Google Earth 1984 Edition

Georgia Institute of Technology's students are using CCTV video to map actual vehicles and people into Google Earth. Easily this tech could be expanded into new and interesting applications inside GE: Cloud patterns, Live traffic visuals, Sporting events as they occur?! But there's a dark side to this, what if you tracked people? With enough cameras, you could follow someone, and monitor their movements. Can you honestly say that you know a government agency that would pass that up?

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, liter?

The KORG DS-10 game for the nintendo DS has been used to make many interesting sounds, being that it emulates a KORG MS-10 synthesizer, but none as interesting as this Daft Punk cover, where the sounds sound like the sounds!

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.