And innovation on the internet happens at a rapid pace. Ten years ago, Google was simply an idea...

Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks

Cheats of Strength: 10 Next-Gen Olympic...

Why The Internet Continues To Be NBC's...

The Secret Seven

If you’ve been wanting to try out one of those Sansa...

The world’s most perfect sounding speaker?

An Intriguing YouTube/TV Business Model

Saysme.tv didn’t invent the loudmouth, but, as the company’s logo indicates, it sure hopes to sell...

Calexico - Two Silver Trees

My 78 Obsession

Thousands of recordings that had been largely consigned to the realm of prehistory in the digital...

Credit and Blame by Charles Tilly

New Website Makes Airport Parking Easy

AboutAirportParking is a comprehensive airport parking lot search engine, designed by a Silicon...

Japanese dome houses look like igloos and are made from a...

eBay Traders Look Elsewhere

Irked by February’s changes in fees and the feedback-rating system, merchants who once sold...

Michael Phelps consumes approximately 12,000 calories a day, roughly six times the RDA for a man his...

NY Times: Soul Calibur IV Rocks!

Games still haven’t matched Hollywood yet in pure martial-arts eye candy, but with the new Soul...

Save The World, Buy an Eco-Friendly Guitar

The Death of Planned Obsolescence

Sonos’ approach signals a larger shift in the gadget industry, a business that has long...

Disassembled Household Appliances Flikr Set

Runners' High: Joggers Live Longer

If you want to delay the consequence of aging, you’d better start running on daily basis according...

Darker My Love - Two Ways Out

After 8 Years, Deadbooks Goes Live

Eight years in the making, Deadbooks — a text- and audio-based series about aliens, ghosts...

The Dell Latitude E6400 runs for as much as 10 hours on a...

Every New Car Will Be A Hybrid By 2020

All new cars will have some degree of hybridization by 2020, by which point battery technology will...

Plant Seed, Pull Weed: Nurturing the Garden of Your Life by...

Japanese Researchers Develop "Robot...

Japanese researchers say they have developed a rubber that is able to conduct electricity well,...

The Tâke Personal Pocket Safe from Blackbox Innovations is...

Your Broadband Speed Sucks

It’s 2008, and that series of tubes called the Internet has been around for a while....

The new college dorm commercial for Target has created a lot of interest from the catchy song by...

City Space Is An Amazing New Virtual...

LivePlace.com has posted a video displaying a very impressive render of a 3D virtual world called...

TiVo Filling Up? DVR Expanders Provide More Room To Record

The A2B Electric Bike Is A Smooth, Green Ride

The Suzukaze Kuchofuku Air Conditioned Cushion

Me And My Speedo LZR Racer

I was expecting the LZR Racer to be as hard to put on as the wetsuits I’ve worn for open-water...

Previously unreleased, although a wildly popular bootleg,...

Mishka NYC Make Your Own Shirt

Zotes Sunflower Seeds

Digital Memories: Internet Meme Timeline

Best Buy To Launch Gadget Vending...

US retail chain Best Buy is to start installing technology vending machines in US airports. From...

Ask A Republican

Global Warming Leads To Extremes

The link between a warmer climate and more powerful rainstorms has been confirmed by scientists...

Toyota Motor showed off a new stand-up scooter that could...

10 Things To Scratch From Your Worry List

50 Sexiest Videos

Flush With Energy

New Orleans Amazing New Audubon...

What is it about these creatures? In the new $25 million Audubon Insectarium, which opened here in...

This month, Alex Holdridge’s black-and-white romantic comedy, In Search of a Midnight Kiss,...

P2P Moves To Wireless

While the regulatory debate between the FCC and Comcast over the provider’s tactics for...

Gadgets Boost Olympic Performance — Legally

Public Libraries Go Digital

It may be about time to dig out that old library card. Hoping to draw back readers, libraries have...

Sneaky Sound System - I Love It

The Growth Of Visual And Data Analytics

It turns out even computers can have information overload. Powerful computers can make millions of...

I Don’t: A Contrarian History of Marriage by Susan...

Microsoft To Promote Energy Saving App

Each PC’s power consumption is responsible for an average of 1000 pounds of CO2 emissions...

Flow Chart Of A Geek’s Life

Stocks: Can the Market Predict a President?

Making Capitalism More Creative

Twenty Jobs to Ride Out an Economic Slump

iLike Launches Full Song Playback

iLike, the music service with a massive following on Facebook and increasing popularity elsewhere,...

SylvanSport’s Mobile Adventure Gear. The...

LG's New Blu-Ray Player Offers Streaming...

When it’s released in the fall, the LG BD300 will be the first Blu-ray player that will also...

One problem with battery extenders for mobiles is they often...

Facebook's Auto Tagging Feature

One of my favorite Facebook features is auto-tagging. It happened to me last night by accident and...

Paris Hilton Responds To John McCain

Vudu Goes Nudu

When we got an early preview of Vudu last year, company reps told us off the record that its...

