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Okay, so despite their ominous/cool name, Mechanicards cannot actually destroy a Hallmark card. That said, these creations by artist Bradley N. Litwin certainly own in the looks department. So this means they destroy the competition in an aesthetic sense, get it?

No, we don’t mean ‘superstar’ in the celebrity sense of the ward. What the National ignition Facility has been laboring over since 1997 is the creation of a “miniature star of Earth”—think of our sun—contained in a chamber where its energy can be converted into power. Lots and lots (and lots) of power.

By purifying the air within a twelve inch radius of it, in case you’re wondering—see that row of holes at the bottom?

Never to be outdone by rival SanDisk, Kingston has leaked news of its upcoming Class 4 microSDHC card. Scheduled to retail on Monday, October 11, the hefty memory card is being touted as “the perfect mobile storage solution for entertainment and business applications as smartphone use integrates into everyday life.”

The world of drab and outdated calculators is in for quite a jolt once the Prizm fx-CG10 hits stores come January 2011. What makes it stand apart from its unfashionable predecessors is a swanky high-resolution 65,367-color 3.7″ display.

For an Apple store that’s not even open yet, it’s quite an intelligence coup to discover a previously top secret “lounge” in the works. That’s right: the upcoming Apple store in the spacious St. Louis Galleria is going to have a lounge with free WiFi and a place to check-in for Genius Bar appointments plus [...]

Pretty obvious, since a patrol car is impossible, a Segway too clumsy and doing it on foot is tiring. If you’re thinking somewhere along the lines of that Segway Tank as an alternative, it’s a no-no because the treads will damage the flooring.

Thanks to dysfunctional daylight saving on the iPhone’s iOS countless Australians have either overslept or been jarred awake at an ungodly hour.

Internet security company AVG just released worrying statistics related to the prevalence of baby pics on social networking sites (cough* cough* Facebook! cough*).

While the preeminence of Apple on their mutual agendas has neither been confirmed nor denied, the fact that has spread across the news waves and blogosphere is Steve Balmer recently dropped by Adobe’s HQ.

While its practical use is still a head scratcher, the Israeli researchers behind this innovation have forged ahead anyway. Ideal for tracking a subject underground, we think that Morlocks or future subterranean dwelling humans are going to embrace this technology the most.

Darn right it is. As shot glasses go, these babies from MadeBYAmmo are built to withstand everything from bar room brawls to the constant slamming inflicted on shot glasses. (Have you ever wondered why people always slam down their shot glasses in the movies?)