• Gadgets

    Your Guide to the Digital TV Conversion

    By Sean Captain Posted on 2.20.2008 8 Comments

    An article in last weeks New York Times must have struck terror into the hearts of readers whose old tube televisions sport rabbit-ear antennas. The punchline: Many of them will be staring at a black screen after next years transition from analog to digital television broadcasts—even if they purchased a government-subsidized converter box. And broadcasters are to blame. The real story, though, is more complicated and harder to predict. So what will happen to your television on February 18, 2009?

  • Fully-Loaded Big Screen TVs

    By thescientist Posted on 7.21.2005 0 Comments

    First there were big screens. Then big flat screens. Now there are big flat screens packed with tricks, like the ability to record TV or access your home network. It’s all part of the push to minimize the number of decor-busting black boxes while maximizing entertainment choices—movies, slideshows, your music collection. Here are five reasons to chuck your TV in favor of a multitalented model.



    1. The Laptop Impersonator
    This 2.7-inch-thin flat screen takes its cue from the computer world, with two PC-card slots to handle its latest features.

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    Tagging a Champion

    By Abby Seiff Posted on 2.5.2008 1 Comments

    Have 24 cameras handy? Too bad, because if you had 'em (along with a cabal of the East Coast's best graffiti artists and some flashlights), you could make a stab at the below. We've always liked Graffiti Research Lab, but after taking a peek at their winning Intructables entry (How to Enter the Ghetto Matrix (DIY Bullet Time)), we're downright smitten.

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    The Science of Superheroes

    By John Mahoney Posted on 1.31.2008 15 Comments

    Spiderman, Batman, the Fantastic Four, Ironman—seems like every time we go to the movies, there's some guy in a unitard saving the world with acts of unnatural physics. We realize that these are works of fantasy, so we don't get too upset when the science portrayed in them comes from some alternative universe.

  • The Environment

    The Grouse: Assault on Batteries

    By Megan Miller Posted on 1.29.2008 25 Comments

    Perusing the deluge of overheated press releases from the CES conference a few weeks ago, one in particular, for Panasonics new line of EVOLTA batteries, got me thinking. And when I say thinking, I mean muttering curse words and shaking my fist. The release made a big deal about the fact that these new batteries last from 1.3 to 2 times as long as other alkaline batteries—which is to say, slightly less poisonous and wasteful, but not much. Whoopdee-flipping-doo.

  • Gadgets

    Find Yourself

    By Abby Seiff Posted on 1.23.2008 1 Comments

    Last week, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that iPhone users will now be able to locate themselves on a Google map thanks to a new technology that triangulates the handset's position from Wi-Fi base stations or cell towers.

  • Technology

    Virgin Galactic Unveils New Designs

    By Megan Miller Posted on 1.23.2008 5 Comments

    This morning at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, in front of a throng of international press, paying customers, and various captains of future industries, Branson, Scaled Composites CEO Burt Rutan, and other Virgin Galactic execs unveiled new designs for both White Knight and SpaceShipTwo. Branson says the two-ship combo will act as a catalyst to transform human access to space.


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