A frustrated London entrepreneur flees to a small island to find out how villagers communicate without technology. Now he's rolling his research into a collaboration tool he thinks will make cubicle slaves a lot happier. By Quinn Norton.
Remember the computer that wore tennis shoes? Well, now your tennis shoes are the computer. And things are only going to get more interesting. From Forbes.com.
NASA's new satellites cram full operability into the size of a spare tire. Check out photos and diagrams from Wednesday's successful launch. See all galleries at our
Bryan Zilar discusses digital music performance with the musician and remixer, and Preve offers advice for budding laptop composers. Also available as a Johann Sebastian PowerBook
Ads offer peek at new Zelda. Plus: Will Wright plays Brain Age. Jumping for joy over New Super Mario Bros.... Sony's PS3 plans.... and more. Chris Kohler moblogs from the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, California. In Game|Life.
America's business PC giant goes nuts, buys Alienware and builds a $10,000 gaming computer. Plus: SlingPlayer Mobile slings TV to your phone. In Gear Factor.
Now you can enjoy Beethoven's 9th Symphony stretched to twenty-four hours, streamed 24/7 on the internet. Plus: Devin Davis' bombastic folk-pop is glass-shatteringly good. In Listening Post.
Leander Kahney bags some fan mail but Lore Sjöberg goes one better and gets asked out to dinner. On a more serious note, environmentalist Lester Brown gets a roasting. In Rants 'n' Raves.
New York's attorney general sues Gratis Internet, the company behind FreeiPods.com, accusing the firm of "the biggest deliberate breach of internet privacy ever."
A giant tortoise believed to have been born around 1750 and once the pet of a famous British colonial general dies of liver failure at an Indian zoo. If the claims are accurate, "Addwaitya" was the oldest tortoise in the world.