After we heard about Wicked Lasers' Spyder III Pro Arctic laser , an ultra powerful portable laser with a lightsaberesque design selling for less than $200, it almost seemed too good to be true. Turns out it might probably were. Since we first posted concerning the Spyder III in June, we've received a gentle stream of complaints from customers who say that they haven't received any word

For reasons unknown, apparently Apple has removed from iTunes 10 the power to create ringtones out of your songs for $0.99. The feature remains to be intact in previous versions of iTunes. [ Mac Life ]Source

Something this horrific can't possibly be an accident. I mean, it takes genius to return up with something so offensive to the eye. Sure enough, the crazily appalling carpets that adorn Vegas casinos are designed to keep you gambling. Like some kind of vile afterbirth after a meeting of the 1990s and an insane asylum patient, casino carpets seem to violate every design rule established over,

Plants are extremely efficient converters of light into energy, setting the bar for researchers creating photovoltaic cells . A team of MIT scientists believe they've created an artificial chloroplast that may be broken down and reassembled repeatedly , restoring sun-damaged solar cells . While the leaves on a tree seem like as static as the PV cells on a solar panel, they're not;

Skype's latest Windows-only 5.0 beta 2 doubles their five-way video calling to ten. TEN. How does ten-way video calling look? Like this. Once you add two. We could only get eight, and four of them was me. While the eight-way video call was going, everything looked and sounded fine. I had to mute all four of my mics in any other case it might were an insane amount of feedback, so I

Nerf guns at the moment are very scary. They've reloadable magazines and fire automatically and seem like they may provide an acceptable defense during an alien invasion. But tips on how to render one even scarier? Make it heat-seeking. Video, please: That terrifying toy took Grand Prize at the MAKE/Design News Gadget Freak Design Contest , netting its creator, Rick