There was lots of stuff out of IFA in Berlin overnight. Check it all out here.

Sony ZX1 9.9mm-Thick TV Gives Me a Large Hadron Collider Right in My Pants
A TV thinner than my finger. It just doesn't make sense.

BlackBerry Storm Has Multiple Personalities: is BlackBerry Thunder
Well, I for one am glad that's cleaned up. Now, who's up for a beer?

Philips Cinema One Squeezes Home Theatre System into Tiny Round Box
That is a tiny box for a home theatre. Hope we get that in Australia...

Bloomberg News Accidentally Publishes Draft of Steve Jobs's Obituary
Tomorrow they'll be accurately publishing the person who stuffed up here's obit though, so it all evens out.

Pro Gamers Are Doping Too
Somehow I don't think it's the same...

OLPC Origin: Bittersweet Success and Future of the XO Laptop
The third and final part of Wilson's in-depth feature, we finally see how the Eee PC was born from the OLPCs unholy "alliance" with Intel.

Apple Acknowledges Huge iPhone Security Flaw, Calls It 'Minor', Announces Fix
I don't think this would effect as many people as the US are making out - most people I know don't even bother password locking their device. But Apple's reaction is still a bit disappointing...

Huge iPhone Security Flaw Puts All Private Information at Risk Well that doesn't sound the least bit melodramatic, does it?

Guy Builds Full Lego Boba Fett Costume, Somehow Manages to Keep Marriage Intact
Is it awe or exasperation that I'm feeling?

Rumour: New Dual-Touchscreen Nintendo DS in Early '09
Yeah, I've heard this before. A few times, in fact. Wait for a flat-out denial from Nintendo any moment now...

Palm Treo Pro Review
Short version: Good if you can handle Windows Mobile.

OLPC Origins: US and Taiwan's Hardware Lovechild
Part two of Wilson's awesome in-depth feature into the birth of the OLPC and its competitors.

iControlPad Game Accessory for iPhone Has Shoulder Buttons I'm not entirely sure how this will work, but retro gaming on the go is awesome.

PlayStation 3 Firmware 2.5 To Bring Screengrabbing?
Finally! How did we all survive without the ability to take screenshots?

Panasonic Updates 103-inch Plasma, Drops Price by One Car
the quetion now is how can you afford not to own one.

Phew: Cute iPhone Factory Girl Didn't Get Fired
Thank God! I don't know about you guys, but I was really worried.

Secret Origin of the OLPC: Genius, Hubris and the Birth of the Netbook
A fascinating exclusive look at the start of the Netbook fad.

Kindle Rumours Say Next Version Coming Fall Will Be Thinner, Cheaper, Much More Stylish
But don't expect to see it in Australia...

Panasonic's DMR-BR630V Blu-ray Disc Recorder Does VHS Tapes Too It sounds so stupid it hurts, but what's the bet Panny sell truckloads of them? Swedish Scientists Test iPhone 3G's Antenna: It's Fine That's right! It's not Apple, but Optus, Telstra and Vodafone that are screwing with your 3G signal.

Free iPhone Tetris Getting Pulled from App Store
Quick - get it while you still can!

Geek Licence Plates Show Just How Geeky the Road Can Get (Very)
Any of you geeks got anything better out there?

Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update Comes in November
It's like an early Christmas present from Nintendo Microsoft

Wind Turbines Murdering Bats By Popping Their Lungs
Won't somebody pleeeaaassee think of the bats!?!

PSP 3000 Photos Emerge: New Bright Screen is New, Bright Mmm... Strawberries.

A Comprehensive List of Ultraportables, Netbooks, Mini-Notebooks, Or Whatever You Call Them
That's a lot of ultraportables... and at about $500 a pop, you could almost own one of each for the price of a fully-specced Mac Pro.

Sexual Gadgets Can Now Be Seized at US Borders Too
is it just me, or do the lawmakers in the US seem dumber than usual at the moment?

Apple To Crank Out 45 Million iPhone 3Gs Over the Next 12 Months
No word on how many of them will work properly, though.

Mexico's Rich Embedding GPS-Assisted RFID Tags Under Their Skin In Case of Kidnapping
Ahh - to be rich, stupid and living in Mexico...

