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CosmoQuest MoonMappers Lets Citizen Scientists Do Real Science

Moon Mappers

Moon Mappers is a surprisingly addictive experience where you’re shown various photographs of the lunar surface, and you’re given a few simple marking tools. Any craters you see on the surface that are larger than 17 pixels can be marked with the tools.

REVIEW: The Walking Dead Shamble After Gamers

Telltale Games' The Walking Dead Game

The Walking Dead Game from Telltale Games is an old-school adventure game along the lines of their recent Back to the Future and Jurassic Park outings, but brings with it just a whiff of… is that a hint of Mass Effect I detect?

Geek Beat LIVE #60

IKEA to Tackle Cord & Remote Clutter with Built-In TV, Blu-ray

IKEA Uppleva

IKEA realized there is a great deal of demand out there for a simple home theatre setup that reduces cable clutter (I know I could do with a dose of that) and simplified remote control solutions. The Uppleva bundles together IKEA’s modular furniture concept with HDTV, blu-ray, 2.1 audio and a remote control that handles all three components.

Razer Wants to Make a Left-Handed Naga Gaming Mouse

Razer Naga

Razer says it will make a left-handed version of the popular Naga gaming mouse if they get 10,000 likes on a Facebook post.

Harry Potter Flies Onto eReaders as Pottermore Store Opens

Harry Potter eBooks

It is truly a magical day, Harry Potter fans, for the incredibly popular Harry Potter series is now available in its entirety in both e-book and audio book form at Pottermore.com.

The bulk of the Pottermore site is not open, but at least the shop is there, so if you’ve been wanting easily portable copies you can have with you at all times on your various devices, you’re now in luck.

All Aboard the Star Tram

Space Tram

Space elevators have been a topic of discussion a lot lately, but now it looks like there could be a much easier and cheaper solution to the problem of getting stuff off the Earth and into space: the Star Tram. The star tram would be a vehicle running in a vacuum tube and using the [...]

My Ford Touch Update Arriving – On USB

2013 Ford Focus

Those of you who are current owners of Ford cars with My Ford Touch can expect an update to the popular hands-free media system — and it’ll be arriving on a USB stick. Owners can expect the upgrade to arrive via snail mail package shortly.

Photoshop Touch Review

Photoshop Touch - The Dread Pirate Cali

The amount of functionality packed into Photoshop Touch is almost shocking. Since it does have to run on the limited platform of a tablet, it doesn’t include everything you’d find in the full-featured desktop version, but that doesn’t mean it lacks functionality.

LEGO Minecraft Builds Up to First Images

LEGO Cuusoo Minecraft Microworld

LEGO and Minecraft. Two great geek loves that go great together, at least in concept, right? Well, you can forget the mere conceptual nature of the pairing. Thanks to LEGO Cuusoo, the LEGO project that accepts project requests and makes the most popular ideas a reality, LEGO Minecraft is a reality (or micro-world) that will [...]

Awesome and Eerie LEGO Robot Arm

LEGO Robot Arm

Cali and John may be off checking out awesome robots in Japan this week but that doesn’t mean Japan’s the only place to find cool robots. Check out this eerie video of a robotic arm built entirely out of LEGO. It manages to capture a realistic range of motion, and while the strength and speed [...]

Phase-Change Memory Expands Potential Capacity by More than a Bit

Phase-Change Materials Could Improve our RAM

Advances in computer memory are going on all the time. Just recently it was announced that science has managed to represent a usable bit with just 12 atoms. Now there’s an advance that puts that to shame. It’s called Phase-Change Material, or PCM. PCM memory stores information by changing the material from an amorphous state [...]