The AstroStar is ideal for astronomy or astrology fans, romantics, kids who’d appreciate a nightlight with a difference or anyone who wants to bring some starlight into their home. picked by MissWinkle 2 hours ago

Have you ever read a book? I guess not many of you did, but nowadays it seems like there is nothing wrong with this because we can find everything we need on the Internet (I mean almost everything). Well, here is a bookshelf for geeks which displays SMS messages and RSS feeds, all of them selected at your choice. The bookshelf is connected to the Internet and it’s made of wood and elastomer. picked by sandossu 1 day ago

186 miles per hour. He has my vote for the most uber tech awesome dude of 2008. picked by Moe 2 days ago

Just unveiled at a lavish event in London, HTC—maker of the sleek Touch for Sprint—has a new touchscreen gem on its hands. picked by hmtksteve 2 days ago

Know what's out there and what you can do to help protect your self.

BTW: If you're still using Google, you're behind the times. picked by tigertony 2 days ago

Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines have been fined $230,000,000 (£118,381,000) for sending more than 700,000 spam messages to MySpace users.

Ken Foster reported to be nervous. picked by pocksucket 2 days ago

The 75-kilogram (165-pound) helicopter will make a demonstration flight in the city of Vinci, near Florence, on May 25, according to Japanese developer Gennai Yanagisawa, 75.

w00t! picked by doggylives 2 days ago

A tech-savvy White Plains woman whose apartment was burglarized solved the crime herself after she was able to log on to her stolen laptop, photograph one of the suspects with it and get photos of another, police said. picked by maxriter 2 days ago

It was the size of a dustbin lid and had a range of just half a mile.

The world's first mobile phone could hardly be more different to today's devices, which are small enough to slip inside a pocket and can call almost anywhere in the world. picked by AutumnLotus 3 days ago

The coolest part for yours truly, aside from getting rewarded for compulsively reading BoingBoing and Hackaday, is that io9 is part of a quest called "Take Me to Your Readers." There's even a badge for io9. picked by JDRucker 4 days ago

Good news everyone! BlackBerry Bold was finally released by RIM. We were already expecting it for a while, but the Bold aka 9000 will be available for shipping starting this summer on AT&T 3G. This version will be much faster thanks to the 624MHz processor and the 3G networking. picked by sandossu 4 days ago

Google claims to have created a software technology that will allow them to set up Pagerank kind of technology even to image searches. At International World Wide Conference in Beijin, two of the Google scientist said this new technology will be called as Visual Rank. Visual Rank algorithm is been created for ranking and weighting images that are similar in look. picked by dude17 4 days ago

Last time I was in a store, I was like, "Why is there no creepy animatronic sea captain here to tell me today's specials?" picked by Bornbad 4 days ago

then you will like this picked by gamaxray 5 days ago

Both MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger reportedly implement the block. picked by Bornbad 6 days ago

A team led by an Indian researcher has developed an electronic nose coated with mouse urine, which they say, can help sniff out trace quantities of explosives or pollutants, or pick out different smells for food quality control. Yeah! picked by suebe 6 days ago

We reported last year that Fujitsu's HOAP-3 robot is learning the basics of chess. Now the little fellow is trying his hand at cooking. It can chop, whisk, and grate its way through a simple omelette recipe - check out the video. picked by AutumnLotus 6 days ago

In December 1975, Steve Sasson invented something that would, decades later, revolutionize photography: the world’s first digital camera.

God bless Steve Sasson picked by doggylives 7 days ago

Within hours of its release, Microsoft's Service Pack 3 for Windows XP began drawing hundreds of complaints from users who claim the update is wreaking havoc on their PCs.

Problems such as spontaneous reboots, outright system crashes, and more. picked by 2manyusernames 7 days ago

Many, perhaps most, Facebook users do not want Microsoft. They were a little upset when they purchased under 3% of the company. If that becomes 50+%, we will likely see a large-scale exodus. Sadly, it would happen right after Facebook passed MySpace on Alexa. picked by JDRucker 7 days ago

We take search engines for granted these days. They exist because they have to. Without them, going through and finding relevant information in the millions and millions of pages that exist on the web would be an almost impossible task. picked by AutumnLotus 1 week ago

I was looking for a video for Ode to Joy on YouTube to post for FAF*. I was hoping for a Clockwork Orange tie in too, but what I found was this video. And it is so much more. As brief as I can be, when printers print they whine. That whining is, after a fashion, a series of notes. Print the right thing and you can play music. So someone down at HP did. This is supposedly a self test Easter... read full post picked by pocksucket 1 week ago

How cool is that, an R2D2 projector just like the real thing. picked by consoleguru 1 week ago

If Darth Vader were to ride a motorcycle, this would be it. Originally a conceptual bike, not being placed in production. picked by tori 1 week ago

The Pentagon's way-out researchers don't just want to build an Internet simulator, to test out cyberwar tactics. They want the range's operators to "realistically replicate human behavior and frailties," too. picked by JDRucker 1 week ago