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rexjoec writes "Cisco is making a bid for Skype. The deal, if successful, would derail a planned initial public offering from Skype and redraw the battle lines in the lucrative market of video communications." The rumored price is $5B. Read Full Article ...

eldavojohn writes "A Michigan judge removed a juror after a Facebook comment and also fined her $250 and required her to write a five-page paper about the constitutional right to a fair trial. The jur...

wiedzmin writes "Public broadcaster ARD's show 'Plusminus' teamed up with the known hacker organization 'Chaos Computer Club' (CCC) to find out how secure the controversial new radio-frequency (RFID) ...

pickens writes "David Pogue writes in the NY Times that when you buy a new Windows PC, it comes festooned with stickers on the palm rests: one for Windows, one for Skype, one for Intel, one for the la...

crimeandpunishment writes "The top man in telecommunications at the United Nations is weighing in on the Blackberry battle ... and he says share the data. The UN's telecom chief says governments have ...

eldavojohn writes "A new paper up for prepublication from the controversial solid-state physicist Godfrey Louis claims that the cells Louis collected from a Keralan red rain incident divide and produc...

donniebaseball23 writes "EA's Medal of Honor reboot doesn't ship until October 12, but it's already seen a fair amount of controversy thanks to the publisher's decision to allow people to play as Tali...

Hugh Pickens writes "Ryan Lawler writes on GigaOm that although many have touted the availability of Flash on Android devices as a competitive advantage over Apple's mobile devices, while trying to wa...

You’ve seen a few reviews of vibration type speakers here on The Gadgeteer and the jury is still out as far as just how good they sound. I have another one for you to consider. It’s the Ro...

Microsoft has announced a hardware update to their folding Arc Mouse. The new Arc Touch Mouse keeps the same basic arc shape, but adds two cool new features. One is a capacitive touch scroll strip tha...

The LaCie MosKeyTo is an ultra-small USB 2.0 flash drive that measures less than 20mm and weighs 10 grams. It comes with an protective cap and a nylon strap. It is available in 4GB, 8GB and 16GB capac...

Eye-controlled earphones let you pick up phone calls with a glance

The Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo has recently developed and demonstrated a peculiar pair of headphones that can precisely detect a user's eye movements without a camera, and use those movement...

StroboClip tuner from Peterson now shipping

Tuner manufacturing veteran Peterson Electro-Musical Products has been helping musicians keep their instruments in check since 1948, and introduced the first true bypass strobe tuner in 2004. Respondi...

Reducing your power bill with Microsoft's Hohm

For a lot of people, the electricity bill is an unwanted piece of paper printed with angular graphs and big dollar signs, but with the rising cost of power in today's energy-conscious society it's bec...

Localized heating could be the key to mass-producing graphene nanocircuits

Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have documented a major breakthrough in the production of nanocircuitry on graphene, a material that many envision as the successor of silicon for o...

Somewhere between what we've come to know as a tablet computer and a smartphone sits ViewSonic's new Viewpad 7. You might already guess from the name that this portable tablet with phone functionality...

Samsung Introduces Its 7-Inch Tablet to Rival iPad

Samsung has announced the launch of a tablet that could become the first major Android-powered challenger to the Apple iPad. Read Full Article ...

Fujitsu ScanSnap Counts Quality Over Quantity

Fujitsu's scanner is your new (albeit bulky) buddy if you want high-quality images. The sturdy document feeder gets pages in straight, so you get them out right. Read Full Article ...

First Look: Official Twitter App for iPad Feels Smooth as Butter

The official Twitter app for iPad is finally here, and star developer Loren Brichter has polished yet another gem. Twitter for iPad sports a really elegant interface that's significantly faster and mo...

MAKE subscriber Dug North writes in to share this video tutorial on how to make gears with unusual contours: Wood clock designer Clayton Boyer has created an excellent short video showing how to ma...

What maker doesn't love zip ties?! They're useful for cable management MacGyvering things, and holding your robots together. These leafy ties by Lufdesign really caught my eye. [via inspire me now] ...

For hackers who missed out on the Chumby craze, Adafruit has a pile of Chumby PCBs for sale. The Chumby Hacker Board is a cool single board Linux computer that has much of the same hardware as the ...

Control your camera flash with a TV remote

Udi Tirosh wrote in to share this camera flash hack: Like using off-camera flash units for your photography, but tired of having to walk over to them to adjust the flash power? Well, you could ce...

Researchers at the NanoRobotics Laboratory of the École Polytechnique de Montréal, under Professor Sylvain Martel, produced this remarkable video showing a swarm of about 5,000 flagellated bacteri...

I knew this was going to happen? Steampunk Mr. Potato Head Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in ...

A samurai costume I made using Sintra (PVC foam board). This costume did take about 3 weeks of construction to complete, and could be even more time consuming for some. I had an interest in making ...

These super simple fabric buttons are soft, fun to push and can come in handy when building various prototypes. They all share the same ground or plus, depending on what you hook what up to. I am also...

Instructables loves homeschoolers! And homeschoolers love Instructables! In the spirit of DIY education and home-brew learning, here are some great do-it-at-home science projects. Understanding Hy...

This instructible will teach you how to build a 17 foot long Greenland Kayak that will weigh between 30 and 40 pounds and cost less than $300 in materials. Compare that with the 45 to 60 pound weight ...

Birdhouses hold a special space in the project repertoire of a DIYer. Often, it's the first thing that a boy or girl builds. They not only provide a good base of understanding for woodwork...

Alcohol stoves aka aluminum can stoves aka penny stoves aka hobo stoves are very useful little devices that should be part of anyone's survival kit. Many designs require only two aluminum cans t...

There are endless reasons for gardening and people in almost every setting are planting all manor of growing things. With water being as precious a commodity as it is these days and global citizens be...

