Did you get in at the ground floor? Punt your money and take the risk of backing the Pebble smartwatch early on? Good news, the first batch of the beauties are actually shipping today. With a bit of luck you'll have yours within a week or two. You can even check your shipping here. Anyone expecting one? [Pebble] Read More >>

You won't have any trouble finding this Marco Polo in the pool—even with your eyes closed. Five Airbus A380s lined up nose-to-tail still wouldn't match the length, much less the overwhelming mass, of the world's largest container ship. Read More >>

We've all received weird "shipping-delayed" notifications. Usually they're something inane like "address does not exist" even though you're standing right there. The one I got just now from the United States' United Parcel Service, however, is rather special. I'm sorry, did you say train derailment!? Read More >>

Recent news suggests that Amazon is planning to launch same-day shipping in the US, a first for online retail and perhaps the end of local stores as we know them. But what if Amazon worked out how to bend physics and developed yesterday shipping? Read More >>

Google has given us some hard dates on shipping schedules for its Nexus 7 tablet, helping end some of the confusion over who's getting their tablets and who's still stuck in the queue for machines bought direct from Google. Read More >>

When the USS Cole was disabled by an Al-Qaeda attack in 2000, the US Navy faced a serious dilemma: How do you sail a 500-foot warship from Yemen to Mississippi when it's got a 40-foot wide gash in its hull? You hire the world's biggest semi-submersible ship to piggy-back it home, that's how. Read More >>

Imagine you’re just minding your own business, doing your day job and unpacking the morning's post. You find something quite large, but that’s not unusual. You hurriedly strip away the packaging on the box marked “perishable”, but instead of steaks or some other fancy food you find a human arm. If that wasn’t enough you dig a little deeper and find the whole chest of a deceased woman – would you freak out? Is someone trying to send you a message? Read More >>

The first batch of Raspberry Pis have started to make their way out to punters and lucky school kids this weekend, but have you got yours yet? Both RS and Element 14 should have some revised delivery dates for you soon, but in the mean time, check out this quick hands on from one of the Raspberry Pi Foundations's volunteers -- it's good to know they're still as excited as the rest of us. Read More >>

Good news for Raspberry Pi pre-orderers. The first batch of Raspberry Pis have been checked, CE marked, packaged, and handed over to both RS and Element 14 for shipping out to the lucky few. After this first batch, both RS and Element 14 will be handling the manufacturing and shipping themselves, so hopefully everyone else will get their slice of Pi soon too. Read More >>

Apparently Apple’s truly struggling to get its new iPad here on time; we saw pre-order delivery dates slip within days of the unveiling. Now it seems some unlucky people, who plunked down their cash before Apple started pushing things back, will be disappointed on launch day too. Read More >>

According to the WSJ, Google is teaming up with online retailers to cook up a standardised way to ship things to customers super fast (for a fee, of course). Sound familiar? Yeah, Google's going after Amazon Prime. Read More >>