Today, Steve Jobs Is Sad: The Passing of Jerome York

Apple Director and IBM ex-CFO Jerome B. York is dead following his hospitalization yesterday, after a burst brain aneurysm. He joined Apple's board when Steve Jobs came back into the company. Needless to say, Steve is very sad: More »
#recordplayer

Cardboard Record Sleeve Doubles as Record Player

This is pure genius: Audio engineering company GGRP Sound sent a 45rpm record in a corrugated cardboard sleeve that doubles as a record player. You can put it together one single step. More »
#nasa

NASA Mission Posters Are Hilariously Painful

Sweet. Baby. Jesus. I'm speechless. I love NASA. I love astronauts. They're true heroes, risking their lives in the name of science and progress. But why did they make these posters? WHY? They defy any description, they're pure gold: Updated More »
#ipad

Rupert Murdoch Says Bigger iPads Are Coming

Rupert Murdoch says "the iPad will be pretty small to start with, but there will be more iPads…" Oh, really? REALLY RUPERT? Who said that? Did Steve tell you that, perchance? Steve... More »
#pc

The Return of the Commodore 64

Brace yourself, lovers of all things retro, because the Commodore 64 will rise from the dead in all its keyboard form factor glory. It will probably be based on the Cybernet ZPC-GX31, although I hope it looks like this: More »
#concept

Drops Let You Caress People Remotely

"Oooooh...hmmmyes, please. Up to the left, to the left, up, up, no, a little down, doooown, theretherethere... A little to the right? Oh yes. Theeeere! Aaaahooooohuuuuh. So good." This is how I wish the Drops worked. But it's still neat. More »
#timeline

The UFO Sighting Credibility Timeline

One day, the little green humanoids with three eyes or the big purple tentacle thingies will come for real. And then, humans and giraffes and orangutans and fish and jam all over the Earth will exclaim: PHOTOSHOP! [MakeUseOf] More »

The Most Accurate Flyby of Mars to Date

This 4:50 flyby over the surface of Mars—created by 3D artist Doug Ellison—is the most accurate to date, and the closest thing to being there than any of us would ever be. Simply spectacular. More »

Diane Birch Lives In a Projector Screen—and Now In My Head Too

Diane Birch is very very very cute. She's also a lovely singer. Her song Valentino is chirpy and sweet, and her music video—with its ghetto augmented reality—is quite ingenious. Watch it. You'll like it. Then, watch the how-to: More »
#energy

This Is How Solar Roadways Actually Look

When I first read about Solar Roadways—super-tough solar panels with built-in LED signs designed to turn roads into power plants—I thought that they were never going to happen. Well, here's a prototype. [Solar Roadways via GadgetReview] More »
#rant

Hey Microsoft, Don't F*ck Up Windows Phone 7

Dear Microsoft, you did a good job at out-Appling Apple with the Windows Phone 7. At least on paper. But instead of trying to beat them completely, it seems that you want to screw it all with two stupid decisions. More »

One Shrimp Opens Door to Extraterrestrial Life In the Solar System

One three-inch shrimp—happily swimming under 600 feet of ice, 12.5 miles from open water—has shattered all scientists' theories on life-harboring environments. An impossible discovery that opens the possibility of complex extraterrestrial life in our Solar System: More »
#apple

Is There an iPad Cinema In Your Future?

Apple seems to have a projector fetish lately. They have been filing projector-related patents left, right and center. The latest one describes ways to incorporate micro-projectors in many Apple products, from iPhone to MacBook to an Airport Express wireless router. More »
#imagecache

What Is This?

It looks like some kind of a computer-generated subatomic particle visualization, but no. In fact, this thing is huge, and very tangible. You can even get inside. More »

JooJoo's Refunds Smell Awfully Fishy

After the lawsuits and delays, this reader's experience—asking for a refund—truly puts JooJoo's reputation on the line. It feels written by a Nigerian scammer, rather than customer support. Here's their whole email exchange. You'll be the judge. Updated. More »
#3d

The Movie Studios' Big 3D Scam

Are we ready for 3D? As CG supervisor and avid moviegoer, I'm sad to say that I'm not convinced we are. Yet. And the worse is yet to come, as studios try to milk us all for these half-baked goods. More »
#chart

Jesus Christ Is the King of the App Store

We know that ebooks represent the most numerous application type in the Apple Store, even topping videogames. The reason: There are lots of duplicate apps of the same book, and one Very Big Book is King of the Dupes. More »

The Nexus One Is a Total Sales Flop

74 days after the iPhone was introduced at $600 a pop (six hundred dollars), one million were sold. The Droid, at $200: 1.05 million. The Nexus One? An estimated 135,000 units. By any measure, that's a total sales flop. More »

The Chatroulette Pianist Will Make You Laugh Today

I hated the collection of throbbing penises and pointless babbling that is Chatroulette. Then I saw the Chatroulette pianist, improvising songs based on people's looks and actions. Connecting with him is like watching the Flight of the Conchords live. [Gawker.TV] More »
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