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Base jumping, one of the world's most dangerous sports, is very cool. The Burj Khalifa AKA the Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building, is also very cool. The two together? Well that's just God damn crazy. See that little speck falling off that building? That's either Nasir Al Niyadi or [...]

Can the most useless gadget company in the history of shopping justify their new incarnation? Send an email to Joel Johnson, the author of this post, at < moc.odomzig@leoj > moc.odomzig@leoj

Some editorial teams might wilt at the lack of seating in the Venetian's press room; your faithful editors instead hunker under the closest faux-gilt Italian furniture. Meeting executives may be awkward, as we ask they bring their own chair. Send an email to Joel Johnson, the author of this post, at < moc.odomzig@leoj [...]

iPhone app developers never cease to amaze me, re-inventing not only the software, but also the hardware itself, like the iPhone air blower app. Or Pocket Heat, which can turn your iPhone into a real heater. But how? Easy: The app puts your iPhone at 100% of its power processing capacity in [...]

With the Lenovo laptop/netbook CES leak still fresh in our minds, let us consider Toshiba and Gateway this afternoon, and the netbooks we now know they'll be bringing to the show as well: The netbooks in question here are all based on Intel's N450 "Pine Trail" chip, reports CNET, and were first spotted at [...]

Either one guy has spent hundreds of hours meticulously handcrafting his own War Machine armor, or some boom mic operator has busted off the Paramount set and he's terrorizing the club scene with style. While the suit is still a work in progress, it's currently constructed out of high impact urethane covered in a [...]

"We discovered a vertical hole on the moon," says JAXA's Junichi Haruyama. A mysterious tube so large and deep that it can shelter a future moon base. Until the creatures inside kill everyone, which is what happens in these cases. Before, they didn't know what the hole's origin was. Now they [...]

The 2000s are gone. They didn't bring the future, those Aughts. Doesn't matter. 2010 is rolling. Watch out for those flying cars when you go to pick the laundry in your jetpack. [Nedroid Comics via The Daily What via m0ddie] Send an email to Jesus Diaz, the author [...]

Wired has a fairly epic look into a material that could make nuclear power both clean and safe called thorium—named after the Norse god of thunder. Of course, scientists recognized its promise back in the 1950s. Whereas uranium is extremely rare, requires purification and creates waste that will be with us for hundreds [...]

Turns out it was a tough decade for tech companies. First the bubble they helped create burst and took the rest of the economy down with them; now the credit markets have sunk them in return—with two notable exceptions. I'll admit that this chart would be more readable if it had been a [...]