DIY ferrofluids!

A ferrofluid is some iron particles suspended in oil, and while they sound absolutely useless, they're really interesting if you're a giant nerd like me. They've got tons of uses, and now you can make your own! (seeing as it's $165 for a litre of the stuff or like $660 a gallon)

Creepy Smiley Robot

Emo is the tiny smiling robot that will devour your soul. Programmable to respond to emoticons over instant messages and such, it's literally the creepiest smiling robot you could put on your desk.

Personal Super Computer

SGI has unveiled what they call a "personal supercomputer". With support for 80 processor cores and 1TB of ram, this isn't for playing World of Warcraft and printing out spreadsheets. Basically this machine is for amateur physicists working out of their garages to find some bosons, solve some n-dimensional equations, and resolve some tesseracts.

I roll for a delicious equipment check

Jones cane sugar soda company is making a Dungeons and Dragons branded beverage. Coming in flavors Potion of Healing, Sneak Attack, Bigby's Crushing Thirst Destroyer, Illithid Brain Juice, Dwarven Draught and Eldritch Blast, this beverage is sure to raise someone's charisma.

iPod Touch's 50% speed increase mostly true.

Apple's event declared the iTouch to be 50% faster than the previous model, mostly this claim is true. Booting the old touch took 31 seconds. The new touch takes 19. Loading a web page dropped from 34 seconds to 15. And most games teetered between loading 33% and 50% faster.

Medicare FAIL

Medicare, in an astounding display of both stupidity and insensitivity, has denied coverage for a $150 iPhone app. Roloquo2Go is a text-to-speech iPhone app that's meant to aid those with autism, cerebral palsy, ALS, Down Syndrome—pretty much anyone who has a disability that makes speaking a difficult venture.

Medicare's alternative? a government-funded $8000 desktop computer that can have no other function than text-to-speech.

What. The. Heck?

Medicare knows this, but they refuse to pay for iPhones, on the assumption that people would use it for other things. Yes, like calling the doctor?

Indiana Jones 5

Greenlit for a quintquall, the Indiana Jones series (and scrappy young lad Mutt played by Shia LeBeouf) has got another on the way. Also returning is Harrison Ford, a good idea seeing as how If he wasn't in it I would beat up Lucas and Speilburg.