Logitech’s New Long and Skinny Z305 and Wireless Z515 USB Laptop Speakers [Speakers]
A boombox your laptop is not, and speakers that are both portable and powerful are hard to come by. Depending on your needs, Logitech's Z305, a 360 degree sound bar, and Z515, a 50' wireless speaker, might do the trick. More
A Chrome Marble Floating In Deep Space [Astronomy]
It looks like a metal marble floating in space. Or the palantÃr of Orthanc, magically teleported from Middle Earth to 11,000 light years away, in the Cassiopeia constellation. But it's just a visual effect. This is the Bubble Nebula. More
A Simple Way to Attach Your iPad to Your Walls [Ipad]
The PadTab iPad wall mounting system is great. It's easy to set up, simple to remove, doesn't require much room, and lets you mount your iPad next to your toilet. No, really. That's what some of the promotional photos suggest: More
What Happened To Wicked Lasers’ Spyder III Pro Arctic Laser? [Lasers]
When we heard about Wicked Lasers' Spyder III Pro Arctic laser, an ultra powerful portable laser with a lightsaberesque design selling for only $200, it almost seemed too good to be true. Turns out it might have been. More
Facebook Blocked Ping’s API Access Because Apple Didn’t Have Authorization To Use It [Unconfirmed]
We've heard that Apple launched Ping without Facebook support because the two companies couldn't agree on some terms, but today AllThingsD explains that Apple actually ignored the fact that negotiations failed and incorporated Facebook's API—until Facebook blocked things. More
The Ugly Carpets of Vegas are Hideously Clever Social Engineering at Work [Imagecache]
Something this horrific can't possibly be an accident. I mean, it takes genius to come up with something so offensive to the eye. Sure enough, the crazily appalling carpets that adorn Vegas casinos are designed to keep you gambling. More
Ringtone Creation Stripped From iTunes 10 [ITunes]
For reasons unknown, it appears Apple has removed from iTunes 10 the ability to create ringtones out of your songs for $0.99. The feature is still intact in previous versions of iTunes. [Mac Life] More
Skype 5.0 Windows Beta Has 10-Way Video Calling! [Skype]
Skype's latest Windows-only 5.0 beta 2 doubles their five-way video calling to ten. TEN. How does ten-way video calling look? Like this. If you add two. We could only get eight, and four of them was me. More
MIT’s Self-Assembling Solar Cells Recycle Themselves Repeatedly, Just Like Plant Cells [Republished]
Plants are extremely efficient converters of light into energy, setting the bar for researchers creating photovoltaic cells. A team of MIT scientists believe they've created a synthetic chloroplast that can be broken down and reassembled repeatedly, restoring sun-damaged solar cells. More
A Heat-Seeking, Automated Nerf Sentry Gun [Nerf]
Nerf guns these days are very scary. They have reloadable magazines and fire automatically and look like they could provide a suitable defense during an alien invasion. But how to render one even scarier? Make it heat-seeking. Video, please: More