Coulomb gets in an Empire State of mind, switches on NYC's first public EV charging station

Big Apple residents, get ready to rock the H to the O-V lane in your EV, because downtown recharging just got a little bit easier.

Graffiti for Android scribbles Palm OS memories all over Google's platform

Gather around the campfire, children, as we tell you a story from or youth. You see, back in our day, we carried around PDAs driven by Palm's operating system (no, not that one).

Powertread turns gridlock into electricity with a series of tubes

Getting stuck in traffic sucks, but thanks to a couple of Kiwis you might soon be feeling a little better about yourself while muttering about the brake-happy commuter ahead of you.

AMD has record $1.65B second quarter, still loses a little money

First, the good news: AMD pulled in $1.65 billion in revenue -- a record for the second quarter! Now, the bad news: the company still lost money.

Google's Amit Singhal tells us about the dreams search engines are made of

Do Googlers dream of electric algorithms? For a little insight into what makes the search engine that became a verb tick, we recently attended a talk by Amit Singhal, one of its chief engineers. Amit is part of the team in charge of tweaking and improving Google's ranking algorithms and has 20 years of experience when it comes to sorting through data, with that time split into even decades spent within the academic sphere and over in Mountain View.

Scientists Crack Mona Lisa's Secret By X-Raying Her

Apparently, everyone has long been baffled by how Leonardo da Vinci created such subtle shadows and light on the Mona Lisa. So much so that scientists X-rayed the painting to discover his technique.

This Video Was Taken By An iPhone 4 With A SLR Lens Attached

iPhone 4 with OWLE and EnCinema 35mm Adapter (SLR Lens) from \\Vid-Atlantic Media Prod on Vimeo.

This a test video captured by the iPhone 4 with a Canon EF 50mm f1.8 lens attached. It's pretty impressive.

Nikon D3100 to split the D5000 / D3000 difference?

We'd obviously take this one with a grain (or two) of salt, but Nikon Rumors has it that Nikon's fixing to give entry level DSLR buyers yet another option in the not-too-distant future. Of course, with the planet's largest photo show coming up in just a few months (Photokina, if you're curious), it's about time that some of these rumors start to pick up traction.

Modded Game Gear becomes portable home for N64 (video)

It may or may not actually be the most compact Nintendo 64 we've ever seen, but even if it's holding down the second spot, you can't knock the ingenuity here.

Intel snaps up former Palm and Apple VP Mike Bell for its smartphone push

Seriously, what the hell did HP acquire when it bought Palm? A bunch of pretty patents and a rapidlydwindling talent pool, it would seem.

Acer gains ground on HP as ASUS bumps Toshiba out of top five global PC vendors

Did you know that since the inception of the great and glorious PC industry the world leader in shipments has always been an American company?

Sharp intros first 100GB BDXL discs, Japan gets first dibs on July 30

It took a little while after the BDXL specification was finalized, but here's Sharp busting down the door to expanded storage with the first official products adhering to said spec.

Hulu Plus on PS3 Review: Everything We Hoped It Would Be...But Free

Hulu Plus got a lot of attention in its iPad/iPhone incarnations. But it's also the smoothest, most polished media experience I've ever had on my PS3. And to some extent, it really is the Holy Grail: Hulu on TV.

Live@HOPE, Jeff Potter Cooks for Geeks

Jeff Potter plays with his food, and wants to get you to as well. He experiments with equipment, techniques, chemistry, even the psychology and genetics of flavor. Sometimes it's delicious, and sometimes he blows up the kitchen. Sometimes both.

A Knife Made From Fiber Optic Glass

This beautiful handmade knife is shaped entirely from fiber optic glass. You know, the stuff that gives us super fast internet. A knifemaker used a process called knapping, a throwback method of shaping stones into useful tools, to form it.

iHome Wants To Charge Every Gadget You Own

iHome wants to get rid of your loose cables and chargers and replace them with their base docking station. The elegantly named iB969 is a good looking hub that charges your iPhone, iPad, and any ol' gadget that connects through USB.

Pinel & Pinel Arcade Trunk Is the Poshest Imaginable Way to Play Space Invaders

Calfskin upholstery, chromium plating, premium speakers—not exactly reminiscent of an arcade gaming experience. But if want to ditch your emulator for something a bit more, dare we say, decadent, luxury French cabinet maker Pinel & Pinel will indulge.

Nobody Knows the Origin of the Biggest X-Ray Explosion Ever Detected

You're looking at the most powerful X-ray blast ever recorded. You can be thankful we've an atmosphere. This thing was so strong that—even 5 billion light-years away—it overwhelmed the Swift observatory's instruments. Nobody knows what it really was.

Microsoft's Terapixel Project Creates Clearest, Biggest Night Sky Map Yet

First they gave us a high-res tour of Mars — now Microsoft has made the largest and clearest night-sky map ever. It's a terapixel image: 1,000,000,000,000 pixels.

Real Life Superheroes Gear Up With Ninja Throwing Stars, Ax Handles, ‘Stun Knuckles’

Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. asked a simple question in their 2008 comic book (and2010 movie) Kick-Ass: Why don't fanboys actually suit up and try their hand at being superheroes?

Earth's Upper Atmosphere Suffers Record Collapse

Well, this doesn't sound good: NASA just announced that the Earth's thermosphere, an upper layer of the atmosphere, collapsed. It's the biggest contraction in 43 years and scientists have no idea what's going on. I don't feel safe anymore.

Apple's $100 Million iPhone Test Chambers

At today's event, Steve Jobs gave the audience a glimpse of the the space-age chambers that Apple uses to test its prototype iPhones. Apple published the pictures and, as MG Siegler said, it's basically Professor X's brain scan room. Updated.

A Brief History Of The Jet-Powered Car

For a short period of time in the last century, turbine-driven cars were all the rage. Manufacturers hawked them, race engineers played with them, and the public drooled over them. 8W takes a glimpse into our kerosene-fueled past. —Ed.

Turbines: The Pros and Cons

So This Is What Nerf Guns Are Like Now, Huh?

After discovering video games, I didn't really keep up with my old friend Nerf. But last night I got to shoot (and get shot by) the Stampede, a new, fully automatic Nerf rifle with a tripod and replaceable magazines. What!?

How to Hack Your Nintendo DS for Easy Backups and Single-Cartridge Playback

If you'd love to back up all your Nintendo DS games and carry them around on a single and inexpensive game cartridge you can play on any DS, DS Lite, DSi, DSi XL, this guide is for you.

What Is This?

It's not a rendering. It's real. And you see them around all day long. Just not in this state.

Kinect Is Going On A Road Trip

Microsoft is taking its Kinect controller for the Xbox 360 on a summer vacation, hitting up dozens of locations in the United States and offering the public a chance to play with the device before it launches this November.

Smithsonian's Spacesuits: Number One On The Runway

The iconic NASA spacesuit didn't show up in astronauts' closets fully formed. Here, a small sampling of the many precursors held with reverence at the Smithsonian Museum.

It Happened: An iPhone SLR Lens Mount

Sick of your iPhone's puny lens? Then it's time for a (somewhat unwieldy) upgrade.