Activity Corner

• Why you should always encrypt your smartphone.


• A 1984 letter from Arthur C. Clarke containing a 31-word short story.


• Then-and-now photographs in Irina Werning's Back to the Future project.


• YES! ToastIt drink coasters.


• Digital altimeter with barometer, compass, weather, temperature, and time.


• Charging smartphones and other USB devices with electricity or solar power is SOOO last century. Recharge 'em the modern way using the PowerTrekk mini hydrogen fuel cell. All you need is water! (Although I couldn't find any information on how long their little "PowerPukk" fuel cell packs last.)


• Great interactive widget that lets you examine the NBA's greatest shots by court location and with corresponding video.


• Early test CGI footage from the Thundercats reboot movie?


• The anatomical sleeping bag.


• Wil Wheaton's Hunter is here.


• How to defeat fake anti-virus malware.


• Fireworks fail (spectacularly).


• Geek alert! Great infographic on what is IPv6, and why should we care?


• If you have an iPhone 4, Blackberry Curve 8500 or 9300, or an HTC Evo, get yourself a milspec-grade Ballistic Hard Core case.


• The Sharper Image now offices 13 classic arcade games in the stand-up Pac Man Arcade Machine and the sit-down Pac Man Arcade Machine Cocktail Table.


• Facebook versus Twitter infographic.


• It's the Mazooka marshmallow-shooting bazooka.


• If Apple sold water.


• Geek dream girl Felicia Day writes and stars in Dragon Age web series.


• Bacon toothpaste.


• It's an artistic imagining titled Batman x Star Wars.


• Android and iPhone: It's a two-horse race. While it's an interesting article, it suffers from the same "open versus closed" hippie crap that the linux-versus-Windows debate does.


• Coming soon: USB-powered femtocells.


• An open "letter" to Stephen Fry and his reply.


• The abandoned Russian particle accelerator construction.


• Current worldwide annual coffee consumption per capita.


• New Jersey police chief to parents: steal Facebook passwords from your kids. Wow.


• The SEO Rapper with the Pager Rank Rap.


• Oahu's Ha'iku stairs.


• Make your own word clock.


• Movie theater snacks from around the world.


• Sea turtle disrupts underwater wedding ceremony.


• 26 memorable sci-fi movie and TV weddings. (Although he uses "sci-fi" rather loosely.)


• High snow, low clearance.


• Did Tolkien invent the plural "dwarves"?


• How to board a moving train.


• Pictogram movie posters.


• It's time to play cheese or font?


• How many 80s movie references can you spot in this Don't You Want Me music video?


• Sexy clone dilemma.


• The (visual) anatomy of an Apple email.


• The last arcade in NYC's Chinatown.


• An 8-bit web browser, based on Safari, called Pixelfari. Unfortunately, it looks like it's Mac-only. Bummer.


• The totally awesome sandwich lunchbox.


• It's a jacket, a sleeping bag, and a tent, all rolled up into one. It's the JakPak.


• the 13 most incredible geological wonders on earth.


• Carbon dioxide makes drinks fizzy. But you can do the same thing to whole fruit with the CO2inator.


• Confessions of an Apple Store employee.


• Busting the 8-hour sleep myth.


• The map of the entire fantasy world.


• Make your own clap-off bra.


• Do guys stare at girls' butts? Surprise! Yes they do, as revealed by asscam.


• Student Rickrolls professor in computer science paper.


• From the Department of WTF comes Sexy Pigeons.


• The archetype times table of awesomeness.


• What the hell is she doing back there?