When I sent photos of the best Lego X-Wing ever created to the company headquarters in Billund, Denmark, they told me that it was awesome—but it didn't show enough studs—their design DNA—and it was probably too fragile.
There was a delightful story floating around this week about a humongous poop tattoo rendered on some drunken cheating girlfriend's back. It's fake, of course. It's always fake. The internet is Lucy holding a football, and even in the weird online world of immediate and crippling skepticism, we want to believe that this time we're really going to kick that urban myth right through the uprights.
By using an intricate resin spoke system, Bridgestone's new airless tyre provides the same level of shock absorption as an inflated tire, without you having to worry about monitoring air pressure or changing a flat ever again.
An imagination is no longer required to enjoy a sandbox thanks to some Czech students, who use a Kinect sensor and a projector to map interactive animations of hills and rivers based on how deep the sand is.
Every USB charging and adapter cable I use is always just a few inches too short. But that could soon change thanks to a Japanese company that's created elastic wiring that can stretch up to 1.5 times its original length.
If you have any decently-modern phone, everything you do is being recorded by hidden software lurking inside. It even circumvents web encryption and grabs everything -- including your passwords and Google queries.
One of the issues hindering the widespread adoption of 3D is the relative lack of content available. So Acer's new 27-inch display takes matters into its own hands by automatically converting 2D content to 3D in real time.
You can tell Spotify's getting serious. At their first-ever press conference today, Daniel Ek, Spotify's founder, announced what we've come to expect over the last few days: an app store. The apps will let the 10m global Spotify users add context to their music-listening, by finding out about gigs, and actually helping learn the lyrics to those damn tongue-twisters.
A lot of people are disappointed with Minecraft - Pocket Edition. Through tears and clenched fists, they complain that it's not nearly Minecraft-y enough, with key features in the proper grownup PC version missing from the iOS and Android versions. We would counsel those folks by buying them a beer and telling them to be patient, updates are certainly coming down the pipe. Oh, and by the way, have they tried playing a game called Junk Jack?
Babies are so adorable! And so very much trouble. They're always hungry, often crying and never sleeping. But here's a little secret: fatherhood can be a great excuse to gear up. Oh man. I'm totally lactating.
The Advertising Standards Agency has rapped John Lewis on the knuckles for using 'free' to describe something that's included in the price of an item. The complaint was levelled by Dixons, but upheld by the ASA.
Want a digital personal assistant like Siri but without all that iPhone? You're not alone. Cluzee, a new app for Android, promises to fill that void. Unfortunately, Cluzee needs a little more time in temp school.
Working in a shed doesn't sound like an upgrade from a depressing cubicle. But the spired roof of this Tetra-Shed will make it feel like you work in a private alpine lodge, even without a fireplace or comfy bearskin rug.
The clock is t-t-t-t-ticking, as you've got just 13 days to get your entry in for our second 3D printing challenge. This month our theme is high-tech sleighs, and as we've got a Tokyo Flash watch up for grabs (and will 3D print your model for keepsies), you don't have any valid arguments to dilly-dally, do you? [3D Printing Challenge]
The Met Office has let loose some preliminary data from the world temperature monitoring effort for 2011, which has shown the lowest average global temperature since 1997 at 14.36 degrees Celsius.
For years, military live fire excessive have relied on either stationary or pop-out targets but they don't really simulate enemy movements—they just sit there, waiting to be shot. These targets, newly developed for the USMC don't; they move, behave, and react just like real combatants.
