As belt tightening continues around the globe the task of being a geek obsessed with shiny gadgets becomes more challenging. Thankfully, Gakken has introduced the Co-Robot, a tiny, extremely affordable ($29.95) walking robot singularly devoted to getting up when it falls down.

Already a hit in Japan, the Co-Robot can cycle through three modes: walking mode, somersault mode, and dance mode. With the holidays approaching this is a perfect way to maintain your tech gift cred while making sure you don't inadvertently spend your rent money. You can see the Co-Robot in action here, and purchase one online ...

Labyrinths and mazes can be found around the world and they are important cultural works, offering rich insights into our history and the human psyche. From three-dimensional hedge mazes to seasonally changing corn mazes to architectural stone and brick labyrinths, these works are thrilling to see and even more fun to experience.

I came upon a wonderful story about a worldwide effort to bring internet access to people across the globe, despite hurdles such as no connectivity, no phone service and no electricity. SolarNetOne is a collaborative effort spanning several continents, organizations, and technical disciplines. The goal of the effort is to develop a feasible, sustainable solution to [...]

Minixr is a new Microblogging and lifestreaming platform launched from Algeria.  The service enables users to post and share their status updates, links, different types of files (videos, photos, audio) and events with their friends through the website. Basic social networking features, enabling users to find and follow their friends, building their own personal network on the [...]

In every single piece of reporting I’ve been reading about the terrorist attacks in India this evening, there’s been some kind of mention of mobile. One British MEP, Sajjad Karim, has been frequently quoted - here’s an example from The Guardian: “I was in the lobby of the hotel when gunmen came in and people started running.” “There [...]

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Get To The Point vinyl decal is a set of 8 vinyl phrases (Hello, Goodbye, Have a seat, Get wet, Dry off, Goodnight, Get dressed, and Get naked) to add around the house that give some character and attitude to your space. Available in many colors, can be easily applied and removed.

Small child: Hey, dad, can we take the quarters out of the fountain? Father: Not now. That’s what we do after dark when we put our ski masks on. Mall of America Overheard by Rappeling from the ceiling for spare change.

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By Luke Anderson How many times have you wanted to take a nice picture, but found that you really needed a tripod in order to pull it off? I rarely ever tote around a tripod, since my DSLR is cumbersome enough by itself. While I’ve seen several rather portable tripods, I’ve yet to see anything quite [...]

Here at jQuery we’ve been using Amazon S3 to host the jQuery code and static site files for quite some time. It’s remained dependable and quite responsive. Yesterday Amazon released their new service, called CloudFront. The major difference between it and S3 (they are both designed to serve files) is all about network performance. Whereas S3 [...]

In other Mozilla news, Firefox hit a major milestone today with the one billionth download of add-on software for the browser. That feat took three and half years. Many of those downloads are never used more than once or twice, of course. But there is no doubt about it that Firefox is major software platform. Just look at StumbleUpon, it was built on top of Firefox.