Many New Yorkers often forget Roosevelt Island — the little strip of land sitting between Manhattan and Queens. But after accepting a bid from Cornell university, who will build a new, state-of-the-art engineering campus there, Roosevelt Island could get a whole lot more popular.
For £10 a newton's cradle provides about 10 minutes worth of distraction at work. If you want piss away the whole day, you'll need to spend a bit more. Like the $125 (£80) pledge needed for this Ferrite ferrofluid toy.
In an interview with Italian Publication Corriere Della Sera, Eric Schmidt has apparently promised a Nexus tablet by Summer 2012. To be exact, he was quoted as saying "in the next six months we plan to market a tablet of the highest quality."
The game might be a few months old now, but Portal 2 will still make for an amazing Christmas gift. And here's hands-down the most clever way to wrap it. Just keep the giftee off the internet until Christmas morning.
GPS is all fine and dandy when you're in an open field; but in a city, GPS starts to falter. The American system isn't the only service with navigation satellites up there in orbit, so why should you be limited to just one? Qualcomm's giving you the choice of two.
Put that fly swatter away, kiddo. This ain't no ordinary creepy crawly dirt-dweller. This here is Bug Princess, an old-school shoot-em up from Japan that requires big guns and big bombs to carve your way through a non-stop swarm of hostile insectoids. It belongs a sub-genre of shmup that's been quaintly labelled as "Bullet Hell"; it's not an understatement.
With Disney graphics and an easy-to-use photo editing app, the Sakar AppClix camera is squarely targeted at kids. But instead of a USB port it includes a 30-pin Apple connector, making me wonder if other camera manufacturers will follow suit.
Darts are awesome, but they're tricky to set up at work. Real darts aren't super safe and leave walls full of holes, and safety darts suck hard. Mark Rober has got a solution that's simple, elegant, and awesome.
Comics are cool now. Well, kind of cool. Acceptable. But it's not all pasty nerds reading comics in the dark in their parents' basements anymore—lots of us have moved on to reading in the dark in our own homes and apartments. Here's how to buy for the comic fanboy in your life.
Looks like BlackBerrys can circumvent the network operator porn filters in the UK and Ofcom's not exactly happy about it. Problem is, kids in the UK do love their BlackBerrys, and kids and porn shouldn't mix; so RIM's been called to a summit to discuss the issue.
The University of Oxford's Internet Institute has discovered that there are places in the United States where there are more people googling for zombies and satan than for Santa Claus. They have found some interesting patterns:
If you've been wondering how Facebook's snazzy new Timeline feature would look like on the iPhone, wonder no more. It's supah snazzy (or as snazzy as its mobile web and Android counterparts)! The latest iOS Facebook app update includes Timeline so you can catch up with your friend's entire history while on the go. Convenient? [iTunes]
It's safe to say the novelty of those giant animated building projections has worn off. But just before I was ready to declare the fad dead, this giant playable pinball machine comes along and makes the idea awesome again.
Every Good Boy Does Fine? Not in this economy, bub. As xkcd properly points out, we're overdue for some new science mnemonics. Preferably ones involving sharks and orgasms.
Google has just announced a slew of updates to plus that make for a better user experience. And while nobody seems to be using it that much at the moment, they might be just the incentive you need to get involved.
Ouch. Nokia's not doing so great with its new flagship Lumia 800, even with a £20m advertising budget. According to the FT, the Lumia 800 didn't even break into the top ten phones sold in the UK, and barely sold more than its basic "Touch and Type" phones -- those feature-class phones with a touchscreen and numeric keypad.
