Enter your username and password.
Tip your editors:
Editorial Director:
Brian Lam | | Twitter
Editor:
Jason Chen
| AIM | Twitter
Features Editor:
Wilson Rothman
| Twitter
Senior Contributing Editors:
Jesus Diaz
| AIM | Twitter
Mark Wilson, Reviews
| AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editors:
Matt Buchanan
| AIM | Twitter
Adam Frucci
| Twitter
Sean Fallon
| Twitter
Jack Loftus
| Twitter
John Herrman
| Twitter
Dan Nosowitz
Chris Mascari
Kat Hannaford
| Twitter
Rosa Golijan
| Twitter
Chris Jacob
Columnist:
Brendan I. Koerner
Interns:
Don Nguyen
Kyle VanHemert
Comment Account Questions:
Please enter your email address to have your password reset.
Registering will give you a user profile and the ability to add other users as friends. To become a commenter, however, you need to audition.
Want to know more? Consult the Comment FAQ and legal terms.
You don't need to login to comment. Just enter your email address below.
See how your address will be displayed in the Comment FAQ.
Zap Some Neon Life Into Your Old Photographs
The Kirlian Photography Device uses high voltage discharges to capture beautiful, luminescent images directly from ordinary film. It is not a machine I'd recommend using in the darkroom. More »Image Cache Contest: Surprise IM
This is a good idea by dpstyles of Flickr: max out your font and give a coworker a surprise message that will delight his coworkers. Can you do better? More »NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Sends Most Detailed Moon Images Yet
While Ulysses dies in the solitude of space, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is now alive and fully awake, sending these ultra-detailed images from the Moon's Mare Nubium region. Go on and zoom in. It's actually made of cheese. More »Image Cache: GlaDOS and HAL9000 Are Separated At Birth, Or Lovers?
Both machines are killers, but which one is less evil? Which one would kill you more humanely? [Pickaklas]Apple Gets a Speed Bmup
As seen in Apple's Cupertino parking lot. [Valleywag]This is An Ad For An Air Purifier
Not only is the ad great, the product—Sharp's Plasmacluster—is crazy awesome as well. [Next Nature via Science Blogs via Street Anatomy via Boing Boing]Hubba Hubba Hubble Desktop Backgrounds
NASA is preparing the final—and very risky—Hubble maintenance mission. They have released an interactive site to explain it, which includes some of my favoriter favoritest Hubble images ever, ready for desktop background use: More »The Mechanic Eye
If you think it's tough to decide on the make and model of your next laptop, imagine the internal debates to come when we can upgrade eyeballs as casually as RAM. [Bogen Freund/Flickr via bbGadgets]Google Blacks Out Hundreds of Entertaining, Voyeuristic Street View Shots
Goodbye, creepy guy holding a rifle. Goodbye, dude walking out of a sex shop. Goodbye, public urinators. Due to privacy complaints, Google has been forced to delete scores of its best Street View shots. More »Proof That a Camera 'Round the Neck Makes Anyone Look Like a Tourist
Yep, that's a disguised Vlad Putin in his carefree KGB days, ready to pop the Gipper if necessary with what is surely a camera gun of some kind. [Hot Joints - Thanks, Trina!]New Printing Technology Makes Your Home Photos Into Spooky 3D Images
This one is creepy: The new Shapeways' Photoshaper is the latest "printing" technology, turning any home photographs into a 3D plate which—when looked through light—will reveal the original image with a spooky ghost effect. More »ClearCam for iPhone Stitches 2MP Photos Together Into 4MP Ones
ClearCam is the latest iPhone app to go live on Cydia, home for the jailbreak apps, and turns your 2MP photos into 4MP ones by stitching 6 normal photos into one super photo. More »Image of the Day: US Airways Flight 1549 Cruising Through Jersey
How do you transport a downed but still intact jet from its landing place to a salvage yard? By going through New Jersey. (Note: instructions only valid if Jet crashed in lower 48.) [Quintano Media via Jalopnik]Image of the Day: If Microsoft Ever Bought Target
Some Halo player imagines what it would look like if Microsoft ever purchased Target. Hah. [Halolz - Thanks Marco!] More »Japanese Apple Stores to Sell Optoma Picoprojector in December For $500
Pico Cube Projector is World's Smallest, Says Maker Epoq
KDDI Delivers "World's First 3D Mobile Phone Screen"
2008 Science Visualization Challenge: Amazing Images Show Science Like You Should
3M's Pocket Video Projector First to Hit Shops, 30th September
Russian Astronaut Uses ISS to Take Photos of Ossetia Invasion while NASA Looks to the Other Side
According to the NASA International Space Station status report, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko used a digital camera with 800mm telephoto lenses and a video camera to take images of the "after-effects of border conflict operations in the Caucasus." In theory, this seems to have violated the non-military use clause of the station, but Russia has claimed "humanitarian motives." More »Apples or Oranges? This Smart Scale Can Tell the Difference