Dorm living can be not the ideal situation. Here are a few project to help the dorm process run much smoother. Dorm Clothes Line Stick it to your boarding school dryer monopoly by constructing an...

Right before I started running in Vibram Five Fingers last year I also read up on the Chi Running method developed by Danny Dreyer so I could adjust my running style. I quickly realized that one more ...

This is an inexpensive means of keeping any number of brushes wet between sessions and while painting with water based paints. It can also be used for hanging brushes to dry tip downward. M...

I recently ditched my land line so had to change all the pet's ID tags to my cell phone number, plus my kitty Squid Bean, constantly looses his tag mysteriously in the night, I think the neighborhood ...

Materials: GRUNDTAL Towel rail, and S hooks, BINDER CLIPS Description: I needed a way to store Scarves. If you have a basket or some sort of closet thing, you will know that it SUCKS. Because scar...

The Samsung Galaxy Tab: more relief on the go

The Samsung Galaxy Tab certainly looks like it's going to be a pretty sweet little tablet, but man -- Samsung really needs to hire some better Korean-to-English translators. Hot on the heels of the c...

Verizon officially announces prepaid smartphone data packages

After a flood of leaks, Verizon's just officially announced its prepaid data plan for smartphones. The new 3G Prepaid data package will offer smartphone users "unlimited" data for $30 a month, while ...

Do you remember the Nintendo Family Computer, or Famicon? Well, you might not -- it came to earth in 1983 and was Japan's version of the NES. Now, continuing its week of vintage teardowns, iFixit's...

The 2010 Canon Expo is filled to the brim with drool-worthy image-capturing hardware (more on that later in the day), but the first thing we did when arriving was run straight to the EOS 60D. While w...

Samsung: 'we are prioritizing our Android platform'

Samsung may be one of the big players that Microsoft is pinning its hopes on for Windows Phone 7, but you wouldn't know that from listening to the company at IFA. Speaking to Reuters at the show, Sam...

Canon's 4k Multipurpose Camera concept weakens knees, shoots video. We go hands-on! (Video)

You're looking at Canon's new 4k "Multipurpose" concept, a wondrous amalgamation of still and video cameras pumping 60 frames per second at 4k resolution out of an 8 megapixel 2/3-inch CMOS sensor. Y...

WSJ: iPhone 4 to be offered by Vodafone and O2 in Germany as T-Mobile loses exclusivity

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Canon's Wonder Camera, and other future concepts that tease us from behind glass

Canon had a lot to show for itself at its annual expo today, from the EOS 60D to the (working!) Multipurpose 4K concept, but the best goodies are of course the ones just a few steps outside of today'...

Samsung Galaxy Tab reported to retail at €699 and €799 in Europe (update: Samsung responds)

An increasing number of Euroland news outlets are reporting an eye-watering set of prices for Samsung's Galaxy Tab. Although still unofficial and therefore not yet to be trusted, the values we're hea...

All Things D: Facebook blocked Apple's Ping service for unauthorized use

We'd already heard whispers that Apple had to yank Facebook Connect integration from its new Ping music network because the connection was being denied by Facebook, and now Kara Swisher at All Things...

MSI WindBox III gets a bit more oomph, still lives on your LCD

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Acer LumiRead makes pit stop at IFA prior to launch

We caught the LumiRead set up and ready for some serious page-turning action as Acer set up its booth at IFA today (yes, it's true, the show still hasn't technically started), which marks the first t...

Antec wants to rockus with its new soundscience 2.1 '3D' speakers

Yesterday it was Corsair, today it's the turn of Antec to step into the world of PC audio components. Best known for building cases and power supplies, the company's aiming to make a splash in this u...

Back in the early 90's whilst playing our Atari Lynx -- friendless and alone, of course -- we couldn't have imagined that a second-rate spinoff of the popular Gauntlet franchise would unlock the secr...

Toshiba issues recall for 41,000 T Series laptops because of burn hazard

Toshiba's announced a worldwide, voluntary recall of about 41,000 T Series laptops because of a burn hazard. The laptops apparently carry the risk of overheating AC adapters which can then... burn y...

Samsung Wave 723 flaunts Bada, little else at IFA

Samsung just grew its Bada line with a low-end foil to the original Wave, the so-called Wave 723 -- and we just happened to catch it hanging out tucked away in a distributor's booth at IFA this week....

Samsung Galaxy Tab rooted, just for bragging rights

Okay, Sera-Apps, we're happy you cracked the Milestone, but now you're showing off -- rooting the Samsung Galaxy Tab probably a full month before launch. Do you really want Samsung to have time to pa...

AIDS sufferer Vinny, about whom Lisa recently wrote a feature here at BB, died this morning at 8:35 a.m.... Read Full Article ...

Bad news: Facebook simultaneously became sentient and figured out that zombies are popular. Would you like to become a Fan of Facebook devouring your brains? Via Josh Helfferich... Read Full Article...

Here's the trailer for the AMC series based on the fantastic, long-running comic book series about a zombie apocalypse, The Walking Dead. It premieres on Halloween night!... Read Full Article ...

Warning: LSD turns hot dogs into screaming trolls with 7 children

Case Study: LSD, a PSA produced by Lockheed Aircraft (!) in 1969.... Read Full Article ...

The U.S. has plans for a manned visit to Mars by the mid-2030s. The ESA and Russia have sketched out a similar joint mission, and it is claimed that China's space program has the same objective. Apart...

Pedal-powered farm machinery for use in rural Guatemala

Maya Pedal is a Guatemalan NGO that works with international volunteers and local experts to remanufacture old bicycles to serve as "people-powered farm machines." The dozens of "Bicimaquina" designs ...

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