So word is that the Nissan Leaf is about to hit the road – almost literally, as the all-electric vehicle had previously only been available in a few select markets, especially on the west coast. Soon, according to Nissan, the…
Handmade Car Made Entirely from Scrap
The story here is actually pretty impressive, I stumbled onto it thanks to a post by a colleague over at Gearlog, who wrote: A homeless man in Brazil took advantage of the discarded shells of these junkers and threw together…
Picking Apart the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
Over at PC Mag, some big questions that have been on everyone’s mind since AT&T announced last Sunday that they were buying T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for something on the order of $39 billion get answered by the one and…
Steampunk Gallery Show Pays Tribute to Jules Verne
You know already I’m a huge fan of all things steampunk – well, maybe not all things: and the items on display at the Nemo’s Steampunk Art & Invention Gallery are no exception. Well – some of them are exceptions.…
The Simple One Bicycle Is a Bicycle and Shopping Cart in One
Urban dwellers, take note! If you’re the type who takes their bicycle around from place to place in your town, and finds yourself at the grocery store often with a backpack full of delicious groceries that you’re just having a…
Sennheiser Offers Free Earbuds With Purchase Of HD 515 Headphones
I’m a huge fan of Sennheiser headsets and headphones: I have a trusty pair of PC 350s that I splurged on for voice communication in my PC games, and I’m seriously looking at the PC 360s since they’re the logical…
The Zune is Dead
Well, the social has officially ended. Microsoft has tipped to Bloomberg that the Zune line of hardware products is all but finished, but the name, the media player, and the software line will live on. I reported on this here…
Motorola Xoom Sales “Underwhelming?”
Reports are that the Motorola Xoom – the iPad’s first real competitor, and the first Android tablet to run Android 3.0 “Honeycomb,” isn’t selling quite as well as people had hoped. Admittedly, there are likely a number of reasons for…
PC Mag Reviews the iPad Smart Cover
One thing Steve Jobs made a fuss about when he was on stage announcing the iPad 2 was the case that Apple had specifically designed for it. It magnetically attaches to the back of the device, doesn’t kill the slim…
Kinect Earns Guinness World Record for Fastest Selling Consumer Electronics Device
(image via CrunchGear) Microsoft should be proud of this one, it’s a huge accomplishment! The Kinect peripheral for XBox 360 has claimed the title of fastest selling consumer electronics device of all time, snatching it from the jaws of the…