Monopoly ditches cash, goes plastic

Filed under: HouseholdWhile Monopoly is the paragon of good 'ole fashioned board game fun, the "old fashioned" part had to go. Parker Brothers is phasing out the cash-based version's funmoney and replacing it with an "Electronic Banking" flavor that could leave Mr. Moneybags turning his pockets inside ...

Drawing On Water

Cool technology that involves 50 wave generators combining to create letters and drawings on water.

KIDS REPUBLIC - a children's bookstore in Beijing

No longer just the world’s ‘workroom’, China is rapidly becoming an international hot spot with a growing middle class hungry for western luxuries and comforts. Beijing kids are the latest to be treated to some western style indulgence with Kids Republic, a children’s bookstore that transports it’s pint ...

AMD buying ATI for $5.4 billion

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Peripherals After months of speculation, including a period when it looked like the supposed deal was surely dead, AMD has now officially announced plans to buy graphics giant ATI for $5.4 billion. The sale, which is scheduled to be completed in the fourth quarter pending ...

Get Narbacular Drop In Your Prey!

If you're excited for Valve's Portal and wish there was more Narbacular Drop in your Prey now, some intrepid 3D Realms forum modders have modded make-your-own-portals into the popular Human Head Studios game... a game which, as you might remember, accurately models what it might be like to be shrunk ...

Todo.txt Jabber bot

An instant messenger bot is now available that can read and write to your personal todo.txt file using the Jabber protocol. Google Talk uses Jabber, which means you can interact with your todo.txt inside Gmail, which will archive and search your chats as well. Neat! — Gina Trapani Todo.txt Jabber ...

Half-Life 2: Episode 2: Trailer 2: 2 Cool

Oh God. It's so gorgeous! Valve released an updated version of the trailer for Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and finally prompted me to buy the first episode, so as not to be too behind on my spoilers. I know I'm way way behind the curve on this one folks, but you should see how quickly I can solve an "advanced" ...

Hack Attack: The AIM BudgetBot

by Adam Pash The key to sticking to any budget is to keep a close eye on where your money is going and adjust your budget as needed. Easier said than done, no? But with an SMS-enabled cell phone and an AIM bot on your side, you can easily track your expenses on the go.The end of tattered receipts I ...

Speaking Tip: Lose the 'ums' and 'ahs'

The Mother Tongue Annoyances weblog offers advice for getting rid of those ugly 'ums' and 'ahs' that somehow find their way into your otherwise very intelligent conversation. Personally, much to my chagrin, I'll sometimes notice that I've used 'like' four times in the same, not terribly thought out ...

Clinton Fears Video Games, Internet Could Lead to Cyberkids

I just figured out why Sen. Hillary Clinton doesn't like video games: she's afraid it will lead to the Borgitization of the nation's children. Speaking to the Kaiser Family Foundation, Clinton warned that advertisers are already using video games and the Internet to get at kids, and soon they might start ...

Enough of Them Foreign Polls, Which Console Do You Want?

Over the past few days, we've seen a handful of Japanese polls surveying interest in the Wii and the PlayStation 3. Thus, we've decided to conduct our own poll, which should be insightful for all of five minutes before some insane fanboy monkeys with it, skewing the results. But those five minutes of ...

GM admits it's building hybrids to get good press, and not much else

"Hybrids are technologically of doubtful benefit, and expensive, but necessary from a political and public relations point of view," said GM's Bob Lutz. "Toyota has said, economically, hybrids make no sense. The reduction in fuel does not pay for the technological content [...] so therefore economically ...

Real, Virtual Reality Roller Shoes ... Huh?

The "powered shoes" are virtual reality assistants that were developed by Hiroo Iwata, Hiroshi Tomioka and Hiroaki Yano in Japan. The shoes—or hippie sandals as they appear—have motorized rollers built into the base. As you take steps, a computer strapped to your back will make the rollers ...

200MPH Radio Controlled Jet

The Gruapner Hotspot Jet goes up to 200MPH and has a Jetcat P80 turbine on the back. The best part is that actually sounds like a jet.

TMNT Teaser Trailer

Holy frijoles I didn't even know they were making a new movie! The pants! They are getting the tighter!

Imagining the tenth dimension

GOOGLE VISION - POINT AND AIM

Get lost? Do you? Well, yet another bright young designer from the U.K is developing a system that will have tag and name exactly what your staring at. Google Vision is a conceptual product developed by Callum Peden, for the worlds favorite search engine. The product provides the user with a truly unique ...

Team Fortress 2 is so 'incredibles'

Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, First Person Shooters, Online Valve released this teaser trailer for Team Fortress 2 today. The game is definitely funked out with a Pixar-esque twist. Now couple this with what we saw in the Portal peek yesterday, throw in HL2 with Episodes ...

The Dog Ate My DS Lite

Some careless bloke left his Nintendo DS Lite lying around where the dog could get his mouth on it, chewing it to the mangled state you see here. If the guy would have gotten himself a pet-shocking torture device such as this, his DS Lite would still be intact. Calling Nintendo customer service, the ...

Kitten born with two faces

Two times the faces means two times the awesome killing power.