Toshiba shows prototype TV running on Cell chip

What happens when you take the powerful Cell microprocessor, the chip that sits at the heart of the PlayStation 3 games console, and put it to use inside a television? Toshiba demonstrated just such a TV at this week's International Consumer Electronics Show and the results are impressive. Watch this video and see for yourself. ...continue

Let the Force guide your vote in 2008

There's an election coming up this year, and if you don't follow politics, you may feel a bit overwhelmed when you walk into a voting booth. What if your obsessive knowledge of Star Wars trivia could help you somehow? This handy guide lets you know which candidate is most like Grand Moff Tarkin, how Mike Huckabee is like a lovable but faintly ridiculous Ewok, and why it's too bad Bill Richardson never shouted "IT'S A TRAP!" before he quit. ...continue

Chinese breeding race of fluorescent pigs

A pig cloned by Chinese scientists with altered genes that caused it to glow under fluorescent lights has given birth to glow-in-the-dark piglets. This news gives hope to those who believe that such genetically altered animals could grow organs for human transplant -- and those who just want glowing pets. ...continue

Robot cars to wreak havoc on highways by 2018

The driverless car is one of those canonical Devices Of The Future, like personal jet-packs and domed cities on the moon, that we've been waiting for since the 20th century ended. Now GM is threatening to unleash just such a product within a decade. The soulless driving machines will communicate with one another via radio, and will presumably join forces to cleanse the highways of organically-directed vehicles in short order. Watch this video and see for yourself. ...continue

Doctor: Wii play almost as dangerous as actual physical activity

Most medical experts breathed a sigh of relief when customary forms of human play were replaced by video games. Strains on the joints and muscles that resulted from swinging bats and rackets or running to and fro would be a thing of the past! But the skyrocketing popularity of the Nintendo Wii threatens to revive a whole host of ailments and injuries that result from the human body moving around. Due to wildly swinging limbs and controllers, doctors are even seeing an uptick in black eyes of the sort that children used to get when they were allowed to play outside unsupervised. ...continue

Top 11 weird news stories of 2007

Death cats! Wolf men! Two-headed cattle! Some odd stuff shows up in the news wire every year, and the one just past was no exception. Take a trip down a very weird memory lane. ...continue

Geek Comic of the Week: Gordian Algebra

A man drives a car off a cliff and comes to in a hospital with no memory. Sounds like the set-up to a gritty noir flick, but it's actually the origin story of a no-necked hero who jovially makes his way through an absurdist world. ...continue

The 10 worst PC keyboards of all time

The PCjr's chicklet keyboard. The Atari 400's "futuristic" membrane keyboard (which was really just a way to save money). Keyboards without backspace keys. Keyboards without space keys. Why did so many pioneers in the PC market feel like they had to wreck the one technology they inherited fully formed from the typewriter? ...continue

Poll: What sci-fi advance are you most looking forward to?

- Robot servants
- Sentient computers
- Personal jet packs
- Flying cars
- Space colonies
- Transporter beams
- Undersea cities
- Soylent Green

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LAST WEEK'S RESULTS

What weird pet would you most want to own?

Snake - 9.8%
Turtle - 12.7%
Lizard - 3.9%
Tarantula - 3.9%
Ocelot - 35.3%
Tamagotchi - 6.9%
Rock - 27.5%

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