This crazy-looking electric pole isn’t just a concept design; it’s been approved by the Swedish government and will be placed on either side of an entry highway to Stockholm. That’s not to imply it isn’t crazy-looking, though.
It’s a tough call for a nerd lost in the wilderness: Use your mobile phone battery to start a fire and survive the night, or play another game of Brickbreaker. At least with this guide you’ll have the option of survival.
In what probably seemed like a two-birds-with-one-stone situation (before the arrest, we mean), a 9-member British gang used stolen credit cards to purchase their own music on iTunes and Amazon, then collected the royalties—an estimated $US300,000 total.
I was thinking of getting a Canon T1i, but after seeing this fully-functional, transforming Voltron SLR from 1985, I will seriously have to reconsider my options. [DoobyBrain via DVice via TheDailyWhat]
Next week, Ghostbusters is being released on Blu-ray. You should definitely buy it.
Call me a luddite if you have to, but I miss the days in which science fiction movies were actually done with real gadgets, real models, real robots—even with dwarves inside—and real explosions.
In this five-step tutorial, RapidRepair shows you how to carefully disassemble—and reassemble—your Kindle DX to get a closer look at its innards.
If you’re an Optus pre-paid customer, make sure you take advantage of their “Big Weekend” promotion this weekend. If you spend $30 or more recharging, you’ll get $50 of bonus credit for free.
Historically, Apple loves cleanly delineated product lines, so the “MacBook Pro” re-shuffling seems strange even if the socialist element is a fun side effect. Unless they’re clearing out the MacBook for something else entirely.
For those who have a treasured item you want to display in style, the Levitron Revolution uses some sort of electromagnets—or anti-gravity voodoo magic—that levitates and slowly rotates your prized possession in space.