The world's most patient science experiment finally gets a webcam, a very stylish argument for USB cufflinks, and the case for a 3D printer that outputs cupcakes.
A London club installs pee-controlled gaming urinals, Philips creates a lamp powered by living bacteria, and a Skyrim enthusiast liberates every book in Tamriel for your commute.
Two new elements join the periodic table, a Minecraft-themed wedding complete with Mojang-designed drinks labels, and how Chinese gamers outsmarted government censorship with a large tropical fruit.
How smartphones and tablets are replacing the once-sprawling ecosystem of dedicated in-car gadgets, such as carputers, GPS units, OBD-II readers, and reversing-camera monitors.
Tetris played on a scale measured in microns, a LEGO model of the Large Hadron Collider built from 9500 pieces, and Isaac Newton's notebooks digitised for the internet.
Disney turns houseplants into touch controllers, NASA captures the highest-resolution images ever taken of the sun's corona, and Twitter predicts personal illness eight days in advance.
How to get your music collection playing through every room in the house — and in your pocket — using network streamers, UPnP servers, and smartphone control.
IBM creates a chip from 10,000 carbon nanotube transistors, a programmer recreates the Myst linking book with a real PC inside, and a rocking chair that charges your iPad via kinetic energy.
UNSW researchers achieve a crucial milestone in quantum computing, a man spends US$3 million to save every book ever published, and Lego meets Minecraft.
The first year of 2600 magazine released as a DRM-free e-book, the Las Vegas Star Trek attraction that nearly happened, and the computing challenge of processing an exabyte of data per day.
A robot lawnmower you control from your iPhone, a neural network that develops schizophrenia and confesses to terrorism, and a miniaturised Atari drive for the retro-computing faithful.
An iPhone-controlled beer cannon, the Popeye origins story that Nintendo didn't want you to know, and a man who has spent his life collecting every sealed PS2 game ever released.
NASA starts work on a real tractor beam, a lovingly recreated NES-themed cake that puts home bakers to shame, and why 3D printers could be printing circuit boards within two years.