Pioneer Sneaks Out US$2200 Elite BDP-09FD; First Blu-ray Player That Crushes the PS3
A 20kg Blu-ray player? Most expensive paperweight ever!

Ohio Voting Machines Lose Votes, Cannot Be Fixed Before Election Day
Oh. My. God. How can they knowingly hold an election when they know the voting hardware malfunctions?

MIT Developing a Battery Half the Size of a Human Cell
Isn't this how the Apocalypse begins? Who cares, so long as it gives my iPhone better battery life, I guess.

KDDI's Concept Mobile Phone is Half Transformer, Half Musical Box At least it's not a Nokia - Nokia Transformers are Decepticons, remember?

Bloo Balls Custom PC Case Mod is a Whole New Kind of Punk
I could actually consider moving back to Windows for one of these...

Kitchen Oil Fires Have Pretty, Weird Solution: Flower Fire Extinguishers
What's the bet the inventors of this were smoking something when they came up with the idea?

Cut-the-Crap iPhone Headset Battlemodo
Quite the handy guide here, if you're looking to replace the white buds...

Exporting Songs From Rock Band 1 to Rock Band 2 Will Require Code, Five Bucks, HDD Space
F%*k! This game keeps getting better, yet we still can't buy it legitimately!

iTunes Blocked in China Over Free Tibet Album?
Come on China... did you think we wouldn't notice?

iPhone Copy and Paste Between Applications Is Here, But Not from Apple Well, it's a start...

Emily Isn't Real, But Would You Have Guessed?
Wow. Virtual sex is starting to look a little bit more appealing, wouldn't you think?

Motorola Insider Blame Game: Engineers Shoved Designers Aside
The only way to really settle this is a fight to the death.

Sony Makes PSP-3000 Official
And yet still no second analogue controller -- I can't wait forever, Sony!

BlackBerry Bold Plagued by Same 3G Problems as iPhone
Any local Bold users experiencing these problems?

Digital Camera Forces You to Recycle By Witholding Your Photos This just doesn't make sense - surely it still uses more materials than buying a dedicated digital camera and using it over time?

Over One Third of Vista Machines Have Been Downgraded to XP
Ouch! That's not a stat I'd like to have hanging above my head...

World's Largest Record Collection is Worth US$50 Million; No One Wants it for US$3 Million
I'll give him 100 bucks...

It's a Windows Window! Get It??
It would be more impressive if it looked out over the OS X Leopard's space-themed desktop, but maybe that's just me...

Kite Surfer Goes Out During Tropical Storm, Learns Valuable Lesson About the Power of Nature
Ouch!

iPhone Jailbreak Now QuickPwned: No Need for iTunes-Based Restore If jailbreaking's your thing, then this, too, is your thing. Lumitop Bras Add Eye-Grabbing Glows to Lady-Chests Are there any women out there who would wear this in public? If there are, welcome to Giz!

Guy Builds Olympic Village Replica with 140,000 Playing Cards
I don't know if I should be blown away by this is or concerned for the mental health of someone who would do this.

Zapp Brannigan Ray Gun For Sale (Only Shot Once At Disgruntled Underling)
Anybody taking note - this is officially now on my Xmas wishlist...

Rock Band and Guitar Hero Instruments Will Finally Play Nice Together on PS3
This might actually make Rock Band affordable, if the going rumours are true...

Sorry for the delayed wrap - our CMS tried to take a sickie. We're back to normal now, so here's the best of the weekend posts:

Quarter Million Dollars of Digital Photo Gear in a Single Photo
That's a lot of camera kit!

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Review (Verdict: The First Star Wars Movie You Will Truly Hate)
Well, there's no way I could misunderstand that review...

Vivid Gallery of High Speed Photography
I wonder how much the kit that took these photos is worth?

Ghostface Killah's Iron Man Cameo Finally Sees the Light Of Day
Personally couldn't give a crap about Ghostface Killah, but it's an Iron Man deleted scene!

Bono Loves Own Voice So Much He Blasts New U2 Album Loud Enough for Fan to Record, Leak It
Low-tech piracy at its best.

Stephen Colbert Isn't Afraid of the iPhone's Kill Switch
Which is why you should be afraid of Stephen Colbert!