Bishop Allen - Click Click Click

Get Ready For Touch

Hewlett-Packard Co. is hot on the prospects of touchscreen technology. H-P says it’s working...

The tiny Life! LXPI portable media player is packed full of...

The Military Embraces Social Networking

A Silicon Valley company has integrated iLink, a social network analytics technology, into three...

The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better...

Traffic Congestion Costs Chicago $7.3...

You may want to sit down before reading how much it is costing to sit in traffic in the Chicago...

The Online Toaster Museum

Clean Tech Bolstered By Corporate...

Buoyed by long-term trends, venture investing in clean-tech companies hit a record last quarter as...

According to AnythingbutiPod, Creative introduced a new MP3...

Fatty Fish Cuts Risk of ‘Silent’ Brain...

Older adults who regularly eat fish may have a lower risk of subtle brain damage that contributes to...

The Ting Tings - Shut Up and Let Me Go

Google Street View Goes Live In...

Street View, the driver’s-eye view on Google Maps, made its debut in the United States, but...

MySpace is streaming Darker My Love’s new abum Two.

The American Health Disaster

The US will face a health disaster by 2030 when 86% of Americans will be overweight, with every...

Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice after...

Middle Class America Moves Downtown

Middle class Americans are moving back downtown, pushing out minority groups and reversing the 20th...

Man Candles

These are not your floating candles smelling sweetly of lavender or your soy candles with that...

Smoking Ban = Fewer Heart Attacks

The Australian Medical Association says that fewer West Australians are being admitted to hospital...

Blogging on the Huffington Post, Kathy Hilton — the mother of socialite Paris Hilton and a...

Scientists Find Key To Lock Up Solar...

A U.S. scientist has developed a new way of powering fuel cells that could make it practical for...

Somewhere, chart guru Edward Tufte is squirming: This...

Seattle Gets Greener

20-Cent Seattle Bag Fee ApprovedSeattle on Monday became one of the few major American cities to...

Shuttle Launches $299 Mini Desk Top

A Story Told In Google Maps Form

It’s another installment of Entropist, a sci-fi culture column by futurist design maven Geoff...

Jul

Outsource Your Chores

Ted Moorhouse wants you to outsource your next Excel mail merge or graphic design chore — and in the...

The Samsung U900, aka Soul, aka Magical Touch, doesn’t...

Exercise: You Need An Hour A Day

That 30 minutes of daily exercise you think you’re supposed to do to keep weight off? You need to...

The Breeders - Walk It Off

Gallery: 10 Things You Should Have Bought At...

Wrong! 5 Reasons Lossless Formats Will Not...

New Apple Pricing Strategy Bad News For RIM,...

Beer Is Number One

According to a new Gallup poll, beer’s lead over wine and spirits has returned to...

CNET is streaming the American Teen soundtrack.

The Exercise Pill

Scientists have found an enzyme in muscle that, when activated, can mimic the effects of exercise....

After Trying Cuil, Try True Knowledge

Long before Google came around, Internet users were already getting used to searching the way we do...

We’ve been patiently awaiting the launch of iRiver...

New Vocab Reorders The Solar System

The solar system seems to be getting more crowded by the day as its once nine-world population gives...

The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company by David A. Price

Summer Time-Wasting Widgets From...

Since it officially started in March, Hulu, the joint video venture between NBC and Fox, has been...

Kodak has launched the Zi6 Pocket Video Camera - a compact...

California Bans Trans Fat

California became the first state in the country to ban artery-clogging trans fats yesterday when...

Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth / Mr Soul

Avoid Speed Traps With Njection.com

Drivers in most of the United States and some of the UK can find out where the police speed traps...

Dell’s Hybrid mini PC is pretty much their worst kept...

Is Your Neighbor A Felon?

The intrusion of Orwellian databases can be terrifying — unless you’re the Orwell....

MySpace is treaming Sebastien Tellier’s new album...

The First Crowd Sourced Restaurant Set...

When Elements, a vegetarian and raw food restaurant, opens in DC next year, it will have one owner,...

T Shirt Of the Week

Fitness Protects Brain In Alzheimer's...

People with early Alzheimer’s disease who had better fitness ratings had less atrophy in key...

25 Best Books Since 1983

25 Tech Toys We Can't Live Without

25 New Classic Movie Death Scenes

Staying On Top Of Tokyo Trends

In a fast-paced, edge-riding retail environment like Tokyo, how does one stay up on the latest...

Numbers Don't Lie: Girls As Good At Math...

The notion that boys are better than girls at math simply doesn’t add up, according to a study...

The ViviCam6200w digital camera features a 6Mpix CCD sensor,...

Stephen King Gets Graphic

At Comic-Con it was announced that the always experimental Stephen King is offering an original...

Complete Idiot’s Guide to Dog Tricks by Liz Palika

Heard Of Yerba Mansa?