With huge, velcro-attached, weather-resistant prints from StyleYourGarage.com, you can impress your neighbours with a fighter jet, an elephant or a race car in your garage (or rather: on your garage door). [StyleYourGarage via DailyMail]
Walt Mossberg, that wrinkly goateed goblin hired by the Wall Street Journal for some reason, is known as the world’s most powerful Apple fanboy, at least to him. The latest Mosspuppet video, featuring Muppet Mossberg, includes a not-so-friendly Gizmodo shout-out.
Put down that e-cigar, Mark! The FDA has ruled that electronic cigarettes, cigars, and similar devices contain known carcinogens and slammed them for being marketed to younger age groups.
Scientists are claiming that a functional, artificial brain is only a decade away. This prediction correlates with the above chart, according to which our current computing capabilities limit us to…simulated lizard brains.
That 256GB Kingston Datatraveller USB thumbdrive we saw the other day? It’ll set you back $1,299. Availability is apparently “built by request”, so you need to be really sure about your purchase before you drop big ones on it…
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If you’ve ever complained about Xbox Live here in Australia, spare a thought for our trans-Tasman neighbours. Last week, David over at Kotaku looked into a rumour that after the mid-June update to Xbox Live, some New Zealand gamers were unable to download content. Turns out that it’s every NZ gamer with an under-18 account, and they can no longer even download a demo of a G-rated game while Microsoft tries to restrict access to mature content.
Visual Complexity is a website featuring brilliant visualizations collected by Manuel Lima, a Nokia interaction designer interested in how complex data sets can be expressed. The image above was created by Oliver Reichenstein as a way to visualize internet connections. [Visual Complexity via Wired UK]
Muji’s shower radio is shaped like a shampoo bottle, but we’re not sure why: Is it just to blend in with other shower accoutrements? Or does the Muji Shower Radio have a dark secret from which it needs to hide?
It’s official: I have absolutely no understanding of the youth of today. I’ve become an old man (and I’m not yet 30). Here I was thinking that the DSi was going to stumble alongside its cheaper DS Lite brethren, but instead it’s flourished. Flourished. Turns out the boffins at Nintendo obviously know what they’re doing, considering they’ve sold 100,000 DSi units in Australia since it went on sale just 14 weeks ago. Crazy!
